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I. A. A. RECORD— November, 1933 



Propose Tax For 



Benefit Payments 

 ; To Milk Producers 



A proposed processing tax to be 

 levied on milk and its products was 

 considered at a hearing on Oct. 16 in 

 Washington. Funds from the proposed 

 tax would be used to pay benefits to 

 farmers who co-operate in the pro- 

 duction control plan. 



In his recent address before the 

 National Co-operative Milk Producers 

 Association in Chicago, Chester C. 

 Davis, director of production for the 

 AAA, said: 



"While the details of our program 

 remain to be worked out it is becom- 

 ing increasingly clear that it must 

 take into consideration all milk which 

 goes into commercial channels what- 

 ever the final product. Unless we do 

 that we shall find that while we have 

 improved the situation with respect to 

 one dairy product we have only in- 

 creased the surplus of the others. 



4 Feed Little Grain 



"I cannot emphasize too strongly 

 my conviction that many dairy 

 farmers will find it profitable to 

 change their system of farming to 

 one in which they would keep most of 

 their land in permanent g^rass and 

 legumes and feed very little, if any, 

 grain. The pastures and other rough- 

 age would be the base ration and 

 grain would be fed only when the re- 

 sulting increase in reduction could be 

 obtained at a profit." 



Experiments carried on by the Bu- 

 reau of Dairy Industry Davis said, 

 show that cows fed a ration of rough- 

 age entirely will produce about 70 

 per cent as much milk as when fed 

 roughage supplemented by a full 

 grain ration which means one pound 

 of grain to three pounds of milk pro- 

 duced. When fed one pound of grain 

 to six pounds of milk cows will pro- 

 duce on the average about 93 per 

 cent as much as when fed a full grain 

 ration. These results were obtained 

 when a good quality of roughage such 

 as silage and alfalfa were fed. 



Net Returns Greater 



Net returns from cows fed rough- 

 age alone were greater than when 

 fed either a partial or full grain 

 ration. This held true through the 

 entire range of butterfat prices, from 

 20 cents a pound to 70 cents a pound, 

 though the differences were most 

 marked when the price of butterfat 

 was low. Thus dairy farmers would 

 find they would actually make more 

 money by doing less work. 



Mr. Davis quoted statistics show- 

 ing that production of milk from the 



United States went from 87,069,000,- 

 000 pounds to 101,863,000,000 pounds 

 in 1932 in spite of the fact that the 

 depression sent prices down to low 

 levels in 1931 and 1932. 



The shift of many farmers toward 

 dairying during the past ten years 

 due to better returns in this field than 

 from other farm crops is responsible 

 for the large milk surplus character- 

 istic of all dairy and milk marketing 

 sections. 



industrial Leaders 



Demand Inflation 



Erosion Control Work 



By C C C Saves Soil 



Eight erosion control camps of ap- 

 proximately 200 men each operated in 

 Illinois during the past season. In the 

 erosion control work by the Civilian 

 Conservation Corps trees were planted 

 both for soil binders and to put some 

 of the badly damaged land back to 

 work growing timber. Soil-saving 

 dams were built of brush, concrete, 

 logs, woven wire, rock, earth or com- 

 binations of these. Land was revege- 

 tated with grass, vines, trees, etc., to 

 hold the soil. Land owners signed con- 

 tracts agreeing to maintain the works. 



In Illinois as in other states appli- 

 cations by farmers to permit erection 

 of erosion control dams on their farms 

 and requiring their maintenance by 

 farmers came in slowly. Later in the 

 season, however, many decided that 

 the heading off of gullies eating into 

 rich fields is a practical necessity and 

 entirely feasible, and more requests 

 for erosion control work came in to 

 camp superintendents and state for- 

 esters than could be taken care of. 



This work will be continued through 

 the winter in the Southern States. 

 Most of the camps in the mid-west 

 states have been broken up and moved 

 south. 



1500 At Bloomington 



Mass Meet Oct. 1 6 



A resolution urging the federal 

 government to loan up to 60 cents a 

 bushel on corn and $1 on wheat was 

 adopted at a mass meeting of 1,500 

 Farm Bureau members and their 

 friends in Bloomington, Oct. 16. C. E. 

 Huff, president of the Farmers Na- 

 tional Grain Corp., and L. A. Wil- 

 liams were the principal speakers. 



The resolution presented by Ernest 

 D. Lawrence, I. A. A. director of Mc- 

 Lean county, was dispatched to ad- 

 ministration officials at Washington. 

 The next day government buying of 

 wheat for the unemployed started 

 prices on the up-grade. 



AAA officials are reported to be 

 devising a plan for loans on com in 

 state bonded warehouses. : 



The "Committee for the Nation," 

 representing leading industrialists of 

 the United States, recently addressed 

 a telegram to President Roosevelt 

 urging the U. S. government to ex- 

 ercise control of its own currency, to 

 shake off British domination of the 

 world price of gold, and to "take im- 

 mediate command of the price of gold 

 and the exchange value of our dollar 

 and through these raise our price level 

 of wheat, commodities and securities 

 so that as a nation we may control 

 our economic destiny independently of 

 Great Britain." 



"We are fearful of the consequences 

 of further postponement of monetary 

 action at this crucial stage of our re- 

 covery program," the telegram said. 



The . directing committee of the 

 "Committee for the Nation" is com- 

 posed of J. H. Rand, Jr., president of 

 Remington Rand; Frederick H. Fra- 

 zier, chairman of the General Baking 

 Company, Vincent Bendix, president 

 of Bendix Aviation Corporation; Less- 

 ing J. Rosenwald, chairman of Sears, 

 Roebuck & Co., and F. H. Sexauer, 

 president of the Dairymen's League 

 Co-operative Association. 



Pres. Roosevelt Orders 

 Commodity Credit Corp. 



The Commodity Credit Corporation 

 was recently set up at the direction of 

 President Roosevelt to loan 10 cents 

 per pound to cotton producers on the 

 unsold portion of their crop. 



Organized by Secretary Wallace and 

 Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the corpora- 

 tion is empowered to make loans or 

 purchase agricultural or other com- 

 modities that may be designated by 

 the President. 



An initial loan of $250,000,000 has 

 been procured from the Reconstruction 

 Finance Corporation. Additional funds 

 will be available if needed. If similar 

 loans are made on com and wheat, the 

 business may be handled through this 

 corporation. 



North Dakota Stops 



Shipment of Wheat 



North Dakota's embargo on wheat 

 got under way October 20 when Gov- 

 ernor Langer notified all sheriffs to 

 order elevator and warehouse men to 

 refuse acceptance of spring and durum 

 wheat. It was ordered that shipment 

 of both be discontinued. .; r ; 



