MAJOR PARTUS STATE THEIR 



* 



'4S FARM PLA TFORMS 



2b. 



hi 



vmoctuuc 



. . . ""We pledge our efforts to maintain continued 

 farm prosperity, improvement of the standard of living and 

 the working condition of the farmer, and to preserve the 

 family size farm. 



"Specifically, we favor a permanent system of flexible 

 price supports for agricultural products, to maintain farm 

 income on a parity with farm operating costs; an intensified 

 soil conservation program; an extended crop insurance pro- 

 gram; improvement of methods of distributing agricultural 

 products; development and maintenance of stable export 

 markets; adequate financing for the school lunch program; 

 the use of agricultural surpluses to improve the diet of low 

 income families in case of need; continued expansion of the 

 rural electrification program; strengthening of all agricul- 

 tural credit programs; intensified research to improve agri- 

 cultural practices, and to find new uses for farm products. 



""We strongly urge the continuance of maximum far- 

 mer participation in all these programs. We favor the re- 

 peal of the discriminatory taxes on the manufacture and 

 sale of oleomargarine. 



""We will encourage farm co-operatives and oppose 

 any revision of federal law designed to curtail their most 

 effective functioning as a means of achieving economy, 

 stability and security for American agriculture. . ." 



fKepubti 



2p 



lean 



•;."*. 



. . . ""The soil as our basic natural resource must be 

 conserved with increased effectiveness; and farm prices 

 should be supported on a just basis . . .- 



"'There must be a long term program in the interest of 

 agriculture and the consumer which should include: an 

 accelerated program of sounder soil conservation; effective 

 protection of reasonable market prices thru flexible support 

 prices, commodity loans, marketing agreements, together 

 with such other means as may be necessary, and the devel- 

 opment of sound farm credit; encouragement of family- 

 size farms; intensified research to discover new crops, new 

 uses for existing crops, and control of hoof and mouth and 

 other animal diseases and crop pests; support of the princi- 

 ple of bona fide farmer-owned and farmer-operated co- 

 operatives, and sound rural electrification. 



'"We favor progressive development of the nations 

 water resources for navigation, flood control and power, 

 with immediate action in critical areas. 



""We favor conservation of all our natural resources 

 and believe that conservation and stockpiling of strategic 

 and critical raw materials is indispensable to the securi^ of 

 the United States . . ." /■';-:''/ ■--■■'. 



•>M* 



i 



Grundy Youth Wins 

 Chicago Lamb Show 



Sherwood Nelson, an 18 year old farm 

 boy from Morris, Grundy county, III., 

 won top honors at the Chicago Junior 

 Market Lamb Show and sale at the Chi- 

 cago Stock Yard today when his South- 

 down Hampshire lamb was named Grand 

 Champion of the show. 



His 90 pound lamb was later sold at 

 auction for $1.75 per pound, establishing 

 a new record price for lambs at the Chi- 

 cago Show. A total of 53 exhibitors 

 from 4-H and Vocational Agricultural 

 clubs of Illinois and Indiana exhibited 

 321 lambs at the show. 



The top three winners out of each of 

 the classes were sold at auction in the 

 afternoon. The 57 head sold weighed 

 an average of 79 pounds and yielded an 

 average price of 411/2'^ P^r pound. This 

 tops last year's average of 38 ^c and is 

 an all time record in the 10-year-history 

 of this event. 



Lambs which did not place in the first 

 three spots sold on the open market for 

 a reported average of 32c a pound or 3 



cents over the extreme top of the day's 

 open market price for lamos in Chicago. 



The first prize pens of three lambs and 

 five lambs were shown by Laurence Mc- 

 Lachlan, of Earlville, LaSalle county. 111. 



A 12 -year old farm girl figured prom- 

 inently in this year's winnings. She was 

 Wanda Mae Thorndyke of Saunemin, 

 Livingston county. 111., who won fourth 

 in pen of three, and fifth in both pens of 

 five and the individual lamb class. 



Pure Milk Assn 

 Redeeming 1941 

 Plant Certificates 



Pure Milk Association, large Chicago 

 area dairy co-op, is redeeming its 1941 

 plant certificates totaling $41,000. Issued 

 in $5, $10, $15, and $20 denominations, 

 these certificates were issued in 1941 to 

 aid in a plant expansion program. 



Members and former members should 

 mail the Certificates of Investments, series 

 1941, to the office of Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion, 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago 5, III. 



Think Before You 

 Sell Your Sows 



If you're planning to get rid of your 

 old brood sows — maybe you'd better re- 

 consider. With fewer hogs and more 

 corn in prospect for next winter, Illinois 

 hog producers will be in a more favorable 

 position to make a profit than they have 

 been during the past year. 



L. F. Stice, extension economist in 

 marketing with the University of Illinois 

 College of Agriculture, says that markets 

 and weather have united to make the pos- 

 sibility of fewer hogs and more com a 

 good probability. 



He suggests this four-point program 

 for Illinois hog producers: keep your 

 brood sows; delay the time of marketing 

 for late spring pigs and those farrowed 

 this summer by keeping them on legume 

 pasture and feeding a minimum amount 

 of grain until new corn is available; take 

 good care of sows bred for fall pigs — 

 and raise a maximum number of pigs per 

 Utter; plan to maintain or increase mod- 

 erately the number of sows to farrow 

 1949 spring pigs. 



AUGUST. 1948 



13 



