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THE I. A. 



RECORD 



Geo. E. Metzffer 



/.dopt Definite Plan of 



Bureau Organization 



Y|ear 'Round Project Seen as Way 

 To Build Membership 



A DEFINITE pLin for carrying on or- 

 Sanizjtion work through tlic state 

 WIS adopted on April 21 and 22 at a con- 

 ference of district organization managers 

 ard the I. A. A. organization department 

 in Chicago. C. E. Baniborough, chairman 

 of the organiz.ition-information advisory 

 coinmittce, and all the district managers 

 at ended the conference. 



Under the new 

 plan organization 

 will become a major 

 cointy project of 

 ev iry Farm Bureau 

 in the state. The plan 

 in'olvcs the selection 

 of a county organ- 

 ization committee of 

 th ee members and 

 an organization proj- 



; eel leader in every 



:to'>-nship or unit if 

 th( county is organ- 

 ize] that way. It is reconinundcd that the 

 organization committee of three be ap- 

 poir.tcd by the Farm Bureau president with 

 th( approval of the e.xecutlvc committee. 



Details of Plan 



Ljch township organization leader is to 

 ha' e a list of the Farm Bureau members 

 an( non-members in his township; illustra- 

 tio IS setting forth the accomplishments of 

 the Farm Bureau and the Illinois Agricul- 

 ^turil Association; and a supply of membcr- 

 shi > agreement blanks and other necessary 

 suf plies. It is contemplated that each 

 tov nship will be placed on a quota basis 

 anc that the township leader will assume 

 Tes| lonsibility for securing a quota. The 

 project leader within the township will ap- 

 poi It his helpers and form his own organ- 

 izai ion. 



Under the rutw plan organization will be 

 a 1 ! months a year project. Periodic meet- 

 ing of the organization leaders will be held 

 and the I. A. A. district managers are to 

 iwoi k directly with this group checking up 

 on work and results as frequently as pos- 

 sibl '. 



75,000 Is Goal 



1 he organization-inlormation conference 

 at he last annual meeting of the Illinois 

 Agi icultural Association went on record 

 Unaiimously to strive for 7 5,000 members 

 by :he end of 19.?0. It is realized that if 

 this goal is to be reached tliere must be 

 wel -oiled organization machinery ojKrating 

 in ciery county. The district managers will 

 be ( xpected to have that organization ma- 

 chir cry set up in every county by fall. 



Secretary and Director of organization, 

 Geo-gc E. Mctzger, believes that this plan 

 whe n put into operation will get results. 

 Mr. Metzger points to the fact that Farm 

 Bur lau membership in Illinois is on the in- 

 crea ;e and that a gain has been made every 



month since September, 1929. This gain 

 has averaged 49 5 members per month. The 

 largest increase of 1933 members was se- 

 cured last October. 



Preparation is now under way for mem- 

 bership drives in Cumberland, Clay, Taze- 

 well, and Gallatin counties. The Tazewell 

 County Farm Bureau will concentrate its 

 force on May 28 when it proposes to sign 

 1,200 members which means a substantial 

 increase over the present membership. 



Mercer County Folks 



Visit I. A. A. Office 



ADFLFGATIOX of approximately 250 

 men and women from Mercer 

 county who toured through the Union 

 Stock Yards as guests of the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers Commission Association, visited the 

 I. A. A. offices on Wednesday, April 30. 



Many of the delegates expressed surprise 

 at the extensive offices now occupied by the 

 I. A. A. and associated companies in the 

 Transportation Building. 



Tlie group came by special train over the 

 Burlington railroad, arriving early in the 

 morning and departing late the same eve- 

 ning. 



The tour was conducted by the Mercer 

 County Farm Bureau. Farm Adviser J. E. 

 Harris, P. B. Scott, Miss Zentmire, Farm 

 Bureau office secretary, and local officials 

 accompanied the delegation. They were 

 entertained at luncheon by Swift & Com- 

 pany and Armour & Company. It was one 

 of the largest groups that ever toured 

 through the Union Stock Yards. 



Illinois Woman Writes Play 



THE Farm Bureau play "Running 

 Water" will feature the May 24 

 broadcast of the .\merican Farm Bureau 

 over a chain of 44 stations. The Farm 

 Bureau program will go on the air at 11:45 

 a. m. central standard time from the Chi- 

 cago studios of the National Broadcasting 

 Company. 



The play "Running Water" was written 

 by Miss Dorothea Barton of Elizabeth, Jo 

 Daviess county, Illinois, and was one of 1 2 

 prize-winning plays selected among the 

 large number in the American Farm Bureau 

 Federation contest. 



The Farm Bureau has published and is 

 now circulating the prize-winning plays. 



Milk $1.60 at St. Louis 



Milk producers in the St. Louis territory 

 will receive $1.60 per cwt. for 3.5 per cent 

 milk delivered in May according to a recent 

 announcement of the dealers. 



This price includes the premium paid 

 for T. B. tested milk. It is 10 cents more 

 than the current price of $1.50 per cwt. 

 paid for Surplus Milk .it Chicago where 

 dairymen are represented by the Pure Milk 

 Association. 



Will Incorporate Live 



Stock Marketing Assn. 



Name Directors Subject to Approval 

 of Incorporators 



STEPS toward incorporating the new mil- 

 lion dollar national livestock market- 

 ing association were taken at a meeting of 

 livestock producers and members of the 

 Federal Farm Board in Chicago on May 6. 

 Incorporation papers were to be filed in 

 Delaware without delay. It is estimated 

 that the marketing association will control 

 approximately 52 per cent of the co-opera- 

 tive livestock marketing of the country, 

 1:. A. Beamer of Blissfield, Michigan, presi- 

 dent of the National Livestock Producers 

 Association, and one of the three incorpora- 

 tors, stated. 



J. R. Fulkerson of Jerseyville, III., and 

 O. O. Wolf of Kansas City were named as 

 the other two incorporating officers who 

 will also become directors. 



Here Are Directors 

 The following livestock producers were 

 nominated to the board subject to the ap- 

 proval of the incorporators: Murray Barker, 

 Indianapolis; Henry H. Parke, Genoa, 111.; 

 George Wilson, Peoria, III.; Oscar Swank, 

 Evansville, Ind.; E. C. Rector, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa.; Joe L. Snook, Sioux City, Iowa; Lee 

 Highlen, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Ben B. 

 Brumley, Cleveland, Ohio, eacij represent- 

 ing a branch of the National Livestock 

 Producers Association. In addition there 

 were named: H. L. Kokernot, Fort Worth, 

 Tex.; L. O. Greaser, Chicago, National Or- 

 der Buying Association; John O'Mealy, 

 Michigan Livestock Exchange, Detroit, and 

 Walter Hagen, Western Cattle Marketing 

 Association of California. 



President Earl C. Smith of the I. A. A. 

 presided at the afternoon session of the 

 livestock growers who represented most of 

 the co-operative livestock marketing organ- 

 izations of the country. 



Two subsidiaries of the association will 

 also be incorporated with identical direc- 

 torates, the National Feeder and Finance 

 Corporation, and the National Live Stock 

 Publishing Association. 



Alexander Legge, chairman of the Farm 

 Board, who attended the meeting along 

 with Vice-Chairman James C. Stone and 

 C. B. Denman, livestock member predicted 

 that the new setup will give stock farmers 

 ample opportunity to develop a unified or- 

 ganization. 



The Champaign County Farm Bureau Is 



organizing a co-operative oil company. 

 Three hundred and thirteen shares of stock 

 amounting to $7,825 had been subscribed 

 the first week in May. 



Secretary Geo. E. Metzger will address 

 the annual meeting of the Ogle County 

 Farm Bureau on June 3. 







