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The niinob Agricnltural A—ociation Record 



February 5, 1924 



SEVEN CHANGES IN 

 OFFICERS MADE AT 

 ANNUAL MEETING 



Pres. Thompson Re-elected; De 



Kalb Man Vice Pres.; Six 



New Committeemen 



President S. H. Thompson of 

 Quincy was re-elected president 

 of the I. A. A. for 1924 at the 

 annual meeting. Frank D. Bar- 

 ton of Cornell, Livingston county 

 nominated Mr. Thompson. The 

 noQiination was seconded by E. 

 H. Meyers »f Adams county. By 

 unanimous vote nominations were 

 closed and the secretary was in- 

 sttucted to cast the ballot for all 

 voting delegates electing Mr. 

 Thompson. 



Former Vice-President A. O. 

 B>!kert of Belleville, St. Clair 

 county nominated Charles Finley 

 of Hoopeston, Vermilion county 

 fo^ that office. H. A. Piatt of 

 DeKalb county nominated Chaun- 

 cey B. Watson of Dekalb, and 

 Howard Leonard of Eureka, 

 Woodford county seconded the 

 nomination. The firfet ballot was 

 a tie, each candidate having 87 

 votes. A second ballot was 

 taken and Mr. Watson was elected. 

 Mr. Watson received 89 votes and 

 Mr. Finley 83 votes. 



Six New Committeemen 



Six changes were made in the 

 executive committee of fifteen 

 members. In the tenth and 

 eleventh districts, represented by 

 one member of the committee, 

 Jacob Olbrich of Harvard; Mc- 

 Henry county was elected In the 

 place of Henry McGough who has 

 served on the committee for four 

 years. In the caucus of Voting 

 delegates,<Mr. McGough was again 

 chosen to represent the district, 

 however he refused to acoegt the 

 nomination. 



Other Changes 



In the sixteenth district A. R 

 Wright of Varna, Marshall cpunty 

 was elected in the place of iD. G. 

 Reder. R. F. Karr of Iroguois, 

 Iroquois county took the [place 

 of Charles F^aley in the tight- 

 eenth district. A. R. Whisnand 

 of Charleston, Coles county was 

 elected in the place of t>. J, 

 Holterman in the nineteenth dis- 

 trict 



In the twenty-first district, 

 Samuel Sorrells of Montgomery 

 county was elected in the place 

 of E. L. Corbin, and in the twen- 

 ty-third district, J. E. Liagen- 

 felter of Lawrence county was 

 elected in the place of Carlton 

 Trimble. 



A total of 177 voting delegates 

 were seated in the meeting rei>- 

 representing 91 counties. 



TO L A. A. FIBXDSOSy 



Through the columns of the 

 I. A. A. Record I wish to express 

 my deep appreciation for the 

 beautiful remembrance sent by 

 you. I wish to assure you that 

 I am unable to express the full- 

 ness of my feelings to the men 

 whom, through our associations 

 together the past few years, I 

 have had the privilege to learn to 

 know and to love as , brothers. 

 You have endeared yourselves to 

 me by ties that only death can 

 sever. 



The beautiful gold knife, ^Ith 

 the little chain, shall never be 

 used by me to cut or to destroy 

 the relations with you which I 

 love to think about and to cherish. 

 My sincere wish is that you may 

 all enjoy God's richest blessings. 

 Tonrs sincerely, 



J. C. Sailor. 



Meef the New Members 

 z Of L A, A, Committee 



C. B* WatMon 



Channcey B. Watson, newly 

 elected vice-president is a cattle 

 feeder on a 480 

 acre farm in 

 DeKalb county. 

 He is a gradu- 

 ate of the Col- 

 lege of Agricul- 

 ture and was 

 on the Univers- 

 ity football 

 team. Mr. Wat- 

 son was a mem' 

 ber of the state 

 councA of de- 

 f e n B e during 

 the war. For six years he served 

 as appraiser for the St. Louis 

 Federal Land Bank. He is presi- 

 dent of the DeKalb county farm- 

 ers' institute. 



With two partners, A. R. 

 Wright of Varna, Marshall coun- 

 ty, is farming 

 690 acres. Mr. 

 Wright is the 

 new member of 

 the executive 

 committee from 

 the sixteenth 

 district. He is 

 president of the 

 Marshall Coun- 

 ty State Bank 

 located at Var- 

 na. He is sec- 

 retary of the 



A. B. Wrlcht 



R. V, Karr 



county farm bureau and is an of- 

 ficer in the local cooperative ele- 

 vator. During the war lie served 

 as county food administrator. 



R. F. Karr is a stock fanner 

 on 350 acres near Iroquois in 

 Iroquois coun- 

 ty, new com 

 mitteeman from 

 the eighteenth 

 district. M r, 

 Karr was pres- 

 ident of the 

 county farm bu 

 reau for four 

 years. He 

 served on the 

 county board of 

 supervisors for 

 eight years, one 

 year of which he was a member 

 of the county board of review. 

 He has been secretary of the 

 local farmers' elevator since 1914 

 and is president of his local com- 

 munity high school board. 



A. L. Whisnand is the new 

 committeeman in the nineteenth 

 district. H 1 B 

 home is in 

 Chariest on. 

 Coles county. 

 In cooperation 

 with four ten- 

 ants he is farm- 

 ing 725 acres 

 on the share 

 system. One of 

 his tenants has 

 been with him 

 for 1 7 years. 

 Mr. Whisnand 

 was a member of the Charleston 

 school board for 15 years and 

 was county superintendent of 

 schools for one year. He served 



A. L. ^Vhianaad 



FOR MR. SAILOR 



A happy event at the annual 

 meeting was when O. L. Hatch, 

 in behalf of the I. A. A. organiza- 

 tion force, announced the pre- 

 sentation of a gold watch chain 

 and knife to J. C. Sailor, for five 

 years director of organization 

 work. Mr. Sailor was not at the 

 meeting, being sick in a hospital 

 at Danville. He gave up his 

 work with the I. A. A. last De- 

 cember 1. 



Samuel SorrcIIs 



two years on the county board 

 of supervisors, one year as chair- 

 man. 



Samuel Sorrells is a general 

 farmer on 200 acres in Raymond 

 township, Mont- 

 gomery county. 

 Mr. Sorrells is 

 the new mem- 

 ber of the ex- 

 ecutive commit- 

 tee from the 

 twenty-first dis- 

 trict. He is al- 

 so president of 

 his county live- 

 stock shipping 

 a s B o c 1 a tion. 

 During the an- 

 nual meeting he was elected 

 director of the Illinois Farm Bu- 

 reau Serum Association. 



J. E. Lingenfelter, Lawrence- 

 ville, Lawrence county is the new 

 member of the 

 executive com- 

 mittee in the 

 twenty - t h ird 

 district. He is 

 engaged in gen- 

 e r a 1 farming 

 operations and 

 has always tak- 

 en a leading 

 part in move- 

 ments for bet- 

 ter farming. He 



.^ . , J. E. LlnfeBfcIter 



has been presi- 



dent of the Lawrence County 

 Farm Bureau for the past four 

 years. 



Jacob Olbrich, new committee- 

 man from the tenth and eleventh 

 districts, is a dairy farmer near 

 Harvard, McHenry county. Mr. 

 Olbrich is a leader in county farm 

 bureau work. He served as treas- 

 urer in the county association for 

 four years and was a member of 

 the I. A. A. dairy marketing com- 

 mittee in 1920 and 1921. Farm 

 Adviser A. J. Gafke says Mr. 

 Olbrich was the first to Join the 

 cow testing association, first to 

 raise legumes and first in all pro- 

 gressive moves, 



Delegates Made 

 Three Amendments 

 To Constitution 



The most important of three 

 amendments made to the I. A. A. 

 constitution at the annual meet- 

 ing is a change providing for 

 executive committee members to 

 serve two years in the place of 

 one. 



In order to make this change 

 operative immediately, the amend- 

 ment provides that the new exec- 

 utive committee members from 

 even numbered districts serve for 

 two years and new committee 

 members from odd numbered dis- 

 tricts serve for one year. After 

 this year, all committee members 

 will be elected for two years, 

 half being elected one year and 

 the other half the next. 



A second change was made 

 providing that all proposed 

 amendments to the constitution 

 be in the bands of the secretary 

 at least 20 days previous to 

 meetings of the board of dele- 

 gates and that the secretary sup- 

 ply executive committee members 

 and county farm bureaus with 

 copies of proposed amendments 

 at least 15 days previons to dele- 

 gate meetings. 



The third amendment provides 

 that no member of the executive 

 committee may be a regular paid 

 or salaried employee of the asso- 

 ciation. 



I. A. A. Men On Radiol 



G. E. Metjwer, A. C. E:vcr- 

 Inffham and Robert A. Cowlra, 

 all well known to llllaola 

 farm bareau ntembera, are 

 ■ebedoled to apeak upon the 

 Aiaerfcan Farm Bnreau radio 

 profrram from Station KYIV, 

 Cbifairo, wltbla the next three 

 weeka. Don*t forret t<i ttine 

 In on theae prosrama at 81OI 

 Tneadar alshta. 



Pebrtiary S — "AnTlcnltnr* 

 nnder OrsanlaatloB.** by G. BS. 

 .Metayer. I. A. A. Direetor of 

 Orranisatloa, followed br V. 

 A. Wirt of J. I. taae Co., with 

 the aobjeet, "^Let the Truth be 

 Known aboat Farm Maehln- 

 ery." 



Febraary 12 — ^t'a -WTiat the 

 Farmer Sella." by H. W. Haor. 

 hwune. Direetor of Reocmreh, 

 A. F. B. F„ and "Balanced 

 Production and Stable Mar- 

 t ctN." by A. C. Rverincham of 

 the I. A. A. LestoUtlve Cam- 

 mlttee. 



Febmary 19 — **Some Baal- 

 neaa Aapecta of Farm Orfcaal- 

 satlona.** by Treaanrer R. A. 

 Cowlea of the I. A. A. and "The 

 Dairy ladoatry aad Its Rela- 

 tion to Pnbllc Health," by 

 l.onUe Fltaieerald, National 

 Dairy CooaelL 



Vision Greater 

 Than Progress 

 0. B. Goble Says 



"Greater than all the growth 

 In the business of producers com- 

 mission companies is the vision 

 that has opened up to the live- 

 stock producer as to the possi- 

 bilities qX having within his own 

 grasp the power of having some- 

 thing to say about the price of 

 his livestock," said O. B. Goble 

 of Charleston at the annual meet- 

 ing. 



"It has been 

 proven that bis 

 own marketing 

 agency can be 

 run intelligent 

 ly, successfully 

 and economical- 

 ly under the 

 cooperat ive 

 plan. From a 

 spirit of doubt 

 and despair he 

 has gained a 

 feeling of con- 

 fidence and an insight into the 

 value of joining with his fellow 

 producers to work cooperatively. 



Mr. Goble is Illinois Director 

 of the Indianapolis Producers 

 Commission Company. 



O. B. G«ble 



Harper Tells Egg 

 Men To Purchase 

 On Quality Basis 



In talking before the National 

 Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso- 

 ciation in Chicago, J. D. Harper 

 of the I. A. A. declared that the 

 time has come for eggs to be 

 purchased on the quality basis, 

 just as grain, cotton and other 

 farm products are purchased. 



"When the producer of high 

 quality eggs gets a premium and 

 the low quality producer is pen- 

 alized, it will mean that con- 

 sumers will get a much more de- 

 pendable egg supply, they will 

 eat more eggs, and the producer 

 will find a better market then at 

 present," Mr. Harper said. 



During the meeting of tbe 

 national association, action was 

 taken favoring the adoption of 

 the government standard of 

 grades on terminal markets. Mr. 

 Harper made the point that this 

 action should be followed up by 

 introducing the grading system 

 at country buying points. 



I REIAD EVERY WORD 



"I consider the Record a great 

 help to farm bureau work. I read 

 every word of it. I think it is time 

 and money well spent, therefore 

 I say keep tbe good work going." 

 — Fred Dietz, Jackson county. 



SERUM PURCHASING 

 BODY FORMED BY 

 COUNTY BUREAUS 



Directors Chosen To Head Asso- 

 ciation Which Will Unify Col- 

 lective Buying of Serum 



At a meeting of over 40 county 

 farm bureaus Interested in tbe 

 collective purchasing of serum 

 and virus, the Illinois Farm Bu- 

 reau Serum Association was 

 formed at Galesburg at the time 

 of the I. A. A. annual meeting. 



R. A. Norrish, Whiteside coun- 

 ty, was elected president of i the 

 organization and chairman oC tbe 

 board of directors of seven. The 

 state was divided into six dis- 

 tricts and Mr. Norrish represents 

 the first district. 



Directors Chosen 



Other directors elected were, 

 J. H. Lloyd, Hancock county, sec- 

 ond district; L. P. Boyle, Put- 

 nam county, third district; Sam 

 Sorrells, Montgomery county, 

 fourth district; O. B. Goble, 

 Coles county, fifth district; and 

 3. W. GiUispie, Lawrence county, 

 sixth district. C. A. Stewart, 

 director of the I. A. A. Livestock 

 Department, was chosen as direc- 

 tor-at-large and secretary-treas- 

 urer of the new association. 



Membership in the organiza- 

 tion is limited to county farm 

 bureaus or other county or state 

 organizations whose membership 

 is limited to farm bureau mem- 

 bers. The membership fee is 

 $10.00 with annual dues of the 

 same amount. 



Collective Bargaining 

 The board of directors la au- 

 thorized to canvass members to 

 obtain the quantity and kind of - 

 serum needed and to collectively 

 bargain for the purchase of quan- 

 tity supplies needed. 



Over 21,000,000 cubic centi- 

 meters of serum was purchased 

 collectively through county farm 

 bureaus in 1923 at a consider- 

 able saving to farm bureau mem- 

 bers. The new serum organiza- 

 tion puts the purchase of serum 

 upon a more uniform basis, uni- 

 'ying collective purchasing under 

 bne association. 





Leaders of 21st 

 District To Meet 

 Four Times a Year 



During their caucus at the an- 

 nual meeting, the I. A. A. voting 

 delegates of the 2l3t district de- 

 cided that it would be a good plan 

 to have quarterly meetings of 

 farm advisers and county execu- 

 tive committees. A date was set 

 for this group to meet with the 

 Macoupin County Farm Bureau, 

 February 15. 



FINE SPIRIT SHOWN 

 AT ANNUAL MEETING 



(Continued from page 1) 

 committee failed to recommend 

 was brought before the convention 

 from the floor, but failed to 

 pass. The resolution endorsed the 

 Wallace plan of a government fi- 

 nance corporation for handling 

 surplus products, charging the 

 cost of the corporation to the pro- 

 ducers of the commodity. 



In other columns of this issue 

 complete reports of committees, 

 election of officers and summaries 

 of addresses are given. 





