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hogs vaccinated by a veterinarian. This 

 bill was tabled in the House Committee 

 on Agriculture. 



Seed Laws 



The Association supported bills (S.B. 

 273-274, Thomas) sponsored by the 

 Department of Agriculture for the 

 strengthening of the Weed Control and 

 Seed Laws. These bills add leafy 

 spurge, Russian Knapweed and Hoary 

 cress to the list of noxious weeds and 

 penalize persons having possession of 

 the seeds of these weeds with intent 

 to disseminate them. These bills were 

 passed. 



The Association sponsored a bill 

 (S.B. 518, Karraker) which would have 

 required conditional sales contracts 

 (title retaining notes) to be filed for 

 record just as chattel mortgages are 

 filed. Under the present law, condi- 

 tional sales contracts are not required 

 to be placed on record. It is impossible 

 for persons dealing with purchasers 

 under these contracts to be sure of the 

 title which they receive. This situa- 

 tion is adversely affecting farm credit. 

 Loaning agencies cannot be certain of 

 their security. However, investigation 

 disclosed that there are more than two 

 million conditional sales contracts in 

 Illinois each year and that the filing 

 fees on these contracts would exceed 

 the amount of the credit losses. There- 

 fore, the bills were tabled. However, 

 the question will be given further study 

 with a view toward suggesting remedial 

 legislation at a future session of the 

 legislature. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 sponsored Senate bill 106 introduced 

 by Senators Lantz and Thomas to per- 

 mit executors and administrators of 

 estates to make chattel mortgages, se- 

 curing loans on sealed corn and wheat 

 under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. 

 Under the old law executors and ad- 

 ministrators of estates were not per- 

 mitted to make chattel mortgages. 

 There were 1597 estates operating 

 farms in compliance with the AAA, 

 the State Conservation Committee re- 

 ported, and the enactment of this bill 

 early in the session brought needed 

 relief to many farm people. 



A bill (S.B. 378, Thomas) amending 

 the soil erosion control districts act 

 authorizing the state to pay expenses 

 for holding a referendum in organiz- 

 ing such districts was enacted at the 

 close of the session. 



Illinois apple growers would be taxed 

 one cent a bushel, the money to go 

 into a state fund for advertising and 

 promoting the sale of Illinois apples, 

 under the provisions of House bills 



634-986-987* by Representatives Parker 

 and Field. Nursery operators were 

 sponsoring a bill, H.B. 697, which 

 the lAA supported to permit the assess- 

 ment of their nursery stock as real 

 property the same as any growing crop, 

 rather than separately as personal prop- 

 erty. This bill appeared to have no 

 opposition until the closing day of the 

 session when it was defeated following 

 an attack by Chicago senators in re- 

 taliation for Senate bills killed in the 

 legislative jam in the House. 



Prairie Farmer sponsored a bill, H.B. 

 574, Representatives Collins and Schae- 

 fer O'Neill) which the lAA sup- 

 ported, providing that anyone who goes 

 upon the land of another after he is for- 

 bidden to do so, or who trespasses when 

 a printed or written notice forbidding 

 such trespass is posted at the entrance 

 to the farm shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor and subject to fine of |5 

 to $50 or imprisonment. This bill was 

 passed and signed by the governor. 



The lAA sponsored a bill (H.B. 

 696, Representatives Vicars and Hugh 

 Green) amending the not-for-profit 

 corporation act and relieving Farm Bu- 

 reaus, Home Bureaus, and other cor- 

 porations organized under the Act from 

 filing certificates of election of directors 

 with the local recorder of deeds. The 

 law was amended several years ago to 

 require annual reports to the Secretary 

 of State and the local report, which 

 is often overlooked or ignored, no 

 longer serves any particular purpose. 



Despite efforts to hold down relief 

 appropriations, the General Assembly 

 appropriated $72,000,000 for the bien- 

 nium with the stipulation that expen- 

 ditures may not exceed $4,000,000 in 

 any month. This in effect means that 

 the relief money may be exhausted 

 within 18 months or by Jan. 1, 1941. 

 The relief lobby which was barred 

 from the House galleries during final 

 consideration of the bill failed in their 

 attempt to raise the maximum expen- 

 ditures permitted in one month to 

 $6,000,000. 



The 61 St General Assembly elected 

 a Republican Speaker of the House as 

 a result of a slight majority, 79 Re- 

 publicans to 74 Democrats. The Sen- 

 ate was controlled by Democrats with 

 a majority of 31 to 20 Republicans. 



Members of the General Assembly 

 and committees of the two Houses 

 were uniformly courteous in affording 

 representatives of your Association an 

 opportunity to present their views. 

 Sptecial mention should be made of the 

 courtesies extended by the Lieutenant- 

 Governor, the Honorable John Stelle, 

 who presided over the Senate, by the 

 Speaker of the House of Representa- 



tives, the Honorable Hugh W. Cross, 

 by the Senate Committee on Agricul- 

 ture, of which the Honorable H. S. 

 Burgess was chairman and by the House 

 Committee on Agriculture, of which 

 the Honorable Dennis J. Collins was 

 chairman. 



Wheal— Clarkan, a soft, smooth 

 winter wheat, outyielded all others this 

 year in test plots on the Royal Oaks 

 farm, Scott county, at 55 bu. to the 

 acre. It weighed 59 lbs. to the bushel, 

 was rated 80 for "stand-up" quaUty 

 compared with 95 for Thome and 

 Gladden. Thorne yielded 53.33 bu. 

 Illinois Progeny 2, 52.37 bu. and Glad- 

 den, 51.7. At Thomas Hardwicks 

 farm, Thorne was first with 39.96 bu. 

 yield, Clarkan ninth with 33.34 bu. 



Corn Crib— Ten cents will bring 

 you a blue print and list of materials 

 for building a corn crib holding 3,000 

 bu. which can be built in 1,500 bu. 

 sections with a drive-way between. 

 Later a roof and bin can be put over 

 the driveway holding 1,800 bu. of oats. 

 The plan was drawn originally by 

 W. A. Foster of the Agricultural Engi- 

 neering Department at the College of 

 Agriculture, Urbana, for Speaker Hugh 

 W. Cross, Jerseyville, of the 6lst Illi- 

 nois General Assembly. Write the 

 State College for your copy. 



Bank — Several cooperative associa- 

 tions, credit unions and other non- 

 profit corporations in Indiana have 

 purchased controlling interest in the 

 Citizens State Bank at Beech Grove 

 to facilitate financial operations of these 

 organizations. The credit unions and 

 cooperatives have seated a majority of 

 the directors and will ultimately pur- 

 chase all outstanding stock. 



•The Governor is reported to have vetoed these 

 bills. 



NOTICE 



Illinois Agricultural Association 

 Election of Delegates 



Notice is hereby given that in connec- 

 tion with the annual meeting of the 

 Ford County Farm Bureau to be held 

 during the month of August, 1939, at 

 the hour and place to be determined by 

 the Board of Directors of the Ford 

 County Farm Bureau, the members in 

 good standing of such County Farm 

 Bureau and who are also qualified voting 

 members of Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, shall elect a delegate or delegates 

 to represent such members of Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association and vote on all 

 matters before the next annual meeting 

 or any special meeting of the Association, 

 including the election of officers and di- 

 rectors as provided for in the By-Laws 

 of the Association. 



During September, annual meetings 

 will be held in Christian, Macon and 

 Stark Counties. 



Paul E. Mathias, 

 Corporate Secretary. 



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