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TAY OUT 



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 PATIENt and CALLS 

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COME O OYV 



LET'S M/ IT 



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United Action Necessary I 

 To Continue Policies For 

 Welfare Of Agriculture 



OutJcKJc ^ Brighter But Only X beginning 

 Has Been Made-Farmers Must Protect 

 What They Have Gained and Tackle 

 Problems Yet Unsolved; . ^; 



members. 



WjWi thousands of new members enlisted in the ranks of 



S^r^ months n"^ "^"'^' Agricultural Association "n the 



nsoiiaating: its gains and adding additional 



President ErhT c"" ^ 9^1^*^ ^^^"^ Bureaug made by 

 ven^n t^tf,,^r ^ I. A. A. con^- 



ship during l^rhfs K gVnX^cUSr ^" '"^"^^^- 

 I'i' T.fj^'ZlTJ 'i.'!^^-^^ farmers and the many 





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probierns ahead present over-^ 

 rh«. I!J 5 reasons why every effort 

 further strengthen the ranks. 



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WhUe the outlook for agrlcul- 

 "rJ" '"•'f.ht^'' than it ha, been 



for some 

 has been 



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time, only a bcRlnnlnp 

 fh» 1.,^ * "^ ® toward restoring 

 CarJf?^"'"^ *° "^'■'"'^' prosperity 

 f^fMfi observers looking Into the 

 future see many obstacles and 



Tn?*"**': '''«"^" '" national and 

 in ernatlonal policy affecting the 

 future of American farmers 



The Agricultural Adjustment 



;^«;m''*'^".'^^^ «* ^^^ '"'^'t far- 

 reaching farm legislation ever 

 enacted expires in less than two 

 years. What then? 



Farmers must be ready to fleht 

 for the continuation at policies 

 that prove to be for the best in- 

 tercsts of agriculture. They must 



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opposition does not thwart the 



J-iffident^^nd hU^adminisfJat^^ 

 FurinerH MuMt JTtIp7 



Counties Respond 

 To Pres. Smith's 

 Plea For Action 



Plant jng Lies Future Hope 

 nois jrarmers — Dean Mumford 



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f»ar that 

 is ahead 

 ?y begin 

 or 1934. 

 of Agrl- 

 ioIb. 

 the In- 

 agricul- 



turJI recovery has created new 



among farmers and has 



ht a reversal In the long 



ward trend in prices of farm 



Dean H. \V. Mumford 



State College of Agriculture 



■aili "While such measures pre- 



^e certain restrictions upon the 



crating farmers, they are by 



no means a fcubatitute for thoir 

 own planning. They 8er\'e rather 

 to emphasize the need for group 

 planning, not only in order to 

 adopt the farm program to the 

 en^ergency situation, but also to 

 assist In the more permanent ad- 

 justment of farm production to 

 market demands." 



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UP TO $40,000,000 

 IN CORN-HOG CHECKS 

 POSSIBLE IN ILLINOIS 



"One of the mainstays of Or- 

 nized Agriculture." is the way 

 esident Franklin D. Roosevelt 

 aracterized the Illinois Agrlcul- 

 ral Association in Ms message to 

 esident Smith at the recent an- 

 ^, lal convention. 



"In wishing the Illinois Agrl- 



Itural Association a successful 



eetl-ng I feel that I am address- 



g a body which has always been 



e of the mainstays of organized 



rlculture." the telegram from 



esident Roosevelt said. 



The fact that the I. A. A. Is the 



rgest and strongest state farm 



gatilzatlon In America; that It 



las contributed most heavily In 



fluence and support to the 12 



|ear fight of organized fnrmers 



r effective legislation to farm 



rices is well Ifao'wn throughout 



e country. 



The I, A. A. oflflce l-n Chicago, 

 one of th ■ stopping places of 

 orelgn students and deleguteH 

 ent to this country to study the 

 arm cooperative m ovement. 

 tepresentatlves from Great Brit- 

 ain, Germany. Riissla. Sweden. 

 md other countries have visited 

 he Association otflces during re- 

 nt years. 



The corn-hog program made 

 po.sslble by the efforts of the Il- 

 linois Agricultural Association and 

 organized farmers In other states, 

 promises to result In distributing 

 up to 140,000.000 in cash benefit 

 payments to Illinois farmers dur- 

 ing the next 16 months. 



. Farmers who sign and carry out 

 the contract will receive 30c per 

 bushel of corn and $5 per head 

 of hogs on their base allotments, 

 less the cost of putting the plan 

 into effect. 



Iroquois County 

 Takes Advantages 

 Of Corn Loans 



Iroquois county corn growers 

 were among the first to take ad- 

 vantage of the corn-loan program. 

 C. E. Johnson, farm adviser, re- 

 ports that 1.262 farmers In that 

 county had received loans by 

 February 7. The total amount of 

 money Involved Is 1803.012.85. 



"Since ^hcre are 3.800 farmers 

 In this county, and assuming that 

 nt least one-half of our corn Is 

 fed. around 66 per cent of those 

 who had a surplus had corn 

 sealed," writes Mr. Johnson. 



Iroquois county is going ahead 

 •with Its membership campaign and 

 has set the goal for 500 new mem- 

 bers. A meeting of the captain 

 and lieutenants wa« held on 

 February 12 to start the drive. 



They must also give construc- 

 tive aid. counsel and cooperation 

 to expedite the administration of 

 the program to rai.se farm prices. 

 How else can this be accom-^ 

 pllshed except through full 

 strength organization? 



Among the most important 

 problems ahead is the future 

 tariff policy of the United States. 

 Organized farmers long have be- 

 lieved that high Industrial tariffs 

 have put American agriculture at 

 a serious disadvantage. In the 

 first place high tariffs have In- 

 creased the cost of many farm 

 supplies particularly machinery 

 and building materials. Secondly, 

 the American tariff policy has 

 greatly restricted International 

 trade and foreign outlets for sur- 

 plus American farm products. 

 Tariff Fight Coming. 

 A letting down of the tariff 

 walls, it Is generally conceded will 

 not be accomplished without over- 

 coming powerful opposition of 

 highly organized industrial groups 

 which will not give up the advan- 

 tages they long have enjoyed, 

 without a struggle. 



Unless farmers are on the job to 

 meet such organization with equal 

 organization, and are ready to 

 battle for tne policies they bellove 

 to be fair to their Industry, there 

 Is little likelihood of victory. 



p-utxire national policies on taxa- 

 tion present another prpblem of 

 vital interest to farmers. A wide- 

 spread campaign of propagflnda 

 which has the support of many 

 metropolitan newspapers and com- 

 mercial and wealthy Interests Is 

 now under way to discredit the 

 federal Income tax, and taxation 

 based on ability to pay. A con- 

 certed effort Is being made to re- 

 move the tax burden from the 

 rich and saddle It on people of 

 small and moderate means 

 through various kinds of sales 

 taxes. 



What It Mean.x. 

 Such a shift in taxation will 

 mean that farmers will pay fed- 

 eral taxes on almost every article, 

 piece of equipment, building ma- 

 terial, or other commodity neces- 

 sary to carry on their business. It 

 wlli mean that the cost of nearly 

 everything the farmer purchases 

 would go up, while owners of 

 great wealth in the form of stocks, 

 bonds, and other intangibles would 

 go virtually tax free. 



Unless farmers watch carefully 

 and thoroughly analyze such leg- 

 islation, unless they are repre- 

 sented through powerful organiza- 

 tion, and speak out with a voice 

 backed by large membership, self- 

 ish Interests will work their will 

 by skillfully covering up the real 

 Intent and purpose of tax reforms 

 offered under the guise of bene- 

 fiting the masses. 



K.<capc.s Taxation. 

 In Illinois, owners of intangible 

 wealth who arc profiting by the 

 apparent Impossibility of taxing 

 authorities to assess and collect 

 taxes on much i)ersonal property, 

 have successfully forestalled ef- 

 forts to remove constitutional limi- 

 tations to equitable taxation. 



The property tax hits farmers 

 and home owners heavily because 

 their property Is tangible and eas- 

 ily assessed. The personal prop- 

 erty tax In the cities Is not being 

 ••nforced hence Intangible wealth 

 Is not bearing Its fair share of the 

 tax burden. 



Selfish Interests have In the 

 past and will In the future bring 

 every Influence to bear toward 

 slowing up progress toward more 

 equitable taxation. Farmers and 

 real estate owners will have a 



PRESIDENT EARL C. SMITH 



tough job at best, even when com* 

 plctely organized, to secure enact- 

 ment of fair tax laws. Without 

 complete organization, their cas* 

 Is hopeless, and the state will con- 

 tinue to operate under the antl* 

 quated revenue laws passed In 

 1870 which discriminate against 

 farmers and home owners. 



Nearly all the progress made 

 during the past toward organized 

 purchasing and co-operative mar- 

 keting Is directly traceable to the 

 general farm organizations such 

 as the Farm Bureau and Illlnoif 

 Agricultural Association. 



..'"•* Denmark's Tlan, ''.■,- 



Tn Denmark where farmerfe 

 aided by the government hav» 

 taken the Initiative In setting up 

 cooperatives both in the market- 

 ing and processing field. agricuU 

 tural producers secure approxi- 

 mately two-thirds of the consum- 

 ers dollar. In the United States 

 the cost of distribution Is so high, 

 that the farmer receives on the 

 average only about one-third of 

 the consumer's dollar. 



Further progress in this dil-ec- 

 tion In Illinois will be in direct 

 proportion to the backing farm- 

 ers give the County Farm Bureau 

 and Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion. 



An Important beginning haa- 

 been made In America toward 

 building a credit system adapted to 

 the needs of farmers. Yet whll» 

 agriculture is the most funda- 

 mental, sound, and necessary In- 

 dustry, farmers still have to pay 

 higher rates of Interest on bor- 

 rowed money than do most other 

 businesses. 



From Soil To Sale. 



"One of the first aieps In tlj* 

 cooperative movement In Den- 

 mark." writes Dr. Fred C. Howe, 

 consumers counsel of the A. A. A., 

 "was to secure credit for the 

 farmer and by the farmer. The 

 Danes realized that farmers could 

 not depend on a banking sys- 

 tem designed for industrialists, 

 so farmers have their own. 

 The local unit, or "baby bank" 

 in their community helps them 

 buy tools and machinery, stock 

 their farms, build new barns, and 

 Improve their projects." 



Through persistent organized ef- 

 fort Illinois farmers, too, can 

 carefully study banking reform 

 and build a credit system better 

 adapted to their needs. 



Tazewell County 

 Growers Apply For 

 451 Corn Loam 



Four hundred fifty-one appli- 

 cations on corn loans In Tazewell 

 county «ip to Feb. 8 Is the newa 

 telegrnphed to the I. A. A. REC- 

 ORD by Farm Adviser George H. 

 Iftner. The 451 applications rep- 

 resent 7 47.154 bushels of corn 

 and $33(i.21K.S5. 



Tazewell county was well rep- 

 resented at the big I. A. A. mass 

 meeting In Peoria where more 

 than S,000 Illinois farmers unani- 

 mously went on record In favor of 

 the ndmlnlatration's corn loan 

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