Illinois Democrats 



Adopt Farm Plank 



"We recognize agriculture as the basic 

 industry of America. We remind the 

 farmers of their desperate condition 

 under Hoover 10 cent corn, 40 cent 

 wheat and 3 cent hogs. 



"We commend President Roosevelt for 

 the wise farm measures enacted under 

 his administration which have aided the 

 farmer on the way to economic inde- 

 pendence. We insist upon the continua- 

 tion of corn loans and support prices as 

 insuring the farmers place in the eco- 

 nomic sun. We urge broadening of 

 marketing agreements and we endorse 

 the reciprocal trade agreement program 

 of Honorable Cordell Hull, a great 

 American statesman. 



"History alone will fairly and ade- 

 quately appraise the far reaching sound 

 and efficient soil erosion and conserva- 

 tion plan of President Roosevelt which 

 has saved millions of acres of valuable 

 farm land in America. 



"We stand for the principles of the 

 Farm Credit Administration as the best 

 means of helping small and tenant farm- 

 ers to their rightful market economy." 



Navy Gunner Helps Dad 



Get Com, Beans Planted 



There's a little different feeling when 

 you're perched on the seat of a tractor 

 instead of in the turret of a Navy tor- 

 pedo bomber, but an Illinois youth who 

 IS a veteran of Pacific flights finds that 

 he still gets a kick out of planting soy- 

 beans and corn. 



That's what Aviation Machinist's Mate 

 Second Class Clark E. Wise, Jr., son of 

 Champaign County's Farm Bureau presi- 

 dent reports. 



Clork E. Wise, Champaign County Farm 

 Bureau president, finds that his son. Avia- 

 tion Machinist's Mate Second Class Clark 

 E. Wise. Ir., has learned something about 

 motors. Looking on are two brother* oi 

 Clark. Ir., lim and Dick. 



Wise got a 30 days' leave just in time 

 to help his father plant corn and soy- 

 beans. Clark E. Wise, Sr., who is farm- 

 ing a 320-acre farm was doubly glad to 

 see him. 



Describing the sensation of working 

 as a gunner in the turret of a Grumman 

 Avenger, Wise says, "You don't get 

 exactly frightened, you just sort of 

 wonder how you are going to come out." 



Wise was in on the strikes on Palau, 

 New Guinea, and the second attack on 

 Truk. Before fcieing sent to carrier duty 

 he spent seven months as an aerial me- 

 chanic in the New Hebrides. He joined 

 the Navy in July, 1942, after being 

 graduated from high school. He took 

 his boot training at Great Lakes and his 

 mechanical training at Navy Pier, Chi- 

 cago. From there he went to Jackson- 

 ville, Fla., for operational training. He 

 was assigned to Navy air group five in 

 March of this year. 



Wise returned to duty the last of June. 



Figure Com Deliveries 



Will Reach 29 Million 



With the corn freeze order terminated 

 June 23, the state AAA office on July 1 

 reported that the final total of corn ex- 

 pected to be delivered by Illinois under 

 the order was 29,640,208 bushels. 



Other figures for the state released by 

 the AAA office were: pledged corn 

 delivered, 12,075.790 bushels; total 

 pledged, 21,385,382 bushels; unpledged 

 corn delivered, 6,669,175 bushels; corn 

 contracted, June 20, 4,710,769 bushels. 



Total corn expected under the order 

 from the 125 counties in Illinois, Iowa, 

 Nebraska, Minnesota, and Indiana, was 

 estimated at 67,345,193 bushels. 



■ Annual meeting of the Produceirs' 



Crop Improvement Association will be 

 held Aug. 25 in the Piper City audi- 

 torium, according to an announcement 

 by L. R. Downs, general manager. 



NewMcHenry Adviser 



W. H. Tammeus, farm adviser in 

 Bond County since October, 1941, was 

 scheduled to start work as farm adviser 

 in McHenry county July 15. He suc- 

 ceeds John H. Brock, who also came to 

 McHenry county from the position of 

 Bond county farm adviser in 1935. 



Brock resigned his position as Mc- 

 Henry county farm adviser July 1 to 

 serve as farm adviser in Will county. 



Midwesf Co-ops Join Hands 

 To Manufacture Plant Food 



FOUR mid-west cooperative associations 

 have joined hands in developing a 

 modern plant food manufacturing pro- 

 gram. 



This new organization will be known 

 as "Cooperative Plant Foods, Inc." Its 

 four members are Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company, Indiana Farm Bureau Coop- 

 erative Association, Inc., Wisconsin Co- 

 operative Farm Supply Company, and 

 Midland Cooperative Wholesale of Min- 

 nesota. 



The War Production Board has author- 

 ized the allocation of materials for new 

 plant construction for the building of 

 facilities for the manufacture of super 

 phosphate and additional plant food 

 mixing facilities. This plant is located 

 at Hartsdale, Ind. which is just south of 

 Chicago near the Indiana-Illinois state 

 line. This new organization plans to 

 invest $425,000 in these facilities and 

 expects to have them in full operation by 

 the end of this year. 



These facilities will provide an annual 

 output of 20,000 tons of super phosphate 

 in addition to 30,000 tons of mixed fer- 

 tilizers. These quantities will obviously 

 not be sufficient to meet the full re- 

 quirements of any of the four states, but 

 they will bring much relief because they 



will supplement existing sources of 

 supply. 



The board of directors of Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company recently author- 

 ized an investment of $85,000 as the part 

 of IFS in Cooperative Plant Foods, Inc., 

 and will receive a share of the output 

 in like proportion to the investment. 

 Through this apportionment, Illinois will 

 receive 27% of the super phosphate out- 

 put and a somewhat smaller output of 

 the mixed fertilizer. 



Cooperative Plant Foods, Inc., will 

 operate on a "service at cost" basis for 

 the four members. Each of the four will 

 determine its own distribution policies 



This is an artist's sketch of the Hartsdale 

 plant formerly owned by the Indiana Farm 

 Bureau Cooperatiyes. Inc. and recentlT 

 'purchased by CoeperotiT* Plant Foods. 



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