Page Six 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



November, 1932 



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As we go to press, the crack Farm 

 Bureau nines from Livingston and 

 McDonough counties are scheduled 

 to play the final game of the state 

 championship series at Peoria (3-1 

 League diamond) on Oct. 22. 



McDonough won the state title two 

 years ago, and Livingston took the 

 flag last year. The two teams are 

 evenly matched, and judging from 

 the outcome of the first two games 

 which were evenly divided, the team 

 that is nearest "right" on the final 

 day will win the championship. 



After winning the first game 

 played at Macomb by the one-sided 

 score of 11 to 4 — the game was much 

 closer than the score indicates — the 

 McDonough county boys drove over 

 to Wing the following Saturday 

 where the Livingston team gave 

 them a severe drubbing, score 10 to 2. 



In the opening game of the series 

 at Macomb on Oct. 8 McDonough 

 started out in high gear driving in 

 four runs the first inning. Living- 

 ston came back in the fourth to tie 

 the score at four all. But McDon- 

 ough came up in the fifth and started 

 a batting spree that netted five more 

 counters. Then Arntzen, McDonough 

 hurler, settled down and held the 

 opposition scoreless the rest of the 

 way. 



In the game at Wing, fragmentary 

 reports credit Livingston with 13 hits 

 against McDonough's nine. Both 

 teams made two errors. The 1932 

 state champions will be awarded a 

 trophy presented annually by the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association. 



No Vote Recorded On 



Price-Raising Bills 



Many members of the Association 

 have been making inquiries as to the 

 attitude of their representatives in 

 Congress on agricultural measures 

 having for their purpose a raise in 

 the price levels of farm commodities. 



The Association's policy confines 

 all pronouncements of this char- 

 acter to the voting records of mem- 

 bers of legislative bodies. 



The Rainey-Norbeck price raising 

 bill did not come to a vote in the 

 House, therefore, there is no voting 

 record. It is only fair to all down- 

 state Illinois Congressmen to say 

 that in each case they had given 

 their definite assurance of active 

 support, if and when this legislation 

 could be brought to a vote. 



Although the Norbeck bill passed 

 the Senate, the record shows there 

 was no roll call, it having passed by 

 an Aye and Nay vote. 



Domestic Allotment amount to 42 cents per bushel for 



PI p • « I wheat, five cents per pound for cot- 



' "^1 I rinciples ton, two cents per pound for hogs. 



five cents per pound for tobacco. 



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uov. Kooseveii in lopeka surplus for export to which alone 



; V , . opeecn the plan would be applied, since 



other products already receive the 



The domestic allotment plan in benefit of increased price through 



which considerable interest has been 

 expressed both by farm and business 

 leaders was first suggested, accord- 



tariff. The proportion of the crop 

 required for domestic consumption 

 would be determined by the Depart- 



ing to reports, by the late Dr Walter ment of Agriculture each year. These 



J. Spillman of the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, and developed by 



Professor John D. Black of Harvard by the farmer. 



payments would be made in addition 

 to the regular market price received 



University, and Prof. N. L. Wilson 

 of the Montana State College. 



In April this year a committee was 

 set up to draft a bill embodying the 

 plan to be presented to Congress, 

 reports the Business Week. That 

 committee was composed of Mr. Wil- 



The money to pay this subsidy to 

 farmers agreeing to control produc- 

 tion would be raised by a federal 

 excise tax levied on processors or 

 distributors of the product, and also 

 on substitute products like silk and 

 rayon. No tax would be levied on 



son, Henry I. Harriman, president of products exported, or on feed or 



products which are consumed on the 

 farm. 



The plan meets the specifications 

 presented by Governor Roosevelt, re- 



the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, R. 

 R. Rogers of the Prudential Life In- 

 surance Co., Louis S. Clarke of 

 Omaha, president of the Mortgage 



Bankers Association of Nebraska, ports Business Week, because it pro- 

 Henry Wallace, editor of Wallace's vides for the producer of surplus 

 Farmer, and W. R. Ronald, editor of staple commodities a tariff benefit 

 the Evening Republican of Mitchell, over world prices which would con- 



South Dakota. 

 The Rainey-Norbeck 



ceivably be equivalent to the bene- 

 bill Intro- fit given by the tariff to industrial 



duced in both houses of Congress producers, and does not stimulate 

 late during the last session embodied further production. 



the principal features of this plan 

 which briefly is as follows: — 



Each farm producing wheat, cot- 

 ton, hogs, tobacco, or rice is to be 

 allotted each year, or at shorter in- 

 tervals for hogs, a definite produc- 

 tion allowance based upon the aver- 

 age production of that product on 

 that farm over the past five years. 



The total allotments for each prod- 

 uct are to be determined for each 



It finances itself and does not 

 draw on the public treasury. It does 

 not involve any mechanism for 

 dumping products abroad so as to 

 cause European retaliation. It makes 

 use of existing agencies, and is so 

 decentralized that the chief respon- 

 sibility for its operation rests with 

 the local interests rather than with 

 any new created bureaucratic ma- 

 chinery. It operates on a co-op- 



state by the federal government on erative basis and can be altered or 

 the basis of the Department of Ag- withdrawn as conditions change. It 

 riculture figures showing average is wholly voluntary. 



acreage during the preceding five 



years and average yield per acre for — ... . . , 



crops during the preceding 10 years, rarm Wages Are Now 



Each state would similarly determine 



the total allotment for counties 



through a state commission, and 



each county or township could set 



up a voluntary board of farmers to 



determine allotments to individual 



farms 



Below Pre-War Period 



Farm wages are the lowest in 



thirty years. Wages range from 60 



cents a day without board in South 



Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi, to 



The plan would be put into effect ^2.50 a day in Massachusetts, the 



only when at least 60 per cent of 

 producers of the product by refer- 

 endum agree to abide by it and sign 

 contracts with the government. 

 These contracts would stipulate that 

 the farmer must not produce more 

 than the allotted amount and must 

 agree to reduce his production ac- 

 cording to instructions issued by the 

 Federal Farm Board or similar 

 agency. 



average for the country being $1.19 

 a day. 



The farm wage index computed 

 by the Bureau of Agricultural Eco- 

 nomics was 84 per cent of pre-war. 

 on October 1, a decline of 3 points 

 since July 1. . 



The yield per acre of corn this 

 year for Illinois will average around 

 T« .«f * +U4 . .^ ^^ bushels, according to October 1 



In return for this agreement, the returns from state crop correspond- 

 producer would be paid by the gov- ents. This is the highest since the 

 ernment an amount equal to the 1925 record yield of 42 bushels The 

 tariff on the product for each unit yield per acre of soybeans is reported 

 domestically consumed. This would the best in years 



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