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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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Page Three 



NEW LIVESTOCK DIRECTOR .Smith Speaks at Centralla 



ROCK ISLAND GETS 



RAY E. MILLER of Quincy, 111., 

 farm adviser in Adams County, 

 has been employed as director of live- 

 stock marketing for 

 the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, to 

 succeed Wm. E. 

 Hedgcock, who re- 

 cently tendered his 

 resignation. M r. 

 Miller will also serve 

 as director of field 

 service for the four 

 cooperative 1 i v e- 

 stock producer 

 agencies operating 

 in the Illinois ter- 

 ritory under the 

 terms of an agrree- 

 ment entered into between the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association and 

 these Producer Agencies. The organ- 

 izations concerned are the Chicago 

 Producers' Commission Association, 

 Producers' Commission Association, 



Ray E. Miller 



President Earl C* Smith addressed 

 a joint luncheon of 120 farmers and 

 business men at Centralia on Friday, 

 V ,; June 3. :,..■■. 



"It was a fine 

 meeting and there 

 ought to be more 

 like it throughout 

 Illinois," said W. L. 

 Cope, I. A. A. Ex- 

 ecutive Committee- 

 man from Salem, 

 who introduced the 

 speaker. The meet- 

 ing had been ar- 

 ranged by the Cen- 

 tralia Commercial 

 Club with th€ help 

 of A. B. Leeper, 

 Illinois Fruit Ex- 



W. L. Cope 



manager 

 change. 



of the 



The ninth annual meeting of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation 

 Indianapolis, Peoria Producers' Com- will be held at the Sherman Hotel, 

 mission Association, and the Produc- Chicago, Dec. 5, 6, and 7, 1927, ac- 

 ers' Livestock Commission Association, cording to a recent announcement of should provide an interesting setting 

 National Stock Yards, 111. President Sam H. Thompson. i for the meeting. 



Mr. Miller will as- I 



MEETING 



Rock Island will be the scene of the 

 next annual meeting of the I. A. A., 

 according to a decision of the Execu- 

 tive Committee in 

 session last week. 



The decision lay 

 between Danville 

 and Rock Island, al- 

 though Peoria made 

 an effort to bring 

 the convention back 

 to that city through 

 the efforts of Mike 

 Finn of the Peoria 

 Chamber of Com- 

 merce and Wilfred 

 Shaw, farm adviser. 

 W. H. Moody, 

 member of the com- 

 mittee, made an earnest plea in behalf 

 of Rock Island, while R. F. Kan- 

 spoke for Danville. The members 

 voted eight to five for the western Illi- 

 nois city. The convention w^U be held 

 Jan. 18, 19 and 20, 1928. Rock Island, 

 old stamping gn*ound of Blackhawk, 



W. M. Moody 



sume his new duties 

 about July 1. He is a 

 graduate of the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri 

 and during his four 

 years' emplo3rment as 

 farm adviser in Adams 

 County established an 

 enviable record of ac- 

 complishment. Adams 

 County has the repur 

 tation for shipping 

 more livestock co- 

 operatively than any 

 other county in the 

 state. Mr. Miller is 

 president of the Illi- 

 nois Association of 

 Farm Advisers. He 

 will probably establish 

 residence in Chicago. 

 Miller is married and 

 has one daughter. , 



INDIANA FARM BU- 

 REAU GETS INTO 

 TAX FIGHT 



THE Indiana Farm 

 Bureau is taking 

 the lead in a state- 

 wide campaign to low- 

 er assessed valuations 

 of farm lands. In a 

 series of meetings con- 

 ducted by the state 

 board of tax commis- 

 sioners throughout the 

 state, the Farm Bur- 

 eau showed that as- 

 sessed valuations on 

 farm lands are higher 

 than their actual sell- 

 ing value. 



The Sta^te Board un- 

 der the law must 

 equalize valuation. 



JUDGING CONTEST WINNERS 



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These boys from the Chenoa High School placed first !n 'tbeir 

 section in the recent livestock judging contest, held at the University 

 farm. Normal, III. 



Top row, left to right, are Lowell Gerdes, Arthur Downs, Ken- 

 neth Jordon and J. A. Twardock, coach. 



Bottom row: Kenneth Mears, Edwin Rhoda And James Andes. 



They placed first in dairy, third in fat stock judging, and first 

 in placing sheep. Mears won first and Andes third in individual 

 judging. 



Sixteen schools and 200 contestants competed. 



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I. A. A. PICNIC 

 MAKES PROGRESS 



"We are getting 

 ready to entertain a 

 crowd of 50,000 peo- 

 ple at Mooseheart on 

 Aug, 11" is the optim- 

 istic note expressed by 

 Harry P. Kelley, Kane 

 county farm adviser, 

 who is chairman of 

 the general committee 

 for the I. A. A. State 

 Picnic. Following are 

 the names of the peo- 

 ple who will see that 

 the picnickers get a 

 royal welcome. 



I. A. A. Picnic Committees. 



General— H. P. KeUey. 

 Geneva, chairman ; Theodore 

 G. Miller, Mooseheart, secre- 

 tary : John ESsser, Aurora, 

 treasurer. 



Finance — C. B. Ha^ams. 

 Geneva, chairman ; C. W. 

 T e n n a n t, Aurora ; Karl 

 Stouflfer. Elgin; Robert B. 

 Irwin, Aurora: John Geiss. 

 Ratavia: O. G. Olwin, De-' 

 Kalb; Wm. Webb. Plain- 

 field: J. F. BetE, Osweiro: 

 Dr. Fred MUJer, Elgrin. 



Sporta — Glenn W a r n e. 

 Sugar Grove, chairman : 

 Dan G. Da vies. Sugrar 

 Grove : Harry Gilkerson, 

 Libertyville : Raymond Nel- 

 son, DeKalb : H a r r i a o n 

 Fahrnkopf, Bloominirton. 



Program — Col. Frank D. 

 Whipp. St. Charles, chair- 

 man : Rodney Brandon. 

 Mooseheart: J. F. Hedseock. 

 Joliet ; J. A. Yopns, Aurora. 



Women's Program — Mias 

 Lulu Black, Geneva, chair- 

 man: Mrs. I. R. Judd, Au- 

 rora; Mrs. Harvey Fraley, 

 Naperville. 



Grounds — Homer McCoy. 

 Mooseheart, chairman : E. 

 A. Camcross, Wheaton. 



Publicity-^. W. Lino. 

 Aurora, chairman ; Malcolm 

 Watson, Yorksville : Lewis 

 Murkvicka, Aurora ; K. 

 White, Elgin. 



Concessions — ^M. F. Me- 

 Carty. Aurora, chairman. 



