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lAA Opposes OPA Bnling 



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products or associations of such pro- 

 ducers and (2) is marketing grain 

 covered by any applicable supplement 

 on the cooperative plan in conformity 

 with the laws of the state wherein it 

 is organized." 



Disapproval of that prop>osal has 

 been expressed by OPA officials on the 

 ground that it would enable patrons of 

 a cooperative, to the extent of their 

 patronage refunds, to receive more for 

 their grain than the patrons of a 

 private dealer would receive. 



In answer to this, the National Fed- 

 eration of Grain Cooperatives in a re- 

 cent communication to the OPA as- 

 serted: 



. . . ."The cooperative farmer — 

 as a farmer — does not receive any 

 more for his grain than the patron of 

 a private grain dealer. Both receive 

 the same price for their grain. The 

 greater return to the cooperative farm- 

 er results only from the fact that, in ad- 

 dition to producing grain, he is — 

 like the private dealer and unlike the 

 private dealer's patrons — in the busi- 

 ness of marketing grain, and the co- 

 operative farmer receives from his mar- 

 keting activities only the same margin 

 as his private competitor receives. Their 

 investment, risk, operations, and mar- 

 gins are the same. The only difference 

 is that the income of a private grain 



company is distributed on the basis 

 of stock owned, while a cooperative 

 distributes its income on the basis of 

 patronage. That difference antedated 

 price control by several decades. It 

 was not created by price control, and 

 effective price control does not require 

 the obliteration of that difference." 



Mangner to KMOX 



Ted Mangner, former conductor of 

 the popular Illinois Farm and Home 

 Hour, a 30-minute program on the U. 

 of I. radio station^ WILL, is now farm 

 director of radio station KMOX, the 

 Columbia Broadcasting System outlet 

 in St. Louis. 



Mangner, who resigned his position 

 with the University station in August, 

 had established a record of never hav- 

 ing missed one of his 12:30 p.m. Farm 

 and Home Hour shows. He had broad- 

 cast 2275 straight programs. In addi- 

 tion to this six-day-a-week farm pro- 

 gram, Mangner has written a regular 

 syndicated radio program dealing 

 with farm work for 38 stations 

 throughout the middle west. He also 

 has assisted county farm advisers 

 throughout the state with their local 

 radio programs. Mangner came to the 

 university as a student in 1934 and re- 

 ceived his bachelor of science degree 

 from the College of Agriculture in 

 1937. He started radio work just be- 

 fore graduation. 



NOTICE ILLINOIS AGRICULTXJBAL 

 ASSOCIATION ELECnON OF 

 DELEGATES , 



Notice is hereby given that in 

 connection with the annual meet- 

 ings of all County Farm Bureaus to 

 be held during the months of Sep- 

 tember and October, at the hour 

 and place to be determined by the 

 Board of Directors of each County 

 Farm Bureau, the members in good 

 standing of such County Form Bu- 

 reau and who are also qualified 

 voting members of Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, shall elect a dele- 

 gate or delegates to represent such 

 members of Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation and vote on all matters 

 before the next annual meeting, or 

 any special meeting of the associa- 

 tion, including the election of of- 

 ficers and directors, as provided for 

 in the By-Laws of the Association 



During September, annual meet- 

 ings will be held in Christian, Ma- 

 con and Stark Counties. 



During October, annual meetings 

 will be held in Adams, Clay, Fay- 

 ette, Hancock JoDaviess, Madison, 

 Marion, Menard, Montgomery, Pike. 

 Pulaski-Alexander, Scott, Washing- 

 ton and White Counties. 



Paul E. Mathias, 

 Corporate Secretary. 



Euell £. Greer of Salina, Kansas, has 



been hired as farm adviser in William- 

 son county and started work Sept. 1. 

 Born in Hamilton county, Greer has 

 been teaching vocational agriculture at 

 Salina for a number of years. 



Gross Income boesn't Tell All 



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A METROPOLITAN paper recently contained a refer- 

 ence to the prosperity existing in night clubs and on 

 farms. Such references to high farm income are becom- 

 ing numerous, and tend to give the wrong impression to 

 city consumers. Perhaps the reason for such stories is the 

 fact that it's still news when and if a farmer receives a good 

 market price for his products, but it is certainly not fair 

 to picture the agricultural producer as receiving exorbitant 

 prices. 



A news release from the University of Illinois College 

 of Agriculture covering the findings of 1000 farms lo- 

 cated in the northern half of Illinois gives a somewhat 

 different picture of farm income than that appearing in the 

 metropolitan press. The report covers 1943 earnings of 

 these farms on which operators have been keeping accounts 

 in cooperation with the Extension Service. Farm account 

 keepers represent for the most part, the more efficient and 

 higher income group, and for that reason the findings of 

 the report are worth consideration as a yardstick of war- 

 time income for the better than average farm. 



The report states that net earnings were good, and 

 average cash balance was more than in 1942, but the in- 

 ventory increases were enough less to make the net earnings 

 less. 



It is also pointed out that 'poultry returned Si 69 

 per $100 worth of feed as an average on 777 farms. This 

 was not enough to pay for all costs including feed. The 

 average hen laid 133 eggs, used $3.29 worth of feed and 

 brought in $5.56. " 



Hogs paid $136 for each $100 worth of feed; cattle 

 on 159 farms where feeder cattle were fed returned $160 

 for each $100 worth of feed fed; and dairj' cattle on 359 

 farms returned $160 for each $100 worth of feed fed. 

 These returne were not enough to pay for feed, labor and 

 other costs. 



Another report of a summary of annual farm busi- 

 ness report^of 2970 Illinois farms cooperating with the 

 University of Illinois showed that 1943 incomes for these 

 farms were at new highs, but it also pointed out that Illi- 

 nois accounting farms spent more money to run their farms 

 in 1943 than in any year of record. 



"The average expenditure per farm of $6905 in 1943 

 may be contrasted with an average expenditure of $1494 

 per farm in 1933, the low point for expenditures in the de- 

 pression period — an increase of 462 per cent. This change 



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