

MISS MARY G. BURWA3H. LTPRARIAN. 

 COLL?.GE OF agriculture:, 

 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 

 URBANA, ILL. 



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Volume 3 



Issued Every Other Saturday — January 3, 1925 



Number 1 



T WILL BE GREAT 

 TIME AT U. WHEN 

 DELEGATES TOOT IN 



Dran Mumford Will Extend 

 OfiBcial Handshake of Uni- 

 versity; A Busy Two Days 



'T will be a hot time in the 



old town when all the farm bu- 



reau folks 



f gather at Ur- 

 b a n a during 

 Farmers' Week 

 for the annual 

 I. A. A. meet- 

 ing and the 

 first annual 

 meeting of the 

 I. A. C. A., the 

 organ! z a t i o D 

 which functions 



D... H. w. Mo,„r„rd ^%^ department 

 of the I. A. A 

 and furnishes auditing and busi- 

 ness advisory service to farmers 

 when they, get in business to- 

 gether. The I. A. C. A. meeting 

 domes on Wednesday, the 14th, 

 while the I. A. A. convention is 

 the 15th and 16th. 



When the delegates get seated 

 tor the first time in the I. A. A. 

 meeting on Thursday, Dean H. 

 W. Mumford will give the official 

 handshake of the University and 

 turn over the proverbial keys to 

 the University to President 

 Thompson and the delegates. 



r^vfiltlc'Li TliOiiipsoii expresbcs 

 A..e hope that every delegate 

 fi m ever y 

 c o u J t y will 

 bring another 

 member along 

 for company so 

 that as many 

 farmers as pos- 

 sible can get 

 an inside look 

 at the heart of 

 his state farm bureau organiza- 

 tion. President Thompson sug- 

 gests that every delegate be em- 

 powered with authority to grab 

 his neighbor by the heels and 

 drag him along. 



With every station v agent in 

 the state of Illinois supposed to 

 have been in- 

 structed by his 

 superiors that 

 any and all 

 farmers going 

 to Champaign 

 or Urbana on 

 or between Jan. 

 tU 10 to 19 should 

 be allowed to 

 ride at fare and one-half, it is 

 expected that many who other- 

 wise would not have gone be- 

 cause of padlocked purse strings, 

 will now heed the conductor's 

 call and get aboard. 



Now is the time to make all 

 your plans for the meeting. You 

 may be like 

 this fellow in 

 the illustration 

 trying to catch 

 his train. No 

 one should 

 chance running ^^ , 

 for a train aDdCt^^^yT 

 wasting much (. ~ A 

 needed breath 



ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING! 



just previous to the I. A. A. an- 

 nual convention. No doubt it 

 will be needed. However, there's 

 an Insurance man on the pro- 

 gram. 



A right royal welcome is being 

 stewed up by President Kinley and 

 ) Dean Mumford 

 \ at the Univers- 

 ity. The Unl- 

 ive r s i t y has 

 I charge of the 

 lent ertainment 

 I during the con- 

 V e n t i o n and 

 from rumors 

 ' that have drift- 

 ed Chicago-way it appears that 

 special preparations afe being 

 (Continued on page 3, ooL 4) 



QlDct upoM A TiHe A rouNG boo5Tea 

 WHo»e KNowLCOGE OFTneuMivea«E was 

 coMPmeo TO HIS own barn yard i«a6 



PQOKl^eO By A DKSIRe.TO KNOW MoW 

 T(4E rest of the WOHtD 010 THlNas. 

 MOONTIHe THE HIOH .BOARD FINCE 

 TMATSORROUNOeo HIS DOMAIN HE 

 WAS eatATi-y subpsiscpto dis- 

 covee that his next door. 



NEISHBORS WERC A PAIR orOSTRlCHeS 



DuRlltaHlS INVESTIGATION OP 

 THE OSTRICH FARM Ht SOON 

 CAME ACROSS AN IMMCNSE- 



a." 



Struck by a bright idea 

 He waited until thc Hen os- 

 trich WAS NOT LOOK INCjr ANP 

 QUICKLY ROLLED IXe E 0& INTO 

 HIS OWN BARN 

 YAR" 



PROGRAM, lOTH ANNUAL MEETING 

 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



January IS and 16, 1925 



(All general 

 10:00 A. M. 

 10:30 A. M. 



12:00 

 1:00 P. M. 



2:30 P. M. 



4:00 P. M. 

 6:00 P. M. 

 6:30 P. M. 



9:00 A. M. 



10:30 A. M. 



12:00 

 1:15 P. M. 



meetings will be in Auditorium. Banquet will be in 

 First Methodist Church. Champaign. I 



Thursday. .Inn. 15 , - . , 



Invocation. _,' ■'- - j 



Music. ~ 



Address of welcome — Dean H. W. Mumford. 

 President's address — S. H. Thompson. 

 Secretary's report — Geo. .\. Fox. i 



Treasurer's report — R. A. Cowlea. •: 

 Appointment of committees. 

 Luncheon. 

 Music. 



"Our Educational System " — Geo. W. W^illett, princi- 

 pal of Lyons Township high school. LaGrange. 111., 

 and director of I. A. X. school survey made during 

 the summer. 



Discussion led by J. L. Wbisnand. chairman, educa- 

 tional committee, I. A. A. 

 Grain Marketing. 



Address — Hon. T. A. Crerar, president. United Grain 

 Growers, Inc., of Canada. 



Discussion led by H. E. Goembel, chairman I. A. A. 

 grain marketing committee. 

 Nomination of executive committee. 

 Banquet. 



Playlet by east from Menard County ?"arm Bureau. 

 Address — David Kinley, Ph. D., L. L. D., president, 

 University of Illinois. 

 Music. 



Address — "The Agricultural Situation, Past and Pres- 

 ent," Chas. J. Brand, Consulting Specialist in Market- 

 ing, United States Department of Agriculture. 

 Election of officers. 



Friday, January 16 

 Music. 

 Reading. 



Address — "Problems of Revenue in Illinois," — Walter 

 F. Dodd, Chicago, chairman of conference on revenue 

 amendment. 



Discussion.ied by John C. Watson, I. A. A. director of 

 taxation aitd statistics. 



Address — "insurance As It Relates to Farmers" by 

 Erwin A. Myers, insurance cou.nsellor, Chicago. 

 Luncheon. 

 Music. . 



Discussion of programs of work of departments (Geo. 

 A. Fox in the chair). 

 Report of resolutions committee. 

 Report of other committees and discussion. 



INTERNATIONAL CO-OP GRAIN MARKETING 

 AUTHORITY TO HEADLINE I. A. A. MEETING; 

 McNARY-HAUGEN POUSHER SCHEDULED, TOO 



Hon. T. A. Crerar, President, United Grain Grov-rs Inc. of Can- 

 ada, Was Formerly Member of Canadian Parliament ; Chas. 

 J. Brand Was Late Secretary Wallace's Right Hand Man. 



A Canadian wheat marketing authority of International reputation 

 will be the outstanding attraction at the 10th annual meeting ofc>the 

 I. A- A. when the delegates convene in the Audi- 

 torium at the University of Illinois Jan. 15 and 

 16 to shape the destinies of this organization for 

 1925 and the future. » 



Hon. T. A. Crerar, president of the Canadian 

 Wheat Growers', Inc., Winnipeg, is the authority. 

 It is expected that he will draw liberally from his 

 years of practical experience in co-operative grain 

 marketing in Canada for the benefit of Illinois 

 farm bureau members. He has been a Member 

 of the Canadian Parliament from which he re- 

 tired to go into co-operative wheat marketing. 

 Following his talk an open discussion wyi give n.it. t. a. onv 

 opportunity for delegates to express their views as to what the I. A. 

 .\. should undertake in 1925 and in the future along grain market- 

 ing lines. . 



The farmer's school problems 

 are also to be in the limelight 

 this year. 'The I. A. A. educational 

 committee, headed by J. L. Wbis- 

 nand, executive committeeman 

 representing the 1 9th district, 

 will be loaded with facts which 

 were obtained in the school sur- 

 vey made during the summer. 

 (Ceo. W Wfllet. the direotxw ^ 

 thai survey and who is prlncip^ 

 of the Lyons Township high 

 school at I..aGrange. HI., will 

 present the main address. 



At the banquet in the evening 

 of the first day. Chas. J. Brand, 

 consulting spe- 

 cialist in mar- 

 keting of the 

 United BUtes 

 Department of 

 A g r i c u Iture, 

 Washington, D. 

 C will present 

 an address on 

 ■The Arricul- 

 tural Situation, 

 Past and Pres- 



Delegates to Have 



Reports by Jan. 10 



I>elegates t<> the anntial 

 convention shonid receive their 

 annual re|M)rt» of the 1. .*. .*. 

 altout Jan. 10. Thin year the 

 year books are l>elnK printed 

 earlier in order that each dele- 

 ,Aate rn.i stTi*!; u\\ on t" ti.e 

 activltieK of the «.ssoclation l)e- 

 fore the annual iiieellnic. The 

 book is complete excepliuK for 

 that of the treasurer wlitch 

 cannot be made In detail until 

 after Jan. 1 when the audi- 

 tors coniplele their work. 



The title of re|K>rt was 

 rhangetl tills year to read 

 ".\nniial Ke|H>rt tor l»iM and 

 l>r<>|M>Ne<l frogram" rather 

 than just ".^nniwl Re|K>rt«." 

 On the co'ver Is printed "an 

 organizatldb of thinking fann- 

 ers." 



District Meetings 



Jerk Members From 



Back to Front Seats 



When some energetic journal- 

 ist attempts to write a history 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation some 25 or 50 years 

 hence, he will 4ig back into the 

 archives of the order and And 

 that it was in 1924 that the 

 membership pulled up from the 

 back seats into the orchestra pit 

 right next the sfenes of greatest 

 activity". 



The year 1924 will go down 

 in I. A. A. history as the one 

 wherein the memliership had the 

 opportunity of voicing its ap- 

 proval or disapproval, by means 

 of a constitutional requirement 

 of three meetings in each district 

 each year, of projects under way 

 in the state assocaition or ijie 

 national organization. It also 

 will be remembered as the year 

 in which the members could get 

 quicker action than they could 

 in previous years when the an- 

 nual meetings were the principal 

 reflectors of the thought of the 

 membership. 



The possibility of having each 

 1. A. A. director appear t>efore 

 the members in each district dur- 

 ing 1925 will be discussed some- 

 time during the anmial meeting. 

 It is thought that some pre-ar- 

 ranged schedule of district meet- 

 ings for the entire year would be 

 more satisfactory. 



>feetini:s Nearly .^11 Completed 



Four district meetings held 

 during December practically 

 wound up the required three-to- 

 a-district per year as decided 

 upon at the last annual conven- 

 (Cnrtjnuni on pltc 3, ool. 2) 



] ent." It will 

 J be remeialiered 



Chwi. J. nr«tM] 



by many farm 

 bureau folks 

 that it was Mr. 

 Brand to whom the late secre- 

 tary Wallace turned for the pol- 

 ishing of the framework of the 

 McNary-Haugen bill. 



Taxation problems and revenae 

 matters are at the top of the bill 

 of fare for Friday. Walter K. 

 Dodd of Chicago, chairmaa of a 

 state-wide committee of tax au- 

 thorities created for the purpose 

 of working out and submitting a 

 revenue amendment to the Illi- 

 nois constitution, will l>e the 

 main speaker on this subject. J. 

 C. Watson, director of taxation 

 and statistics of the I. A. A., is 

 also on this committee. He will 

 l>e on deck for the open-house 

 discussion on tax matters which 

 will follow. 



T» Talk Insnranre 



Probloms of farmers In insur- 

 ance mt.tters will t>e dealt with 

 by Vr. Erwin A. Myers of Chi- 

 cago, an Insurance counsellor ex- 

 perienced in farmers' mutual in- 

 surance companies. It is ex- 

 pected that some action will b^ 

 taken at the meeting providing 

 for the I. A. A. to formulate some 

 plan for re-insuranCe for mutuals 

 during 1925. 



Perhaps the most important 

 session of the two days will be 

 in the discussion of programs of 

 work of departments with Sec- 

 retary Fox in the chair. Dele- 

 gates will prescribe the definite 

 lines of work for departments at 

 this time. Proposed programs 

 will be offered by each depart- 

 ment. 



