Uncle Ab says most men begin to 



slump when tlie chest shps down under 

 the belt. 



A declaration of economic war would 



be flung in the face of the world if 

 retiproc.il trade treaties were repealed 

 says Secretary of State Hull. Economic 

 strife creates unemployment, privation 

 and suffering and leads to war. 



September was the first month since 



May th.U United States exports ex- 

 ceeded imports. 



Are young- folks leaving the farm.' 



"Yes," says the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics. Earm popul.ition gained 

 only 8,000 last year. Births were 727,- 

 000, deaths 333,000. 



The November 12 th issue of The 



Chicago Herald and Examiner carried 

 the headline "Depression Has Passed I" 



A erne-day whirl of Chicago was en- 

 joyed recently by 131 Kane County 

 Home Bureau members reports Ger- 

 trude K. Bekman, Home Adviser. 

 Lunch in Chinatown, Swift and Co. 

 packing plant, shopping, theater-going 

 and supper at the Sprague Warner 

 open-house were among the interesting 

 sights. 



Not to promote but to offer members 



the best information obtainable pointing 

 out problems and disadvantages as well 

 as advantages, is the policy adopted re- 

 cently by lAA directors on co-operatively- 

 owned cold stor.ige lockers. In the No- 

 vember RECORD an article, mostly de- 

 scriptive, yet generally favorable to cold 

 storage lockers, was published. Possible 

 dangers are faulty construction, excessive 

 cost, poor man.igement, improper organ- 

 ization at start, failure to maintain loval 

 support of locker renters. 



Hybrid seed corn may be plentiful in 



Illinois this year, but it will be just five 

 times as plentiful in 193^ according to 

 W. J. Mumni of the University of Illi- 

 nois. Approximately 6.000 acres are 

 being produced this year as comparetl 

 with only l.SOO in lyi'i. 





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HEADQUARTERS FOR THE lAA CONVENTION. JAN. 27-28-29, 1937 

 will be at the LaSalle (left) and Morrison Hotels. Chicago. 



Henry Wallace Heads 



I A A Convention Speakers 



^^EADING a list of prominent 

 ^*^/ /- speakers tentatively sched- 

 _ / # uled for the coming 2Ist an- 



nual I. A. A. meeting is the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace. Mr, 

 Wallace is exj^eaed to speak on some 

 phase of the general subject "Where do 

 we go from here',-' 



By the end of January, the report of 

 the President's Committee of Incjuiry on 

 C"o-operation in luiropean Countries, of 

 which Clifford Cregory of Prairie Earmer 

 is a member, probably will have been 

 made. By that time it is expected that 

 Mr. Gregory, another scheduled speaker, 

 will be at liberty to report in tletail his 

 observations of farmer and consumer co- 

 operation over there to the lAA conven- 

 tion. 



All available rooms at the I.aSalle and 

 Morrison hotels m C hicago have been 

 engaged by the I.\A. At this writing 

 12^0 reservations have been made with 

 only about half the counties iK-ard from. 



Because Chicago has no adecjuate facil- 

 ities available for an lAA bant]uet or 

 luncheon this part of the program will 

 l^robably be omitted. 



Despite the drouth, Illinois farmers as 

 a whole will chalk up a better year in 

 gross income this year than last. Most 

 farms will be out of the reil. Grain aoJ 

 livestock prices are favorable Milk and 

 butterfat prices have been averaging 

 higher than a vear aeo, Iruit and vege- 

 table crops were hard hit bv drouth and 

 last winter's freeze but better prices par 

 tially make up for low proxluction. These 

 improved conditions, are expected to stim- 

 ulate attendance anN enthusiasm at ihc 



convention in Chic.igo in January. 



The committee workmg on the annual 

 meeting program is planning a series ol 

 Ojx'n forums or conferences on Thursilay 

 afternoon Jan. 28. An unusual effort 

 will be made to have members and ilele- 

 gates take a more .uti\e part. At the 

 (onlerences. few if any set speethes will 

 be scheduled. The selection of live topics 

 of general interest it is hoped -willl stim 

 iilate cliscussion from the floor. Officers, 

 ilirectors and staff members will we! 

 come frank criticism of Associ.ition pol- 

 u res and activities. 



A one day membership dri\e in 



Morgan Count v. Oitober 21. added ") S 

 Earm Bureau members to the organ 

 ized ranks, reports David R. Reynolds. 

 organization director. The Earm 

 Bureau offiie was closed for the day, 

 I.arrv Williams c..\yc the 8*1 workers a 

 pep talk at breakfast and eai h worker 

 was given a lunch m order that n<i 



Ten years' ser\ice for the Ox)k 

 ( ounty Earm Bureau brought Earm Acl- 

 \iser (). G. B.irrett a leather easy chair 

 and .1 party in Ins honor at I'arm Bu- 

 re.iu hall in Blue Island recently. Mem 

 bership during Harrett's service has in 

 creased from 2(>n to n'xi reports As 

 sistant AcKiscr ( li.irlcs \ Glover, 



Increased demand for farms, fewer 

 t'.irni mortgage foreclosures and fewer 

 t.ix delinc|uencies are si^ns of return 

 mg j^rospentv Imergeniv financing 

 bv goxernnient is giving wav t;) private 

 jo.ms 



DECEMBER. 1936 



