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a. guaranteed price, they responded by 

 producing 122,000,000 pigs and in 1944 

 this record crop crashed through the 

 guaranteed floor. 



Farmers bcheve in full production 

 and certainly do not relish a return 

 to specific crop acreage control pro- 

 grams of the past. 



It is generally agreed, however, that 

 it will be hard to support prices with- 

 out some control on production. Lead- 

 ers in Congress appear ready to act 

 on this basis if and when it becomes 

 necessary. 



Rep. Clifford Hope. (Rep. -Kan.) 

 and chairman of the powerful house 

 committee on agriculture, said in an 

 address recently that while price sup- 

 port policy should recognize abundant 

 production, safeguards should be used 

 to protect the farmer from being 

 "drowned in the flood of his own 

 abundance." 



It seems safe to say that production 

 controls will be a part of any future 

 price support program. 



On the basic commodities — as corn 

 or wheat — this will mean acreage 

 allotments and. if necessary, market- 

 ing quotas, for cooperators. The prices 

 will be supported by commodity loans 

 made directly to farmers. 



On the Steagall commodities pro- 

 duction control may be necessary but 

 probably will come later than on the 

 basic commodities. Potatoes again are 

 the exception. Other methods of main- 

 taining support levels probably will in- 

 clude direct market purchases, loans, 

 and direct payments to farmers. 



Following are listed some of tlic ma- 

 jor crops and products, arid their sup- 

 port prices based on 90 per cent of 

 parity in November: • 



For basic commodities: corn. SI. 22; 

 wheat. SI. 68; cotton, 2i..^c; tobacco, 

 28.9c. For Steagall commodities : soy- 

 beans, Si -Si; hogs, SI 3.86: eggs. 50c: 

 chickens, 21.8c; whole milk, $3.36, 

 butterfat, 53.4c. 



fiAM, Jhuman: 



IVf ARE PLEDGED 



TO THE SUPPORT 



OF FARM PRICES 



THE government's pledge to support 

 farm prices for two years was re- 

 newed by President Truman in his 

 state of the union speech and economic 

 report to the Eightieth Congress now 

 in session. 



"We must honor the government's 

 commitment to support farm product 

 prices during the period of readjust- 

 ment to a stabilized peacetime basis." 

 the chief executive said. 



The cost during the next fiscal year 

 for price support operations was esti- 

 mated at 5330,000,000 and was based 

 on the assumption of "continued gen- 

 eral prosperity." Costs will be much 

 greater if farm markets are depressed. 



Even with the increased cost of 

 price supports, the president asked a 

 cut in the agricultural department's 

 over-all fund of $73,588,033. 



Largest single budget cut asked bv 

 the president was in the program of 

 direct payment to farmers for soil 

 conservation practices. The cut, from 

 5300,000.000 to 5200.000.000, would 

 apply to the 19*8 crop year. 



Touching on short range agriculture 

 polity, the president said: "Present 

 laws give considerable stabilit)' to farm 

 prices for 1947 and 1948, and those 

 two years must be utilized to maintain 

 and develop markets for our great pro- 

 ductive power." 



"We shall need to give increasuig 

 emphasis to marketing during the next 

 few years. Better marketing can go 

 a long way toward maintaining ade- 

 tjuate rates of consumption, with bene- 

 fit to farmers and the public alike." 



He mentioned the permanent school 

 lunch program recently authorized by 

 Congre^.. "I hope this program will 

 be expanded until we are sure that every 

 American school child gets an adec)uate 

 diet." 



■ In addition we should study care- 

 fully the possible need for food and 

 nutrition programs to reach low-income 

 families." 



The go\ernment's long-range pro- 

 gram to support tarm income at reason- 

 able levels must be kept flexible, the 

 presitient said. 



He advocated the preservation of the 

 family-sized farm, prevention of an- 

 other agricultural^ depression, compar- 

 able treatment for farm communities 

 in education, housing, medical care. 

 health, nutrition and social security. 



GuA (^OJJSA 



Editor's Note: This is the first of a. 

 series of cover pictures dedicated to some 

 of Illinois' historic and p'cturesejue 



scenes. 



OF ALL Illinois' famous sons, none 

 stands higher in her estimation than 

 Abraham Lincoln. Born in Kentucky, 

 he spent the greater part of his life in 

 the area of the Illinois capital city of 



This is on interior view of the Lincoin Tomb at Springfield. 



.Jy-!r4ngfield. where he is buried in the 

 LiiKolii Tomb pictured on our co\er. 



\'isitors to the tomb - - statesmen, 

 rovalty, presidents and thousands 

 from all walks of life from ever\ 

 (.orner of the "earth - have tor many 

 years come to pay their respeUs to 

 the Great Emancipator. No longer 

 does Lincoln belong only to Illinois. 

 but as an inscription in the interior of 

 the tomb puts it. "He Belongs to the 

 Ages." 



With funds ao.|uired principallv 

 through subscription, construction ot 

 the monument, designed by L.irkin Ci 

 Meai.1. Jr.. was started in 1871. It was 

 deciJated in 187i. In IS'Wl'K)! it w.is 

 rebuilt .uid- the casket moved to a new 

 burial pLice 10 feet deep and six feet 

 from the north wall. 



Buried in the south wall of the cham- 

 ber .isi: Mrs. Lincoln and three children, 

 Edward. William, and Thomas, fa- 

 miliarly known as "Tad." The eldest son, 

 Robert Lincoln, who died in 1926, is 

 buried at Arlington. In 1930-31 the 

 tomb was again remodeled and the in- 

 terior changed considerably. 



FEBRUARY. 1947 



