Bef+er Year for Grain R, G. Ely Employed 



Elevators Expected As Comptroller By I. A. A. 



I5.V \V. B. Peterson 



Champaign County Service Company 

 has the distinction of Icadinp the stato 

 in the Illinois Farm Supply Company 

 l'.»35 Motor Oil CanipaiKn. They had 

 seven prizc-winninj; salesmen. Mr. Har- 

 vey i.s Champion Motor Oil Salesman i.i 

 Illinois with 7,520 gallons. He delivere<i 

 and collected the cash for this oil prior 

 to April 30, \'X>'). This is a fine record, 

 of which the Farm Bureau memliers in 

 Champaign can be proud, and we know 

 it pleases Manager Rus.sell Stewart. 



McLean County Service Company ha.- 

 been awarded the prize of Division 

 Leader for the Illini (Central Illinois) 

 Division. Manager George Curtis.s bear.- 

 up well under the honor. 



St. Clair Service Company won the 

 prize of Division Leader of the Egyptian 

 (Southern Illinois) Division. A. O. Gross- 

 man is an old champion, who is t\uhc 

 accustomed to upper berths. 



Carroll Service Company won the Di- 

 vision Leader prize of the Norsemen 

 (Northern Illinois) Division. Manager 

 Lester Rahn was speechless when he got 

 the news. 



Peoria County Service Company and 

 Fulton Service Company tied for Divi- 

 sion Leader prize in the Rough Riders 

 (Western Illinois) Division. This will 

 require a duel between Fred Pollock and 

 Leslie Siehr on the l>ack forty of Mr. 

 Leeper's farm. 



The farm commodity exchange value 

 as to Soyoil Paint is now the best it ha.- 

 been in a dozen years. Yi<\x can paint 

 two coats of Soyoil on the average Farm 

 Bureau home, on the average .set of out- 

 buildings with the funds derived from 

 any of the following commodities: 41 

 bu. of corn, 4C, bu. of wheat. ;!8 bu. of 

 soybeans, a hog and a half side of 

 beef. If you've wailed for the "ideal" 

 time to buy paint, study this over and 

 you'll realize that "Thi.s is The Year" to 

 use Soyoil. 



The l.aSalle County Farm Bureau is 



planning to put out a county directory 

 containing the names, addresses and 

 telephone numbers of all farmers and 

 breeders in the county. .Advertising will 

 be solicited to make the directory self- 

 supporting. 



Prospects for good crops this year are 

 giving decided encouragement to coop 

 erative grain elevators in Illinois, ac- 

 cording to D. M. Hardy, president of the 

 St. Louis Bank for Cooperatives. 



"With the larger volume of grain that 

 is now indicated," Mr, Hardy declared. 

 "the cooperative elevators in the St. 

 Louis district will be able to operate 

 more efficiently and economically. This 

 will be the first 'break' our elevators 

 have had for several years, as we've not 

 had a normal grain crop since l;»;!l. This 

 year growing conditions have been good, 

 especially in northern Illinois which has 

 e.scaped drought and flood so far. 



"Of course, cooperative associations 

 handling other commodities will be ben- 

 efited as well, for a cooperative needs 

 volume to operate etfectively. .-^ survey 

 recently completed showed that there an 

 more than 1,000 active cooperatives in 

 our district. More than .=iOO of these are 

 in Illinois and some .'{."iO of them are 

 grain elevators, owned and controlled b> 

 farmers. 



"Most of our loans in Illinois are to 

 cooperative grain elevators, although we 

 are doing an increasing amount of busi- 

 ness with dairy associations there." 



.Manager B. H. Heide of the Interna- 

 tional Live Stock p:xposition, Chicago, 

 announces that the "Review and .\lbum 

 for l't34" is now ready for distribution. 

 The price is SI. 00 per copy. The cloth 

 boun<l volume is generously illustrated 

 with i)ictures of the l'.»:!-l champions and 

 contains a record of all winners in open 

 classes. 4-H Club groups and judging 

 contests. 



County-W;de 4-H Club 



Party In Adams County 



A county-wide 4-H Club party was 

 held at the .\dams County Farm Bureau 

 Home Bureau headquarters in Quincy. 

 May 28. .Approximately 100 boys and 

 girls representing 20 local clubs took 

 part in the program featuring songs, 

 stunts and other entertainment. Each 

 local club was given at least 10 minutes 

 to present its part of the program. 



I wish to express my appreciation of 



the splendid issue of the June I. A. A. 

 RECORD that illustrates in a very ef- 

 fective manner the program of the Farm 

 Bureau. I have been using this issue the 

 last few days in my organization work 

 and find it very effective. 



L. S. Johnson, Organization Di- 

 rector, Whiteside County. 



Robert (i. Ely, a certified public ac- 

 countant for nine years with the inter- 

 national firm of Price, Waterhouse & 

 Company, was recently employed as 

 comptroller for the 

 Illinois .Agricultural 

 .Association and as- 

 sociated companies. 

 Mr. Ely was born 

 in Chicago in I'.'Ol 

 and was educated In 

 the pulilic schools a I 

 Keiiilworth .md Win- 

 netka, north of Chi- 

 cago. He secured his 

 bachelor's degree 

 from the College of 

 Commerce, Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin in lil2.'? and became a 

 certifierl public accountant in Illinois in 

 10:!0. 



Mr. Ely was emplnyed in the audit- 

 ing depart iTient of a Chicago bank sev- 

 eral years and during the past 10 years 

 has worked for certified public account- 

 ing firms. 



He is married and has a boy 2'f years 

 old. "We expect another one any minute 

 now," savs Elv. 



». O. EtY 



No! Says Chester Davis; 

 AAA Agreements Continue 



"No," is the answer of Chester C. 

 Davis, .Administrator of the Agricultural 

 .Adjustment .Administration, in reply to 

 in(iuiries regarding a possible change in 

 the present pi'ogram <if marketing agree- 

 ments as a result of the Suiireme Court 

 decision on the NR.A. In a telegram sen* 

 out to all parts of the country, the .Ad- 

 ministrator, says, "The .Agricultural Ad- 

 justment .Administration has NO thought 

 of abandoning eilhei its present program 

 of marketing agreements for fruits and 

 vegetables or its milk marketing plans. 

 On the contrary, we are now working 

 with congressional leaders on amend- 

 ments designed to strengthen these mar- 

 keting agreements and milk plans . . . 

 Efforts are being made to revise these 

 proposed agreements in the light of the 

 Schechter decision so as to retain the 

 substance of the marketing agreement 

 programs while modifying enforcement 

 procedure to conform to customary gov- 

 ernment regulatory practice readily sus- 

 tainable in court." 



The revised amendments to the .Agri- 

 cultural -Adjustment .Act have passed the 

 House of Representatives at Washington 

 and at this writing are pending in the 

 Senate. 



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