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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



January y 1931 



_ I liLilNOIS 



OLTimAL ASSOCIA 



RECORU 



To advaii^^tKi purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, 

 namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political, 

 and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, 

 and to develop agriculture. 



Editor, George Thiem 



Published once a month by the Illinois Agricultural Associatioti, 

 at 124 So. Fifth St., Marshall, 111. Adress all communications for publi- 

 cation to Editorial Office, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. Entered as 

 second-class matter June 16, 1930, at the post office at Marshall, 111., 

 under the Act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of 

 postage provided for in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized 

 Oct. 27, 1925. The individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association is five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents 

 for subscription to the Illinois Agricultural Association Record. Post- 

 master: In returning an uncalled-for missent copy please indicate key 

 number on address as is required by law. 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith.. 



Vice-President, A. R Wright- 

 Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger 



Treaiuxer. R. A. Cowles 



.Detroit 

 —Varna 

 .Chicago 



.Bloomington 



1st to 11th — 



12th 



13th 



14th 



15th- 



16th 



17th. 



18th 



19th 



20th 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Congressional District) 



H. C. Vial, Downers Grove 



G. F. Tullock, Rockford 



,..; C. E, Bamborough, Polo 



.M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



—A. N. Skinner, Yates City 

 ..Geo. B. MuUer, Washington 



Geo. J. Stoll, Chestnut 



. W. A. Dennis, Paris 



■C. J. Gross, Atwood 



21st.. 

 22nd.. 

 23rd_ 



24th 



2Sth. 



Comptroller- 

 Finance.. 



...Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 



Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



: Frank Oexner, Waterloo 



W. L. Cope, Salem 



.Charles Marshall 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



...Fred Dietz, De Soto 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing...- 



Grain Marketing 



Information 



Insurance Service 



Legal Counsel _j 



Limestone- Phosphate — 

 Live Stock Marketing.. 

 Office.. 



Organization 



Produce Marketing- 

 Taxation and Statistics.. 



-J. H. Kelker 



R. A. Cowles 



A. B. Leeper 



Harrison Fahrnkopf 



George Thiem 



V. Vaniman 



Donald Kirkpatrick 



J. R Bent 



Ray E. Miller 



C. E. Johnston 



G. E. Metzger 



F. A. Gougler 



-J. C, Watson 



Transportation — L. J. Quasey 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr. 



Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Co-operatives Ass'n F. E, Ringham, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



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



Illinois Grain Corp , . Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 



Midwest Grain Corp Chas. P. Cummings, Gen'l. Mgr. 



Soybean Marketing Assn J. H. Lloyd, Mgr. 



Ten Years From Now 



A GOOD place to get an estimate of the ac- 

 complishments and value of your organiza- 

 tion is at its annual meeting. The coming I. A. A. 

 convention at Springfield, Jan. 28-29-30 will pre- 

 sent a cross section of the work of organized far- 

 mers in Illinois. It will reflect the interests and 

 thinking of that portion of the state's agricultural 

 population which believes that organized effort is 

 the way to economic and social progress. 



Your elected officers and directors who are 

 charged with responsibility for carrying on the 

 varied activities authorized by you, want to make 

 the organization responsive to the will of the 

 membership. Ample opportunity will be offered 

 at the coming meeting for every member to 

 voice his opinions and convictions, to help direct 

 the future policies of the association. 



Vision balanced by sound thought must always 

 precede achievement whether the enterprise is 



private or co-operative. If the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association has more accomplishments to its credit 

 than most organizations of like nature, a large 

 part of the credit rightfully goes to the foresight- 

 edness and courage of those who more than a dec- 

 ade ago gave it a sound set-up, character, and mo- 

 mentum. 



The degree of courage, the kind of thinking, 

 and the type of co-operative action shown by the 

 membership today will largely determine the kind 

 of an organization you will have five or ten years 

 from now. 



Irrigation Farming Declines 



REPORTS from the Department of Commerce on irri- 

 gation in the western states reveal interesting trends 

 during the past 10 years. 



As a result of the widespread agricultural depression 

 which began in 1921, many of the irrigation enterprises, 

 which were initiated before, during, and directly after the 

 war, show a decided decrease in the area irrigated. The 

 figures indicate that because of low farm prices it became 

 unprofitable to farm much of this semi-arid and arid land 

 in the western states. 



When farm prices become high literally millions of acres 

 of western land can be brought into production and farmed 

 to swell the surplus. This is exactly what happened as a 

 result of the unusual price stimulation brought on by the 

 world war. Moreover once new areas are brought under 

 the plow they are allowed to go back to pasture or waste 

 land very slowly. This is one of the reasons production has 

 been maintained on a comparatively high level during the 

 last decade. 



Editorial of the Month 



Made a Mistake 



We believe that the city council made a mistake Mon- 

 day evening in joining the cities that are demanding one- 

 third of the gasoline tax. The governor of the state has 

 requested that the present distribution of the tax be. not 

 disturbed. To give the cities what they demand will upset 

 the entire program of road improvement and may seriously 

 affect contracts already entered into with the idea that 

 the tax will stand. 



Furthermore, we believe that the business interests of 

 Galesburg demand better roads from the country into the 

 city, and it was the design to give the unpaved country 

 roads the benefit of the tax until such time at least as there 

 is a reasonable amount of improvement. There are in this 

 county hundreds of farmers who are still remote from paved 

 roads and who find entrance to the cities and towns of the 

 county hard when the roads are muddy and bad. It is to 

 the business and commercial interest of the city that it be 

 as accessible as possible. 



We were hoping that the city council would show a 

 more friendly and generous spirit toward the country com- 

 munity than is manifested by many of the cities of the 

 state. The demand for a part of the tax is based largely 

 on selfish motives, and we do not beHeve that the council 

 really deliberated much over the spirit of the formal reso- 

 lution that was evidently sent here from outside for it to 

 pass on. — Register-Mail, Galesburg. 





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