COUNTRY LIFE LYCEUM WINNERS 

 Giris' trio from Woodford county who won the Silver Medal. 



State Fair Opens Aug. 1 8, J. M. Eyman, Macon Farm 



Farm Bureau Day Aug. 23 Bureau Leader, Dies 



■ A bigger and better Illinois State 

 Fair with a great show of blooded live- 

 stock, a high class racing program, the 

 best 4-H Club exhibits from every part 

 of the state, and a full list of entries 

 in all the various farm products is in 

 prospect this year according to E. E. 

 Irwin, the new manager of the Fair. 



Radio station WLS will be there with 

 their popular entertainers broadcasting 

 every day from 7 A. M. to 12:00 noon. 



Chief interest of farmers and par- 

 ticularly Farm Bureau members will 

 center in Farm Bureau Day, Friday, 

 Aug. 23. Special entertainment will be 

 featured at Farm Bureau headquarters 

 in the big I. A. A. tent that day. The 

 tent will be located at approximately 

 the same place as in past years, north of 

 the stock judging pavilion. 



Members and their friends may check 

 their wraps and bundles in the Farm 

 Bureau tent without charge. Seats, 

 drinking water, and a ladies' rest room 

 will be provided. 



A committee of the I. A. A. staff is 

 working out the details of a program 

 for Farm Bureau Day. There will be no 

 speeches or beauty contest, but plans 

 are underway to bring out some of the 

 best amateur talent from among 4-H 

 Club members and Farm Bureau folks 

 discovered at the series of county-wide 

 Farm Bureau talent discovery contests 

 held during the past year. 



The Chicago Producers handled 8.33 



per cent of open market cattle during 

 June — a gain over the same month a 

 year ago. In hogs the Producers han- 

 dled 19.12 per cent compared with 16.86 

 per cent a year ago. The figures for 

 sheep are 17.54 per cent this year. 



J. M. Eyman, long a Farm Bureau 

 leader and charter member in Macon 

 county, passed away at his farm home 

 near Warrensburg July 18. He died 

 following a heart attack. He was presi- 

 dent of the Macon-Piatt Service Co., 

 and has served on the board of directors 

 of Illinois Farm Supply Co. since 1931. 

 At the time of his death, he was serv- 

 ing as county treasurer by appointment 

 of the board of supervisors. Mr. Eyman 

 was the third county treasurer to pass 

 beyond within a little more than three 

 years. He would have been 64 years 

 old in September. 



Uncle Ab says he laughs best whose 



laugh lasts. 



NOTICE 

 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSO- 

 CIATION ELECTION OF DELE- 

 GATES 



Notice is hereby given that in con- 

 nection with the annual meetings of 

 all County Farm Bureaus to l>e held 

 during tlie montli of September, 193S, 

 at the hour and place to be deter- 

 mined by the Board of Directors of 

 each respective County Farm Bureau, 

 the meml>ers in good standing of 

 such County Farm Bureau and who 

 are also qualified voting members of 

 Illinois Agricultural Association shall 

 elect a delegate or delegates to rep- 

 resent such members of Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association and vote on all 

 matters before the next annual meet- 

 ing or any special meeting of the As- 

 sociation, including the election of 

 officers and directors as provided for 

 in the by-laws of the Association. 



During September annual meetings 

 will be held in CHRISTIAN and JEF- 

 FERSON counties. 



(Signed) PAUL E. MATHIAS, 

 Corporate Secretary. 

 • I July 20, 1935 



The I.A.A. board of directors recently 

 appropriated $100 toward the "Dairy 

 Derby" to be staged by Sanitary Milk 

 Producers at the National Dairy Show, 

 St. Louis in October. Each contestant 

 may bring his or her own cow and milk 

 her. 



A general talk on co-operative mar- 

 keting based on problems and experi- 

 ences of Illinois Farm Supply Company 

 was delivered by Fred Herndon of Ma- 

 comb, president of the company, at the 

 annual meeting of the American Insti- 

 tute of Co-operation, Ithaca, New York 

 the week beginning July 15. 



The farm population, as of January 1, 

 1935, is estimated at 32,779,000 persons, 

 the largest in the Nation's history. This 

 is 27,000 persons more than on the same 

 date in 1934. 



A daughter, Joann Elizabeth, was born 

 to R. G. Ely of the lAA staff on July 4. 



W. F. Gephart, vice-president of the First 

 National Bank, St. Louis in a letter to Donald 

 Kirkpatricic, writes: 



"I have just read the July number of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD and 

 was verv much pleased to see the article about 

 you. You may be interested !n knowing that 

 I have become an Illinois farmer, having ac- 

 quired a farm some time ago just north of 

 Edwardsville and up to the present and per- 

 haps for some time to come its chief use seems 

 to be some place to spend money." 



■A: 



MISS LOUISE BLIMLING who won her Sil- 

 ver Medal In Morgan county with readings. 



"Facts For Grain Farmers" is the title of a 

 new booklet published by the Farmers National 

 Grain Corporation, 343 So. Dearborn St., Chi- 

 cago. The booklet contains valuble information 

 about the grain futures market. 



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