Page Eighteen 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



October, 1932 





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Republican Party Plank on 

 Agriculture 



(Continued from page 9) 



ducing duplication, and relieving un- 

 just burdens. The Republican Party 

 pledges itself to this end. 



More than all else, we point to the 

 fact that, in the administration of 

 executive departments, and in every 

 plan of the President for the co- 

 ordination of national effort and for 

 strengthening our financial struc- 

 ture, for expanding credit, for re- 

 building the rural credit system and 

 laying the foundations for better 

 prices, the President has insisted up- 

 on the interest of the American 

 farmer. 



The fundamental problem of 

 American agriculture is the control 

 of production to such volume as will 

 balance supply with demand. In the 

 solution of this problem the co- 

 operative organization of farmers to 

 plan production, and the tariff, to 

 hold the home market for American 

 farmers, are vital elements. A third 

 element equally as vital is the con- 

 trol of the acreage of land under 

 cultivation, as an aid to the efforts 

 of the farmer to balance production. 



, ■ We favor a national policy of land 

 utilization which looks to national 

 needs, such as the Administration 

 has already begun to formulate. 

 Such a policy must foster reorganiza- 

 tion of taxing units in areas beset 

 by tax delinquency, and divert lands 

 that are submarginal for crop pro- 

 duction to other uses. The national 

 welfare plainly can be served by the 

 acquisition of submarginal lands for 

 watershed protection, grazing, for- 

 estry, public parks, and game re- 

 serves. We favor such acquisitions. 



1 ■ Milk Producers 



(Continued prom page 15) ,- 



no business organizing, that they 

 would rather deal with them as in- 

 dividuals. Yet the dealers them- 

 selves have an organization to help 

 them fix prices to consumer and 

 producer alike. 



Process Own Surplus 



Rather than submit to such dic- 

 tation, the members of the Quality 

 Milk Association last Tuesday began 

 to deliver their milk to their own 

 plant. They still stand ready, how- 

 ever, to supply the distributors with 

 their requirements for their fluid 

 milk and cream trade at $1.85 per 

 hundred lbs. which is only four cents 

 a quart, but to process their own sur- 

 plus milk rather than deliver it to 

 the dealers at less than cost of pro- 

 duction or less than a cent a quart. 



Recognizing the fairness of the 

 farmers' program for intelligent milk 

 marketing on the quad cities mar- 

 ket, one dealer, the Sturtevant Ice 

 Cream Company, has agreed to co- 



operate in every way, and pay the 

 producers the agreed price of $1.85 

 per cwt. for all fluid milk and allow 

 the dairymen the privilege of check- 

 ing their sales records. 



More recently an effort was made 

 by certain distributors through legal 

 technicalities to break up the Quality 

 Milk Association and scare its mem- 

 bers into withdrawing. This action 

 was based on the contention that 

 the co-operative organization had 

 not secured permission from the Sec- 

 retary of State of Iowa to organize. 

 As a result, a few members were in- 

 fluenced to sign applications for 

 withdrawal. The legal counsel for 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 who set up the Quality Milk Associa- 

 tion organized under the co-opera- 

 tive laws of Illinois advised late last 

 night that the member producers on 

 the Iowa side had been misinformed; 

 that because the Quality Milk As- 

 sociation is a co-operative organiza- 

 tion of farmers formed not for pe- 

 cuniary profit, it is exempt from the 

 state blue sky law, and in Iowa as 

 in Illinois, needs no special per- 

 mission to organize. 



The organized dairymen here are 

 going ahead in a peaceful way to 

 work out their problem and become 

 established as a factor in the quad- 

 cities milk market. They appeal to 

 the consumers' sense of fairness and 

 justice to co-operate with them by 

 buying milk only from dealers who 

 are fair and honest in their rela- 

 tions with producers. 



Soybean Growers Annual Meeting 



(Continued from page 7) 



want to say that the Farm Board 

 has been conducted efficiently and 

 economically. The real reason for 

 opposition to it is the inroads co- 

 operative marketing has made into 

 the trade and profits of the private 

 dealers. 



"Your organization, the Farmers 

 National which is a true co-op- 

 erative, farmer-owned and farmer- 

 controlled, is the largest grain mar- 

 keting firm in the United States. It 

 is represented in all the producing 

 centers of the United States and in 

 all importing countries. It is the 

 only firm doing business from coast 

 to coast and from the Canadian line 

 to the Gulf. 



Over $2,000,000 Profit 



"During the last two and one-half 

 years it made a profit of over $2,- 

 000,000 and paid as much or more 

 than any other buyer. I know for a 

 fact that you would not have secured 

 as good a price for grain in the past 

 two years were the Farmers National 

 not in the picture. I also know that 

 the $2,000,000 profits your organiza- 

 tion made would have gone to the 

 grain trade. You producers don't 

 make any extra contribution to pay 



my salary and that of the other em- 

 ployees of the Farmers National. 

 That is paid out of the commissions 

 which heretofore have gone to the 

 grain trade. After paying all ex- 

 penses and getting more for your 

 grain that $2,000,000 is what was left 

 and that belongs to you." 



Milnor defended Mr. Huff, presi- 

 dent of the Farmers National. "The 

 only thing they could find against 

 Mr. Huff is tha,t some 20 years ago 

 out in Oronoque, Kansas where he 

 was farming they did not have a 

 preacher at the local church. Mr. 

 Huff was an educated man — self-edu- 

 cated — and he took the pulpit and 

 conducted church. He has been active 

 in co-operative marketing for more 

 than 20 years and during that time 

 has been an active producer. 



"You hear people say that you 

 can't help the farmer by legislation. 

 I used to think the same before I 

 began studying the problem farmers 

 are up against. But I know that in 

 a country following a policy of spe- 

 cial privilege to different groups 

 through the tariff and immigration 

 laws and other laws that the only 

 way you can solve the farm problem 

 is through legislation." 



Only one change was made in the 

 board of directors. L. A. Reed was 

 replaced by Everett Reynolds of 

 Morgan county. Officers and direc- 

 tors elected were J. W. Armstrong, 

 Champaign county, president; 

 Dwight Hart, Christian county, vice- 

 president; W. G. McCormick, Doug- 

 las county, secretary; R. A. Cowles,J 

 Bloomington, treasurer; John A1-. 

 bright, Moultrie county; W. G. San- 

 dusky, Vermilion county; J. P. 

 Probst, Macon county; Parks Ker- 

 baugh, McLean county; A. M. Piatt, 

 Piatt county; Edgar Boynton, Sang- 

 amon county; T. H. Lloyd, Macoupin 

 county; Sam Sorrells, Montgomery 

 county; Burton E. King, Hancock 

 county; Dan A. Smith, Shelby coun- 

 ty; M. D. Tomlin, Mason county; and 

 Everett Reynolds, Morgan county. 



A Year of Progress ' v ' 



(Continued from page 17) 



methods of operation, coupled with 

 a sound, aggressive sales program, 

 will do much to bring this about, 

 while unity of action in the purchas- 

 ing of essential supplies will continue 

 to bring to the associated companies 

 the highest quality merchandise at 

 a minimum cost and at the same 

 time accrue substantial earnings for 

 the State Company from which an- 

 nual patronage refunds will be paid. 

 This was the ultimate object of those 

 who sponsored the movement six 

 years ago. . :■ - 



Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. 

 Hyde addressed a gathering of 

 farmers from central Illinois at 

 Mackinaw Dells in Woodford county 

 on Sept. 23. 





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