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Th* Illinois Agricultural Aaaociotion RECORO 

 is published monthly by th* Illinois Agricultural 

 Association at ISOl W. Washington Road. Men- 

 dota. 111. Editorial Ofiices. 608 So. Dearborn St.. 

 Chicago. 111. Entered as second class matter at 

 post oliice, Mondoto, Illinois. September 11, 1936. 

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 thorised Oct. 27. 1935. Address all communica- 

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Director of Information, C. L. Mast, Jr.; Editor. 

 Merrill C. Gregory, on le^e of absence with the 

 United Slates Army; Asltstant editor. Cieston 

 Foster; Director of Advertising. C. M. Seagraves, 

 on leave of absence with the U. S. Navy. 



Illinois Agricultural 

 Association 



Greatest State Farm Organization 

 in America 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was 

 organized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the 

 business, economic, social and educational interests of the 

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



SEPTEMBER, 1944 



VOLUME 22 — NUMBERS 



OFFICERS 



President. Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, Talmage Detreea Smithboro 

 Corporate Sec, Paul E. Mathias Hinsdale 



Field Sec. Geo. E. Metzger 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 



13tfi Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



UA Otto Stefiey, Stronghurst 



ISth Ronald A. Holt, Galva 



IGth Albert Hayes. Chillicothe 



17lh Charles Lauritzen, Reddick 



18th W. A. Dennis. Paris 



19lh Charles B. Shuman, Sullivan 



20U> K. T. Smith. Greenfield 



2Ist Dwight Hart. Taylorville 



22nd Alvin O. Eckert, Belleville 



23rd .■ . . .Chester McCord. Newton 



24th Lyman Bunting. Ellery 



25th August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Show 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing L. L. Colvis 



Grain Marketing George H. litner 



Live Stock Marketing S. F. Russell 



Office _ C. E. Johnston 



Organisation. O. D. Brissenden 



Produce MarketiBg _ F. A. Gougler 



Publicity C. L. Mast, Jr. 



Research and Taxation. X. H. Simerl 



Rural School Relations John K. Cox 



Safety C. M. Seagraves (on leave. U.S.N.) 



Sales Service W. P. Sandiord 



Soil Improvement John R. Spencer 



Transportation-Claims G. W. Baxter 



Young People's Activities Ellsworth D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Ins. Co Dove Mieher. Mgr. 



Farmers' Mutual Reinsur. Co J. H. Eelker. Mgr. 



m. Agr. Auditing Assn C. E. Strand. Mgr. 



ni. Agf. Mutual Ins. Co. A. E. Richardson. Mgr. 



lU. Agr. Service Co Earl C. Smith. Pres. 



Donald Kirkpatrick. Sec. 



ni. Co-op Locker Service Dana Cryder. Pres. 



ni. Farm Supply Co C. H. Becker, Mgr. 



m. Fruit Growers' Exchange.. ..L. L. Colvis. Mgr. 



m. Grain Corporation Frank Haines, Mgr. 



ni. Livestock Mklg. Assn. .H. W. Trautmann. Mgr. 



ni. Producers' Assn _.... Wilfred Shaw, Mgr. 



ni. Producers' Creameries... J. B. Countiss. Mgr. 

 m. Wool Mktg. Assn S. F. Russell. Sec.-Mgr. 



By Earl C. Smith 



FARMERS like all 

 other c i t i z e ns 

 have had cause to 

 be encouraged over 

 the successful trends 

 on the battlefronts 

 of the world in re- 

 cent weeks. We can 

 little realize nor 

 can we fully appre- 

 ciate the tremendous 

 sacrifices being made by our boys in 

 the armed forces and those of our Al- 

 lies. Although many predictions are 

 being made that the war in Europe 

 will be brought to an early close, I do 

 not believe anyone is justified in pre- 

 dicting when or how the war on either 

 front will be terminated. There must 

 be no letdown until as a nation we have 

 discharged our every responsibility and 

 duty in supporting the men at the 

 front. It behooves every citizen to sup- 

 port the armed forces in his or her 

 most effective way. This may be in 

 the fields of producing food supplies, 

 within war plants, transp>orting com- 

 modities, the purchase of war bonds, 

 or other activities. The men who are 

 fighting our battles, many of whom 

 have made the supreme sacrifice, have 

 shown little if any concern as to the 

 hours of duty or pay for service, and 

 certainly no citizen at home has been 

 or can be justified in saying or doing 

 anything that would slow up or re- 

 tard production or activity in any line 

 of endeavor that could in any way in- 

 terfere with an early and successful 

 culmination of the war effort. 



Actually, the victories rolling up on 

 the battlefront are making new de- 

 mands upon those of us on the home 

 front. Although it has been a tre- 

 mendous task to prepare for war he 

 would be an optimist indeed who did ' 

 not recognize something of the gigantic 

 problems to be met in securing a suc- 

 cessful peace. Farmers must watch de- 

 velopments carefully as a basis for in- 



telligent planning for 1945 opera- 

 tions. The consumer subsidy program 

 developed by the government during 

 the war over the protests of the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation and most 

 other farm organizations undoubtedly 

 poses one of the most difficult stumb- 

 ling blocks farmers face in planning 

 for a stable, peace-time agriculture. The 

 AFBF has consistently and aggressively 

 opposed any type of subsidy in lieu of 

 fair market prices. Notwithstanding 

 this opposition, very substantial sub- 

 sidies have been paid by the federal 

 government to those engaged in cer- 

 tain types of agriculture. In other 

 branches of agriculture farmers have 

 been successful in opfwsing all efforts 

 of those who would have federal funds 

 substituted in part for a fair price in 

 the market place. 



Farmers should not forget that in 

 opposing subsidies as substitutes for 

 fair market prices, the AFBF has in- 

 sisted that such subsidies would be 

 charged in public consciousness to 

 farmers when as a matter of fact they 

 are subsidies to consumers. This pre- 

 diction has proved to be true. Al- 

 ready we are seeing much publicity re- 

 lating to the gigantic national farm in- 

 come, and in arriving at the amounts 

 farmers have received from the federal 

 treasury these consumer subsidies, 

 which run into hundreds of millions of 

 dollars, have been added as a part of 

 the farmers' income. 



One of the big problems confronting 

 agriculture and particularly those divi- 

 sions which have accepted subsidies, 

 will be of finding ways and means of 

 cushioning the shock when subsidies 

 are removed. It is going to be a diffi- 

 cult task. Consumers are becoming in- 

 creasingly price conscious as to the cost 

 of a quart of milk or a pound of meat. 

 Undoubtedly consumers, particularly 

 those in the large metro(>olitan areas, 

 will resist increases in prices of com- 

 modities to compensate for the removal 



