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Number 7 



JULY, 1929 



Volume 7 



Many Farm Bureau 



Picnics Sclieduled 



August WiU Be Big Month for Out- 

 door Gatherings 



4 HEAVY demand for fried chicken, pickles, 

 -'■ *- potato salad, pie and all the other good 

 things that come out of picnic baskets is in 

 prospect for August and early September for the 

 normal number of post-harvest Farm Bureau pic- 

 nics that are being scheduled at this early date. 



The "Home Rule" plan for district gather- 

 ings again is being followed. Farm Bureaus in 

 each congressional district have been asked to 

 declare whether or not they will help sponsor 

 a district I. A. A. Farm Bureau picnic. 



Arrangements in such cases will be left en- 

 tirely with the local piCnic committee but the 

 I. A. A. will provide speakers and a public 

 address system. 



Five district picnics already have been sched- 

 uled. Arrangements for others are being made. 

 Dates and places will be announced within the 

 next two weeks. 



ShelbyviUe on 16th 



The 19th district picnic at Forest Park, 

 ShelbyviUe, on Aug. 16 will open the season. 

 At least this is the first joint event scheduled 

 and members in the counties of Shelby, Coles, 

 Moultrie, Piatt, Dewitt, Champaign, Macon, 

 and Douglas arc counting on having their 

 alfalfa made, and the wheat and oats in the 

 bin so nothing will stop a great district-wide 

 jollification. 



The 20th district chose to meet again on 

 the state hospital grounds at Jacksonville. But 

 this year the date is Aug. 17, two weeks earlier 

 than the Labor Day gathering of last year when 

 overcoats early in the day were comfortable. 



Miller Park, Bloomington, where last year 

 was held one of the largest of the 14 district 

 picnics will entertain counties in the 17th 

 again with the McLean County Farm Bureau and 

 local business organizations acting as host. This 

 picnic is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 28. 

 The date was moved up a day to make room for 

 the 2Jth district picnic at Sparta on the 29th. 



Another at Sparta 



The Randolph County Farm Bureau and 

 Sparta business men will play host to the 

 southwestern Illinois counties when they gather 

 on the comfortable and commodious Sparta 

 Country Club grounds. 



The 24th district picnic at OIney last year 

 was so overwhelmingly successful that the 

 Farm Bureaus in that section voted to let 

 Richland County have the honor and responsi- 

 bility again. The Fair Grounds on Aug. 30, 

 OIney, are the time and place for southeastern 

 Illinois members to mark on the calendar. 



While no dates have been scheduled for 

 picnics in ihe 12th, IJth, 14th, and 22nd dis- 

 tricts committees are at work and announce- 

 ments may be expected shortly. 



Alexander Lene 



Morrison in Whiteside county will probably 

 be the scene of the district gathering for north- 

 western Illinois farmers. Monmouth has been 

 named tentatively as the gathering place for 

 the 14th district picnic, and DeKalb county 

 seems a likely place for the proposed joint picnic 

 between the 11th and 12 th district Farm 

 Bureaus. 



The field is being combed for a new roster of 

 speakers. All interest now centers around the 

 Federal Farm Board scheduled to hold its first 

 meeting at Washington July 15 and discussions 

 of the new Marketing Act and future activities 

 of the Farm Board may be expected at the dis- 

 trict gatherings. Thus while recreation will 

 be the chief drawing card, the picnics will have 

 greater significance as they bring a greater re- 

 alization and understanding of the part organ- 

 ized farmers will play in the movement toward 

 agricultural stability and prosperity. 



Mark ^Em On Your 

 Calendar 



Aug. 16 — 19tli Diit. I. A. A. 

 Farm Bureau Picnic, Forest 

 Park, Slielbyvilie. 



Aug. 17 — 20tli Di»t. Picnic, 

 Jacksonville. 



Aug. 28 — 17tli Dist. Picnic, Mil- 

 ler Park, Bloomington. 



Aug. 29 — 25tli Dist. Picnic, 

 Country Club, Sparta. 



Aug. 30 — 23rd Dist. Picnic, Fair 

 Grounds, OIney. 



Others To Be Announced Later. 



Members of Federal 



Farm Board Chosen 



President Hoover Selects Able Execu- 

 tive As Chairnuui i 



ALEXANDER LEGGE of Chicago, president 

 of the International Harvester Company, 

 who has accepted the chairmanship of the Fed- 

 eral Farm Board on the invitation of President 

 Hoover, is an outstanding business man who 

 expressed friendliness to an effective farm re- 

 lief program years ago. He is well known to 

 leaders in the Farm Bureau movement. 



Mr. Legge was born on a farm in Dane 

 County, Wisconsin, in 1866 and lived on a 

 farm until 1891 when he entered the employ- 

 ment of the McCormick Reaper Company. Mr. 

 Legge worked his way up in the harvester 

 business at Omaha. He became general man- 

 ager of the International Harvester Company 

 in 1913 and president in 1922. Legge was a 

 dollar-a-year man during the war, working with 

 Bernard Baruch, chairman, George N. Peek, 

 and others on the War Industries Board. 



Stone Vice-chairman 



James C. Stone of Lexington, Kentucky, vice- 

 chairman of the Federal Farm Board, was one 

 of the founders of the Barley Tobacco Grow- 

 ers' Association which is reported to have done 

 an annual business of $$0,000,000. Stone is 

 recognized in the tobacco growing regions as 

 an able, capable, business-type farm leader who 

 has been identified with the cause of co-opera- 

 tive marketing for many years. 



C. B. Denman of Farmington, Mo., president 

 of the National Live Stock Producers' Asso- 

 ciation, will represent the live stock industry on 

 the Board. He is perhaps better known to 

 Illinois farmers than any other member. 



Denman is known as a keen, level-headed, 

 aggressive leader in the live stock marketing 

 field. His energy and devotion to the Producer 

 movement has helped make it a successful co- 

 operative which last year did a business in ex- 

 cess of $130,000,000. 



All Co-op. Leaders 



Carl Williams of Oklahoma City is editor of 

 the Oklahoma Stockman and Farmer. He had 

 much to do with the organization of the Ameri- 

 can Cotton Growers' Exchange which he served 

 at one time as president. He has been an advo- 

 cate of co-operative marketing as one of the 

 tools for helping farmers gain economic equality. 



Charles C. Teague of Los Angeles, born on 

 a farm in Maine, migrated to California ai s 

 young man where he engaged in fruit farm- 

 ing. He 'rose through the ranks during the 

 organization of the California Fruit Growers' 

 Exchange which he now serves as president. 

 He is also president of several other co-operative 

 commodity marketing associations, is a member 

 of the farm legislative committee of California, 

 (Continued on ptge t) 



