up more corn or wheat in the crib or bin 

 "to look at" but he is required to keep 

 his share of the surplus on the farm or 

 suffer the penalty, Mr. Smith explained. 



Dondd Kirkpatrick called the bill a 

 Magna Charta for agriculture. He read 

 general purpose sections of the bill which 

 follow largely the wording of Supreme 

 Court comment on the Agricultural 

 Adjustment Act declared unconstitution- 

 al (6 to 3) early last year. 



"This bill offers us something more 

 permanent and effective than we now 

 have," Lee M. Gentry, chairman of the 

 Illinois Soil Gjnservation Committee 

 said. "We have done our best in ad- 

 ministering the Soil Conservation Act 

 and you have done your best. But we 

 need a permanent program for agricul- 

 ture that will help us control farm sur- 

 pluses. We believe this plan will do it." 



J. C. Spitler, state leader of farm ad- 

 visers responded and spoke briefly on 

 the responsibility of the .extension service 

 in carrying out agricultural programs. 



Cliff Gregory Goes to Iowa 



y^LLINOIS farmers received the 

 l/l news of Clifford V. Gregory's 

 \^ resignation as editor of Prairie 

 Farmer with a feeling of keen regret. 

 During his 25 years service he was in- 

 variably in the forefront of battle in be- 

 half of farmers' inter- 

 ests. Born on a north- 

 ern Iowa farm, he 

 knew farmers' prob- 

 lems, their hopes and 

 desires. His great 

 ability as a writer, 

 thinker, and speaker 

 was constantly 

 brought into play to- 

 ward helping correct 

 C. V. Gregory inequalities and real- 

 ize farmers' dreams of a happier, more 

 prosperous and permanent farm life. 



Mr. Gregory's service with Prairie 

 Farmer beginning about 1912 paralleled 

 that of the Farm Bureau movement. He 

 was active in the early organization of the 

 lAA and assisted in re-drafting its by- 

 laws and outlining its initial program of 

 work. As editor of Prairie Farmer he 

 consistently supported the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation and lAA in 

 their long fight to secure enactment of 

 the McNary Haugen bills and later the 

 Agricultural Adjustment Act. His com- 

 ment on farm questions and reviews of 

 important developments affecting farm- 

 ers' interests both on the radio and in the 

 paper were widely followed. His Lazy 

 Farmer and John Turnipseed stories not 

 only have amused and entertained Prairie 

 Farmer readers, but also have been 

 adroitly employed to reveal the foibles of 

 human nature and put over much sound 



C. U MAYS 

 "Planted All the Com For 62 Years." 



82 Years Old And 



An Active Fanner 



CV_ORTHEAST of Bloomington 

 VJ__I about 1^ miles lives a farmer 

 ^^y £ who the McLean County Farm 

 Bureau is very proud to 'claim as one of 

 its members. His name is C. L. Mays. 

 Mr. Mays was one of a small group of 

 men responsible for the organization of 

 the McLean County Farm Bureau and 

 who served as the first president of the 

 McLean County Farm Bureau in 1914. 

 Mr. Mays has been a faithful and loyal 

 worker in the Farm Bureau program all 

 these years. He has a record of accom- 

 plishment very few men can equal and 

 despite his 82nd year, still is active not 

 only in the Farm Bureau program but 

 also in the work to be done on the home 

 farm. 



Mr. Mays who will be 82 years old 

 this fall has planted all of the com crop 



and homely philosophy pertaining to 

 farm life. 



Farmers will rejoice in knowing that 

 Cliff Gregory's service to agriculture will 

 be continued as Associate Publisher of 

 Wallace's Farmer-Iowa Homestead and 

 the Wisconsin Agriculturalist. He and 

 his family will presently move to Des 

 Moines, Iowa. "The good wishes of Il- 

 linois agriculture go with him in his new 

 field. 



With Mr. Gregory's departure. Bur- 

 ridge D. Butler, publisher also assumes 

 the editorship of Prairie Farmer. Arthur 

 C. Page, former editor of Orange Judd 

 Farmer and Illinois Farmer, and Dave 

 Thompson, first McLean county, III. farm 

 adviser and later Secretary of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association become As- 

 sociate Editors. 



on his home farm of 140 acres for 62 

 consecutive years. He was one of the 

 first farmers in McLean County to recog- 

 nize the value of alfalfa and to include 

 this crop in his regular farm rotation. 

 The late Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins worked 

 closely with Mr. Mays in establishing 

 alfalfa in McLean County many years 

 ago. Limestone and phosphate have 

 both been applied to the home farm and 

 a good crop rotation has been main- 

 tained. Mr. Mays states that in the 62 

 years he has lived on this farm there have 

 been good years and bad years but never 

 has there been a complete crop failure. 

 In the days of registered Percheron 

 horses, Mr. Mays was one of the out- 

 standing breeders of the territory and has 

 maintained his interest in livestock and 

 Percheron horses all these years. The 

 two mares hitched to the cultivator are 

 registered Percherons. The black mare 

 is 19 years old and the white mare 17. 

 A tractor is used for most of the farm 

 work but Mr. Mays raises a colt or two 

 from time to time and this team is used 

 for odd jobs around the farm. When 

 he was in the purebred Percheron busi- 

 ness. Mays recalls having sold suckling 

 colts for $400 each to Canadian buyers. 



He served as highway road commis- 

 sioner of Nornul Township for 32 con- 

 secutive years. He belongs to the Bap 

 tist Church and attends regularly now. 

 Mr. Mays makes his home with his son 

 Roy and wife who live on the home 

 farm. He has three sons and one daugh- 

 ter, 12 grandchildren and three great 

 grandchildren. He attends Farm Bureau 

 meetings regularly and is always willing 

 and able to get on his feet and express 

 himself. — Lloyd G. Rodman. 



AUGUST, 1937 



