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I. A. A. Record— March, 1934 



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John Watson Appears 

 Before General Assembly 



States I. A. A. Policies on Pend- 

 ing Legislation, Opposes New 

 Bond Issue 



In the third special session of the 

 •General Assembly which convened on 

 February 13, the Association is sup- 

 porting legislation — 



1. To stay foreclosure proceedings 

 on mortgaged real estate in case of 

 mortgagors who have sincerely tried 

 and continue trying to meet their obli- 

 gations. 



2. To permit filing of chattel mort- 

 gages, at moderate cost, instead of re- 

 quiring that they be copied in full in 

 record books, necessarily at much 



higher cost. Xf:-;-:'V'v/:',vJ& 



The Association favors legislation 

 to enable the state to pay the accumu- 

 lated balance, now reported to be 

 about $12,000,000, of the state dis- 

 tributive school fund now due the ele- 

 mentary schools and unpaid because 

 of delinquent taxes, chiefly in Cook 

 county. It believes the state occupa- 

 tion taxes and liquor taxes will pro- 

 duce a surplus over taxes necessary 

 for the state sufficient to pay the total 

 accumulated unpaid distributive school 

 fund within about the next year. 



The State Teachers' Association has 

 offered bills authorizing an increase of 

 116,000,000 in the state tax levy, per- 

 ' mitting sale of anticipation tax notes 

 to the amount of 112,000,000, and 

 submitting a bond issue of this 

 amount to be voted on next November, 

 to be paid, if the bonds are approved 

 by diversion, from the state revenue 

 fund, of the franchise taxes on corpo- 

 rations. The Association opposes sub- 

 mission of another bond issue, with its 

 increased state tax levy and the dan- 

 ger that the tax levy will fall on 

 property. , , ^! 



The State Teachers* Association is 

 also sponsoring a series of bills to 

 provide revenue from new sources as 

 follows: 



1. A tax of one-eighth of one cent 

 per bushel on all sales of grain for 

 future delivery. 



2. A flat tax of two per cent on all 

 net income of individuals with a per- 

 sonal exemption of $1,200. 



3. A tax of three per cent on all 

 net income of corporations, in addi- 

 tion to all present franchise and prop- 

 erty taxes. V : - 



In addition, the State. Teachers' As- 

 sociation is urging two bills to repeal 

 the provisions limiting the levy of any 

 school board to the average of its 

 levies in the four school years ending 

 June 30, 1932. v :> 



/The Association is opposing the 



grain futures tax on the ground that 

 part at least of such a tax would be 

 reflected back on producers. With 

 many others, it questions the constitu- 

 tionality of the income tax on indi- 

 viduals. 



New taxes from the above sources, 

 if enacted and found valid, would yield 

 at least $40,000,000 a year even under 

 present conditions. 



Under the provisions of the teach- 

 ers' bills all or any part of new reve- 

 nue collected could be used in addi- 

 tion to taxes now levied on property. 



Mr. Watson, appearing before the 

 House, stressed the well-known policy 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion that the revenue from any new 

 taxes should be used to reduce and 

 replace dollar for dollar taxes now 

 levied on property. He insisted that 

 removal of the limitation on the power 

 of school boards to increase levies 

 would largely nullify replacement of 

 property taxes. 



Morgan Co. Stockmen 



- Gain By Group Action 



Farmers of Morgan County in- 

 creased their shipments of livestock 

 to their own commission agency by 

 58% during the first nine months of 

 1933. A total of 407 cars were sent 

 to the St. Louis Producers, an increase 

 of 151 cars over the same period in 

 1932. This increase in volume put 

 Morgan County in first rank among 

 the counties tributary to the E. St. 

 Louis market which send stock main- 

 ly by truck. 



This increase has been largely due 

 to the educational work of the Morgan 

 County Shipping Service organized in 

 February, 1933. This Shipping Serv- 

 ice, operating in Morgan and adjacent 

 counties, has been instrumental in re- 

 directing the flow of livestock to the 

 producers own terminal commission 

 firm. The breakdown of the old ship- 

 ping associations, operating mostly by 

 rail, made it necessary to find some 

 new method of grouping shipments. 



Under an arrangement with the 

 Producers Livestock Commission As- 

 sociation a saving in commission 

 charges is effected whenever sufficient 

 volume is secured. The savings begin 

 when more than the equivalent of a 

 single deck load is consigned through 

 the Shipping Service in one day, and 

 the savings increase with the increase 

 in numbers. During the first 20 busi- 

 ness days of 1934, the average num- 

 ber of hogs handled was 197, and the 

 consigners received the benefit of re- 

 duced commission rates on 17 of these 

 20 days. During the firot 12 months 

 of operation the Service has handled 

 25,795 hogs, 1,580 cattle and calves. 



H. A. de Werff. New 



Farm Advisers' Prexy 



Has Been In Service More Than 

 14 Years In Franklin And , 

 Woodford 



H. A. DE WEBFF 



H. A. de Werff, new popular presi- 

 dent of the Illinois Association of 

 Farm Advisers, has been adviser in 

 Woodford county for the past nine 

 years. Previously he served for five 

 and one-half years in the same ca- 

 pacity in Franklin 

 county. 



After graduat- 

 ing from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois 

 in 1913, Mr. de 

 Werff was on the 

 soil physics staff 

 of the Illinois 

 College of Agri- 

 culture for six 

 years. He worked 

 on the soil survey 

 in Woodford and 

 other counties throughout Illinois. 



During the war he served as a first 

 lieutenant in the machine gun corps 

 and while in France taught agricul- 

 ture in the A. E. P. University. Mr. 

 de Werff will attend the monthly meet- 

 ings of the I. A. A. board of directors 

 as a representative of the farm ad- 

 visers association. 



Other officers of the association 

 are: vice-president, E. D. Walker^ 

 Henderson county; secretary. E. A. 

 Bierbaum, Union county; treasurer, S. 

 G. Turner, Livingston county; direc- 

 tors, H. D. Van Matre, Edgar county, 

 and W. F. Coolidge, Macoupin county. 

 The term of M. P. Koske, Carroll coun- 

 ty, third director, holds over for an- 

 other year. 



I. A. A. Secures $50 -^ 



Settlement For Member 



A settlement of $50 from the C. & 

 E. I. railroad for livestock killed along 

 the latter's right-of-way was obtained 

 by the I. A. A. Transportation De- 

 partment for Charles Roderick of Bis- 

 marck, Vermilion county. The claim 

 was referred to the I. A. A. by the 

 Vermilion County Farm Bureau. 



and 868 sheep. There is no red tape 

 to annoy the shipper. He deals direct- 

 ly with his own truckman and his 

 stock is handled and sold exactly as 

 any individual shipment. Account 

 sales and returns are sent to the Man- 

 ager of the Morgan County Shipping 

 Service at Jacksonville, where each 

 day the sales are pro-rated and checks 

 mailed to shippers. 



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