izations. His hobbies are gardening 

 and athletics. 



The new lAA staff member is 

 married and has two children, John 

 Lewis, 7, and Marian, 9. Mrs. Cox was 

 formerly Caroline Schafer of St. Clair 

 county. 



Illinois Republicans 



Announce Farm Plank 



Editor's Note 



As the Record goes to press we 

 have received the 1944 Illinois Slate 

 Republican Platform. Following is the 

 Agricultural Plank. It follows closely 

 the recommendations of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association on basic agri- 

 cultural policies. 



"We recognize that an efficient pros- 



Eerous agriculture is essential in the 

 uilding of a better America in the 

 postwar years. Agriculture must be 

 free from all unnecessary restraints. All 

 production is for the general welfare 

 and for all consumers. 



"Agriculture is a basic industry; its 

 prosperity is inseparably linked with 

 national prosperity. In order to have 

 an adequate national income, it is 

 necessary that agricultural income be 

 maintained at a parity with industry 

 and labor in order ^hat new wealth 

 that agriculture provides each year 

 shall go into the channels of trade at 

 a profit to its producers. 



"The Republican Party of Illinois 

 will continue an aggressive support of 

 the principles and policies necessary 

 to provide for a sustained and pros- 

 perous agriculture in both the state 

 and nation. 



"We favor a program to assure the 

 nation of adequate supplies of food 

 and fiber to meet normal demands and 

 any emergency and to assure the farm- 

 ers of policies that will keep excess 

 supplies from depressing the current 

 price levels of commodities below a 

 point necessary to give farmers their 

 fair share of the national income; 

 commodity loans on a sufficient num- 

 ber of basic farm commodities necessary 

 to keep excess supplies from depressing 

 current agricultural prices or lowering 

 substantially the total value of agri- 

 cultural production ; a segregation of 

 our surplus raw material produftion, 

 above proper reserves, for use in trade 

 with other nations, in emergency re- 

 lief and for the development of new 

 industries; encouragement for the in- 

 creased industrial use of agricultural 

 products and for continuous develop- 

 ment of new and different uses; con- 

 stant search for new crops adaptable 

 to supplant at least a portion of pres- 



ent crop production where unusable 

 surpluses are produced; the extension 

 of plans for the conservation and de- 

 velopment of our land resources by the 

 practice of soil erosion control and im- 

 proved soil building practices; the en- 

 couragement of all sound measures for 

 improving the marketing, processing 

 and transporting of farm products into 

 the channels of consumption ; the cre- 

 ation and development of credit agen- 

 cies under cooperative farmer control, 

 rather than under bureaucratic direc- 

 tion." 



Faxm Advisers Didn't 



Always Travel by Car 



Observance of the 30th anniversary of 

 the agricultural extension service this 

 year is bringing back old memories 

 to Illinois farm advisers. 



One of these is C. A. Hughes, Cook 

 county farm adviser, who is rounding 

 out 28 years of service. It was back in 

 1916, two years after the Smith-Lever 

 Act was passed, that Hughes began work 

 as a county agent in a little mountain 

 county of West Virginia. 



C. A. Hughes, Cook County iatm adviser, 



has these old saddle bags to prove that 



he started in extension work before o^tos 



became populat. 



Hughes recalls that for three years he 

 rode a horse from Monday morning until 

 Friday evening over the county, and he 

 still has the old saddle bags and leather 

 leggings that were a integral part of his 

 equipment. 



In these saddle bags, Hughes used to 

 carry a couple of clean shirts, a soil test- 

 er, and some bulletins. He called on the 

 farmers in the day and had a meeting in 

 some school house at night. 



One of the biggest meetings that 

 Hughes held in a mountain community 

 was the result of someone spreading the 

 word that Charles Evan Hughes from the 

 Supreme Court was to be the speaker. 



Reared in Mattoon, Coles county, 

 Hughes was graduated from the Univer- 



Thia issue oi the lAA RECORD 

 will go into homes o< 108,000 lUiaois 

 iarm families, breaking all previous 

 circulation records. 



As Farm Bureau membership has 

 steadily grown within the state, and 

 with it the circulation oi the REC- 

 ORD, many adjustments have been 

 necessary in order to comply with 

 the government's paper conservation 

 program. In laying plans for th« 

 balance oi the year we iaced the 

 alternative oi combining two issues 

 oi the RECORD during the summer 

 months, or oi substantially reducing 

 the number oi pages oi each of the 

 remaining issues oi 1944. At the 

 May meeting oi the board oi direc- 

 tors oi the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation, approval was given to 

 combine the luly and August issues, 

 so your next RECORD will be re- 

 ceived the latter port oi July. 



sity of Illinois in 1914 and after serving 

 as a county agent in West Virginia came 

 to Illinois in 1919 as farm adviser in 

 Menard county. In 1925 he went to 

 Monroe county, and in 1938 to Cook 

 county. In the latter county, Hughes 

 probably has the widest variation in 

 kinds of farming. The agricultural area 

 of the county is divided in two sections 

 with a width of a county between. While 

 the two main interests are in dairy and 

 vegetables, the farm adviser is called 

 upon to furnish advice on subjects rang- 

 ing from rabbits to mushrooms. 



lAA Recommends Action 



To Ease Market Glut 



Tl URING May, the Illinois Agricul- 

 *^ tural Association continued to ag- 

 gressively seek government action to 

 ease the hog marketing glut in the 

 terminal markets. 



On April 28, President Earl C. Smith 

 urged Marvin Jones, War Food Ad- 

 ministrator, to extend government 

 price supports to hogs weighing in ex- 

 cess of 180 pounds, effective May 15. 

 The government price support pro- 

 gram prior to May 15 covered hogs 

 weighing from 200 to 270 pounds. 



In the wire to Jones, Smith said, 

 "Serious, if not desperate congestion in 

 supply of hogs developing at all in- 

 ternal markets, and reports disclose 

 packers buying hogs below 200 

 pounds at indefensible prices rather 

 than cleaning up hogs of weights 

 carrying government price support. 



"Representative producers and repre- 

 sentatives of farmers on internal mar- 

 kets, including Chicago, St. Louis, 

 Peoria, Indianapolis and Springfield, 

 in conference today, unanimously rec- 

 ommend you authorize immediate an- 

 nouncement of making present price 

 supports effective on hogs weighing in 



(Continued on page 22) 



JUNE. 1944 



