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Davis Answers Attacks of ^ 

 Hoover And Others on AAA 



Farm Act Makes Power of Gov- 

 ernment Available For Farmers 

 to Help Themselves 



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Hoard's Dairyman and partisan news- 

 papers have attacked the provision of 

 the AAA drouth cattle purchase contract 

 by which the seller agrees to co-operate 

 with any future control program adopted 

 for the cattle industry, in consideration 

 of the benefit payments which constitute 

 that part of the purchase price of drouth 

 cattle meant solely for the farmer. . 



In a recent radio address on the Amer-. 

 ican Farm Bureau program, Administra- 

 tor Chester C. Davis defends this pro- 

 vision on the ground that benefit pay- 

 ments under the Agricultural Adjust- 

 ment Act can only be made legally in 

 consideration of an agreement to adjust 

 production. . ., 



"In the cattle purchase plan," said Mr. 

 Davis, "we wanted to be sure that a por- 

 tion of the purchase price of cattle would 

 belong to the farmer or rancher. We 

 found we could accomplish this by des-* 

 ignating a portion of the price paid as 

 a benefit payment. This was not pleas-^ 

 ing to some bankers. But the drouth- 

 stricken farmers liked it. . . . 



"If the editor of Hoard's Dairyman 

 had honestly sought to ascertain the 

 facts, he could not in good faith have 

 published that editorial." 



Answering ex-President Hoover's 

 statement in a recent issue of the Satur- 

 day Evening Post that "the whole thesis 

 behind this program (AAA) is the very 

 theory that man is but the pawn of the 

 state," Mr. Davis said: "This is not a 

 correct statement of the philosophy of 

 the Adjustment Act or its administra- 

 tion. The object of this program is to 

 make the power of governmejit available 

 to enable the farmers of this country to 

 dO' the job which they as individuals or 

 as associations had proved unable to do 

 in 15 years' effort. ... :> • ^ 



"The McNary-Haugen bill aimed to 

 give the producers a fair price for that 

 portion of their crops consumed at home 

 independent of the world price for the 

 surplus. In defense the opponents of this 

 legislative idea were forced to take a 

 definite position. They advanced several 

 alternative proposals — more generous 

 farm loans, government assistance to 

 co-operative, and finally government 

 price stabilization operations. 



"The Agricultural Marketing Act was 

 adopted in 1929 as a defense against the 

 program that had been advanced by 

 farmers. Generally, the farm organiza- 

 tions took the position that the Farm 

 Board should be given a trial. Experi- 

 ence during its existence definitely 



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proved two things: first, that it was fu- 

 tile and unfair to the co-operatives them- 

 selves to expect them and their members 

 to undertake the load of regulating sup- 

 plies and stabilizing markets for any 

 widely-grown commodity; second, that 

 government stabilization in the absence 

 of farmer control of production will not 



; "Following the 1932 election the stage 

 was set for the new deal for agriculture. 

 Farm organization leaders who met with 

 Secretary Wallace in March, 1933, had 

 the benefit of long experience under the 

 Farm Board and previously. They out- 

 lined the program which was enacted in 

 the Agricultural Adjustment Act not 

 quite 16 months agoJ^ :')yi^''' ■;^^^^^^^ 



Market For Corn Stover 



8.50 



The AAA recently acted to provide a 

 commercial market for corn fodder and 

 stover. For such quantities of fodder 

 and stover as remain unsold in April, 

 1935, the government agrees to pay the 

 following prices: 



^ Alternative No. 1 



Whole Shredded 

 No. 1 Corn Fodder / ^ 



(entire plant) ; ' $8.50 $9.00 

 No. 2 Corn Fodder , ^ 



(entire plant) 8.00 



No. 1 Corn Stover or >: 

 SWeet Corn Stover ^"^ ^ 

 (ears removed) ' 7.50 

 No. 2 Corn Stover or 

 Sweet Corn Stover 

 V- (ears removed) • 7.00 



Initial allotments of quantities of fod- 

 der will be made soon to states, and 

 will be prorated to counties and individ- 

 ual farmers. It is contemplated that 

 purchases of corn fodder and stover will 

 be handled through the livestock feed 

 office of the AAA recently opened in 

 Kansas City. ... 



8.00 



7.50 



Ogle County Has Army of 

 240, Fight for Agriculture 



A total of 240 organization committee- 

 men of the Ogle County Farm Bureau 

 paraded in military formation during the 

 recent annual picnic at Oregon. Each 

 committeeman wore a special helmet. 

 They were reviewed by "General" L. M. 

 Gentry, chairman of the county com- 

 mittee. 



During a brief ceremony in the grand- 

 stand each member took the pledge to 

 fight for agriculture and the organization 

 at the command of the County Farm Bu- 

 reau president, John D. Coffman. R. J. 

 Hamilton is county organization director. 



Plan now to attend the big I. A. A. 

 annual meeting at Quincy in January. 





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A red hot battle for the state cham- 

 pionship is in prospect as McDonough 

 and Will counties go into the final series. 

 Both are outstanding teams. Will coun- 

 ty is supreme in northern Illinois and 

 McDonough county has beat all comers 

 in the central and western sections. 



McDonough eliminated the fast, heavy- 

 hitting 1933 champions from Sangamon 

 county, and more recently the divisional 

 winners from Shelby. McDonough had a 

 tough battle with Sangamon, the latter 

 taking the second game of the series and 

 forcing the western Illinois boys to put 

 up their best brand of baseball to take 

 the third game at Beardstown. 



The first McDonough-Shelby game was 

 a walk-away for McDonough. Close to 

 2,500 people saw the game played on the 

 teachers college grounds at Macomb. The 

 second game at Shelbyville drew a small 

 crowd, but the Shelby boys played bet- 

 ter baseball and held McDonough to a 9 

 to 2 victory. 



Beat Carroir^:::',- 



The scrappy Will county nine defeated 

 both Woodford and Carroll in the inter- 

 divisional contests. The first Will-Car- 

 roll game at Lanark was a pitchers' 

 battle with Will county barely winning 1 

 to 0. The second game played Septem- 

 ber 15 at Frankfort was more one-sided 

 with the Carroll county team coming out 

 on the short end of a 9 to 2 score. 

 Schuldt of Will county held the Carroll 

 batsmen to six hits, whereas his team- 

 mates batted out 13 safeties against 

 Schaut^nd Rahn^ ; , 



.-- As wie go to pre^ss it seems likely that 

 the opening gaitie of the cha,rnpionship 

 series Will be played Saturday, Septem- 

 ber 29 at Frankfort. Manager E. W. 

 "Boots" Runkle is promising a crowd of 

 3,000 at the return game in the Mc- 

 Donough county seat. ' , ^ * 



Drouth And Farm Income 



Farmers as a whole in the U. S. will 

 have more than $900,000,000 additional 

 income, or nearly 20 per cent in excess 

 of 1933 income, according to estimates 

 of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 



Only about one-third of farm income in 

 1933 was derived from states worst af- 

 fected by the drouth. Another third 

 came from the partially affected central 

 states east of the Mississippi River, the 

 remaining third came from all other 

 states which were largely unaffected. 



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