Title: Illinois Agricultural Association record (microform)
Identifier: 5060538.1931-1934
Year: 1931- December 1934 January 1931- December 1934 (Jan0s)
Authors: Illinois Agricultural Association; Illinois Agricultural Association. Record
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Mendota, Ill. : The Association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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COUNTY WINNERS WHO COMPETED IN THE 1934 COUNTRY LIFE QUEEN CONTEST ON FARM BUREAU DAY, ILLINOIS STATE FAIR, AUG. 24. Miss Irene Bachman of Williamson county, seated, was crowned "Queen," and Miss Marjorie lambert, McLean county, standing directly behind her, was declared "Maid of Honor." loan funds disbursed by the Federal Land Bank of St. Louis have been used to re- finance debts already owed by farmers. One of the best measures of the suc- cess of the Federal Land Banks in re- lieving the farm credit distress can be found in the large decrease in the num- ber of letters received in Washington from farmers facing an emergency. Last November, the Farm Credit Administra- tion in Washington was receiving 600 let- ters daily from farmers whose cases de- manded prompt action. These letters have now dropped to less than 50 daily. .In this respect it should be noted that while the Frazier-Lemke Amendment to the Bankruptcy Act, since its purpose is to prevent occasional selfish creditors from foreclosing on distressed farm debtors, is in accord with the program of the Farm Credit Administration. The activity of the Federal Land Banks in the past year has relieved a great majority of the distressed farm mortgages, leav- ing only a slight minority of farmers who will have to go into bankruptcy to save their homes. . . The Federal Land Bank is not a relief device, neither is it a spender of taxpay- ers* money. Loans are made on a sound business basis. Formerly made from funds secured through the sale of bonds to the investing public, loans are now being closed in bonds of the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation. The ready re- ception accorded these bonds by farmers and their creditors is responsible for the fact that during June the Federal Land Bank of St. Louis disbursed more than seventeen and one-half million dollars. This sum broke all previous records for loans closed in a month's time. The work of the Federal Land Bank is not finished. Applications for loans, while not approaching the volume re- ceived at the start of the refinancing program, continue to arrive. The land banks are designed to be permanent. They have served this gen- eration well. It should be the individual responsibility of every borrower to meet his obligations as they come due that the Land Bank System may continue to operate on a self-sustaining basis and serve future generations in the same manner as it is serving this generation. The Farm Bureau is proud of the part it played in securing: the passage of the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act and other helpful measures early in 1933, is appreciative of the aid that administration of this legislation has brought to many distressed debtors.—Editor. May Use "Idle" Ground jSJext Year For Forage Wheat contract signers may plant their idle ground to forage crops in 1935. Grass and clover crops grown on such land may be used for hay, pasture or seed production. Wheat, corn, barley, rye and grain sorghums are forbidden but millet, soybeans, oats, etc. may be grown when used only for hay, pasture, or roughage. . ^ .> / Seed to Sell? Avaiidbie Phosphorus Cuts Chinch Bug Loss '*!».^.,. ■■- * .-A •* ■..* *'.'■•• ^*- • *n' -,.'•.. 'v Plenty of available phosphorus in the soil will help wheat overcome chinch bugs, according to L. B. Miller, associate in soil experiment fields at the State College of Agriculture. This consideration is particularly ap- plicable where wheat is to be planted following the harvesting of soybeans for seed, he says. * • ^ * In Macoupin county this year on Enos Waters' farm, wheat on fallow ground yielded 28 bushels per acre, while on similar soil following soybeans, it re- turned only 18.9 bushels. Ground rock phosphate on soils de- ficient in phosphorus has produced* some outstanding results. An application of 1,000 pounds per acre of rock phosphate on many soils is sufficient to grow beau- tiful crops of alfalfa arid clovers. The Seed Department of the Farmers National Grain Corporation at Chicago advises that it will be glad to bid on all kinds of clover seeds, timothy, lespedeza, soybeans, and others grown by Illinois farmers. Send samples to the Corpora- tion in the Fisher building. Dearborn and Van Buren streets, Chicago. •-""' The Farmers National Seed Depart- ment is not only assisting farmers iii disposing of seed, but also attempts to bring buyers and sellers together to the mutual advantage of both. . Weatfier Foreca Herbert Janvrin Browne, long-range weather forecaster of Washington, D. C. recently offered a bulletin for $5 "cover- ing the causes of the drought and defi- nitely predicting when it will end." An additional bulletin is offered "giving the dates of cold waves in the northwest, in the Mississippi Valley and the eastern states up to October 15, and naming spe- cifically the dates for killing' frosts." XT. S. Weather Bureau officials take no stock in Browne's forecasts. His forecast af rains in western states during Augrust came true. Weather prophets are now predicting a long cold winter. —Editor. • - : M M ^\ ^1 ) *» J « v^-'^'

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