The Illinois Agriculturol Association Record 





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 United Sl5ites Army} Assistant editor. Creston 

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Illinois Agricnltnral 

 Association 



Greatest State Farm Organization 

 in America 



OFFICERS 



PrMident, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, Talmage Deirees Smithboro 

 Corporate Sec, Paul E. Mathias Hinsdale 



Field Sec., Geo. E. Metsger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Asst. Treas., A. R. Wright Varna 



Comptroller, R. G. Ely Chicago 



General Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick 



Chicago 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congressional Districts) 



1st to 11th Harvey W. Adair. Chicago Hts. 



12th Rex E. Peddicord, Marseilles 



13th Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



14th Otto Steifey, Stronghurst 



15th Ronald A. Holt, Galva 



16lh Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th Charles Louritzen, Reddick 



18th W. A. Dennis, Paris 



IMl Charles B. Shuman, Sullivan 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st Dwight Hart, Taylorville 



22nd Alvin O. Eckert. Belleville 



nrd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Lyman Bunting, EUery 



2Sth August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Doiry Maikcting _ WUir.d Shaw 



Fruit and Vcyatabl* Maikaling L. L. Colris 



Grain Morkatmg C«erg* H. Utnar 



Lit* Slock Markating S. F. Ruu.ll 



Offica - _ C. E. lohnitoB 



OrgoBuatieB. O. D. Briasraden 



Produc* Marketing _ F. A. Gouglar 



PublicilT C. L. Mait, Jr. 



RaMorcn add Toxotian. L. H. Simarl 



Soi.ty C. M. SaagravM (en Uar*. U.S.N.) 



Sol.t Servic. _ W. P. Sandierd 



StfU Improvamant John R. Spancar 



Transportation-ClaiflU _ G. W. Baxtar 



Young Paopla'i ActiTitiaa fllaworth D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Countrf l*iJa Ina. Co Dora Miahar. Mgr. 



Fannan' Mutual Rainsur. Co. . .1. H. Kalkar. Mgr. 



ni. Agi. Auditing Ann C. E. Strand. Mgi. 



ni. Agr. Mutual In*. Co A. E. Richardson. Mgr. 



ni. Agi. Sarrica Co Earl C. Smith. Prai. 



Donald Kirkpatrick. Sac. 



Dl. Co-op l,ockar Sanrica „Dana Crydar. Prai. 



ni. F. Bur. Serum A*«n... .S. F. Rustall. Sac.-Mgr. 



HI. Form Supply Co. C. H. Backer. Mgr. 



ni. Fruit Growers' Exchonge...-L. L. Coins. Mgr. 



111. Grain Corporation. Frank Haines. Mgr. 



ni. Livestock ^utg. Assn...H. W. Trautmann. Mgr. 



in. Producers' Assn Wilired Show. Mgr. 



m. Producers' Creameries.„.J. B. Countiss. Mgr. 

 ni. Wool Mktg. Assn S. F. Russell. Sec.-Mgi. 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was 

 organized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the 

 business, economic, social and education interests of the 

 farmers of Illinois and the Nation, and to develop agriculture. 



JULY-AUGUST, 1944 



VOLUME 22 - NUMBER 7 



An Incentive From the Front 



(An Editorial) 



Early last month president Earl C. Smith received a V-mail letter from 

 Major Roland S. Slater of Peoria, who has been a Farm Bureau member for ten 

 years and who is at present the commanding officer of a field hospital serving 

 Chinese troops "somewhere in China". 



It was not an unusual letter in itself — a thank-you note for the excellent 

 service the Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance Company is rendering and 

 an observation as to what a good Farm Bureau could do in China — but the 

 fact that Major Slater and thousands of other men in uniform are interested 

 enough to take time off from their war duties to write about affairs back home 

 provides a challenge to all of us on the home front. 



This is a challenge not only to do the particular job we are doing the best 

 we know how, but also that we use whatever influence we may have as in- 

 dividual citizens to maintain our free institutions, which will continue to per- 

 mit and encourage individual initiative and free enterprise so that when the 

 war is won and the men and women of our armed forces return to the country 

 for which they are now fighting, they will find that America is still the "land 

 of the free and the home of the brave", and that the government of the United 

 States is still the "government of the people, by the people, and for the people ". 



Surely there is also a strong challenge to individuals, organizations and 

 the government to lay sound, workable, down-to-earth postwar plans now to 

 provide gainful employment for returning members of the armed forces. 



Recommend Subsidy Ban 



on Non-Bracket Hogs 



Recommendation that all subsidies 

 to processors and packers be discontin- 

 ued on all meats from hogs that are 

 purchased below floor prices was recom- 

 mended at a meeting of 50 hog and 

 livestock producers from 10 midwest 

 states during the Midwest Farm Bureau 

 Training School at Milwaukee in June. 



This and other recommendations to 

 alleviate the chaotic hog market situ- 

 ation were contained in a resolution 

 of the producers which was adopted 

 by the conference body. The statement 

 adopted unanimously was: 



"We strenuously object to the >50vem- 

 mental re>;ulations which have brou|;ht 

 about present chaotic conditions in the hoj? 

 markets resulting in millions of dollars of 

 losses to American farmers. 



"In order to alleviate this condition, and 

 promote the general welfare of the industry 

 and the nation, we recommend the follow- 

 ing: 



"1. All subsidies to processors and pack- 

 ers should be immediately discontinued on 

 all meat from hogs that are purchased be- 

 low floor prices and the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation is requested to investigate 

 the feasibility of seeking action necessary to 

 recovery by the federal government of all 

 subsidies which have been paid on hogs so 

 purchased in the past. 



"2. Packers buying hogs below the ceiling 

 price should have an amount of their sub- 

 sidies deducted equal to the amount that 

 cost of their purchases fall below the ceil- 

 ing prices. 



"}. Support prices should be extended to 

 include all weights of marketable hogs on 

 a graduated scale gradually reducing as 

 weights increase or decrease from the exist- 

 ing bracket weights. 



"4. All purchasers of hogs for slaughter 

 including order buyers and traders should 

 be required to comply with price floors. 



"9. Instead of lowering the floor price 

 under hogs as provided in present regula- 

 tions the existing floor price should be con- 

 tinued at its present level adjusted for in- 

 creased costs. 



"6. If ceiling prices are continued ther 

 should be adjusted for increases in the cost 

 of production and should be at such levels 

 above the various floor prices as would per- 

 mit such reasonable fluctuations as seasonal 

 supply and demand may indicate." 



Problems of the beef cattle industry were 

 discussed but since the conference of hog 

 and livestock producers was called primar- 

 ily to consider problems of the swine in- 

 dustry, no detailed recommendations were 

 prepared. It was recognized that the joint 

 livestock committee, of which the American 

 Farm Bureau is a member, had in recent 

 weeks presented resolutions to alleviate the 

 cattle situation. Their recommendation in- 

 cluded a provision for getting more cattle 

 moving through feed lots by increasing the 

 price on the two top grades of beef. There- 

 fore, the swine conference approved of this 

 action by the joint livestock committee. 





