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'48 FARM PLATFORMS 



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. . . "\X'''c pledge our efforts to maintain continued 

 farm prosperity, improvement of the standard of living and 

 the working condition of the farmer, and to preser\e 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 metliods of distributing agricultural 

 products; development and maintenance of stable export 

 markets; adequate financing for tlie 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 tiieir most 

 effective functioning as a means of achieving econom\, 

 stabilit)- and security for American agriculture. . . ' 



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

 conserved with increased etfectiveness; 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; clfc-ctive 

 protection of reasonable market prices thru flexible supp)rt 

 prices, commodit)- Uians. 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: suppt)rt of the princi- 

 ple of bona ride farmer-owned and farmer-t)perated <.o- 

 operativcs, and sound rural electrification. 



"We favor progressive development of the nation s 

 water resources for navigation, flot)d control and power, 

 w itii immediate action in critical areas. 



We favor n)nservation of all our natural resources 

 and believe that conservation and stockpiling of strategic 

 and critical raw materials is indispensable to the security of 

 the United States ..." 



Grundy Youth Wins 

 Chicago Lamb Show 



Sherwood Nelson, an IS year old t.irm 

 boy from Morris. Grundy county. III., 

 won top honors at the Chicago Junior 

 Market Lamb Siiow and sale at the Chi- 

 cago Stock Yard today when his South- 

 down Hampshire lamb was named Grand 

 ( liampion of the show. 



His yo pound lamb was later sold at 

 auction for SI. 75 per pound, establishing 

 a new record price for lambs at the Chi- 

 cigo Show. A total of 53 exhibitors 

 from -J-H and \'ocational Agricultural 

 clubs of Illinois and Indiana exhibited 

 3-1 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 pxjunds and yielded an 

 average price of 4112^ per pound. This 

 tops last year's average of 381 jc and is 

 an all time record in the 10-year-histon' 

 of this e\ent. 



Lambs which did not place in the first 

 three spots sold on the open market for 

 a reported aver.»ge of 3-c a pound or 3 



cents over the extreme top of the day ■• 

 open market price for lambs in Chicago. 



The first prize pens of three lambs and 

 five lambs were shown by Laurence .\L- 

 Lachlan. of L'irlvillc, LaSalle county. 111. 



A 12-year old farm girl figured prom- 

 mently in this year's winnings. She was 

 ^X'anda Mae Thorndykc of Saunemin. 

 Livingston county. 111., who won fourth 

 in pen of three, and fifth in both pens of 

 h\t: and the individual lamb class. 



Pure Milk Ass'n 

 Redeeming 1941 

 Plant Certificates 



Pure Milk Association, large Chicago 

 area dairv co-op, is redeeming its 19-11 

 plant certificates totaling S 4 1,000. Issued 

 in S5. SIO, SI 5, and S20 denominations, 

 these certificates were issued in 19-11 to 

 aid in a plant expansion program. 



Members and former members shouki 

 mail the Certificates of Investments, series 

 19-iI. to the office of Pure Milk Associ.i- 

 tion. 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago "i. Ill 



Think Before You 

 Sell Your Sows 



It you're planning to get rid of your 

 old brood sows -maybe you'd better re- 

 i.onsider. With fewer hogs and more 

 corn in prospect lor next winter, Illinois 

 hog producers will be in a more fa\orjble 

 position to make a profit than they li.ive 

 been during the past year. 



L. 1". Slice, extension economist in 

 marketing with the University of Illinois 

 College ot Agriculture, says that markc-ts 

 and weather have united to make the pos- 

 sibilit)- of fewer hogs and more corn a 

 good probability. 



He suggests this I'our-point program 

 tor Illinois hog producers: kexp 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 amoun' 

 ol grain until new corn is available: take 

 good care of sows bred for fall pigs-- 

 and raise a maximum number of pigs per 

 litter; plan to maintain or increase mod- 

 erately the number of sows to farrov. 

 19-19 spring pigs. 



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