Who's Who Among the 

 Farm Advisers 



0. G. BARRETT 



O. G. "Olc"' Barrett, farm adv ser in 

 Ciiok county, is rounding out hi.s 14th 

 year as county agricultural advi.ser. nine 

 years of which he has 

 spent in his pre.sent po- 

 sition. The genial Cook 

 county farm advi.ser is 

 known among his best 

 friends as "Ole Olson" 

 for the Swedish charac- 

 ter he played over WLS 

 and other radio stations 

 several years ago. 



Mr. Barrett was born 

 on a farm near Hudson. 

 Michigan, in 188.'). After 

 graduating from the 

 Hudson high school, he 

 iiltended Michigan State Agricultural 

 College two years and later transferred 

 to the College of Agriculture. Unis'ersity 

 ef Illinois where he got his bachelors 

 degree in 1912. He secured h s master's 

 degree at the University of Missouri a 

 year later, specializing in farm manage- 

 ment. 



O. G. is married and has five children. 

 iru?hiding one married daughter, a second 

 daughter who recently graduated from 

 the University of Illino s in home eco- 

 nomics, a third daughter who is a fresh- 

 man at Urbana. a fourth daughter in 

 grade school, and one son. "I hope the 

 boy will be candidate in about a dozen 

 years for end on the University of Illi- 

 nois football team, and later when he 

 , knows three or four times as much as 

 his Dad. we h'^p? we will be farm ad- 

 vis'^r." says Ole. 



Too much prosper ty in the county is 

 not good for the Farm Bureau nor the 

 Farm Adviser, says Ole. While real es- 

 }ate activities were at their h ghest Cook 

 County Farm Bureau was going down 

 hill. But in 1926 Cook county farmers 

 began to realize that they too must have 

 .in organization and if they forgot it for 

 a minute. Ole was on hand to remind 

 them. 

 Membership in Cook county has in- 



creased .steadily from 182 in 1926 to 1.616 

 at the present writing. Ole says that 

 their goal is 2.056..') members since that 

 represents .51 per cent of the farmers in 

 Cook county based on the statistical re- 

 port of 193.') "The ..'5 member isn't going 

 to be hard to get. " he .says. "In fact, we 

 have several of them already. The .'! 

 fellow is the one who p;jys his dues after 

 more or less urging and quits right there, 

 not mak ng any effort to take part in the 

 work of the organization. " 



Ole believes in the co-operative system, 

 "if for no other reason than to try some- 

 thing el.se than the old-fashioned wav of 

 doing business." He grew up as a stock 

 bu.ver. his Dad and six brothers having 

 bought stock before him and he having 

 been something of a cow dealer himself 

 "A sharp cow dealer. " he says, "isn't 

 subject to a pen-tentiary .sentence as a 

 horse stealer is. but should be. I know- 

 full well how some of the boys buy can- 

 ner cows as cheap as possible, .sell them 

 for all they can get. and pocket the 

 difference. There is nothing better to 

 teach one co-operative principles than to 

 grow up an old-line cow dealer." 



Merle E. Tascher. assistant farm a<lvis- 

 er in Cook for the past .')':; years, was 

 born in Iroquois county in 1906. He grad- 

 uated from the Onarga 

 high school and later 

 from the College of Ag- 

 riculture. Un versity of 

 Illinois. 



Merle married Helen 

 Lindqu St who assisf^ 

 for a number of .years 

 in the treasurer's office 

 of the I. A. A. Thev have 

 a fine baby daughter 

 born about three 

 months ago. "I note in 

 the RECORD about 

 Farm Advi.ser Apple's 

 100 per cent Farm Bu- M E taschek 

 reau baby. " writes Tas- 

 cher. "I believe our daughter also quali- 

 fies." 



Farm Products in Industry 



(;. K. Middlettm of the Producers C'om- 

 mission Association of Indianapolis has 

 prepared an intercstinjr paper settinp 

 forth the many uses of atrricultural prod- 

 ucts in industry, rommenting upon the 

 (rrowing- use of soybeans in industry, he 

 reports that soybean flour is u.sed in 

 sausage, the oil for clyoerine. explosives, 

 ••namels, varnish, lac(itiers, linoleum, 

 waterproof jroods, soap stiK'k, celluloid, 

 rubber sub.stitutes, printing inks, lu- 

 bricants, and paints. Soybeans contain 

 around 20 per cent oil. 



Will County Signs 125 



New Members Since Jan. I 



"The t'«() members <if our squad work- 

 iiiK on membership have sigrned 12.t n»'w 

 members since January I, I'.KJ.')." reports 

 M. <". Weber, Will county or^'anization 

 direc-tor. 



Gain of 4,000 Auto 



Policies This Year 



The Illinois .Atrricultural .Mutual In- 

 surance Co. has appro.ximately 42.0O(( 

 policies in force, a pain of nearly 4.(KKI 

 since the first of the vear. 



Earl Smith In Washington 

 On Secondary Road Matters 



President Karl C. .'>mith was in Wa^h- 

 ing-toM .June 22-2.'{ in the interest of sec- 

 ondary-roads for Illinois from work re- 



Ii<'f funds. 



.More than a million contracts for Ift.l.'i 



corn-hog: co-operators are in preparation 

 according tg Claude R. Wickard, chief 

 of the \\.\ corn-hop section. 



MONTGOMERY COUNTY'S NEW FARM BU- 

 REAU BUILDING 



The Montgomery County Farm Bureau force and 

 ^tl subsidiary departments of the Farm Bureau have 

 rrioved into their new building which stands just 

 west of the Court House in Hiltsboro. The build- 

 '"^g is 27 ft. I 120 ft., has ieven private offices, 

 ^wo lobbies and a large assembly room on the 

 Ground floor. The exterior of the building is 

 stucco, and the upper half of the inside par- 

 ''tions is glass. 



The offices are occupied by the Farm Adviser 

 ""d office secretary. Insurance Director. Farmers 

 Oil Company, Corn-Hog and Wheat Committees, 

 '^nd the Farm Loan Association. 



The concrete basement under the entire build- 

 •".g will have an assembly room, store room, paint 

 •com. work shop and wash rack, when completed. 

 >t<e basement entrance faces on Routes 16 and 

 '27. The Farmers' Oil Company Service Station 

 ' also situated on this corner. 



Formal opening of the building was held June 

 '. An evening meeting in the Hillsboro Com- 

 munity High School was addressed by Larry Wil- 

 'lamj and Talmage DeFrees. 



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ULY, 193.5 



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