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€0LT1J«AL ASSOCIA 



RECORO^ 



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

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

 economic, political and educational interest of the farmers of 

 Illinois and the nation, and to develop <igriculture. 



Georffe Thtem, Editor 

 John TracXf Asaliitaiit 



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

 Oct. 27, 1025. Address all communications for publication to Editorial Offices, 

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

 iBdiTidual membership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars 

 a year. The fee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association RECORD. Postmaster: In returning an uncalled for, 

 missent copy, please indicate key number on address as is required by law. 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl O. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, A. R. Wright Varna 



Secretary, Geo, E. Metsger .*iir».v. Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

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1st to 11th ........ , . V. . * E. Harris, Grayslake 



12th E. B. Houghtby, Shabbona 



Iflfth C. E. Bamborough, Polo 



14th. *; ^ Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th i . , M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



l«th Albert Hayes, Chilllcothe 



lith E. D. Lawrence, Bloomington 



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iOth. . • •>«».••••. ....... •'A^^.y^i, Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



2iHh. .. . . . : . . : .:.... K. T. smith, Greenfield 



2l8t ....,,..., .,.,,..,.,,. Samuel Sorrells, Raymond 



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24th ; : :. . : ,....,.:,,. :..... .... . : Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th R. B. Bndicott, Villa Ridge 



^ DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller J. H. Kelker 



Dairy Marketing J. B. Countiss 



Finance .R. A. Cowlet 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Information George Thiem 



Legal Donald Kirkpatrlck. Director; Paul E. Mathias, Associate 



Live Stock Marketing Ray E. Miller 



Office 0. B. Johnston 



Organization .V. Vaniman 



Produce Marketing ' . . .F. A. Gougler 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation-Claima Diyision G. W. Baxter 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co L. A. Williams, M^. 



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



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



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Co A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



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



Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange H. W. Day, Mgr. 



Illinois Grain Corp Harrlscm Fahmkopf , Mgr. 



niittois Livestock Marketing Ass'n Ray Miller, Mgr. 



Illinois Producers' Creameries F. A. Gougler, Mgr., J. B. Countiss, Sales 



Soybean Marketing Asa'n J. W. Armstrong, Prea. 



Vote Tuesday Nov. 6 



IF YOU don't do anything else on Tuesday, Nov. 6, go to 

 the polls and vote. In this and the October issue 

 of the RECORD information about candidates is pre- 

 sented that will help you cast your ballot intelligently. Agri- 

 culture is the basic industry of the land. If it prospers the 

 nation prospers. Therefore farmers w\ll serve their country 

 as well as themselves best by electing able men and women 

 to the legislature and congress regardless of party, who will 

 fight to achieve, protect and preserve farm welfare. 



State and national issues of vital importance to farmers are 

 outlined in the article beginning on Page 3. A state-wide 

 effort was made to secure expressions of candidates on these 

 questions. The results of this survey are presented on the pre- 

 ceding pages. Study this information before you go to the 

 polls. Vot^ for ,those candidates who will most truly repre- 

 sent you. 



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Buitd 'Em Stronger 



CROP adjustment to raise farm prices must not minimize 

 the importance of reducing the cost of distribution. The 

 high cost of getting farm products to the consumer is 

 an evil which narrows the farmers' market. While adjusting 

 production through county control associations, let's continue 



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building our co-operative marketing institutions stronger. They 

 offer the only assurance of cutting the producer-consumer 

 price spread. 



In England, British farmers, too, are controlling production 

 so as to raise prices. The Countryman, English farm journal, 

 warns that '"the danger to agriculture comes if restriction is 

 regarded as the only method of improving the farmers' po- 

 sition; the most urgent need in our planning is to get the 

 food to the consumers at prices commensurate with those re- 

 ceived by the producers, and representative of the potential 

 supplies. For restriction is cumulative in its effect; the dearer 

 milk and bacon become, the more are the poorer families 

 driven to support life on cheap foods like bread and porridge. 

 ... so our planning for agriculture will be ineffective if it 

 does not extend to the methods of distribution, and it is in this 

 direction that our most earnest thinking should be turned." 



Work Ahead 



INf A DEMOCRACY such as the United States, economic 

 and political policies of government are responsive to 

 popular sentiment. The man in public life keeps his ear 

 to the ground. If he persists in going contrary to the will 

 of the voting majority he doesn't stay in public life very long. 



For this reason there is a never-ending effort by organized 

 groups and interests to rt^ould pul^liq opinion behind policies 

 which are especially advantageous to them and their con- 

 stituents. 



Pulling the wool over the eyes of the other fellow has been 

 a great national pastime. Industrialists and their satellites 

 with private axes to grind, for example, told farmers for years 

 that a high protective tariff is an unmixed blessing to them; 

 that the tariff promotes home industry, provides jobs, and 

 enables workmen to buy farmers' products. That argument 

 finally became recognized as a half truth. Farmers who did 

 their own thinking saw the other side of the picture; that the 

 tariff increases the cost of many things they must buy, cuts 

 off international trade, and so deprives the farmer of foreign 

 outlets for his produce. 



Discerning the wide gap between farm and industrial prices 

 following the war, organized farmers demanded that agricul- 

 ture, too, be brought within the protective system by removing 

 price-depressing surpluses from the domestic market. Andrew 

 Mellon's reply was that this would increase the price of food 

 in the cities. So the plea of agriculture, embodied in the 

 McNary-Haugen and other bills, was denied. 



Finally the Agricultural Adjustment Act was conceived 

 as another way to accomplish the object of the McNiary- 

 Haugen legislation. While only 15 months old, it seems to be 

 working. The best evidence of its effectiveness is the cam- 

 paign of opposition largely directed by the same interests 

 which fought previous efforts of farmers to gain equal privi- 

 leges. The processing tax, which might just as well be called 

 the equalization fee, is being assailed. Why? Because it is 

 operating to bring the farmer within the American system 

 of controlled production and controlled prices; because it is 

 raising the price of food, and reducing the volume of farm 

 products and the commissions of those who handle them. 



So farmers are being told that the processing tax is bad 

 for them, just as they were told in the '20's that the protective 

 tariff is their salvation and guarantee of a market for their 

 produce. ' v 



There's plenty of work ahead if farmers are to continue 

 the helpful policies they fought so long to attain. 



The necessity for being alert and prepared to speak out 



with the powerful voice of organized numbers is recognized 



by the Secretary of Agriculture in his recent book, "New 

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'*It is to be expected that strong efforts will be made to 

 get rid of the processing taxes by every Congress from- 

 now on," writes Mr. Wallace. **I trust that the farmers fully 



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