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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



November, 1931 



i^islature Meets to Consider Tax Problems 



Speakers Announced for 

 A. F. B. F. Meeting Dec. 7-9 



AMERICAN Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion ofl&cials are preparing for a 

 big delegation of Illinois Agricultural 

 Association members at the national 

 convention in Chicago, December 7 to 

 9, according to word from headquarters. 

 Round trip railroad rates of a fare and 

 a half on the identification certificate 

 plan will prevail from every railroad 

 station in the state with return limit of 

 30 days. ' \ '.-■'-' 



"in view of the accessibility of Chi- 

 cago to every section of Illinois," says 

 Executive Secretary M. S. Winder, "it 

 should be possible for a big delegation 

 of I. A. A. folks to attend. It will be 

 a splendid opportunity to make contact 

 with men and women from all over the 

 nation." 



Sam H. Thompson, former president 

 of the I. A. A. and later of the A. F. 

 B. F., now a member of the Federal 

 Farm Board, has sent word that he will 

 attend. Frank O. Lowden, former gov- 

 ernor of Illinois, will speak on taxation. 



Federal Judge William S. Kenyon of 

 Fort Dodge, Iowa, has accepted an in- 

 vitation to speak. Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers will recall him as the United States 

 senator, who in 1921 organized the 

 farm bloc in Congress. Two other 

 speakers will be Professor Benjamin 

 Hibbard of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin and Professor M. L. Wilson 'of Mon- 

 tana College of Agriculture, each of 

 whom will speak on the national land 

 utilization policy. Mrs. Frank Evans of 

 Utah, wife of President Hoover's latest 

 appointee to the Federal Farm Board, 

 will be the banquet speaker. 



Farm Bureau women are planning two 

 conferences to precede the main sessions 

 of the convention. These conferences 

 both open on December 4. Members 

 who arrive early will have the oppor- 

 tunity to visit the International Live- 

 stock Exposition which closes Decem- 

 ber 5. 



Long Truck Hauls Expensive 



Delegates to A. F. B. F. 



Delegates from Illinois to the annual 

 convention of the A. F. B. F., in Chi- 

 cago December 7-8-9, were selected at 

 the October meeting of the I. A. A. 

 directors. They include Earl C. Smith, 

 A. R. Wright, Charles S. Black, and 

 Samuel Sorrells. 



Alternates are: C. E. Bamborough, 

 M. G. Lambert, A. B. Schofield, and 

 Charles Marshall. 



Reduce Property Taxes, 

 V ^ Is Plea of the People 



Program Recommended by Gov- 

 ernor's Tax Conference Up 

 . - For Consideration 



Predicts Low Dairy Cow 

 Prices for Next 5 Years 



The average price of dairy cows in 

 New York state dropped from $13 5 in 

 September two years ago to $74 in Sep- 

 tember this year, according to M. C. 

 Bond, Cornell economist. However, he 

 points out that cow prices in New York 

 are still 29 per cent above pre-war, 

 while cow prices for the country as 

 a whole arc 5 per cent below pre-war. 



He predicts that this condition will 

 further depress the price in New York 

 because cows are being moved into the 

 state from other sections. It is his 

 opinion that dairymen who hold cows 

 for higher prices will be disappointed, 

 as improvement is not due until about 

 1936 or 1937, judging from the past. 



Winning County Huskers 



Set for State Meet 



The Champaign County Farm Bureau 

 is advising its members against hauling 

 hogs long distances in trucks. "Hogs 

 hauled long distances in trucks cannot 

 be marketed with nearly as much profit 

 as hogs sold through our own county 

 livestock marketing association," the 

 Farm Bureau says. 



Carl Seiler, 28, a lefthander, and for- 

 mer world's champion corn busker, won 

 the recent Knox county contest when 

 he husked 29.78 bushels in eighty min- 

 utes on October 28. Hartwick Olson, 

 last year's title winner, was second with 

 27.82 and William Engstrand was third 

 with 27.32 bushels. Seiler 's world's 

 record was 36.82 bushels. 



Ray Snyder of Henry won the an- 

 nual Marshall-Putnam husking contest 

 by turning in 32 bushels and 19 pounds 

 in the eighty minutes allotted. Harold 

 Carter was second, C. O. Johnson was 

 third, and Ernest Rehn was fourth. 

 Johnson is lefthanded. 



Co-Op. Grain Shipments 



In Illinois Are Gaining 



Members of the Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration shipped three-quarters of a 

 million bushels of grain to the Farmers' 

 National Grain Corp. during October 

 in spite of the fact that grain receipts 

 at the terminal markets were light dur- 

 ing the month. This brings the total 

 volume to nearly 7,500,000 bushels. 



REORGANIZATION of the taxing • • v 

 machinery toward restoring the 

 credit of Chicago and Cook county, , 

 and new sources of revenue to replace y 

 part of the heavy burden of taxation 

 on real estate, now being considered by :'f'^ 

 the legislature, are among the more im- : 

 portant recommendations made by the 

 Executive Committee of the Governor's 

 Tax Conference on Friday, October 30. 

 The Conference adopted the report in : . ; 

 Chicago the following day. President 

 Earl C. Smith is a member of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee and served as chair- 

 man of the sub-committee on perma- ',■[ 

 nent tax relief. John C. Watson met , 

 with the group regularly and assisted • 

 in preparing the report. " -■ ; v • 



In place of the present Cook county T' 

 board of assessors and board of review 

 it is proposed that a 

 centralized body of . . 

 three members be " 1 

 created, "one of •■. 

 whom to be desig- 

 nated as secretary 

 should be the county 

 assessor with full 

 and complete charge 

 of the entire office 

 and all employees 

 thereof." 



The other two 

 members of this 

 body which will be known as the Board 

 of Assessment and Revision, are to act . 

 in a reviewing capacity to hear com- 

 plaints filed against valuations made by 

 the assessor. It is proposed that the 

 Board of Assessment and Revision shall 

 be appointed by the president of the 

 county board by and with the consent 

 of the county commissioners. The coun- 

 ty board may remove any member for 

 malfeasance or gross neglect of duty in 

 office. The terms of office shall be four 

 years. 



Remove for Cause 

 A bill proposed by the Tax Confer- 

 ence would give the State Tax Com- 

 mission authority to remove local as- 

 sessing and reviewing officials for cause. 

 Its purpose is to prevent repetition of 

 assessment delays in Cook and other 

 counties. Other proposed measures 

 would give the affected municipalities 

 authority to finance Belayed or deferred 

 tax payments, to validate outstanding 

 tax anticipation warrants, and to pro- 



Earl C. Smith 





