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 

 surfer the penalty, Mr. Smith explained. 



Donald Kirkpatrick called the bill a 

 Magna Charta for agriculture. He read 

 general purpose sections of the bill which 

 follow largely the wording of Supreme 

 (^ourt comment on the Agricultural 

 Adjustment Act declared unconstitution- 

 al (6 to 5) early last year. 



"This bill offers us something more 

 permanent and etfectivc than we now 

 have," Lee M. Gentry, chairman of the 

 Illinois Soil Conservation 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 



C. V. Gregory 



Cliif Gregory Goes to Iowa 



/^LLINOIS farmers received tiic 

 (Jj news of Clitford V. Gregor) s 

 \^_J 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 constant!) 

 brought into play to- 

 ward helping correct 

 ineijualities and real- 

 ize larmers dreams of a happier, more 

 [irospcrous and permanent farm life. 



Mr. Ciregory's service with Frairic 

 larmer beginning about lyl2 paralleled 

 that of the l-arm 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. L. MAYS 

 "Planted AH the Corn For 62 Years." 



82 Years Old And 



Still An Active Farmer 



r\«^ORTHEAST of Bloomington 

 ^J_/ about 111 miles lives a farmer 

 ^^ I \\ho 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 191 h. 

 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 S2 years old 

 this fall has planted all of the corn crop 



and homely philosoplu pertaining to 

 farm life. f 



Farmers will rejoice in i^nowing 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 vMshes of II 

 linois agriculture t;o with him in his new 

 held. 



With Mr. Gregory's departure, Bur- 

 ridge D. Butler, publisher also assumes 

 the editorship of Prairie Farmer. Arthur 

 ('. 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 I-4U at res for 62 

 consecutive years He \sas one of the 

 first farmers in McLean County to recog 

 iiize the value of alfalfa and to include 

 this crop in his regular farm rotation 

 Ihe 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 tliat in the 62 

 years he has lived on this farm there liavc 

 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 territorv and ha> 

 maintained his interest in livestock and 

 Percheron horses all these years. The 

 two mares hitched to the cultivator are 

 regibtercd Percherons The black rnarc 

 ib IV \ears old and the white mare 1 " 

 .\ tractor is used for most of the farm 

 work. but Mr Mays raises a tolt or two 

 from time to time and this team is used 

 tor odd jobs around the farm. When 

 he v\as in the purebred Percheron busi 

 ness. Mays recalls having sold sui-khng 

 colts for $400 each to Canadian buyers 



He served as highway road tommi> 

 sioner of Normal Township for 52 con 

 becutive yeafb He belongs' to the Baji 

 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 feel and express 

 himself. — Llojrd G Rodman 



AUGUST, 1937 



