The Illinois IgriculM teiation Record 



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The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD 

 is published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association at 1501 West Washington Road, Men- 

 dota. 111. Editorial Offices, 608 So. Dearborn St.. 

 Chicago, 111. Entered as second class matter at 

 post office. Mendota, Illinois. September 11, 1936. 

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 provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28. 1925. 

 authorized Oct. 27, 1935. Address all communica- 

 tions for publication to Editorial Offices. Illinois 

 Agricultural Association RECORD. 608 So. Dear- 

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Editor and Advertising Director. E. G. Thiem ; 

 Assistant Editor. Lawrence A. Potter. 



Illinois Agricultural Association 



Greatest Stale Farm Organization in America 



OFFICERS 



President. Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President. Talmage DEpREES-Smithboro 

 Corporate Sec'y.. Paul E. Mathias. -Chicago 



Field Sec'y.. Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer. R. A. CowLES Bloomington 



Ass't Treas.. A. R. Wright Varna 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Congressional District) 



1st to nth Arthur States, Elwood 



1 2th E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 



15th Leo M. Knox, Morrison 



I4th Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th _ M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



16th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th C. M. Smith, Eureka 



18th ; W. A. Dennis, Paris 



I9th Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20th K. T. Smith, GreenfieW 



21st Dwight Hart, Sharpsburg 



22nd A. O. Eckert, Belleville 



2 3rd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller R. G. Ely 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Field Service. Cap Mast 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Grain Marketing Harrison Fahmkopf 



General Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Sam E. Russell 



Office C. E. Johnston 



Organization O. D. Brissenden 



Produce Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Publicity George Thiem 



Safety C. M. Seagraves 



Soil Improvement John R. Spencer 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation-Claims G. W. Baxter 



Young Peoples Activities Frank Gingrich 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Ins. Co DaVe Mieher, Sales 



Mgr., Howard Reeder, Home Office Mgr. 

 Farmers' Mut. Reinsur. Co...J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



111. Agr. Auditing Ass'n C. E. Strand, Mgr. 



III. Agr. Mut. Ins. Co.. .A. E. Richa.dson, Mgr. 



111. Agr. Service Co Earl Smith, Pres. 



Donald Kirkpatrick, Sec'y 



III. F. B. Serum Ass'n S. F. Russell, Sec'y 



111. Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



III. Fruit Growers Exch H. W. Day, Mgr. 



111. Grain Corporation Frank Haines, Mgr. 



III. Livestock Mark't. Ass'n... Sam Russell, Mgr. 



111. Milk Prods.' Ass'n Wilfred Shaw, Mgr. 



111. Producers' Creameries 



J. B. Countiss, Sales Mgr. 



Frank A. Gougler, Procurement Mgr. 



To advance the [>urpose for which the Farm Bureau was 

 organized namely, to promote, protect and represent the 

 business, economic, social and educational interests of the 

 farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 



NOVEMBER 1939 



rij VOLUME 17.NUMBER 11 



By Earl C. Smith 



Earl Smith 

 tion for all 



the 



LA Y I N G of the 

 cornerstone of 

 the new government 

 farm products lab- 

 oratory at Peoria re- 

 cently has revived 

 the hope, if not the 

 belief, among many 

 individuals that new 

 uses for farm sur- 

 pluses will soon 

 provide the solu- 

 farmers' problems. 



This point of view has been reflected in 

 newspaper editorials and comment par- 

 ticularly among business groups inter- 

 ested in the prospects for new industrial 

 plants in their respective communities. 

 lAA Supports 



During past years many suggestions 

 have come from numerous sources of 

 ways and means of converting farm sur- 

 pluses into useful industrial products. 

 The Illinois Agricultural Association has 

 invariably been cordial and cooperative 

 in supporting these ideas as a further 

 coijtribution but not as a solution to the 

 farm problern. The Farm Bureau could 

 not give its wholehearted support to the 

 Chemurgic Council when we learned 

 that its leaders were promoting their 

 program as a substitute for ijhe crop acre- 

 age adjustment and loan program which 

 we regarded as essential for quick re- 

 sults. However, our sponsorship of acre- 

 age adjustment did not deter organized 

 farmers from supporting all constructive 

 efforts to find new uses for surpluses to 

 the extent they could be absorbed at rea- 

 sonable price levels. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and the American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion gave active support to the provisions 

 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 

 1938 which authorized and directed that 

 four farm research laboratories be estab- 



lished and administered by the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, dedicated to 

 the purpose of finding new outlets for 

 surplus farm commodities. These four 

 laboratories were to be located at strategic 

 points in the great agricultural producing 

 areas of the East, South, Middle West 

 and West. The lAA used its influence 

 to secure the location of the mid-west 

 laboratory in Illinois as the most cen- 

 tral state of the corn belt. Subsequently 

 these laboratories were designated for 

 erection at Peoria, Philadelphia, New Or- 

 leans and San Francisco. The Peoria 

 laboratory was the first of the four to be 

 dedicated. Secretary of Agriculture Hen- 

 ry A. Wallace, oflficials of several neigh- 

 boring state agricultural colleges and 

 other leaders attended the ceremony on 

 Oct. 18. 



In his remarks Secretary Wallace very 

 appropriately stated that the farm lab- 

 oratories would have an opportunity to 

 make an important contribution toward 

 the solution of the farm surplus prob- 

 lem. He emphasized that the research 

 program should be considered as a long- 

 time effort and should not be expected 

 to yield immediate results 



Not Sole Solution 

 "We should realize," said Mr. Wal- 

 lace, "that the research program cannot 

 by itself solve all of agriculture's eco- 

 nomic problems. I feel it is necessary 

 to mention this because there is a school 

 of thought in this countrj' which ad- 

 vocates this program as a complete solu- 

 tion. I think it is tremendously im- 

 portant to distinguish between this hon- 

 est endeavor and the attempt of some 

 interests to use the Chemurgic movement 

 as a vehicle for attacks on the farmers' 

 program, for high chemical tariff propa- 

 ganda and for making the United States 

 a totalitarian empire modeled on the 



NOVEMBER, 1939 



