What Adjustment Has Meant 

 ' g to Our Country 



By J. V. Stevenson, farm operator and member LaSalle 



County Farm Bureau and I. A. A. 



IN LaSALLE county, Illinois, 55 per- 

 cent of our crop acres in the last 

 two years were planted to corn, so 

 when we speak of Agricultural adjust- 

 ment, we think of corn and hogs. 



We had 3360 applications for corn- 

 hog contracts, and it is interesting and 

 significant that of this whole number, 

 there were only thirty-five, or about one 

 percent, that could not or would not go 

 along at the time of final signature. 



Under the corn-hog adjustment plan, 

 our contract signers rented more than 

 61,000 acres to the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture and altogether the benefit payments 

 on corn and hogs will bring into the 

 county about $1,100,000. 



We are in the area that was hard hit 

 this year by drouth and chinch bugs. 

 On a great many farms in the county 

 there will be no grain to sell, and on 

 some farms not even enough to feed the 

 livestock. To such farmers the corn-hog 

 payments are a god-send; they constitute 

 the only cash income the farm will have 

 this season. This with the release of the 

 contracted acres for forage production 

 furnish a splendid illustration of the good 

 this program can do in providing a form 

 of insui'ance against such emergencies. 



Last spring our farmers sealed about 

 3,000f cribs containing more than fivj? 

 million bushels of corn, receiving a Iq^n 

 of 45) G:ents per bushel at that time. Mo^^ 

 than^; three million bushels of this CQ;;n 

 have now been sold, at least two-thirds 

 of i^.>f oy^ sixty cents p^r bushel or more, 

 and much of it for seventy-fiye cents 

 per bushel. There can be no doubt that 

 without the corn-sealing plan, a great 

 deal of ;thi8 corn would h^ve been sold 

 last winter for twenty-five or thirty cents 

 per bushel; the year before it was 

 eighteen cents per bushel. The com 

 loan brought this added price to the 

 farmer instead of the speculator, and 

 kept the corn in the country where much 

 of it is going to be needed for feed 

 through the coming winter. 



Just the other day, I went to see a 

 carpenter in the nearby village to get 

 him to make some repairs on my corn- 

 crib before husking. Imagine my sur- 

 prise to have him tell me that he had 

 more work engaged than he could do in 

 a month. For the last three years he 

 has spent most of the time just tinker- 

 ing around home, and wishing for some- 

 thing to turn up that would bring in 

 some money. Now the farmers who had 



corn to sell this summer have a few 

 dollars that they can spend for some 

 of the repairs that have been needed for 

 a long time, and the whole community 

 benefits by the money being spent. 



Our farmers are not soon going to 

 forget the lessons learned in the adjust- 

 ment program. Many of them have 

 realized before that a more moderate 

 production of the basic crops would bring 

 in a greater money return. But always 

 before when an effort was made by any 

 number of farmers to cut down on the 

 acreage of any crop, a lot of other farm- 

 ers would think it time to increase, and 

 so the effort to balance production with 

 demand would be defeated. 



We have in this adjustment program 

 a wonderful lesson in the power of co- 

 operative effort in fitting our production 

 to demand. 



We know that this could not be ac- 

 complished in such an industry as Agri- 

 culture without beneficial legislation. We 

 know that the administration of the ad- 

 justment program has not been perfect. 

 Some mistakes have been made which 

 can be avoided in the future. 



The feeling is practically unanimous 

 that some way should be worked out to 

 determine the allotment of corn acres 

 on the basis of a percentage of the 

 tillable acres in the farm, instead of 

 basing it on the 1932-1933 com acreage. 

 The present plan does not seem fair to 



Get Ready Boys and 



Girls, Baby Beef Show 



Prizes totaling nearly ^350 will be dis- 

 tributed by the Producers Live Stock 

 Commission Association, at E. St. Louis 

 (National Stock Yards) in its eleventh 

 annual baby beef show and sale on No- 

 vember 22-23. First prize of $20 will be 

 awarded the best calves in the Hereford, 

 Shorthorn and Angus classes with prizes 

 running down to tenth place. The grand 

 champioA calf will receive an award of 

 $50 and the reserve champion $25. A 

 silver loving cup is offered for the best 

 group of five calves with ribbons for six 

 additional places. 



The show of these baby beef calves 

 will be held at 10:00 A. M. on November 

 22. The sale will begin at the same hour 

 on November 23. There will be a banquet 

 for exhibitors at 6:00 P. M. on Nov. 22. 



This show and sale is open to 4-H club 

 members and regularly enrolled students 

 of vocational agriculture departments. 

 Further information giving complete 

 rules and regulations with entry blanks 

 can be secured by addressing the Pro- 

 ducers Live Stock Commission Associa- 

 tion. National Stock Yards, Illinois. 



the producer who has already reduced 

 his corn acreage below the average, and 

 had a large part of his farm in pasture, 

 hay, or soil building crops. Some of 

 these men could not see their way clear 

 to sign a contract this year, and prob- 

 ably more of them will refuse to go 

 along next year on the same plan. 

 '* But with the hope and confidence that 

 the exjierience of this year will help in 

 changing these objectionable features, 

 our farmers have voted by more than 

 three to one, for an adjustment program 

 in 1935. 





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TWELVE IK THE FAMILY AND EACH ONE COVERED BY A COITNTKY LIFE INSURANCE POLICY. 



This is ths Montavui family of DeKalb county. Left to right hack row: William Montayan, father, 

 holding Elaine Mildred, 2; Mrs. Momtavan, holding Marion Ruth, 6 mo's. ; Francis George, 17; Florenoe 

 Kathryn, 16; Edith Mary, 14; Bemice Emily, 12; and Gladys Regina, 10. Front row: Robert Dale, 8; 

 Yvonne Margaret, 6; Shirley Marie, 8. 



'*I believe that 12 Country Life policies in one family is something in the way of a record,** writes 

 General Agent John D. Bryant. 



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