or Joe Green 



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What's this John! Got yer corn all in, 

 And here's me jest good begin. ,. 

 Hits all on count uve that cussed mule, 

 ■ ,^^ ketchim uve 



-■^ • /^ a mornin' while 



•v- its cool. > 



; I've worried with 

 the sucker till 

 V Fm nearly sick, 

 He goes so slow 

 ;; • it plants my 

 com too thick. 

 Say aint things gettin' in a mess 

 On count uve the farmers medlin,' I 

 ■■■ guess. :4\"- .:•>.■•./, .v;i«->- ■..■■\^}'V:::^.: 



Lizzy said the secretary and that 



•i;.,^ "O'Neal" .,......^;. :pKi^\:M-^^^^^^^^ 



Wuz up to Washington about the New 

 • Deal s.-.\.^- .r..--^^: ■•■■.:■.■ ■:■■ -- . •. ■•;. .•■•--•■ 



What kin them fellers do to help us 



An' put this here depression to rout 

 I'd like to see 'em pick a fishin' pole 

 Er drive a mule past a groundhog hole 

 I'll bet one whiff uve this pipe uve 

 ■ •. mine ^'' "'■^'' '■•''•■■■••" •'■•■ i* •:"■"' -V- ■■'••■ 

 *Ud give 'em buck-eger in their spine. 

 The way hit wuz is good-enuff f er me 

 E very-buddy work and letter be. 

 I cain't raise enuff to keep outa debt 

 How will I make 't with less yet? : 

 Lizzy says the papers is all aginnet 

 If they aire the farmers'll never win- 

 net ■■^•'' ■ ■ ' ^ ,•••;■." ' -"'■ .r.,.'*'. .V- ';'':i.--i *;■ .''/("''.•'': 



Well I'd better get back and prod old 



;^.."Jake" ■■ ■'■ '■■'f:--:-//^'(r-^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 Per hits all I can do to keep Mm 



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John: 



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HoW Qn4hgxe Joe, let me straighten 



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I'll; 1^1 you how it all came about. 

 Don't blame the farmers for this mess 

 But we'll have to straighten it out I 



.. guess. ;^. .,..., •.. ....v..,.-.v ,v/..:v--r'- ;'•-• 



Our fathers taught us all to work 

 But, another gang they learned to 

 ■ shirk. .. ..,: . . ■ *■ 



They've sat like a mouse hawk in a 

 • tree ' '^'•••"^ ^-^ ^- ••''• - ■ ■■'■-- -' 

 And whetted their bills, 'till you and 

 i- rre '■■■■ 



Plowed out a worm and then they'd 

 '■^' drop-^;./;;^''- '' """ '" ^'"'''^ ' ' 



And promptly gobble him in their 

 ' crop. ■■- ^'•' ••■ ■ •'■' ■ ■ "■•• • • ■-'-'■■ ■ '-■■ • '' ■■ 

 For years we'd work and just complain 

 But now we've decided to use our 



brain 

 Our leaders, Earl Smith and "Ed 



O'Neal" 

 Have got a finger in this "New Deal" 

 I think it's something, if you ask me 

 To be represented in Washington, D. 



Organization will win if we'll back it 

 ; like m^i y 



So's we can get a grub-worm now and 



then 

 Well, what if some leader would go 



haywire? ■■.'-■.■■::^-\--r:-''- •■ •••>.■-••.■•!" ^^^•■•v:•^•:; 

 Can't you fire any-body you can hire? 

 Joe, half of that stuff that Lizzy reads 

 Is 'bout as reliable as musty seeds. 

 The papers claim the cities pay the 



tax. 

 They're all too prejudiced to print the 



facts. 

 I'll tell you, Joe, in the end you'll find 

 We'll have to make Satan get behind. 



— Harry B. Claar 



Secor Elevator Pays 

 - .Patronage Dividend 



The Secor Elevator Company, 

 Woodford county, one of the 160 mem- 

 bers of Illinois Grain Corporation, had 

 a successful year during 1933. In ad- 

 dition to paying an 8 per cent divi- 

 dend to stockholders, it also paid a 

 %c per bushel patronage dividend to 



patrons. -'. •-v-..-^.. ■■•:.o,-.':-/ . •-.;..^ :. • •, : 



This action by the board of directors 

 shows the true cooperative spirit. 

 After a reasonable return on the capi- 

 tal invested, the producers were re- 

 funded the further earnings of the 

 company.* The Secor Elevator Com- 

 pany received a patronage dividend 

 from the Illinois Grain Corporation on 

 all grain sold through the Illinois 

 regional and Farmers National Grain 

 Corporation. ■ * • ^ . w; : 



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* Here is an example of voluntary controlled 

 capitalism. The time may eoroe when business and 

 industry will, by general law, be forced to do the 

 fame. Who knows? — Ed. 



Cash Income of Farnners M- 

 Up 39 Per Cent Says AAA 





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Cash income of American farmers 

 increased more than 39 per cent in 

 the year beginning May 12, 1933, with 

 the passage of the Agricultural Ad- 

 justment Act, reports the AAA. Dur- 

 ing this period farmers signed more 

 than 2,860,000 contracts to restrict 

 acreage. In addition, around 800,000 

 farmers are benefiting from marketing 

 agreements. ' > - '-*'■*: 



Estimated farm income for the year 

 ending May 1, 1934 is $5,530,000,000— 

 an increase of more than $1,500,000,000 

 over the year previous. Of this total 

 benefit payments accounted for more 

 than 12 per cent. Of total payments 

 of $185,380,000 cotton received roughly 

 $112,500,000, wheat $67,600,000, to- 

 bacco $500,200,000, corn |15,500 and 

 hogs $24,800. 



Cultivators of the earth are the moit valuahle 

 citizens. They are the most ▼i^orous, the most 

 independent, the most Tirtuous, and they are 

 tied to their country, and wedded to its liberty 

 and interests, by the most lastiiif bonds.-* 

 Thomas Jefferson. : ; ; • . 



Beef Committee At 



^^^^ W On Program 



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The Committee of 25 named to help 

 draft the beef cattle program, held 

 its first meeting in Washington May 9. 



Members of the committee attending 

 were: — C. J. Abbott, Lincoln, Neb.; A. 

 L. Berg, Baltic, S. Dak.; Dolph Bris- ^ 

 coe, Uvalde, Tex.; Elmer Brock, Kay- i 

 cee, Wyo.; F. R. Carpenter, Hayden, 

 Colo.; L. A. Chapin, New York City; ; 

 Charles E. Collins, Kit Carson, Colo.; 

 Morris Douglas, Flat Rock, Ind.; Ma- 

 rion Finley*, Hoopefiton, 111.; Thos. B. 

 Glasscock, Upperville, Va.; R. M. 

 Gunn, Buckingham, Iowa; C. L. Jami- . 

 son, John Day, Ore.; Kenneth Hones, V 

 Colfax, Wis.; F. F. McArthur, Oak- ;' 

 land, Iowa; Joe E. Mercer, Topeka, 

 Kan.; W. B. Mount, Shouns, Tenn.; 

 A. J. Olsen, Renville, Minn.; H. H. 

 Parke*, Genoa, 111.; Judge George : 

 Rittenour, Piketon, Ohio; Joe Robin- 

 son, Merccr, Pa.; Hubbard Russell, Los ■ 

 Angeles, Calif.; J. Blaine Shaun, Tar- 

 kio. Mo.; E. B. Weatherly, Cochran, 



"Absent were: Carl S. Horn, Hay 

 Springs, Nebr. and Tom Ross, Chinook, : 

 Mont. 



In selecting the committee the Agri- 

 cultural Adjustment Administration . 

 had in mind the close relationship be- 

 tween beef cattle production and dairy- 

 ing so that dairy interests are repre- 

 sented also. At the initial meeting 

 Chester C. Davis, administrator; G. B. 

 Thorne, economist; Dr. J. R. Mohler, 

 chief. Bureau of Animal Industry; and , 

 Harry Petrie, chief of the AAA beef , 

 section spoke on various phases of the . 

 beef cattle situation and prospects for • 

 an adjustment program.. :., \ y; 



The general advisory committee se- 

 lected a number of special committees 

 from its own membership for intensive 

 study of different angles of possible 

 adjustment programs. 



* Henry H. Parke, president of the Chleags Predueeri : 

 Commission Ass*n., a director and officer in the = 

 National LIvestorIc Marketing Ass'n., was one ef 

 organizers of DeKalb County Soil Improvement Ass'n. 

 In 1912, later renamed DeKalb County Farm Bureau. .. 

 One of first In state to grow alfalfa, served as as* 

 sistant director ef agriculture under ex- Gov. Lowdea, 

 operates general farm feeding cattle and hogs. 



Marion Finley. ton of the late Chas. R. Finley, 

 former director, once vlee-p«^sident (1926) of I. A. A. \ 

 Marion Is a graduate (1917) University of Illinois, 

 has been an officer In Vermilion County Farm Bo« 

 reau. now a director in Indianapolis Produeers. A 

 top-notch farm operator. Master Farmer, grows big 

 erops corn, alfalfa, wheat, feeds sattif and hoft on 

 home farm. — Editor. • ; -». 



Tariff On Bananas 



The I. A. A. board of directors en- 

 dorsed a resolution urging the adop- 

 tion of a duty on bananas imported 

 into this country. The resolution was 

 presented by the Illinois Fruit Grow- 

 ers Exchange. Importations of ba- 

 nanas range from 100,000 to 125,000 

 carloads annually, compete with U. 

 S. grown fruits say local growers. 



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