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CPt hTPmA L ASSOC I Al^ M 



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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, 



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Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 165 So. Main 

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

 as second class matter at post office, Spencer, Ind. Acceptance for mailing at 

 special rate of postage proTided 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 

 individual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars 

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, ■ ,.■::;,>,. :;; ;•.:•, .. v: ,. OFFICERS ,-,: . .;•,.:._,.,;•-■ I--.V/'; 



Presfdpnt, Earl C. Smith ♦•.... Detroit 



Vice-Presidont, A. R. Wright :... Varna 



Secretary. Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



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 (By Congressional District) 



let to 11th • » • ^- Harris, Grayslake 



12th .., E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 



13th C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th •. Otto Steffey, Stronghnrst 



15th M. Ray Ihrlg, Golden 



16th Albert Hayes, ChiUicothe 



ITtli E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 



18th Mont Pox, Oakwood 



19th Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



21st Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



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DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller. .J. H. Keller 



Dairy Marketing / J. B. Countiss 



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FiMiit and Vegetable Marketing .<...., H. W. Day 



Information George Thfem 



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



I-'ive Stock Marketing Ray B. Miller 



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Produce Marketing .F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation-Claims Dlyision .;*. G. W. Baxte^ 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS ^ * 



Country Life Insurance Co U A. Williams, Mgr. 



Farmers* Mutual Reinsurance Co J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



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



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. B. Richardson, Up. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr;.: 



Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange H. W. Day. Mgr;^~ 



Illinols Grain Corp Harrison Fahrnkopf , Mgr. 



Illinois LiTestock Marketing Ass'n Ray Miller, Mgr. 



Illinois Producers* Creameries F. A. Gougljer, Mgr.. J. B. Countiss, Sales 



Soybean Marketing Ass'n > . l'.\ . . ... .J. Vf, Armstrong, Pt'es. 



-; Illinois An Accredited State v 



ILLINOIS is now an accredited state in bovine tuberculosis 

 ; eradication. The Farm Bureau may justly take pride in 

 this achievement. Initiated by the U. S. Bureau of Animal 

 Industry and supported by the state government, tuberculosis 

 eradication work in Illinois made slow progress until the power 

 of the Farm Bureau movement was put actively behind it. 

 Illinois for many years had been a dumping ground for tuber- 

 cular cattle from other states. Buyers of dairy and beef breed- 

 ing stock had the state on their black list. Cow dealers in 

 Northern Illinois had built up an impressive business replac- 

 ing dairy cows that "went wrong." 



County Farm Bureau committees appeared before boards of 

 supervisors and secured appropriations for county veterina- 

 rians. Many Farm Bureaus put money into the project. Effec- 

 tive publicity was used to inform farmers about the scourge 

 of tuberculosis. Farm advisers assisted in organizing com- 

 munities to hasten testing and prevent further infection. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association set up a tuberculosis 

 eradication department in 1923. It offered a standing reward 

 of $100 for information leading to conviction of anyone found 

 guilty of violating the state and federal regulations govern- 

 ing shipment of cattle into the state. In 1925 the I. A. A. 

 successfully sponsored legislation appropriating $2,000,000 to 

 pay indemnities and carry on the work. It supported the pro- 



vision in the act making testing compulsory when 75 per cent 

 of the cattle in the county had been tested. 



Today Illinois herds are comparatively free of this costly 

 disease. Buyers can come here unafraid. Losses of cattle from 

 tuberculosis have been reduced to a minimum. Thus has the 

 position of the Farm Bureau movement, once opposed by 

 minority groups, been vindicated. 



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Co-operatives Support A. A. A. 



IT'S significant that of all the marketing agencies and com- 

 mission companies handling farmers' grain, their own co- 

 operatives are alone in supporting the crop adjustment, 

 price-raising program. W^ have yet to hear a good word for 

 the Agricultural Adjustment Act from an old-line commission 

 company. On the other hand there have been frequent at- 

 tacks by such interests on this legislation. '"''■'''''' \::/-a-.-'.'^,.^ ■::■'''■]': /^-i 

 , In its recent annual meeting, the Farmers National Gram 

 Corporation reaffirmed its faith in the AAA program and 

 pledged its future support to any reasonable plan that will 

 bring parity prices to agriculture. The co-operative is first 

 and last for the farmer. It is not primarily interested in 

 profits from commissions. : 



Let all farmers show their appreciation for the battle farm 

 co-operatives are waging in their behalf by marketing their 

 grain, livestock, milk, cream, fruits and vegetables, and other 

 farm commodities through their own agencies. 



' On Controlling Production 



Washington, Sept. 16 — (AP) — The National Lumber 

 Code authority today fixed the total production for the 

 fourth quarter at 3,074,000,000 feet compared with 

 3,800,000,000 for the present three months' period. : .Vw 

 allow for the expected four per cent seasonal decrease 

 in consumption and to reduce stocks in excess of those 

 .on hand at this! time last year.^^^^^^^^^^''^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ' • V 



Thus through organization are the lumbermen contMlling 

 production and holding up prices. Yet some folks insist that 

 farmers produce without restraint regardless of the price they 

 receive. Price fixing through production control, was prac- 

 ticed by industry long before the NRA was invented. Farmers, 

 with the co-operation of government, are now attempting to 

 get somewhere near the value of their products through simi- 

 lar action. Organized production control is the only way 

 ' agriculture can keep farm prices in litie with non-agricultural 

 prices and promote a free exchange of goods and services so 

 necessary to national recovery. ^/ :^^^ ■ v 



^ ' Industrial Prices ' ' 



c "Real selling prices themselves must be reduced-^ ' 

 they must be brought within the range of a greater ' 

 number of buyers. In no other way can industry be s 

 stimulated to higher levels of activity." 



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Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors Corpora- 

 tion, is speaking. Colonel Leonard P. Ayers, well-known 

 banker and economist, commented similarly recently in speak- 

 ing of industrial prices. So warned farm representatives long 

 before the debacle of 1929 in pointing out the disparity be- 

 tween agriculture and industry. 



The remedy for unemployment and business stagnation plain- 

 ly lies in bringing farm prices up or industrial prices down, or 

 both, so as to reestablish normal trading. Acreage reduction 

 and drought have narrowed the gap. The serious feature of 

 this situation is that many farmers in stricken areas have 

 nothing to sell and so the price level means little to them. 

 Nevertheless farm buying power as a whole is definitely im- 

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It was the disruption of price relations between farm prod- 

 ucts and industrial goods, marketing costs and taxes which 

 created the depression and widespread unemployment. Pros- 

 perity will return when price levels are such that the farm and 

 city man can exchange their goods and services freely. 



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