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February IS, 1923 



Number 1 



S. H. THOMPSON ELECTED I. A. A. PRESIDENT 



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PE RECORD TO GO 

 TO I.A.A. MEMBERS 

 TWICE EACH MONTH 



Takes the Place of Weekly 

 News Letter and Quar- 

 : terly Publication 



_^ This is the first issue of the 

 niinois Agricultural Association 

 Elecord in its new form. 



After March 15, according to a 

 decision of the I. A. A. Execu- 

 tive Committee, The Record will 

 be sent semi-monthly, if finances 

 permit, to all members of the 

 Association. 



The Weekly I. A. A. News Let- 

 ter, which went to about 3,000 

 f I members of the Association, and 

 f ^utu'ieriy Keoora, vriii<m v>a8' 



sent four times a year to all mem- 

 bers, will be discontinued. This 

 publication has taken their place. 

 Information to Members 

 The whole purpose of The Rec- 

 I ord will be to inform the mem- 

 I bers of the county farm bureaus 

 I and the I. A.. A. of what has 

 j been done by their county, state 

 I and national farm bureaus and 

 the allied cooperative marketing 

 organizations. 

 The Record is your paper. 



Not In Competition 

 The Record is not starting in 

 any sense of the word as a com- 

 petitor of the existing county 

 farm bureau bulletins, county 

 newspapers »r state farm Journals. 

 It could never compete with these 

 publications. 



The >ole purpose of The Rec- 

 ord Is to tell of the work of the 

 I. A. A. and its allied movements. 



Ever since the opening of an 

 I. A, A. business office in the 

 EMlson Building, Chicago, with 

 3ne room, a secretary and stenog- 

 rapher, there has been some sort 

 If an I. A. A. publication. 



(Turn to PaBe 3. Colunn 3) 



/. A. A. To Group 

 All Marketing 

 In One Division 



. A special co-operative marketing 

 division of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, with a salaried direc- 

 tor in charge, is to be created, 

 according to a decision of the I. 

 A. A. Executive Committee at the 

 last meeting. 



The co-operative marketing di- 

 vision will include all the various 

 departments of co-operative mark- 

 eting now in the I. A. A. These 

 departments will not be materially 

 changed in scope except that they 

 will be more united in working to- 

 gether in the one co-operative 

 marketing divisicn. 



The director of the division has 

 not yet been named. 



The I. A A plans to concen- 

 iratti lis 'energi^ upon* co-opera 

 tive marketing more than ever in 

 1923, as the one greatest hope of 

 the Illinois farmer for economic 

 advancement 



Special Policy 

 Committee of 4 

 Named l^ I. A. A 



At the first meeting of the new 

 executive committee was passed a 

 motion that a special policy com- 

 mittee of the I. A. A., to weigh 

 and decide upon the policies to be 

 pursued in important questions 

 that may arise, be appointed. 



President Thompson appointed 

 the following men as members of 

 the committee: Howard Leonard, 

 Eureka; Dean H. W. Mumford, Dr- 

 bana; Harvey Sconce, Sldell; H. 

 W. Danforth, Washington. 



Woman On Farm 

 Shares Benefits 

 Of Co-operation 



'Many a care-worn farm wife t5- 

 lay enjoys some of the modem 



The Record Held 

 Up By Shortage 

 Of Print Paper 



This first issue of Thfe Record 

 has been much delayed on account 

 of the shortage of print paper. It 

 had been originally planned to get 

 out the iasoe as soon as possible 

 after the annual meeting. It was 

 found, however, that news print 



, .^ I luuuu, nowever, tnat news nrint 



conveniences by reason of the Lo~>, «# .v L ,J^. 



ac, .h», v.„ h' ,. „, ..„- P*P«'' °' «>« 8°^ specified to come 



act that yon have met together 

 ind talked over your problems In 



ommon. It is necessary that you 

 cooperate." 



This was the message of How- 

 ird M. Gore, of the U. S. Depart- 

 nent of Agriculture, before the 

 innnal meeting. Mr. Gore cited 

 nstance after instance of farm 

 roblems that were solved by co- 



within the budget for the publics 

 tion, could not be secured at any 

 price before March 10. 



It was necessary, therefore, to 

 get out this Issue on more ex- 

 pensive paper. This, too, took two 

 weeks to secure. 



The next Issue of The Record 

 will appear March 16. Prom that 



•peratloif rather than blind an- time on the publication will come 

 •«onlsm,and personalities. | semi-monthly. 





During the last two years, 

 when the farm bureau has at- 

 tracted the attention of the 

 world, some of the most promi- 

 nent men of contemporary his- 

 tory — President Harding, Ber- 

 nard Baruch, M. Clemenceau — 

 have praised the movement. Ar- 

 ticles have appeared in the most 

 prominent national magazines 

 of the country — World's Work, 

 The Saturday Evening Post, 

 Colliers' — in praise of the ac- 

 complishments of the Farm Bu- 

 reau. Some of the greatest 

 economists and busine&i men 

 of the country have landed the 

 Farm Bureau. 



But — with all due respect for 

 these men and these publications 

 — there is the opinion of another 

 man which carries more authority. 



And that is the man down on 

 the farm! 



The following are the opinions 

 of twenty-nine farmers from as 

 many counties which were written 

 in letters to their county farm 

 bureaus and published during the I 



8 NEW MEMBERS, 

 7 OLD, ON I. A. A. 

 EXEOTVE BODY 



Changes Are Made in 13th, 



14th, 16th, 19th. 20th. 22nd, 



24th and 25th Districts 



S. H. THompsotL, of Quitiqy;, 

 is the new president of the IHi- 

 nois Aericiultural Association, 

 elected by jthe unanimous \.i[c 

 of the delegates. A. O. Eckert, , 

 of Bellevitlfi, was elected ^ioe-, 

 president. 



Eight ohftnges were made in 

 the Executive committee. Tfce 

 following i^ the niemliership of 

 the committee as It stands for 

 1923, the names of new mem- 

 bers being in boldface type. 



nth Disi^ict. ^Henry McGough, 

 Maple Park, Kane County. 



12th District, a. F. Tullock, 

 Rockford. Winnebago County. 



13th District, C. t. Bamborough. 

 Polo. Ogle County. 



14th District, W. H. Moody. Port 

 Byron, Rock Island County. 



16th District, H. E Goerabel. 

 ,Hoopole, Henry Cotnty. 



ISth District, a E. Reder. Men- 

 doia. Bureas County. 



17th District, r. O. Barton, Cor- 

 nell. Livingston County. 

 [ 18th Distllct, C. R Finley, 

 Hoopeston, Vermilion County 



19th Dlstrfct, D. J. Holterm.n, 

 Sadorus, Chaonpaign County. 



20th Distrfct, Eari ( J> Smith, 

 Detroit, Pike: Connty. ^— C, C, 



2l8t Dlstriot, E. L. Corbin. Car 

 linville. Macoupin County. 



membership campaign of mS: Re^rrS^:,-^ "•'""'-'-• 



August Lindgren, Marshall-Put- »,^ m.^rtl; A .. 

 .i... "M„ ™. —ill I. . ,. ^'™ District, Carlton Trimble, 



nam- No one w,ll have to ask Crawford County 

 me to become a member of the ,i,., r....^_ ^ 

 Farm Bureau tor the coming - ^""i °'"'^'^ *="" *"<'•'«>". 

 term." 



R. E. GifTord, Montgomery — "The 

 benefits from the Farm Bureau 

 and allied organizations have more 

 than paid my annua] dnes." 



Pc|er E. Unzicker, Woodford— 

 "t have often thought what a dif- 

 ferent country this would be If 



Farmers of 29 Counties 

 Judges of Farm Bureau 



every farmer belonged to the 

 Farm Bureau." 



Herman StafFetdt, Will — "Our 

 only hope lies In the Farm Bu- 

 reau." 



Walter R. KImzey, Wabash— 

 "No disinterested observer can 

 compare former condition^ with 

 those of today without saying: 

 'Long live the Farm Bureau'!" 

 'A Step Baekwaid" 



Given* Bros., Brown — "It would ~ —-■' -^ "-' 



be a step backward, anrelyr mrt^ ^^"***-" ^•'''•'^ ''**° ^ "^ *'""> 



to have the Farm Bureau 



H. 8. Brown,, Knox — "The slo- 

 gan, 'Forward, Farm Bureau!.' 

 (Turn to Page 1. Column 1) 



Xenia, Clay County. 



2Sth District, Vernon LMSlsy. 

 Sparta, Randolph County. _ j, 

 Election Contest ' f 

 Although the election for presi- 

 dent was, by a resolution made a 

 unanimous vote, a contest between 

 former Pr^ident Howard Leonard 

 and Vice President S. H. Thomp- 

 son preceded. > 



Dean Mumford 

 Talks On College 

 And Farm Bureau 



"If the. majority of the farmer* 

 of the country learn to work to- 

 gether for the good of agriculture, 

 almost anything that the farmer* 

 are Justly entitled to tnay be se- 



ford of the College of Agriculture 

 of the University of niineis. at 

 the close of his address before the 

 '. A. A. annaal ineetlnc. 



