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EDITORS NOTE: Opinions of the 

 men expressed below were taken at ran- 

 dom and without prejudice. We are 

 aware, however, that you may disagree. 

 If so, write and tell us why. 



IF SURPLUSES cause prices to drop 

 unreasonably will you favor crop con- 

 trol? 



Here's the answers Illinois farmers 

 gave when asked this question during 

 Farm and Home Week held at the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture in Urbana. 



All answered yes. If surpluses got 

 hard to handle they'd favor and support 

 a fair program of crop and acreage 

 control. 



Martin Bailey 



Granville White 



An eflfort was made to find a farmer 

 who was against and would not support 

 crop control. No luck. As a matter of 

 chance all the farmers interviewed were 

 Farm Bureau members and maybe were 

 a little closer to the problem, as one of 

 them said. 



Granville White, first farmer to be 

 inter\'iewed, lives near Burnside, Han- 

 cock county, expects surpluses to get 

 troublesome about 1950 when foreign 

 demand for food will have dropped. 



"I'll be willing to go into a crop re- 

 duction program even though it might 

 not be just exactly what I'd want. We 

 have to cooperate, and farmers know it," 

 White said. 



White farms 160 acres, keeps about 10 

 cows and 10 brood sows, raises equal 

 acreages of clover, beans, oats and corn. 



Martin Bailey, a neighbor, agreed with 

 White and said of last year's crop: "By 

 next fall there'll be little '46 crop carry- 

 over in our county. Com aud beans are 

 moving out as fast as elevators can get 

 the cars. We shouldn't have any prob- 

 lem with the 1946 crop." 



Glenn Roby farms 1 20 acres near Gays 



Glenn Spen<er 



Glenn Roby 



in Moultrie county, maintains a large 

 flock of chickens and a small dairy herd. 

 I went into the AAA before," Roby 

 said. "If controls become necessary, I'll 

 be for them. I don't expect surpluses for 

 four or five years." 



Glenn Spencer, Adams county, farms 

 650 acres with his brother and this year 

 raised corn, oats, and a few beans. A 

 livestock man, he normally feeds out all 

 his grain. 



"Farmers planted just about every acre 

 they could during the war," he said. 

 'In the next two years they'll cut down 

 on crops, some anyway." 



Lack of help has kept livestock num- 

 bers down, at least on his farm, he said, 

 although if grain surpluses pile up 

 throughout the country he d favor con- 

 trols on crop acreage. 



Everett Brown, Decatur, Macon coun- 

 ty: "Farmers should be able to deal with 

 their own surpluses, and I'm for controls 



Lloyd Wolden 



Everett Brown 



on production if and when it's necessary. 



"Corn is moving out fast from my 

 area and I can't see a big surplus for 

 next year. But when we're threatened 

 with surpluses I'm for controls. 



"I'm a director in my Farm Bureau 

 and think that Farm Bureau members 

 are closer to the problem of surpluses. 



Lester Beery 



OWl CoDSh 



THE lAA Record cover this month 

 shows the main gateway to Fort 

 Chartres and is the second of a series of 

 covers illustrating historic and pictur- 

 esque Illinois scenes. 



The reconstructed gateway to the fort 

 stands in Fort Chartres State Park in 

 Randolph county, four miles from Prairie 

 du Rocher. "The first log fort, com- 

 pleted in 1720 and named for the regent 

 of France, was destroyed by the Mis- 

 sissippi river in 1727. It was rebuilt 

 and abandoned later in 1747 and was 

 built a third time on its present site up- 

 river from the old fort in 1753. 



The British took the fort from the 

 French in 1765 and held it until 1772 

 when the rampant Mississippi again 

 damaged it. Fort Chartres' historical sig- 

 nificance ended with the withdrawal of 

 the British garrison. 



The guardhouse and chapel have been 

 reconstructed but the powderhouse stands 

 as it did in the 18th century. A museum 

 contains many relics of the former strong- 

 hold. 



L A. A. RECORD 



His big problem, he said, is getting 

 help. He farms 240 acres, has 7 milk 

 cows and 30 head of cattle on feed but 

 would keep more stock if he had the 

 help. 



Lloyd Walden, Georgetown, Vermilion 

 county, farms 240 acres, has a dairy herd 

 and raises hogs. "I think we'd better 

 start thinking about controls and sur- 

 pluses now and give it really serious 

 thought in 1948. , , 



"We'll notice some eflFect of surpluses r 

 this fall, on corn and oats especially." 



Lester Beery, Hammond, Piatt count)' > 

 farmer, auctioneer, special agent for his 

 Farm Bureau insur- 

 ance company, is in 

 charge of livestock 

 purchases for for- 

 eign relief for the 

 Church of the Breth- 

 ren. 



"Well be both- 

 ered with surpluses 

 for the next two 

 years a good deal 

 less if we meet our 

 relief commitments 

 to Europe and Asi'a." 



"The government has promised us two 

 year's support on farm prices. That's 

 going to cost money. It had better be 

 spent for foreign relief where it is 

 needed rather than to buy surpluses that 

 are wasted." 



He bought 1 1 2 head of dairy cattle last 

 year, mostly heifers, assembled them on 

 his farm and had the cattle shipped 

 through Elgin to Newport News, Md., 

 for shipment in cattle boats to Europe. 



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