I. A. A. RECORD— January, 1934 



▼ RECORO' 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau uxis or- 

 ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the buM- 

 ness, economic, political and educational interests of the 

 farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture. 



George Thiem, Editor 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at IBS So. 

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OFFIOEBS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, A. R. Wright Varna 



Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



BOABD OF SIBECTORB 



(By OongTMsional Siatrlct) 



1st to 11th Ebb Harris, Orayslake 



12th O. F Tullock, Bockford 



Utk C. h. Bamborough, Polo 



14th M. G. Lambert, Ferris 



l»th M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



10th , , . .Geo. B. Mnller, Washington 



ITth B. D. Ilawrence, Bloomington 



18th W. A. Dennis, Paris 



l»th B. G. Curtis, Champalga 



Mth Charles 8. Black, Jacksonville 



Slat Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



S2nd Talmage DeFrees, Smtthboro 



2»rd W. L,. Cope, Salem 



Mth Charles Marshall. Belknap 



*8th R. B. Endlcott, Villa Ridge 



DEPARTMENT DIBE0T0R8 



Comptroller J. H. Kelker 



Dairy Marketing J. B. Count'ss 



Finance R. A, Cowlea 



CVnit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Publicity George Thiem 



iBsurance Service V. Vanlman 



Legal Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing Ray B. Miller 



OflTlce C. E. Johnston 



Organization G. B. Metzger 



Produce Marketing F. A. Gongler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation O. W. Baxter 



ASSOCIATED OBGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, Mgr. 



Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Auditing Ase'n P. B. Ringbam, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. B. Richardson, Mgr. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marcbant, Mgr. 



Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange ,. .H. W. Day, Mgr. 



Illinois Grain Corp Harrison Fahrnkopf, Mgr. 



Illinois Livestock Market. Asa'n..Ray Miller, Mgr., R. W. Grieser, Salea 

 Illinois Producers Creameries. .F. A. Gougler, Mgr., J. B. Countiss, Sales 

 Soybean Marketing Ase'n J. W. Armstrong, Prea. 



Corn Loans Going Out 



CORN loans at 45 cents per bushel by the Commodity 

 Credit Corporation are bringing the first substantial 

 relief to many Illinois farmers under the Agricul- 

 tural Adjustment Act. By Saturday night, Dec. 16, the 

 Reconstruction Finance Corporation at Chicago had sent 

 out a total of |1,121,000 in cash on corn loans into Illinois 

 and Iowa farm communities. And this is only a beginning. 

 Combined with wheat benefit checks now coming into Illi- 

 nois, and the first cash payments for corn -hog reduction 

 which should start flowing early next year, this new 

 money promises to put new life into trade throughout the 

 corn belt. The effect is already apparent. Downstate 

 bankers and merchants report increased activity in buying 

 and payment of debts. Another important index is Farm 

 Bureau membership which has improved perceptibly in 

 the past two months. The livestock feeding sections are 

 still suffering from abnormally low prices but these, it is 

 hoped, will soon be benefited by the corn and hog adjust- 

 ment payments which for this state are estimated at near- 

 ly $40,000,000. Thus with $2,618,000 of wheat checks, a 

 potential $45,000,000 of com loans, and $40,000,000 of corn 

 and hog payments coming in the next 15 months the value 

 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which is largely the 



result of the Farm Bureau's 12 year fight for government 

 recognition, can no longer be doubted. 



There Must Be A Job Ahead 



THE only excuse for organization is to get things 

 done — to accomplish some worthy end. Failure to 

 observe this simple principle is the primary reason 

 why so many organizations die. Reporting her experiences 

 in organizing farm women before the recent A. F. B. F. 

 convention, the state home demonstration agent of Arkan- 

 sas, Miss Bonslagel, gave epitaphs collected from the 

 graves of organizations she has known. Following are " 

 a few of them: "We mistook the means for the end," "I 

 was talked to death," "I died of serious and learned pa- 

 pers," "Leadership from outside the group proved fatal," 

 "I died of program jitters, trying to save the world all at 

 once," etc. 



Organization receives its g^reatest support when it is 

 striving to accomplish something, particularly if the mem- 

 bers are taking an active part in the project. Organiza- 

 tion fails when it has no program. It must know what it 

 wants and fight, if necessary, to achieve the goal. Having 

 accomplished, it cannot rest on its laurels. It must go on 

 to new fields of endeavor or decay will result. 



Debts And Stable Money 



ANOTHER lesson the last few years have taught us 

 is that we are often too ready to go in debt. There 

 is much truth in the quip, "people run in debt and 

 crawl out." Until some measure of stability in prices is 

 secured through a commodity dollar, or otherwise, care- 

 ful investors will not buy farms or any other costly prop- 

 erty, on a shoestring, particularly in periods of prosperity. 

 Recent experience certainly justifies experimentation to- 

 ward establishing an honest dollar that does not greatly 

 fluctuate in buying and debt-paying power. The human 

 misery caused by every sharp decline in prices and income 

 is a challenge to statesmanship. The right of property 

 ought to be protected, but ownership should be the result 

 of honest work and thrift, not mere speculation. 



Overproduction In Holland 



HOLLAND'S famous flower bulbs, once the pride of 

 the nation, are now a drug on the market after 

 having made fortunes for many growers, reports 

 the Reader's Digest. Recently, in the Haarlem region, hun- 

 dreds of thousands of tulips, hyacinths, and narcissi were 

 destroyed — the object being to reduce the supply and in- 

 crease prices. The Netherlands had a boom in bulbs com- 

 parable to our stock market and Florida real estate spec- 

 ulations. Prize bulbs sold for fabulous sums. More and 

 more people went into growing bulbs to get rich quick. 

 And with the usual result. The purebred livestock indus- 

 try in this country had a similar experience during the 

 post-war period. Whenever the price of anything gets out 

 of line with its normal utility value, watch out. 



To Speed Corn-Hog Checks 



PLANS to speed the first payments on corn and hog 

 reduction contracts, announced by Dr. A. G. Black 

 of the A. A. A., is welcome news to Illinois farmers. 

 By signing a "rider" sheet in which the grower agrees to 

 accept any corrections and adjustments in his production 

 figures as may be found necessary, prompt mailing of 

 checks is made possible. Otherwise payments would be 

 held up pending a thorough check-up both in the county 

 and at Washington. Benefit payments will be particularly 

 welcome to hog producers because of present low hog 

 prices in which the processing tax of $1.00 per cwt. is 

 reflected. 



