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Tune in on the I. A. A. Forum from Station 

 WLS every Thursday night at 6:30 p. m.. 

 Central Standard Time. 



The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from 

 Station WJJD, Mooseheart (265 meters) is 

 broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon- 

 day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago 

 livestock market from the Producers, and each 

 Friday the weekly market review. Outlook 

 reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff 

 members, officials, and leaxlers in farm thought 

 are broadcast daily. 



"JIVE News on Legislation of Inter- 

 -Lj est to Farmers" will be discussed 

 on the I. A. A. Forum program from 

 Station WLS on Thursday night, May 

 23. The Forum program opens at 

 6:30 p. m. central standard time and 

 continues until 7 :00. Address all com- 

 munications to Radio Director, Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, 608 So. 

 Dearborn St., Chicago. Comments, 

 suggestions, and announcements will 

 be gratefully received. 



C. A. Donnel, weather forecaster at 

 Chicago, was scheduled to speak on the 

 subject "How Weather Forecasts Are 

 Made" on the I. A. A. Forum program 

 Thursday, May 16, at 6:30 p. m. 



"For Sale or Trade" announcements 

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

 noon hour program between 12 and 

 12:20 p. m. from station WJJD. Each 

 announcement will be read once. State 

 price and quality and other necessary 

 details when submitting "for sale or 

 trade" items for announcement. 



"Old MoUy*' Must Stay 



A STRONG delegation of farmers, 

 townspeople, and their represent- 

 atives from territory along the Illi- 

 nois Central R. R. 

 turned out at 

 Springfield on May 

 9 where a hearing 

 was held before 

 the Illinois Com- 

 merce Commission 

 on the petition of 

 the railway to 

 withdraw local 

 trains No. 23, 

 known as "0 1 d 

 Molly", and No. 

 34 which operate 

 daily between Champaign and Cen- 

 tralia. 



W. L. Cope, who lives near Tonti, 

 and L. J. Quasey of the I. A. A., Chi- 

 cago, represented farmers who are ob- 

 jecting to discontinuance of these 

 trains. 



The problem was taken under ad- 

 visement by the Commission after the 

 testimony was all in. The Commis- 

 sion's decision will be announced at a 

 later date. 



W. L. Cope 



C. F. Buck, New State 



Director Agriculture} 



ANNOUNCEMENT of the appoint-' 

 ■^ ment of Senator Clarence F. 

 Buck, campaign manager for ex-gov- 



ernor Frank O. 



L o w d e n in the 

 last presidential 

 campaign, as the 

 new state director 

 of agriculture was 

 received favorably 

 at headquarters of 

 the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Associa- 

 tion. 



While Mr. Buck 

 is better known in 



Clarence F. Buck political circles 



than to Illinois 

 farmers, hope and confidence was ex- 

 pressed that the same spirit of helpful 

 co-operation developed during Mr. 

 Stanard's incumbency, would con- 

 tinue during the administration of 

 Senator Buck. 



Senator Buck's broad interests in 

 farming, his association with F^ank 

 O. Lowden — great friend of American 

 agriculture — and his knowledge and 

 experience in state and legislative af- 

 fairs fit him well for the office. Mr. 

 Buck's new position is an important 

 one, for in addition to having a large 

 personnel under his direction, the di- 

 rector must administer many laws of 

 far-reaching effect on both producers 

 and consumers of the state. 



Sen. Buck is an extensive landowner 

 and actively manages his farms in 

 Warren and Henderson counties where 

 cattle feeding is the principal source 

 of income. He also has a ranch in 

 Montana. Sen. Buck recently came 

 out of the Wesley Memorial Hospital, 

 Chicago, after 14 weeks of illness. 



Born at Monmouth, Illinois, in 

 1870, Mr. Buck received his bachelor's 

 degree at Monmouth College in 1890. 

 He married Lena Staat of Warren 

 county in 1898 where he published the 

 Monmouth Daily Atlas from 1892 to 

 1910. Mr. Buck occupied minor polit- 

 ical offices in his home town between 

 1896 and 1905, and was elected a mem- 

 ber of the Illinois State Senate in 1916 

 when Mr. Lowden was elected gover- 

 nor. He served in the Senate for eight 

 years. Subsequently he was director 

 of finance for the United States Ship- 

 ping Board and collector of customs at 

 Chicago. 



Senator Buck has been prominent in 

 Illinois Republican politics for many 

 years. He was president of the War- 

 ren County Crop Improvement Asso- 

 ciation, vice-president of the Warren 

 County Farmers' Institute, 1915 to 

 1916, served as trustee of Monmouth 

 College, and president of the Mon- 

 mouth hospital. Buck successfully 

 managed Senator Medill McCormick's 

 campaign for the United States Senate 

 in 1920. He is a Presbyterian, Odd 

 Fellow, K. P., Elk, Modern Woodman, 

 and belongs to the Sangamo Club at 

 Springfield and the Commercial and 

 Rotary Clubs at Monmouth. 



Farm Bureau Liable 



For Picnic Injuries 



Must Use Reasonable Care in Pro- 

 tecting Picnickers 



\RE County Farm Bureaus liable 

 ^ *- for injuries to visitors at Farm 

 Bureau picnics? This question was 

 propounded by the LaSalle County 

 Farm Bureau when bankers who con- 

 trol the county fair grounds requested 

 the Farm Bureau to indemiylfy them 

 against possible damages arising out 

 of an injury to anyone attending a 

 Farm Bureau picnic. 



"There is a possibility of liability 

 against owners of the fair grounds in 

 allowing a crowd to use same and also 

 possible liability on a County Farm 

 Bureau," is the opinion of Donald 

 Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for the I. 

 A. A. "Anyone who holds out to the 

 public a place of assemblage," de- 

 clares Kirkpatrick, "must use reason- 

 able care to see that the property is 

 in such shape that no injury will occur. 

 This, of course, does not mean that if 

 someone is injured there is liability, 

 but if the injury might have been 

 anticipated by the exercise of reason- 

 able care such as proper inspection and 

 control or policing of the grounds 

 while the crowd is assembled, then the 

 liability would arise." 



Applies To All 



This whole question applies with 

 equal force to any County Farm Bur- 

 eau or organization in Illinois spon- 

 soring a picnic for its members. While 

 no lawsuits have arisen out of injuries 

 to visitors at County Farm Bureau 

 picnics to date, it is apparent that the 

 Farm Bureau should appoint suitable 

 committees to inspect the grounds, 

 police them the day of the picnic, and 

 use all reasonable care to guard 

 against possible injuries to picnickers. 

 If such care is used it is doubtful if 

 the Farm Bureau can be held liable for 

 accidents. 



Liability insurance to indemnify a 

 group or organization against such 

 losses costs approximately |150. This 

 contemplates a crowd of about 3,000 

 and limits payment to $5,000 for in- 

 jury to one person or $10,000 to 

 two or more. 1 



Publicity is one of the most ef- 

 fective methods used by agricultural 

 extension agencies in "selling" new 

 ideas on farming and homemaking, ac- 

 cording to M. C. Wilson of the U. S. 

 D. A. 



Methods classified as publicity he 

 found were the cause of adopting 30 

 per cent of the 27,032 improved prac- 

 tices introduced on 8,738 farms in 12 

 states. 



An eastern buyer is reported to be 

 scouting for horses in Marshall and 

 Putnam counties where he offered as 

 high as $750 for a team. 



