LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 



ON TO SAN FRANCISCO 



We have been hearing considerable about 

 the trip to the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration convention at San Francisco, Calif., 

 in December and were wondering about 

 room arid train reservations and their cost. 

 Please let us know if there is any chance of 

 us going. 



We will be married 40 years in December 

 and thought it would be a fine opportunity 

 for us to celebrate our anniversary. If 

 there is a chance for us to be included in 

 the Illinois tour to San Francisco, we would 

 like to go. 



Thought it would be a good idea to get 

 our reservations in as soon as possible be- 

 cause I suppose there will be a large crowd 

 going from Illinois. 



Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Rathbun 

 Mercer County 



You can bet your boots Illinois will 

 be well represented at San Francisco. 

 Finding housing for all will be a prob- 

 lem so the Rathbuns are smart in in- 

 quiring early. Answers to all your 

 questions will be given in the Septem- 

 ber and October lAA Records. See 

 Pages 4 & 5. — Editor. 



YOU CANT EAT DOLLAR BILLS 



The longest assembly line on earth 

 Stretches from coast to coast. 

 Six million farmers ply their skill. 

 That you may have some toast. 



Your T-bone steak comes o£F this line 

 But, them "dogies" have to grow. 

 It takes three years from the planning stage 

 On the range in New Mexico. 



The com belt farmer does his stuff. 

 He's proud of the moving diain. 

 With worn out tools he struggles on. 

 Against drouth or excessive rain. 



His traaors purr from dawn till dusk 

 Here "slow down" is a crime. 

 There's been no "walk outs" on this line 

 And none draw double time. 



No steel! No coal! No tools, produced. 

 No meat! No butter! they whine. 

 They strike again for increased pay. 

 And wreck their own food line. 



When will our city cousins learn. 

 They can't eat dollar bills.' 

 If they'd produce, as fanners do 

 Plenty would cure our ills. 



or Long Green 



ILLINOIS HOGS TO CUBA 



Last week I completed -the sale of two 

 carloads of purebred Poland China boars 

 and gilts to the government of Cuba. They 

 will be used to improve the breed of the 

 country which at present has few Poland 

 Chinas. This is the first shipment of the 

 breed to be sent to Cuba in recent years 

 and the only one to be purchased by the 

 Cuban government this year. 



Recently Dr. Juan Comple Leona, agent 

 for the Cuban government made the trip 

 with interpreter Roberto Azpiazo to Win- 

 chester, 111., to close the deal. 



The hogs were shipped July 31 in two 

 specially equipped railroad cars and were 

 accompanied to Miami by my father, Charles 

 W. Jones. At Miami they were shipped 

 aboard a boat and were in charge of Guil- 

 lermo Padilla. 



Because I lacked some gilts to fill my or- 

 der I purchased }8 head from Austin and 

 Clyde Patterson of Jacksonville to fill out 

 the shipment. 



LaVem Jones 

 Scott county 



We're not surprised that the Cuban 

 government came to Illinois for choice 

 hogs after seeing the splendid animals on 

 display at the Illinois State Fair in Spring- 

 field. — Editor. 



PEOPLE ARE FUNNY 



The manufacturer of whisky puts his 

 grain thru a distillery, called a still. It 

 comes out as firewater. The consumer pays 

 $4 to $6 a quart, or 23-30C a drink for it, 

 puts his glass on the bar and says, "Gimme 

 another." 



The farmer puts his grain thru a dis- 

 tillery, called a cow, and the consumer pays 

 12-20C for it, takes a drink and sets his 

 glass on the table, and says, "Go easy on 

 the milk, folks, the price is 'way up." 



— Shawano (Wis.) County Journal 



lAA FIGHTS INCREASE IN 

 RURAL TELEPHONE RATES 



Increased telephone rates sought by the 

 Illinois Commercial Telephone Company 

 in an application filed with the Illinois 

 Commerce Commission are being opposed 

 actively by the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation. 



The proposed rates would increase the 

 annual telephone bills of the company's 

 86,000 subscribers in 181 communities 

 by more than $880,000 annually. 



More than 17,378 are rural subscribers. 

 In addition there are more than 5,000 

 subscribers of farmer-owned lines 

 switched by the Illinois Commercial Tele- 

 phone Company. 



G. W. Baxter, director of the lAA 

 transportation department, has appeared 

 at three hearings before the Illinois Com- 

 merce Commission on behalf of Farm 

 Bureau members from the areas involved. 

 Hearings will be resumed Sept. 17 at 

 Springfield. 



ON TO FRISCO! 



{Continued from page 5) 



Spanish missions and Brackenridge 

 Park. 



Dec. 4 — Train arrives at El Paso 

 after crossing central and western 

 Texas at night. It's here you'll see the 

 weird beauty of the Carlsbad Caverns, 

 sure to be the highlight of the trip for 

 many. 



A trip across the Rio Grande into 

 Old Mexico to the Spanish-Indian city 

 of Juarez will be included if time per- 

 mits. 



Dec. 5 — Phoenix. A 50-mile sight- 

 seeing trip that includes the Salt River 

 Valley Irrigation Project. 



Dec. 6. — Los Angeles. Trip by car 

 through city and suburbs. 



Dec. 7 — San Francisco. Destination. 

 A motor trip is planned over Golden 

 Gate Bridge to see the Giant Redwood 

 trees in Muir Woods. 



The Illinois party will be in San 

 Francisco six days and five nights. 

 During this time convention officials 

 will have additional entertainment. 



Convention over, the Illinois dele- 

 gates will leave San Francisco during 

 the afternoon of Dec. 12. 



The train will delay in Salt Lake 

 City the following day for travelers 

 to visit the Mormon Temple and hear 

 an organ recital in the Tabernacle. 



On Dec. 14 the train arrives in Den- 

 ver after a 200 mile trip over the Colo- 

 rado Rocky Mountains with a stop in 

 the Royal Gorge. 



The caravan arrives back home in 

 Illinois on Dec. 15 when the train en- 

 ters the Illinois Central Station in Chi- 

 cago at 6 p.m. 



For every billion pounds of corncobs 



burned, 16 million pounds of ash or mineral 

 constituents are lost that should have been 

 returned to the soil. Also 10,000 pounds of 

 nitrogen are lost completely. 



Long-time records show that for each 



bushel of corn that a farm produces above 

 the average per-acre yield, the productive 

 value of the whole farm is increased by 

 about $4 per acre. 



Employes of the Illinois Agricultural Audit- 

 ing Association are first to move Into the 

 IAA*s new 12th story home at WalMish 

 and Ohio streets, Chicago. Watching Jim 

 Callahan scrape off the name of the for- 

 mer dccupant are: left to right, Dorothy 

 Mogren, Verna Gridley, Clair Schfloider, 

 and Joseph Gough, 



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