will vary from $7 to $10 per ton of 

 yearly output. Priorities are possible at 

 the present time for sufficient steel for 

 the construction of modern fertilizer 

 plants. 



There is a pretty fair opportunity of 

 securing necessary machinery for such 

 plants. Supplies of superphosphate can 

 probably be secured and a supply of 

 nitrogen is available. Potash will prob- 

 ably be a scarce material for the coming 

 year and possibly for a longer period. 



A report on the six district marketing 

 meetings sponsored by the lAA this 

 spring revealed that four general recom- 

 mendations came out of the sessions: 



1. Complete a study of the f)Ossibility 

 and feasibility of establishing local meat 

 slaughtering and packing plants. 



2. Study the possibility and feasibility 

 of extending our cooperative livestock 

 marketing agencies, or coordinating 

 them, in such a way as to exercise greater 

 bargaining power in the sale of live- 

 stock through the control and distribu- 

 tion of volume. 



3. To study the possibility of securing 

 stocker and feeder livestock through 

 agencies already established, or agencies 

 to be established, that would put the 

 buyer of such feeder livestock in a 

 better bargaining position than he seems 

 to possess now, buying his feeders 

 through established sales agencies. 



4. That the foregoing studies be made 

 and conducted by a committee selected 

 and established in a manner similar to 

 the lAA school committee, and that these 

 .studies should be gotten under way 

 promptly. 



The leaders adopted a motion at the 

 Springfield meeting favoring a resolution 

 of Jo Daviess County Farm Bureau ask- 

 ing for the discontinuance of daylight 

 saving time. The motion was adopted 

 with the provision that abandonment of 

 daylight saving time would not be sought 

 if facts showed that such action would 

 hamper the war effort in any way. It 

 was pointed out that Congressman Can- 

 non had already introduced a bill seek- 

 ing the return of standard time. 



AFBF Gives Views to GOP 



lAA Livestock Marketing 



Fieldman Added to Staff 



Merle S. Koch 46, Adams county, 

 has been hired as a fieldman in the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association's live- 

 stock marketing department to work in 

 district No. 3 which covers 18 counties 

 in west central Illinois. He takes the 

 place of Guy W. Hawkins who resigned 

 in December, 1943. 



Koch has been a farmer-stockman in 

 Adams county for a number of years and 

 has been active in Farm Bureau work. 

 He is a former member of the board of 

 the Adams County Shipping Associ- 

 ation. 



FARM BUREAU recommendations on 

 a basic farm program were presented 

 before an agricultural committee of the 

 Republican party April 3 in Chicago, 

 along with the suggested plans of other 

 major farm organizations. 



Presentation of the Farm Bureau 

 recommendations was made by Earl C. 

 Smith, president of the lAA, and vice- 

 president of the AFBF. 



Here are a few of the major 

 suggestions regarding essential 

 national farm policies: 



1. Maintenance of adequate re- 

 serve supplies of basic soil crops, 

 with price supports, including 

 mandatory commodity loans. 



2. Improvement and extension 

 of the Marketing Agreements pro- 

 gram to do as much for non-basic 

 crops as is done for basic crops. 



3. International trade policies 

 designed to restore and maintain a 

 fair share of the world market 

 for exportable farm surpluses. 



4. A soil conservation program, 

 to be guided and administered by 

 the Land Grant Colleges. 



It was further suggested that full 

 administrative responsibility for all types 

 of agricultural commodity programs be 

 vested in a national bi-partisan board, 

 members to be appointed by the Presi- 

 dent, with advice and consent of the 

 Senate. 



The Farm Bureau statement also asked 

 for the preservation of the cooperative 

 features of the Farm Credit System with 

 more authority and responsibility given 

 to local associations, and relief and re- 

 habilitation and emergency credit con- 

 solidated in one division of the Farm 

 Credit System, the whole to be admin- 

 istered by a bi-partisan board. 



It was also strongly recommended that 

 complete responsibility for price control 

 over food and fiber be placed in the 

 hands of a single agency, the War Food 

 Administration. 



It was recommended that price ceilings 

 should be established at levels that will 

 encourage maximum production. Con- 

 sumer food subsidies and roll-backs were 

 condemned. 



Other recommendations included: 

 That adequate funds should be in- 

 cluded in federal aid legislation for the 

 development of secondaty and feeder 

 farm-to-market roads. Any program for 

 federal highways should not be devel- 

 oped at the sacrifice of rural roads, and 

 should be so routed as to serve existing 

 market centers and not disrupt estab- 

 lished farm markets. 



That land suitable for farming which 

 has been purchased by the government 

 should be sold as soon as possible after 

 the war. This land should be offered 

 to the original owner, and then if not 

 purchased in a reasonable time, it should 

 be put up for public sale and sold to 

 private individuals in units suitable for 

 the operation of family size farms. 



The AFBF "Guide to Postwar Plan- 

 ning" was attached to and made part 

 of the statement of the Farm Bureau to 

 present the AFBF policy as to postwar 

 affairs. 



CCC Made Sole Buyer of 



Com in 125 Connties 



In a move to secure 80 million bush- 

 els of corn currently needed by plants 

 manufacturing war products, the WFA 

 announced April 25 that for the fol- 

 lowing 60 days the Commodity Credit 

 Corporation would be the only legal 

 buyer of corn from 125 counties in 

 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and 

 Minnesota. 



Only exception to this rule in the 

 designated counties will be where 

 feeders are able to present evidence 

 of emergency and immediate need for 

 corn. They may apply to county AAA 

 committees for authorization from 

 WFA to purchase and transport an 

 amount necessary to make his inven- 

 tory equal to a 30-day supply. 



At the same time, WFA announced 

 that county and community AAA com- 

 mitteemen would begin an immediate 

 check on farms in the designated coun- 

 ties to determine the amount of corn 

 available for purchase by the CCC and 

 to arrange for shelling and transporta- 

 tion services. 



Farmers who offer their corn for sale 

 in the designated counties will receive 

 ceiling prices with the government 

 standing the cost of shelling and haul- 

 ing. 



On April 24, a meeting of county 

 AAA committeemen of Illinois and 

 Indiana was called in Bloomington. 

 Addressing this meeting Maj. Walter 

 C. Power of the Army service forces 

 appealed to farmers to provide more 

 corn needed for war materials. Corn 

 products are needed, he said, for mak- 

 ing ammunition, food, clothing and 

 medical supplies. Glucose made from 

 corn is used in intravenous feeding of 

 badly wounded soldiers and the supply 

 is threatened because of the corn short- 

 age. 



Purchasers of corn made by the CCC 



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