April, 1931 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Seventeen 



February Record Month -- — ^ 

 For Rock Phosphate 



Farmers Buy Limestone and Rock 



Phosphate in Spite of Farm , 



Price Deflation 



ILLINOIS farmers used more ground 

 rock phosphate (Hme phosphate) in 

 February, 1931, than in any February 

 during the past 12 years, reports J. R. 

 Bent, director of Limestone-Phosphate 

 department. . , ; •...:. .^ \ ;,• ■ . 



"In the face of the current deflation 

 of farm prices, this is a great tribute to 

 this wonderful fertiUzer," says Bent. 

 "Many have found that it makes the 

 difference between profit and loss in the 

 grain farming system. 



New^ Test 



"The recent test which has been per- 

 fected for determining whether or not 

 soil is deficient in quickly available 

 phosphate, has done much to stimulate 

 a greater use of this economical fer- 

 tilizer. Farmers need not now wonder 

 whether or not they will get results. 

 They can know in advance by consult- 

 ing their farm adviser. If the soil needs 

 phosphorus, it pays to use it even at 

 present farm prices. 



"Julius Alvord of Richland county 

 stated recently that he applied 1,000 

 pounds of ground rock phosphate per 

 acre on 18 acres in 1920. The same 

 field was in corn in 1929. Part of this 

 field had no treatment; part of it was 

 limed; and part of it was limed and 

 phosphated. 



Doubles Yield 



"The portion of the field without 

 treatment yielded 32 bushels per acre 

 of poor quality corn; the limed portion, 

 50 bushels per acre; and the limed and 

 phosphated portion of the field, 65 bu- 

 shels per acre. 



"In 1930 he had the same field in 

 oats. The untreated part of the field 

 made 8 bushels per acre; the limed part 

 of the field, 18 bushels per acre; and 

 the limed and phosphated part of the 

 field, 32 bushels of oats per acre. The 

 long time benefit is well illustrated in 

 this experience." 



The Wonderful Soybean 



The San Antonio (Texas) Evening 

 News calls the soybean the world's most 

 wonderful plant because: "Milk, flour, 

 salad-dressing, lubricating and illumi- 

 nating oil, glycerine, paint, varnish, 

 celluloid, printing ink, soap, waterproof, 

 explosives, linoleum, rubber, coffee and 

 margarine can be made from the bean 

 of this plant." 





H. H. Walker 



Clare Bradford 



O. D. Britisenden 



New District Managers 



Announced by Metzger 



Organization Men Employed to Fill 

 Vacancies, Start April 1 



THE appointment of three district 

 organization managers for two 

 northern Illinois districts and the south- 

 western Illinois section is announced by 

 George E. Metzger, director of organi- 

 zation. Appointment of the men was 

 confirmed at a meeting of the I. A. A. 

 Board of Directors in Chicago on 

 March 13. 



H. H. Walker of Greenville, Bond 

 county, is the new appointee for the 

 southeastern section. Born in Clinton 

 county near Carlyle in 1874, Walker 

 and his sons now farm 683 acres of 

 land near Greenville. 



He is a charter member of the Bond 

 County Farm Bureau, which he joined 

 in 1920. Since December, 1926, he 

 has been assisting the Organization De- 

 partment in membership solicitation. 



Clare Bradford from Mercer county, 

 selected for the northern Illinois dis- 

 trict, succeeds H. D. Fink. Bradford 

 was born in Mercer county 38 years 

 ago. He attended a small college in 

 Aledo after which he started farming. 



Bradford has been a member of the 

 Mercer County Farm Bureau for the 

 past 12 years, has served on the local 

 organization committee, and at present 

 vs a director of the Tri-County Oil 

 Company. ■' • ■.■:■■■:"■:' 



O. D. Brissenden, son of F. L. Bris- 

 !3nden, will succeed H. L. Hough as 

 district organization manager in the 

 northeastern Illinois section. Mr. Hough 

 resigned to become director of organic 

 zation for the Wisconsin State Farm 

 Bureau. 



Brissenden is the youngest of the dis- 

 trict organization men. He was born 

 in Clay county, 111., 32 years ago. After 

 graduating from the public schools of 

 Flora, he attended the University of 

 Illinois where he was a member of the 

 student army training corps during the 

 war. For the past three and one-half 

 years he has been employed as farm 

 superintendent of the Lincoln State 

 School and Colony in Logan county. 



Tall and well built, Brissenden has 

 been active in the Logan county Farm 

 Bureau Forum, which he served as presi- 

 dent. He was a leading member of the 

 Logan county debating team in the in- 

 ter-county Farm Bureau debates last 

 winter. During the past three years he 

 has been attending the Lincoln College 

 of Law night school at Springfield. 



Taxation Is Subject at 



Ottawa Armory Meeting 



JOHN C. WATSON, director of 

 taxation, addressed more than 500 

 LaSalle County Farm Bureau members 

 and visitors in the Ottawa Armory on 

 March 30. 



Calling attention to the fact that 

 193 1 is the year when all real estate and 

 farm lands in Illinois will be revalued 

 for taxing purposes, Watson urged his 

 audience to take a special interest in 

 the tax situation and seek to obtain 

 equalization between various classes of 

 property. Real estate should be valued 

 on the 1931 basis, not as of 1927, he 

 asserted. Property values have come 

 down considerably in the past four 

 years. 



Mr. Watson discussed the need for 

 tax revision, for taxation based on abili- 



ty to pay. He told of the advantages 

 of having one county assessor instead 

 of a full-time township assessor. "Uni- 

 formity in valuations," he said, "is al- 

 most impossible so long as we have as 

 many assessors as there are townships 

 in the county. Every assessor has his 

 own idea about values, and with 37 

 assessors in one county you are likely 

 to get as many different bases of valua- 

 tion." 



Henry T. Marshall of the LaSalle 

 County Farm Bureau Tax Committee 

 presided. 



ILQt&^ior ^1.00 



Eleven quarts of milk for $1 is the 

 new retail price, the lowest in 10 years, 

 announced April 1 by rxiilk distributors 

 in Springfield, 111. The cut was made 

 in an effort to boost consumption and 

 get rid of the surplus. 



