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CULTURAL ASSOCIA 



RECORH 



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

 ganized namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, 

 ^^ economic, political and educational interest of the farmers of 

 Illinois and the nation, and to develop agriculture, 



:V--., ..:;;■;•■:;; George Thiem, Editor . ^^^^ :-:•:./• / ?>;'■.(■•■>-.,:•-•<»• 



John Tracy, Assistant 



Publ'ghed monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main 

 St., Spencer, Ind. Editorial Offices. 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. Entered 

 as ii^cond class matter at post office, Spencer, Ind. Acceptance for mailing at 

 special rate of postage provided in Section 412. Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized 

 Oct. 27, 1925. Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, 

 Illinois Agricultural Association Record. 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. The 

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OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, A. R. Wright Varna 



: Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger Thicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles ,^«,^«. .Bloomington 



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ist to 11th. .E. Harris. Grayslake 



12th E. E. Floughtby, Shabbona 



13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th Otto Steffey, Strongbnrst 



15th M. Ray Ihrlg, Golden 



16th Albert Hayes, Chilllcothe 



17th E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 



18th Mont Fox, Oakwood 



19th , , .^ Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20flj K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



2lRt Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



22nd A. O. Eckert, BelleTille 



2.^nl ; W. L. Cope, Salem 



24th Charles Marahall, Belknap 



25th.......,.,,,,...,,, R. B. Endicott, Villa Ridge 



/^\ ; ' ; ; D^ DIRECTORS 



Comptroller. . . ' .1'. . . . . .J. H. Kelker 



Dairy Marketing / J. B. Counties 



Finance R. A. Cowles 



FiMiit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Information George Thiem 



I^gal Donald Kirkpatrick, Director; Paul E. Mathlas, Associate 



Mve Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Omce C. E. Johnston 



Organisation V. Vanlman 



Produce Marketing F. A. Gongler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



TransportationClaima DiTlsion G. W. Baxter 



V ; V\ - ! ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS ^ ' 



Country Life Insurance Ce L. A. Williams, M^r. 



Parmera' Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricnltnral Auditing Ass'n F. E. Ringham, Mgr. 



Illinois Agricnltnral Mntnal Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



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



Illinois Fmit Growers* Exchange H. W. Day* Mgr. 



Illinois Grain Corp , Harrison Fahmkopf , Mgr. 



Illinois LdTestock Marketing Ass'n Ray Miller, Mgr. 



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



Soybean Marketing Ass'n J. W. Armstrong, Pres. 



i ) ^ AAA Must Be Retained -^^S 



ANY effort by organized commission men, processors and 

 their allies to ditch the Agricultural Adjustment Act 

 and the principle of acreage control will be vigorously 

 resisted by the organized thinking farmers of America. 

 . Crop adjustment machinery developed under the AAA must 

 be retained. The drouth may temporarily make reduction of 

 basic crops unnecessary. But until foreign markets are re- 

 stored and domestic buying power improves, farmers know 

 that they must plan their production or take the consequences 

 in ruinous prices. Only an announcement of the possibility 

 of abandoning acreage reduction next year was sufficient, re- 

 cently, to send grain prices tumbling at the terminal markets. 

 This fact is a complete answer to critics who attribute all of 

 the gain in farm prices to the drouth, ^Jf;^^^^:^^v^^^:- 

 A simplified adjustment program through grain acreage 

 control such as that outlined by President Smith heretofore 

 in the RECORD, has met with the general approval of farmers 

 wherever the proposal has been considered. Informed farmers 

 will not surrender the most effective legislative weapon they 

 have yet been given to raise farm prices. The processing tax 

 has been called the farmer's tariff. More and more farmers 

 are coming to appreciate the truth of this comparison. While 

 the processing tax on hogs has not brought equal benefits to 



all hog growers, particularly to feeders, because of the im- 

 perfections in the plan and difficulties in operating it, there 

 is no question about the net benefits to the industry as a 

 whole. Not only beef cattle but also mutton prices have been 

 aided by the reduction in hog numbers. 



The Agricultural Adjustment Act has made a great con- 

 tribution to the welfare of the farming industry despite some 

 irritations resulting from initial efforts to operate so complex 

 and colossal a program. The machinery it has developed must 

 be continued, at least so long as American farmers are forced 

 to do business under an economic system in which production 

 and price control, price fixing and organized wage-fixing form 

 such a large part. 



A Century of Progress 



THE Century of Progress Exposition reveals among other 

 things a century of progress in piling up distribution 

 costs. You can readily see why the farmer is getting such 

 a small percentage of the consumer's dollar. Mrs. Consumer, 

 herself, whom the processors and distributors desire to please, 

 in fact must please to get their share of the business, is 

 largely responsible for higher-priced food and lower prices to 

 the farmer. In the good old days, for example, when farmers 

 were getting half or more of the consumer's pork dollar, 

 bacon was bought by the piece or slab. Now it is carefully 

 sliced, wrapped in half-pound and pound cellophane packages 

 by pretty red-haired girls dressed in white, then placed in at- 

 tractive cartons all printed up with beautiful trade names in 

 colored ink. At the Fair, this process all looks very inter- 

 esting. Great crowds stand around to watch the perform- 

 ance. Then you remember that every operation adds to the 

 cost of the finished commodity. And when consumer buying 

 power is down, as at present, those extra operations are 

 charged back against the producer in a lower price for his 

 livestock. So it is with many other farm products, ^: ; -: :. 







A Chicago Leader Speaks 



THAT many farmers get the wrong impression of the atti- 

 tude of city people toward agriculture from reading the 

 metropolitan newspapers was intimated by Rufus €• 

 Dawes, president of the Century of Progress Exposition, in 

 his official welcome to the farmers of America at the opening 

 of Farmers' Week. 



/'Chicago is prosperous when the farmers arc prosperous/' 

 said Mr. Dawes. ''Business of Chicago lags when agriculture 

 languishes. Business men of Chicago realize that farmers 

 have taken every advantage of science; they have increased 

 production per man and the production per acre, 



"The problem of the distribution and the sale of the prod- 

 uct of the farmer is still unsolved, and it is a problem in which 

 the welfare of the city is as much involved as that of the 

 farmer. In the solution of this problem the men living in the 

 cities have a greater responsibility than the farmer himself,*' 

 How different is this attitude from that so often shown 

 by certain Chicago newspapers, speculators, and processors. 

 A minority of voluble critics of farmers' efforts at helping 

 themselves have brought Chicago a lot of unnecessary ill will. 

 We need to hear more from men like Mr. Dawes who really 

 represent the g^roup which has contributed most toward build- 

 ing this great city, : •:;•':••• •:-.-:^\.-:-^-v . . . ■• 



The past four years have demonstrated, as Mr. Dawes sug- 

 gests, how dependent the city man is on the buying power 

 of farmers. Lack of confidence is not nearly so important 

 a factor in general prosperity as lack of a fair relationship 

 between farm and non-agricultural prices. Business and 

 employment have improved since 1932 largely because farm 

 prices advanced enabling farmers to buy more factory prod- 



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