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Agricultural Extension Service at State 

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MARKETING AGREEMENTS 



Marketing agreements have been used 

 to the considerable benefit of agriculture 

 in the marketing of milk and other per- 

 ishable farm products. We believe that 

 this legislation should be strengthened 

 and extended to other perishable crops 

 as the need is demonstrated. We will 

 support such extension and use of these 

 agreements for the purpose of stabilizing 

 production and marketing and for im- 

 proving the quality of the products 

 needed by consumers. 



RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREEMENTS 



We favor the principles of reciprocal 

 trade agreements. We support the posi- 

 tion taken by the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation in urging that this program 

 be continued. We insist, however, that 

 agriculture and agricultural organizations 

 should be consulted during the period 

 that these agreements are being worked 

 out on agricultural products. 



FARM COOPERATIVES 



It has been the policy of our govern- 

 ment to encourage the development of 

 farm cooperatives for the marketing of 

 agricultural products and the purchasing 

 of needed farm supplies. These agri- 



cultural cooperatives recently have been 

 under severe attack. These attacks have 

 followed two lines of thinking — first, 

 it is charged that the agricultural coopera- 

 tives have unfair tax advantages; second- 

 ly, statements are being made that all 

 cooperatives are socialistic or commu- 

 nistic. Neither of these charges are 

 worthy of your time for a detailed an- 

 swer. The agricultural cooperatives are. 

 in fact, the very essence of democracy. 

 They do not have unfair tax advantages. 

 We do not ask for any unfair advantages 

 for the cooperatives. We are ready to 

 join with business groups in securing the 

 elimination of any discriminatory taxes 

 which may now be levied upon corpora- 

 tions. We see no need for any great 

 change in the laws affecting agricultural 

 cooperatives. 



RESEARCH AND MARKETING ACT 



We have given our full support to the 

 Research and Marketing Act adopted by 

 Congress. We urge that the program 

 contemplated under this act be carried 

 out. We particularly would like to urge 

 that increased attention be given to re- 

 search in the fields of distribution and 

 marketing of farm products. The con- 

 stantly increasing costs of distribution of 

 farm products has been a contributing 

 cause of the disparity which exists be- 

 tween agricultural and urban income. 



Farmers prefer to produce in abun-' 

 dance. We recognize that the future wel- 

 fare of agriculture and the nation as a 

 whole depends upon mamtaining a high 

 level of production, employment and in- 

 come. This goal cannot be accomplished 

 by agriculture acting alone, but it can be- 

 attained througli the joint action of all 

 economic groups. Following is a quota- 

 tion from a resolution adopted at the last 

 annual meeting of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation : 



MAXIMUM PRODUCTION 



"We recognize the desirability of full 

 agricultural production, but agriculture 

 cannot maintain full production if in- 

 dustry is going to maintain rigidly high 

 prices by cutting down production and 

 applying monopolistic controls, or if 

 labor is going to insist upon maintaining 

 rigidly high wage rates and to continue 

 such increases in wages without regard 

 to productivit}' and to enforce .such rates 

 with scarcity policies which discourage 

 consumption and throw people out of 

 work and on to relief rolls. 



"Farmers believe in an economy of 

 abundance and stand ready to join 

 with industr)- and labor to achieve maxi- 

 mum production and maximum employ- 

 ment through price policies and wage 

 policies which are geared to a maximum 

 level of consumption." 



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IN outstanding program has been 

 prepared for the 29th annual meet- 

 ing of the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation Dec. 16, 17, 18 in the 

 Hotel Stevens, Chicago. 

 President Edward A. O'Neal will give 

 his address the morning of Dec. 16, 

 following the annual report of AFBF 

 Secretary Wilfred Shaw. David E. Lilien- 

 thal, chairman. Atomic Energy Commis- 

 sion, will speak on the afternoon pro- 

 gram. Voting delegates dinner will be 

 held at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 16 in the South 

 Ball Room of the Stevens. 



Dec. 17 speakers and their topics in- 

 clude: Sen. Edward J. Thye of Minne- 

 sota, "The Farmer and the United 

 States"; Rep. Harold D. Cooley from 

 North Carolina, "The Farmer and the 

 House of Representatives"; Dean H. P. 

 Rusk, U. of I. College of Agriculture, 

 "The Farmer and His Land Grant Col- 

 lege"; Charles F. Kettering, former vice- 

 president, General Motors Corporation, 

 "Beyond the Horizon in Industry", and 



an address from the winner of the na- 

 tional Rural Youth Talk Meet. 



Speakers on the evening program of 

 Dec. 17 will include Mrs. Raymond 

 Sayre, president, Associated Country- 

 Women of the World, and James Turn- 

 er, president. International Federation of 

 Agricultural Producers, and president. 

 National Farmers Union of England. 



Dec. 18 program will open with read- 

 ing of resolutions and will close in the 

 afternoon with election of officers and 

 directors. 



STATE 4-H CLUB 

 WINNERS, NATIONAL 

 CANDIDATES LISTED 



HERE is the list of Illinois 4-H Club 

 boys and girls who are winners of 

 state contests and who have been sub- 

 mitted as candidates for National honors. 

 More state winners will be announced 

 later. 



National 4-H Leadership iontesl ■ — 



Submitted for national honors and gold 

 wrist watch for each — Dorothy Giese, 

 LaSalle county; Gilbert Blankenship, 

 Kendall county. 



Salional 4-H Achievement contest — 

 Submitted for national honors — Mar- 

 jorie Healy. Route 1. Kankakee county; 

 Robert Willrett. DeKalb county. 



Farm I 'nderu r/ters scholarshipi — 

 Si 25 — Annabelle Berrj-, Fulton coun- 

 ty; $100 — Betty Jean McCutchan. Han- 

 cock; SlOO Joann Robinson, Fulton; Si 2") 

 — Kenneth Heisner, Will; SlOO — Paul 

 Bates. McLean; SlOO Raymond Brun- 

 ncT, Sangamon. 



Illinois Poultry Improiement Auoci- 

 ation contest — Scholarships — SlOO 

 each — Robert G. Willrett, DeKalb 

 county; John Robert Huhcr. Knox; Ralph 

 E. Weriier, Will. 



National Dairy ProJiation mnifsi — 

 Submitted for national honors and $25 

 bond each — Class A members vi ithout 

 animals in production. Donald Plote, 

 Elgin, Kane County; Harvey Huftalin, 

 DeKalb; Franklin Unruh, Will; C,ordon 

 Bauer, Tazewell; Class B — members 

 with animals in production. Phillip W. 

 Myers, Coles; Norvin Koop, Will; Floyd 

 Hutchings, Lake; LaRue Schad, McLean; 

 Alternate — Leonard Lane. Mason. 



DECEMBER, 1947 



