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Number 12 



December, 1930 



Volume 8 



Full Day of Annual 



Meetings on Jan. 28 



Ray Schnik of Chicago Cubs, John 



Brandt of Minnesota and Others 



Scheduled to Address Various 



Groups. 



ANNUAL mcctins;s ot ,iii ivcr- 

 tjrowins; number of org.inization-- 

 associ.Ucd with the County I'arm Bu- 

 reaus .ind Illinois Ajjricultural Associa- 

 tion will be held on \V'ednesda\'. Jan. 

 2X as in past years. 



Among these will bt the Illinois barm 

 Bureau Baseball League where Ra) 

 S-jhalk, former Chicago White Sox 

 catcher and manager, and now one of 

 the coaches of the Chicago Cubs, will 

 discuss practical problems of players 

 and manaj^ers in developing better base- 

 ball teams. Mr. Schalk who got his 

 ■ tart that landed him in the big leagues, 

 with the Ta\lorviIle, 111., 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 tentativeb' en- 

 gaged as a speaker. 



The Illinois 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 companv. 



Annual Meeting Speaker 



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Reduced Rates, Annual 



Meeting, Springfield 



.•\sk for the special fare and one-half 

 rate to thj I. A. \. annual meeting. 

 Springfield, if you go by train. Appli- 

 cations for lower fares arc being filed 

 bv the I. A. A. Transportation Depart- 

 ment with a!l roatb leading to the capi- 

 tal city. 



Plan to come Tuesday night or earlv 

 Wednesday morning for the full three 

 days' sessions. Xcarl\ everyone \ou 

 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, Univcrsitv' of Illinois, has been 

 emploxcd as farm adviser in Bond 

 count\ . 



A. A. Annual Meeting 

 Loom.s Ahead. Jan. 2^-i(» 



Chairman Legge and Co Op. Mar- 

 keting Orticials Booked .is Speak- 

 ers at Springfield Convention. 



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ANOTliER great annual meeting. 

 the sixteenth since the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association was organized, 

 will be held at the state capital. Spring 

 field, Jan 29-50. 19.il. Plans are King 

 developed to maintain the reputation 

 past I. A. A. conventions have won as 

 the Mid-Vi"est 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, outspoken 

 chairmpn of the Farm Board who has 

 shown remarkable courage and inde- 

 pendence in carrying out the mandate^ 

 of the .Agricultural Marketing Act will 

 appear as one of the leathng "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. 



A representative of the N'ational 

 Live Stock Marketing .\ssociation, 

 which is engaged in unifying and mod- 

 ernizing the co-operative "marketing ot 

 L'e stock throughout the United Staiev. 

 .vill 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 .ip- 

 pear in the |anuar\ RECORD. 



