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Tun* in on the I. A. A. half hour program 

 broadeatt daOv >t lt:SO P. M. from station 

 WJJD, Chicago (SIS metert). The faeUitiea of 

 ttation WJJO are loaned the Aeaoeiation 

 through the courtetv of the Loyal Order of 

 Mooee, Mooseheart, III. No program on Satur- 

 day* and Sundays. 



Judge Dickinson Speaks 



NATIONAL conservation of our 

 natural resources including 

 wild life, forests, and natural game 

 preserves was 

 championed in a 

 recent address on 

 the I. A. A. daily 

 farm radio pro- 

 gram by the Hon. 

 Jacob M. Dickin- 

 son of Chicago. 

 Judge Dickinson is 

 a foremost Ameri- 

 can jurist but he 

 is better known as 

 President Taft's Secretary of War. 



Judge Dickinson was one of the 

 founders and now holds an honorary 

 office in the Izaak Walton League of 

 America, national sportsmen's organi- 

 zation. He represented the United 

 States before the Alaskan Boundary 

 Tribunal in 1903, served later as gen- 

 eral solicitor for the L C. R. R., and 

 in 1915 was appointed receiver for 

 the Rock Island Lines. He returned 

 from a health trip in the South only 

 a few days before addressing the I. 

 A. A. radio audience. Judge Dickin- 

 son is 77 years old. 



J. M. Dickinton 



Dr. Van Norman Coming 

 New uses for dried milk and the 

 work of the American Dry Milk Insti- 

 tute will be presented in a radio ad- 

 dress by Dr. H. E. Van Norman, di- 

 rector of the organization interested 

 in developing this outlet for the prod- 

 uct of the dairy cow. 



Dr. Van Norman for many years 

 was chief of the dairy department at 

 the University of California. His ad- 

 dress will be broadcast on the I. A. A. 

 daily farm program from Station 

 WJJD at 12:30 p. m. on Apr. 30. 

 Tune in and hear him. 



National Producers' President 



GB. DENMAN, president of the 

 , National Livestock Producers 

 Association, and other members of the 

 board are scheduled to talk to the 

 livestock growers of the Middle West 

 from the I. A. A. office over Station 

 WJJD on Wednesday, Apr. 25. 



The occasion will be the quarterly 

 meeting of the National Producers' 



board of directors in Chicago. J. D. 

 Harper, director of Information, and 

 editor of the National Livestock Pro- 

 ducer, will have charge of the pro- 

 gram. 



Ole Oleson 

 Ole Oleson of Cook county and A. 

 D. Lynch, dairy marketing director of 

 the I. A. A., will discuss the dairy 

 business on the I. A. A. farm radio 

 program, Wednesday, April 18. Ole 

 became so famous through his broad- 

 casts from the I. A. A. offices over Sta- 

 tion WJJD that his services were de- 

 manded at many annual Farm Bureau 

 meetings in the dairy district during 

 the past few months. 



R. F. Karr 



18th District Meets 



At Danville, March 

 30, Discuss Limestone 



Life Insurance Program Presented By 

 Kirkpatrick Arouses Interest 



THE first I. A. A. conference of 

 the year was held in the 18th 

 district at Danville on March 30 at 

 the call of R. F. 

 Karr of Iroquois, 

 member of the I. 

 A. A. Executive 

 Committee. 



Representatives 

 from Iroquois, 

 Vermilion, Clark, 

 and Kankakee 

 counties attended. 

 Mr. Karr first 

 presented the plan 

 for holding a giant 

 I. A. A. picnic in 

 each district in place of the annual 

 state picnic. On motion of Gillfillan 

 of Iroquois, seconded by Leemon of 

 Vermilion county, the plan was adopted. 

 Want Refund 

 An expression was made in favor of 

 modification of the refund plan con- 

 tained in the limestone agreement 

 adopted following a series of Farm 

 Bureau conferences held about the 

 state. The plan provides that the 10 

 cent per ton refund will be made avail- 

 able only to those who have ordered 

 their limestone through the Farm Bu- 

 reau on uniform blanks and have paid 

 their bill in full within 15 days. 



Moved by Gillfillan and seconded by 

 Morris that the conference recommend 

 to the Limestone-Phosphate Depart- 

 ment of the I. A. A. that it use its 

 best judgment and every honorable 

 means to keep the cost of limestone 

 down to that of 1927 or lower and 

 that the contracts with the company 

 be consummated at the earliest oppor- 

 tunity. 



Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel 

 for the I. A. A., outlined in some de- 

 tail the proposed life insurance pro- 

 gram. A discussion indicated consid- 

 erable interest. 



Chas. S. Black 



Jacksonville Conference On 

 Mar. 23 Discusses Issues of 

 Importance to Members 



President Smith and V. Vaniman Present 

 Legislative and Life Insurance Program 



IIFE insurance, legislation, voting 

 J records of candidates, and other 

 issues received consideration at the 

 I. A. A. district 

 conference held at 

 Jacksonville o n 

 Friday, March 23. 

 Charles Black, Ex- 

 ecutive Commit- 

 teeman from the 

 20th district, pre- 

 sided. R. J. Laible 

 of Greene county 

 acted as secretary.^ 

 After discussing 

 the progress of 

 the I. A. A. auto 

 insurance service, V. Vaniman outlined 

 the proposed life insurance program. 

 President Earl C. Smith followed Mr. 

 Vaniman and expressed the position of 

 the I. A. A. Executive Committee in 

 making Farm Bureau life insurance 

 available. "We investigated the possi- 

 bilities of life insurance after a de- 

 mand was apparent in various sections 

 of the state," he said. "The service 

 will not be initiated unless the county 

 Farm Bureaus want it. When 60 per 

 cent of the county Farm Bureaus vote 

 in favor of the plan we will make it 

 available." 



Surplus Legislation 



Mr. Smith then discussed surplus 

 control legislation and told about the 

 changes that had been made in the 

 McNary-Haugen bill to meet the ob- 

 jections of the President. The policy 

 of the I. A. A. in furnishing its mem- 

 bers with the voting records of candi- 

 dates was thoroughly explained. 



"Farm organizations can take three 

 positions in regard to political issues," 

 he said. "First, they can ignore them 

 because of fear of entanglement. Sec- 

 ond, they can get definitely into party 

 politics. Third, they can take the po- 

 sition of the I. A. A. which is to se- 

 cure full information about candi- 

 dates, and send it to their mem- 

 bers." 



District Picnic Endorsed 



It was moved by Ogle of Cass coun- 

 ty and seconded by Arnold of Greene 

 county that the I. A. A. state picnic 

 be abandoned and that picnics be held 

 in each congressional district instead. 



Chairman Black was authorized to 

 appoint a picnic committee with a 

 representative from each county. 



Charles Borgelt of Mason county, 

 former Executive Committeeman, 

 spoke briefly in favor of the life in- 

 surance program, and indicated his 

 pleasure and appreciation in serving 

 on the Executive Committee of the 

 I. A. A. last year. 



