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Volume 6 



MARCH, 1928 



Number ^ 



125 Attend 12th Dist. 



Meeting At Aurora On 

 March 10, Break Record 



Endorse District Picnic Plan, Next 

 Meeting In June At DeKalb 



'PHE lar}!;est I. A. A. district confti- 

 ' I'nce held in recent years in the 12th 

 congressional district 

 char a c te r i z e d the 

 meeting- called bv 

 Geo. F. Tullock, I. A. 

 A. executive coinniit- 

 teeman on Saturday. 

 March 10, in Aurora. 

 A crowd estimated 

 at 125 representing 

 the Farm Bureau 

 leadership from Win- 

 nebago, Boone, Ke- 

 K a I b , L a S a 1 I e . 

 (Jrundy. and Kendall 

 Counties had gathered 

 when the afternoon 

 program was opened 

 following the lunch- 

 eon in the lower din- 

 ing-room of the .Au- 

 rora Hotel. 



Congressman John 

 T. Buckbee, Rockford. 

 who was first intro- 

 duced by Mr. Tullock pledged his un- 

 wavering suppoi't to the McXary- 

 llaugen bill with 

 t h e equalization 

 fee principle. The 

 congressman was 

 given a hearty re- 

 ception. He had 

 made a special 

 trip from Wash- 

 ington to attend 

 the I. A. A. con- 

 ference and one 

 or two other 

 meetings in his 

 Geo. F. Tullock district. 



Smith Gets Ovation 



President Earl C. Smith received a 

 great ovation when he was introduced 

 following' Mr. Buckbee. Before delving 

 into the agricultural situation and the 

 I. A. A. legislative i)r(>gram, he told 

 about the first I. A. A. district confer- 

 ence held in his own, the 20th district, 

 which he called to get certain facta 

 (Continued on page 8) 



VOTE! 



E\ery member of the I, A. A. owe** it 

 to himself and to a^ricuhure to get out 

 and vote in the April primaries. In this 

 issue you will 6nd information about 

 your senators, representatives and candi- 

 dates for office, to help you vote intelli- 

 gently. Records are published without 

 comment. Use your own judgment but 

 vote the ticket straight for agriculture. 



Know Them By Their 

 Records Before You Vote 

 In Primaries On April 10 



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ILLINOIS Farm Bureau Serum Asso'^iation Receives Bids For 1928 Suppiv of Serum 

 * and Virus. OfScers and Directors of the Serum Association art^Seated ahou! Presi- 

 dent O. B. Coble in the center of the table to the rear. Represent at i .eK of the i-erurr^ 

 companies are in the foreground. , 



Illinois Farm Bureaus 



Contract For 1928 Serum 



plDS for the l!t28 supply of anti-hog 

 I ^ cholera serum and virus were re- 

 iiived by directors of the Illinois Farm 

 Bureau Serum Association at a recent 

 meeting with serum company repre- 

 sentatives in Chicago. 



Quotations for the most part were 

 considerably lower than last year b.e- 

 cause of the low jjrice of hogs. Clear 

 concentrated serum in some instances 

 was (juoted at a price little higher than 

 prices paid the previous year for blood 

 serum. 



While no definite contracts were 

 closed at this meeting, the bids of the 

 various companies which included all 

 the larger ones in the Middle West, 

 were submitted to the 60 counties hold- 

 ing mcnibershii) in the Association. 



The discussion indicated that more 



clear concentrated serum will be used 



in i;»2S than ever before. In view of 



the fact that the dosage for clear serum 



(Continued on page 8) 



Senator Deneen and All Downstate Con- 

 gressmen Support McNary-Haugcn 



Bill in 69th Congress 

 ^III-: voting records of downstate 

 >enat(v.s and representatives on 

 five measures of ma- 

 i o r importance t o 

 Illinois farmers in the 

 .">-')th (Jeneral .Assem- 

 bly, and in the Si>e- 

 cial Session held earlv 

 thi.* year are pre- 

 >entcd on iiages four 

 and five by the Pub- 

 lie Relations Ccmiitiit- 

 tee. 



This action is in 

 ac<<>rdance with the 

 recent uniiouncenient 

 that voting records 

 oil agricultural legis- 

 lation would be pub- 

 lish«-d prior to the 

 .April primaries. The 

 v(»te on the four is- 

 sues, namely, the gas 

 income tax. grain exchange bill, 

 iicreased bonding bills, which 



tax. 



and the 



came up in the last regular legislative 

 session, is largely a reprint of the 

 table presented in the Special Legis- 

 lative i.-isue of The RnroRn last .Aug. 

 ust. with a few minor adjustments. 

 They Tel! The Story 



In addition, the vote on the bond- 

 limiting measure applicable to taxing 

 t'istricts in Illinois outside Cook County 

 is iiresented. All the records here con- 

 sidered are of primary interest to 

 farmers. They furnish an index to 

 the manner in which each member of 

 the legislature is representing his agri- 

 cultural constituents. They are pre- 

 sented with th€ hope that members will 

 vote the ticket straight for agriculture 

 and jilace that interest aboVe party. 

 August Issue For Details 



Complete information on all the 

 measures in which the I. A. .A. was 

 (Continued on page -11 



