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PACE FOUR 



Illinois agriculti 



COLTVlAL ASSOCIA 



RECORO 



To advance the purpose (or which the Farm Bureau 

 wae organized namely, to promote, protect and repre- 

 sent the busfneaB, economic, political and educational 

 Interests of the farmer* of Illinois and the nation, 

 and to develop agriculture. 



Ob:C)HGE THIEM. Editor 

 JOHN S. TRACY, Assistant Editor 



Publiihcd monliily by the Illlnoig AKricultural Aaiociatlon 

 At ItfS So. Main St.. 8penc»r, Ind. EaUorlal Officrs. (iUb 8. 

 Dearborn S;., Cliicasu. ID. Eiiterrd as aeooiiU v\a»a matter at 

 post otilce, Spencer, Ind. Acceptancft for mailing at aprcial 

 rate of postaga provided in Seciitm 41'^. Act of Feb. 2H, lU'Zb, 

 aulhorited Oct. 27, 1U'.:6. Addrcaa all commuiiicaiioiia for 

 publication to Editorial Officea. Illinoia Asricultural Ascod- 

 ation Reoord. tK)b So. Dearborn St.. Clilca«u. Tht individual 

 memberahlp fee of the Illinoia Airlcultural Axaoolutlon i* five 

 dollara a year. The fee includea paynnenl nf fifty cents for 

 •ubacrlptlua to the Illlnota Acricultural Asaociation Keoord. 

 Poglmniflcr: In i-eturninri a" uncalled for mis»eni I'opy picas*' 

 indicate key number on adf'roxn- ii^ l« required by law. 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vlce-Pnsident. A. R. Wrislil Varna 



Stcretary. Cieo. E. Met«cr ChlcaKo 



Treaaurer. R. A. Cnwlon Bloomlntftun 



BOARD OF PIRK(TOK» 

 (By Congressional DIstrIrt) 



1st to 11th , K- Harris, Grayslake 



\'Zih . Ki.' K. H>>ii«IUh.v. Sliabtuma 



13th ....>. B. Bamonrouth, Polo 



14th Otto StPffey, Strunghtiret 



nth M. Ray Ihriir, Golden 



Irtth Albert Hayes, Cliiilicothe 



17lh B. D. Lawrence. BloomuiKtdn 



Ijlth.. Mont Fox. Oakwood 



10th * . . . ! Eugene Curtis, rtiampalirn 



20th '.'.'. Charles S. Black, Jacksonville 



2iBt Samuel Soi rells, Raymond 



SJnd.'.V.V A. O. Eckert, Belleville 



23r,j W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th '..'.*. Charles Marshall. Belknap 



2Hh ' " R. B. Endicott. Villa Ridge 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller ;''„«v''*"lf 



Dairy Marketing J.„ B. Count las 



Finance R- A. (^owlos 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W Day 



Publicity ^'!l''\, T^"''" 



Insurance Service ^ • . » animan 



L.>gal Counsel Donald KirUpa nok 



Live Stock Marketing R»y >- Miller 



(^,ln.g C. E. Johnston 



OrganiVatioii' ij- K. ^f^'i'*;*''' 



Produce Markelintf F. A. <"iUk,H r 



Taxation and Statistics V; ,.,' o .^" 



Transportation G. W. Baxter 



ASSOCIATED OKGAMZATIONS 



Country Life Ii.suraiico Co ^- ,^„^' 'A' ''?""• w^""- 



Farmers Mutual Rrinmirante Co J. H, helk'-i. Mer. 



Illinois Agricultural \udiiing Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mifr. 



Illinnii. Aifriculturul Mnlual Insurance Co. 



A. E. Riclianlson, ti\t:r. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R M»rcl)anl, Mkp. 



niinnis Fruit Growers Exchange. H. >N .Day, Mifr. 



Illinois Grain Corp Harrison Kahinkopf. Mgr. 



IllinoJH I.tvpstork .MHikriiinr Ass n May .Miller, .Mitr. 



•/ niinois Producers Creameries F. A. Gougler. Mer. 



J. B. Count iss. Sales 



Assn J. W. Armstrong. Pres. 



what is now the program of th« government of the 

 United States, having for Iti object, victory over the 

 greatest depression in our history. Immediate mone- 

 tary returns from membership are desirable and to 

 some extent necessary, but to have made a definite 

 contribution to the wellfare of the nation in a time 

 of great distress, a contribution which may call 

 forth the favorable comment of the ages, should 

 and will Hwell the pride of every man and woman 

 who has helped work out and initiate this program 

 which, though voluntary, yet, promises to be ef- 

 fective. 



Let our apparent success clinch our resolve to 

 continue our policy of seeking scientific solutionu to 

 our problems, solutions that will be fair and just 

 to all; that contemplate a fuller and better life to 

 all men — rural as well as urban, and finally, solu- 

 tions that will substitute for the selfish profit motive, 

 that sort of personal ambition that finds its hap- 

 piest satisfaction in general usefulness. 



GEORGE F. HAYES, 

 President Henry-Stark Service Co. 



Full Strength 

 Farm Bureau k 

 Greatest Need 



By .M. S. MOIl(2AV 

 Pros. Henry County Farm Bureau. I 



Every orgunb.ation has a cost 

 and. If it is to survive, must have 

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The cost of our Farm Bureaus 

 amounts to $15 a year per member 

 plus the time we spend. It can and 

 has been shown that the costs to 

 most of us are more thaVi paid by 

 the value of the services rendered 

 by our organization and its sub- 

 sidiaries. Practically all of us could 

 assure ourselves of a profit on our 

 dues by taking full advantage of 

 the benefits offered to us. Our 

 Farm Hiireaus liquidate, every 

 year, all the monctuiT obliBatlons 

 which they assume for membep- 

 shlp dues paid. 



Soybean Marketing 



THE THIRD SPECIAL SESSION 

 As we go to press, lh« third special session of 

 th« 68th Illinois General Assembly is abouc to con- 

 vene. Aside from the measures outlined in the ar- 

 ticle by Mr. Watson on page one, Illinois Agricultural 

 Asaociation representatives at Springfield will watch 

 carefully any new revenue bills proposed by varlou*« 

 Interests. Tax matters promise to overshadow all 

 other issues. There is talk of diverting moie gas tax 

 funds away from roads. It is rumored that the or- 

 ganised teachers will be there with a powerful lobby 

 and an extensive program seeking new forms of tax- 

 ation for schools. Railroad Interests will probably 

 be present to support proposed further taxation and 

 regulation of motor trucks. Other organized groups 

 will have their special Interests to look after. 



The I. A. A, In line with Us past policies reaf- 

 firmed at the recent Danville convention, opposes 

 further diversion of gas taxes and Insists that such 

 taxes be used to build secondary roads. It further in- 

 sists that the proceeds of new revenue laws be used 

 to reduce and replace taxes on property. An im- 

 portant beginning promises to be made in this direc- 

 Llon in the coming year when revenues from the 



>m>ei^vCT^hat 

 this principle should be adhered tu in future revenue 

 legislation. Our legislative representatives will be on 

 the job to fight for the rightful Interests of farmers 

 and property taxpayers. The influence of the or- 

 ganization in this and other matters will he directly 

 preportionial to the size of the membership and the 

 active support given by the members in ihelr re- 

 spective counties to the association program. 



FBOM A CHARTER MEMBER 



Reviewing the many benefits he has received 

 from the Farm Bureau during his L'O years' mem- 

 bership, A. Niersthelmer, Jr., a charter member of 

 the Tazewell County Farm Bureau, says "In the 

 birth of the organization little did we think 

 that perhaps 20 years later it would be necessary 

 to have an entirely different program than that 

 pursued at the beginning. The fast changing times 

 made it necessary to develop new projects. In for- 

 mer years our Farm Bureau taught us how to grow 

 two blades of grass where only one grew before. 

 Also In those good old days there never existed a 

 surplus. In fact, there was fear then that we could 

 not produce enough to feed everyone." 



Mr. Neirsthcimer points out the growing in- 

 equality between agricultural and non-agricultural 

 prices following the world war and why farmers 

 were forced to organize Insurance companies, oil 

 companies and other projects to make their dollars 

 go farther. ■ ,^ 



He regards the Farm Bureau's tuberculosis 

 eradication hs one of the most valuable services 

 ever initiated in this state. 



"After the groat war we farmers found our- 

 selves in a serious predicament," he said. "We had 

 paid too much attention to production and not 

 enoi^^h to organization. Other groups in the mean- 

 time organized solidly and they were able to up- 

 hold prices. But a chain always breaks at Its weak- 

 est link, 80 prosperity broke because agriculture 

 was unable to hold up — morale, 'united we stand, 

 divided we fall'." 



He gives great credit to the Farm Bureau auto- 

 mobile insurance company for making worthwhile 

 savings, pointing out that a member pays only |18 

 for full coverage on a Bulck, while a non-member 

 must pay for the same coverage in an old-line com- 

 pany, in. 



"The Farm Bureau was Instrumental In organ- 

 izing the Producers Commission Association which 

 not only saves in commissions but has eliminated 

 "trick" methods and raised prices by increasing 

 competition," h« says. He lists the following bene- 

 fits he has received which he credits to the Farm 

 Bureau at follows: 



April 30. 1933 — Service Co. refund I1B.56 



State refund on tractor gas IT.'.V. .22.98 



July 31 — Producers refund 12.17 



Dec. 13 — Service Co. refund 2 8.66 



(Which la only 



10 %,-at the 



16% de- 



Difference on car In auto insurance 



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.56.80 



Many of us are attracted by the 

 larger aspects of the Farm Bureau. 

 This viewpoint has to do with the 

 Inherent right of every American 

 to a fair share of our National In- 

 come; a hhare commensurate to 

 services rendered. We all have 

 painfully in mind the great de- 

 bacle which started in the fall of 

 19::u, and ended In March 1933. 



During the ten years before 1920 

 the Farm Bureaus had been or- 

 ganized and had been given their 

 initial momentum through a large 

 membership and sound plans. Aft- 

 er 19'.'0 we were by all odds the 

 dominant organization a m oM 

 farmers. Xo other group had th 

 power and leadership necessary t 

 stand in our state and national 

 councils and present effectively 

 the case of agriculture and in 

 reality the case of America. The 

 brains of our own leaders were 

 pitted against the best intellects 

 of finance, indu.stry, and c<m "" 

 represent.itives of the scienc 

 liolitical economy. M'hose Ji| 

 nient would evpntiially prevail 

 took thirteen years to find i! 

 answer. 



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 and In spite of a prostrate agrl] 

 ture. In substance they told f 

 ers and farm leaders to go to 

 hot place. Through thirteen years 

 they fought us. We well remsmber 

 the long struggle for the equaliza- 

 tion fee; the apparaent victory and! ben 

 then the veto at the hands of the! Cap 

 president of the United States. | tlon 



We have in mind the desperate | prs 

 efforts in 1929 to write into a blH 

 before congress, clauses whlcfc 

 would make it possible for t h 

 Farm Board to initiate pollcit 

 which would be both sound and 

 effective. These efforts wer« 

 blocked and thwarted at ever>' 

 turn through the influence of those 

 in high places, and finally result 

 ed in substantial failure. 



i Our farm leader* warned tlm 

 itter time of the dire results whlcli 

 ntist eventually follow the reac 

 tl\nar>' policies of those thlrteer 

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THE CHALLENGE TO ORGAMZ.\TION 



There ii far more work for organized farmers to 

 do than has yet been done. Nationally we have only 

 scratched the surface in planning and carrying out 

 a program to establish agriculture, in fact our whole 

 economic order, on a firm basis of prosperity. Any 

 careful observer cannot escape such a conclusion. 

 The temporary measures which have brought some 

 relief for the time being, must be followed up with 

 more permanent plans, and aggressive action 

 to put them into effect. When the money received 

 from corn loans is spent, when the wheat and corn- 

 hog benefit checks have been converted into tax and 

 Interest receipts and needed supplies, when the pres- 

 ent Adjustment Act expires, what then? Farm prob- 

 lems will still be with us. 



The future of agriculture Is Inseparably linked 

 with national policy on tariff, foreign debts, land 

 use, stable money, consumer demand for our 

 produce, development of industrial outlets for farm 

 products, and others. I'rcsident Smith expressed the 

 belief in his recent annual address that "the ultimate 

 solution of the farm problem embo^dles three major 

 objectives," namely, restoring and maintaining ag- 

 ricultural exports in proper relationship to industrial 

 exports through trade agreements with foreign na- 

 tions; development of new industrial uses for the 

 raw materials produced on American farms; and 

 removal of large areas of marginal farm lands from 

 production. He has well said that "the development 

 of these three policies presents a challenge to farm 

 organizations and to the statesmanship of the coun- 

 try." 



The progress that is made toward working out 

 these problems will be In direct proportion to the 

 persistency, and power and drive farmers put behind 

 the movement, now started, through solid organiza- 

 tion. 



Total 1142.82 



These items, he says, were of only minor Im- 

 portance. The major benefits came from the legisla- 

 tion program of the I. A. A. and the Farm Bureau in 

 the state and nation. "Our watch dog Is constantly 

 on the alert for measures detrimental to agriculture," 

 he said. "In numbers there is power, so let us Join 

 our Farm Bureau and the I. A. A. and unite our in- 

 fluence and support." 



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 Farm Bureau leaders. At the a.imi 

 time the voters repudiated the i>i 

 rates of high finance and the ox 

 pnnents of a policy of letting 

 things drift. 



LET'S IXCRE.%SE MEMBERSHIP 



"President Roosevelt said in his message to the 

 I. A. A. annual meeting that the success In the solu- 

 tion of the agricultural problem will depend on the 

 collective effort of the agricultural people of this 

 country. It seems to me this statement from the head 

 of our nation is sufficient reason for farmers to get 

 into the organization. Inasmuch as the AAA expires 

 July.l. 1935, membership should be greatly in- 

 creased before that date, in order that farmers may 

 •carry on' for themselves what the government is 

 now helping them to do." 



' O. P. HAMM, President. 

 Champaign County Farm Bureau. 



During the past year we havi 

 witnessed a strong start towarc 

 the regeneration of agriculture and 

 the return of a measure of hope 

 and happiness to the forgotten 

 citizen of America. 



Wliat the Members Say 



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FAR.M BIREAU POLICIES PREVAIL 



"Ever the right comes uppermost and ever 

 justice done." 



After years of apparent failure when at times 

 organized agriculture seemed to be striving against 

 insuperable difficulties; after being, at various times. 

 Ignored, ridiculed, and resisted by the so-called big 

 Interests of the nation, the policies and economic 

 principles, which have long been advocated and up- 

 held by the Farm Bureau, are today standing out as 

 the heart of the nation's political policy — the hope 

 of a stricken people. Why has this happened? 



To my mind It Is because the farmers have all the 

 time had the national viewpoint. We have striven to 

 help ourselves by helping all. While we recognize 

 Agriculture as a fundamontal unit in tho indtiatrlal 

 economic machine, we also recognize other units and 

 have sought a proper balance between all rathfer 

 than an advantage over others. It is the soundness 

 and Justice of this position that has enabled the ag- 

 ricultural program to take precedence over all 

 others in the battle against depression. 



Every Firm Bureau member ha« contributed to 



ALL CAX AFFORD TO BELONG 



"All farmers ought to belong to the Farm 

 Bureau for they need an organization to represent 

 thrm in legislation, taxation, etc. The farmers 

 wouldn't be where they are today if it hadn't been 

 for the leadership of the American Farm Bureau 

 Fedeiatlon and the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 who were responsible In a large measure for getting 

 all the farmers a loan on corn of 4.'i cents, in addi- 

 tion to the new deal in acreage reduction which is 

 the farmer's only salvation, 



"There Isn't a farmer who cannot afford to be- 

 long to the Farm Bureau. I used the Champaign 

 County Service Company products and received 

 $66.10 patronage refund this year. The average of our 

 county was 821.26 for 824 Farm Bureau members 

 which more than paid for all the Farm Bureau dues. 

 Besides. I received first quality merchandise. 



"If a person actually takes advantage of the 

 auto Insurance, livestock shipping association and 

 other services he is privileged to benefit from, he 

 can save his membership dues several times. I think 

 all farmers ought to Join the Farm Bureau foi; their 

 own good. H. J. WILSON, Member, 



Champaign County Farm Bureau. 



Our organization has fitted into 

 the picture as one piece of a care 

 fullt mortised joint fits into the 

 other. Is it too much to say that 

 the Farm Bureaus, along with 

 President Roosevelt, Secretary 

 Wallace, Secretary Morgenthau 

 and others are the special instru- 

 ments of Providence working to- 

 ward an America which shall 

 again be a country "Of the Peo 

 pie. By the People and For the 

 People'"? 



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In the future our organization 

 will be of greater value to us than 

 It has been in the past. "No Man 

 Liveth to nimaelf Alone." This 

 nuotntlon will find it-s counterpart 

 In an axiom that no group or class 

 nf peojile may live to itself alono. 

 A closely knit Farm Bureau «om- 

 posed of 1:> per cent or more of 

 the farmers of America; strong 

 labor unionH; organized finance, 

 but not as powerful as it has been 

 in the past; assoriutions of manu- 

 facturers and distributors; and 

 last, organized con.«iimera. These 

 frtrm the ground <'ork of a sketch 

 of the future. 



We see each group electing rep- 

 resentatives and these people 

 mooting around a common council 

 table, coUoctinK data, discu.ssinK 

 and planninK the economic welfare 

 of America. Thoy are not there In 

 the spirit of hostility or avarice 

 but all ar<f willing and expect to 

 ffUTgo advantages when the whole 

 will be better served by no doing. 

 Agriculture will find a new and 

 ever Increasing need for her Kami 

 Bureaus to act as her spokesman 

 in this future congress of the na- 

 tion's interests. 



"Farm organization has accomplished great re- 

 sults in a county, state and national way. It rei|ulrea 

 an even stronger organization to administer legis- 

 lation already enacted." FRANK J. FLYNN, 

 President, Morgan County Farm Bureau. 



"Our intensive Morgan County Campaign of 

 Monday and Tuesday, February 12 and 13, was suc- 

 cessful due to the cooperation of one hundred men 

 In the field. We are building for the future." 



DAVID R. REYNOLDS, 

 Captain, Morgan Co, Mobilization Campaign. 



I get the most satisfaction of knowing that the 

 program of the A. F. B. F., as outlined in their re.so- 

 lutlons of the year 1933. has been worked Into the 

 administration's program almost to the letter and 

 that the substance of this program is that of the 

 Farm Bureau. BENJ. A. FRELS, 



£x. Committee Henry Co. Farm Bureau. 



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Organization Is 

 Stressed In Sales 

 Work Of Companies 



That organirttion is stressed In 

 every phase of the sales work of| 

 the various crnpanles affiliated 

 with the counl|\' Farm Bureaus 

 and Illinois Af^.'icultural Assocla 

 tlon. is amply borne out by tho 

 methods used to stimulate the ef- 

 forts of all agents and salesman. 

 The offering of prizes and induce- 

 ments for acquisition of busincM 

 and members Is one of the best 

 forms of building organization and 

 loyalty. 



It i.«! only through organization 

 and the constant stressing of col- 

 lective effort that Insurance ac- 

 quisition will attain t h e volume 

 noccs.<5ary for low net cost protec- 

 tion. It la enually true with the oil 

 coni|)anv that l.irgor mass pur- 

 chasing throucli incrrnscd Farm 

 Bureau niomhcrshlp will make 

 poBsiblo lower cost petroleum 

 products. 



Tho managers show (heir keen 

 apprrciation of tho importance of 

 organization when they challenge 

 every salesman to greater sales 

 records, which In turn creates new 

 customers and greater power in 

 purchase and sala^ 



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