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A plentiful supply of efficient labor and 

 agricultural raw materials is required 

 for industrial prosperity. Adequate 

 equipment for the farm and home and 

 good markets for farm products are 

 necessary for agricultural well-being. 

 An adequate monetary and credit sys- 

 tem is essential to all. The future wel- 

 fare of each major economic group de- 

 pends upon full production by the 

 others. Full production in turn re- 

 quires that each group understand the 

 problems of all. This understanding 

 can be reached only through a consid- 

 eration of all basic facts by represent- 

 atives of each of the major economic 

 groups in the nation. 



In order to establish a better under- 

 standing between economic groups and 

 to achieve a stable, high level produc- 

 tion of agricultural and manufactured 

 products, we authorize the officers and 

 directors of the Association to sponsor 

 and promote one or more conferences 

 of leaders of agricultural, industrial, 

 labor and financial organizations. 



VI. NATIONAL SOILS FERTILITY 

 PROGRAM 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 urges the adoption of a National Soils 

 Fertility policy and program to assure 

 farmers greatly increased supplies of 

 high analysis mineral fertilizer, particu- 

 larly phosphorus and. potash. 



We remove from our soils through 

 crops and erosion much greater quanti- 

 ties of soil nutrients than we return to 

 them. This cannot continue. The 

 people of this nation should have as- 

 surance that they will always have an 

 abundant supply of nutritious food. 

 The farmers of Illinois will keep their 

 land fertile and produce nutritious 

 crops, provided they have access to ade- 



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 the proper kind and character and in 

 greatly increased quantities. 



VII. FLOOD CONTROL 



United States Army Engineers have 

 proposed a flood control plan for the 

 Illinois River Basin which contem- 



plates the construction of 15 impound- 

 ing dams and reservoirs and the im- 

 provement of channels, levees and flood 

 walls. More than 140,000 acres of agri- 

 cultural land would be acquired by the 

 Federal government for these dams 

 and reservoirs. The plan contemplates 

 that in times of flood, the flood waters 

 would be held in these reservoirs and 

 released as the flood recedes. The cost 

 of the proposed plan, including the 

 acquisition of land, estimated upon the 

 basis of 1940 costs and land values, is 

 in excess of $90,000,000. Present day 

 costs would greatly exceed this amount 

 but no accurate estimate based upon pres- 

 ent day costs and values is available. The 

 proposed costs do not include severance 

 damages resulting from the taking of 

 only a portion of a farm, damage re- 

 sulting from injury to drainage, or 

 damage to lower and surrounding areas 

 from seepage and similar items. No 

 monetary value is fixed nor can it be 

 for the loss resulting from the disrup- 

 tion of communities or from removing 

 people in the area acquired from their 

 homes. The claimed ratio of costs to 

 benefits is $1.24 of benefit for each 

 $1.00 of cost over a 50 year period, 

 upon the basis of 1940 costs. When 

 maintenance charges and present day 

 costs and values are taken into consid- 

 eration, it seems obvious that on a 

 purely monetary basis the cost would 

 exceed the benefits. 



The proposal, in effect, would result 

 in taking the property of persons resid- 

 ing upon the upper tributaries of the 

 river for the benefit of persons residing 

 in the river valley. Heretofore private 

 property has been taken by the govern- 

 ment in peacetime only when the neces- 

 sity in the interest of the general wel- 

 fare and the resulting public benefit 

 was clear. The Board of Directors of 



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Members of the resolutions committee for the 1946 Illinois Agricultural Association annual convention in Chicago are left to right, 

 seated: Alfred Mangold, Mason County; Milo A, Miller, Tazewell; Russell V. McKee, Marshall-Putnam; J. A. Donner, Christian; Dan 

 Clarice, Sangamon; Ronald Holt, Henry; M. S. Morgan, Henry; Mrs. B. Meagher, office secretary; Floyd E. Morris, Sangamon; Paul E. 

 Mathlas, lAA secretary; Roland McDonald, Shelby; L E. Lipe, Jaclcson; C. J. Elliott, La Salle; Henry Day, Greene; Joe Crews, Lawrence; 

 William Spencer, Clay; Elmer Airhart, Carroll. Standing: Leo Swinford, Edgar; Charles A. Cuip, Logan; Milton W. Warren, Piatt; 

 William Rushton, Kendall; Harold E. Hartley, Washington; John Evans, Vermilion; E. E. Elsbury, lake, and J. King Eaton, Madison. 



DECEMBER, 1946 



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