Page Four 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Galesburg Gets I. A. A. 

 Farm Bureau Picnic 



in Fifteenth District 



Endorse Accredited Limestone Com- 

 panies, Discuss Oil and Insurance 

 at Cambridge Conference 



GALESBURG will be the scene of 

 the I. A. A. Farm Burefta Picnic 

 in the 15th district. This was decided 

 at the I. A. A. 

 conference C a m- 

 bridge, on April 

 24. The president 

 of each Farm Bu- 

 reau will serve 

 with the advisers 

 on the picnic com- 

 mittee. The local 

 chamber of com- 

 m e r c c will be 

 asked to cooper- 

 ate as it has done 

 before with the 



WINS I. A. A. TROPHY 



A. N. Skinner 



Knox County picnics. 



Farm advisers and represeiitatives 

 from each county recommended that 

 limestone be bought only from the L 

 A. A. accredited companies. A [resolu- 

 tion to this effect, drawn by W. B. 

 Elliott, W. H. Brown, Jr., and J. W. 

 Whi?enand, was carried unanimously. 



Better Accommodation* 



Tho question of better accommoda- 

 tions to livestock shippers frqm the 

 railroads was discussed. Several mem- 

 bers exiiressed the belief that passes 

 should be granted to livestock shii>- 

 pers. A. N. Skinner, who represents 

 the district on the I. A. A. Executive 

 Committee, agreed to refer the matter 

 to the Transportation Dei)artment of 

 the Association. 



Marchant, Skinner, and Gehring of 

 Knox County explained thoroughly the 

 operation of the Knox County Oil Com- 

 pany for the benefit of those interested. 



Vernon Vaniman, director of insur- 

 ance stated that several thousand 4-H 

 calendars already had been ordered. A 

 iv.otion to endorse the calendar plan 

 and refer it back to the County Farm 

 Bureau executive committees for fur- 

 ther action, was carried unanimously. 



Life Insurance Plan 



Vaniman then briefly discussedj auto- 

 mobile, hail, and windstorm mutual in- 

 surance before exi>laining the proposed 

 life insurance program. Briefs of the 

 plan were handed to all the rei)resenta- 

 ives present, and the Farm Bureaus 

 T^ere urged to take nction before May 



n. 



It was decided to hold the next 

 district conference at Rushville in 

 Schuyler county, on Tuesday, Septem- 

 • °r 18. 



A. N. Skinner of Yates City ably pre- 

 .<ided. L. E. McKinzie of Rusihville 

 acted as secretary. 



"Winning this beautiful cup has 

 been the primary impulse for turning 

 discouraigement into hope," writes J. 

 L. Long, University of Illinois student 

 in thanking the I. A. A. for the silver 

 loving cup he won in the student live- 

 stock judging contest held at Urbana. 

 "It has given me the necessary en- 

 couragement to go on and work hard- 

 er. Granting that any boy winning 

 the trophy appreciated, and received 

 as much help from it as I, then un- 

 doubtedly donating it has been a val- 

 uable service to the boys in the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture." 



Farm Delegates Go 



To Kansas City 



I N view of the importance of select- 

 A ing a presidential candidate accept- 

 able to the farmers of the United 

 States and of adopting an agricultural 

 plank that promises to meet the needs 

 of American agriculture. State Re- 

 publican Conventions have selected 

 prominent farm representatives as 

 delegates at large to the Kansas City 

 Convention in June. 



Earl C. Smith, president of the I. 

 A. A., was chosen from Illinois, Chas. 

 E. Hearst, president of the Iowa Farm 

 Bureau Federation from that state, 

 and Frank Murphy, legislative repre- 

 sentative of the Corn Belt Committee 

 from Minnesota. 



It is understood other states will do 

 likewise and thus organized agriculture 

 will be fittingly recognized and repre- 

 sented in this Convention. 



Sixteenth District Holds 

 Conference Princeton, 

 Picnic to Pekin-Peoria 



Want State Championship Baseball 

 Game If Possible 



FIVE counties were represented at 

 the I. A. A. district conference 

 held in the 16th district, Princeton, on 

 April 23. 



G. G. Weller, 

 president of the 

 Bureau County 

 Farm Bureau, 

 called the meeting 

 to order and asked 

 A. R. Wright, ex- 

 ecutive committee- 

 man of the I. A. 

 A.", to preside. 

 George B. Storey 

 of Tazewell county 

 was elected chair- ■*■ **• Wnght 



man of the meeting at the suggestion 

 of Mr. Wright. Wayne A. Gilbert, as- 

 sistant adviser in Tazewell county, 

 acted as secretary. 



Mr. Wright outlined the plan for 

 holding district picnics. On motion by 

 Shaw and seconded by Hatch, the dis- 

 trict i)icnic plan was adopted making 

 it optional for any county Farm Bu- 

 reau to hold its own picnic if it so 

 desires. Arnett of Tazewell county 

 suggested that the picnic date be late 

 enough to secure a semi-final or final 

 game of the Illinois Farm Bureau 

 Baseball League. 



Committee Appointed 



Mr. Wright appointed a district pic- 

 nic committee as follows: Chajrman, 



0. L. Hatch, Stark county, C. R. Ford, 

 Peoria county, F. S. Clift, Marshall- 

 Putnam county, Gilbert Weller, Bu- 

 reau county, and Joseph Morris, Taze- 

 well county. 



Mineral Springs Park, Pekin, and 

 two parks in Peoria were suggested 

 as suitable locations. August 25 was 

 suggested as a possible date but no ac- 

 tion was taken. 



Hail Insurance Plan 



Vernon Vaniman, outlined the mu- 

 tual insurance program and stated 

 that by proper arrangement county 

 Farm Bureaus might receive $1.50 per 

 $1000 worth of hail insurance written 

 in any county. After presenting the 

 •proposed life insurance i)lan, Vaniman 

 asked that each executive committee 

 act on the project and report to the 



1. A. A. on or before May 11. 



Ray E. Miller reported on the activi- 

 ties of the Farm Bureau shipping asso- 

 ciations and the producer terminals in 

 increasing the volume of livestock sold 

 co-operatively. 



R. J. Hamilton reported on organiza- 

 tion activities. He stated thdt Farm 

 Bureau morale was on a high plane. 



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