ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized 

 namely, to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, political 

 and educational interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, and 

 to develop agriculture. 



NOVEMBER 

 VOL.16 



1938 

 NO. 11 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation at 1501 West Washington Road, Mendota, 111. 

 Editorial OeFices. 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. III. 

 Entered as second class matter at post office. Mendota, 

 Illinois, September 11, 1936. Acceptance for mailinK 

 at special rate of postage provided in Section 412, Act of 

 Feb. 28, 1925. authorized Oct. 27. 19)5. Address all 

 communications for publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois 

 Agricultural Association RECORD, 608 So. Dearborn St.. 

 Chicago. The individual membership fee of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. The fee 

 includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association- RECORD. Postmaster: 

 Send notices on Form 3578 and undeliverable copies 

 returned under Form 3579 to editorial offices, 608 S. 

 Dearborn St., Chicago, III. 



Editor and Advertising Director, E. G. Thiem : Assistant 

 Director and Ass't. Editor, Lawrence A. Potter. 



Illinois Agricultural Association 



Greatest State Farm Organization in America 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith .Detroit 



Vice-President, Talmage DeFrees. Smithboro 



Corporate Secretary, Paul E. Mathms Chicago 



Field Secretary, Geo. E. Metzger. Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. CowLES _ Bloomington 



Ass't Treasurer, A. R. Wright. Varna 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Congressional District) 



1st to 11th E. Harris, Grayslake 



12th E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona 



IJth _ Leo M. Knox, Morrison 



I4th Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



I6th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th C. M. Smith, Eureka 



18th _ W. A. Dennis, Paris 



19th 



20th 



21st _ 



22nd 



2}rd 



24th 



...Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



Dwight Hart, Sharpsburg 



A. O. Eckert, Belleville 



Chester McCord, Newton 



Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th .August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller R. G. Ely 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Field Service _ Cap Mast 



Finance _ R. A. Cowles 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing H. W. Day 



Grain Marketing _ _ Harrison Fahrnkopf 



Legal and General Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing. Sam F. Russell 



Office _ C. E. Johnston 



Organization _ G. E. Metzger 



Produce Marketing. F. A. Gougler 



Publicity _ George Thiem 



Safety C. M. Seagraves 



Soil Improvement— _ John R. Spencer 



Taxation and Statistics J. C. Watson 



Transportation-Claims Division G. W. Baxter 



Young Peoples Activities Frank Gingrich 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Insurance Co Dave Mieher, Sales 



Manager; Howard Reeder, Home Office Mgr. 

 Farmers' Mutual Reinsurance Co... J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Illinois Agr. Auditing Ass'n C. E. Strand, Mgr. 



Illinois Agr. Mutual Ins. Co..-A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



Illinois Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Secy. 



III. Farm Bureau Serum Ass'n S. F. Russell, Secy. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co L. R. Marchant, Mgr. 



Illinois Fruit Growers' Exchange... .H. W. Day, Mgr. 



111. Grain Corporation Frank Haines, Mgr. 



111. Livestock Marketing Ass'n Sam Russell, Mgr. 



Illinois Milk Producers' Ass'n Wilfred Shaw, Mgr. 



Illinois Producers' Creameries....F. A. Gougler, Mgr. 

 J. B. Countiss Sales Mgr. 



NOVEMBER, 1938 



GEORGE THIEM, Editor 



JARTOONIST Herblock here 

 presents simply but power- 



fully the nub of the nation's 



economic problems marked by sur- 

 plus crops, low farm prices, high 

 prices for industrial goods, closed 

 factories, unemployment, waste of 

 man power and poverty. 



telligent discernment and reason 

 rather than prejudice, selfishness, 

 and partisan politics were the rule. 



Such understanding and enlight- 

 ened thought on the farm problem 

 in a big city daily is so unusual as to 

 be worthy of special mention. What 

 progress we as a nation could make 

 toward solving our problems if in- 



Maximum production of indus- 

 trial goods at substantially lower 

 prices than now exist to match the 

 surplus production of farm crops at 

 present low prices, would restore em- 

 ployment to millions, enable farmers 

 to buy hundreds of millions more 

 dollars of factory products, and 

 bring about a substantial increase in 

 consumption of farm products. 



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