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Number 12 



December, 1930 



Full Day of Annual 



Meetings on Jan. 28 



Ray Schalk of Chicago Cubs, John 



Brandt of Minnesota and Others 



Scheduled to Address Various 



Groups. 



ANNUAL meetings of an ever- 

 growing number of organizations 

 associated with the County Farm Bu- 

 reaus and Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 

 28 as in past years. 



Among these will be the Illinois Farm 

 Bureau Baseball League where Ray 

 Schalk, former Chicago White Sox 

 catcher and manager, and now one of 

 the coaches of the Chicago Cubs, will 

 discuss practical problems of players 

 and managers in developing better base- 

 ball teams. Mr. Schalk who got his 

 ••.tart that landed him in the big leagues, 

 with the Taylorville, III., team of the 

 old I and M League, was reared at 

 Litchfield in Montgomery county, 

 whence came many a big league player. 

 The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum As- 

 sociation will have a program of inter- 

 est pertaining to the protection of the 

 Illinois hog crop against cholera and 

 other diseases. 



The Illinois Produce Marketing As- 

 sociation will hold its first annual 

 meeting. John Brandt of Minnesota, 

 president of the Land O' Lakes Cream- 

 eries, one of the largest co-operatives in 

 the country, has been tentatively en- 

 gaged as a speaker. 



The lUinois Agricultural Mutual In- 

 surance Co., the Illinois Agricultural 

 Holding Co., which holds the stock of 

 Country Life Insurance Co., and the 

 Illinois Agricultural Co-Operatives As- 

 sociation will all hold official meetings 

 to elect officers and transact other busi- 

 ness. 



Country Life Insurance Co. agents 

 and workers are preparing for a larger 

 conference than that held last year. 

 General and special agents from more 

 than 90 counties will thresh out prob- 

 lems with the officers and Manager L. 

 A. Williams having to do with the op- 

 eration of the company. 



Annual Meeting Speaker 



ALEXANDER LEGGE 

 Chnirman Le^Ke of the Farm 

 Board irlll be one of tbr headline 

 speakers at the cominf? annual eon- 

 ventlon of the I. A. A., Springfleld, 

 Jan. 29-30. 



Reduced Rates, Annual 



Meeting, Springfield 



Ask ^forthe special fare and one-half 

 rate to the I. A. *.. annual meeting, 

 Springfield, if you go by train. Appli- 

 cations for lower fares are being filed 

 by the I. A. A. Transportation Depart- 

 ment with all roads leading to the capi- 

 tal city. 



Plan to come Tuesday night or early 

 Wednesday morning for the full three 

 days' sessions. Nearly everyone you 

 want to see among your friends and 

 associates in the ranks of organized agri- 

 culture in Illinois will be there. 



J. H. Brock of the Dairy Depart- 

 ment, University of Illinois, has been 

 employed as farm adviser in Bond 

 county. •.' 'u ■'■■ 



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Volume 8 



I. A. A. Annual Meeting 

 Looms Ahead, Jan. 29-30 



Chairman Legge and Co-Op. Mar- 

 keting Officials Booked as Speak- 

 ers at Springfield Convention. 



MAKE RESERVATIONS EARLY 

 Reservations for rooms and areom- 

 modations should be made by all 

 delegrates and members nho plan to 

 attend, with their County Farm Bu- 

 reaus. These in turn should be for- 

 warded to the Committee on Ar- 

 raneementK, care Sangramun Connty 

 F.irm Bureau, Sprlnicfleld, III., at 

 once. Ample acconimodatlona at 

 nominal rates are promised for all. 



ANOTHER great annual meeting, 

 the sixteenth since the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association was organized, 

 will be held at the state capital, Spring- 

 field, Jan. 29-30, 1931. Plans are being 

 developed to maintain the reputation 

 past I. A. A. conventions have won as 

 the Mid-West Forum of Agriculture. 



Last year both Secretary Hyde and 

 Frank O. Lowden, two outstanding 

 speakers and students of farm problems 

 delivered stirring addresses. This year 

 Alexander Legge, the frank, outspwken 

 chairman of the Farm Board who has 

 shown remarkable courage and inde- 

 pendence in carrying out the mandates 

 of the Agricultural Marketing Act will 

 ap[>ear as one of the leading speakers. 



Geo. S. Milner, general manager of 

 the Farmers National Grain Corpora- 

 tion, Chicago, long experienced in the 

 grain trade, will bring the last word 

 about the activities and experiences of 

 that organization in developing a na- 

 tion-wide marketing service for the 

 grain farmer. - b " j. -' 



A representative oif the Natk>na1 

 Live Stock Marketing Association, 

 which is engaged in unifying and mod- 

 ernizing the co-operative marketing of 

 Il"e stock throughout the United States, 

 T.ill discuss the problems live stock 

 farmers are facing in building a mar- 

 keting system suited to their best in- 

 terests and needs. Full details will ap- 

 pear in the January RECORD. 



