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. 



JANUARY 

 VOL. 17 



1939 

 NO.l 



Published monthly by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation at 1501 West Washington Road, Mendota. 111. 

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

 Entered as second class matter at post office, Mendota. 

 Illinois, September 11, 1936. Acceptance for mailing 

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

 Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1935. 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 35''8 and undeliverable copies 

 returned under Form 3579 to editorial offices. 608 S. 

 Dearborn St., Chicago. 111. 



Editor and Advertising Director, E. G. Thicm ; Assistant 

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



Illinois Agricultural Association 



GreaU'it Stale Farm Organization in America 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith .._ Detroit 



Vice-President, Talmage DeFrees Smithboro 



Corporate Secretary, Paul E. Mathias 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 



13th Leo M. Knox, Morrison 



14th Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



15th _ M. Ray Ihrig, Golden 



l6th Albert Hayes, Chillicothe 



17th C. M. Smith, Eureka 



18th W. A, Dennis, Paris 



19th Eugene Curtis, Champaign 



20th _ K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st Dwight Hart, Sharpsburg 



22nd A. O. Eckert, Belleville 



23rd Chester McCord, Newton 



24th Charles Marshall, Belknap 



25th August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Comptroller R. G. El/ 



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 Assn C. E. Strand, Mgr. 



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



Illinois Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Secy. 



HI. Farm Bureau Serum Assn 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 Assn Sam Russell, Mgr. 



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



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



. . : J. B. Countiss Sales Mgr. 



GEORGE THIEM, Editor 



\^^\^ RY and figure out a better 

 ^~-^ definition of "personal- 

 -/ ity" than this one by Dr. 

 Henry C. Link, director of the Psy- 

 chological Service Center, New 

 York City: 



Personality is ''the extent to which 

 the individual has developed hahils 

 and skills which interest and sene 

 other people." 



As chock full of common sense 

 and sound philosophy as anything 

 you'll read this year is Dr. Link's 

 book, "The Rediscovery of Man." 

 Would that these words be em- 

 blazoned in neon lights and given 

 prominent display wherever men 

 are discouraged, or feel that they 

 haven't a chance: 



"Man is still the potential cre- 

 ator rather than the viaim of 

 his creations. He is a creature 

 of free will and untold possi- 

 bilities, not the slave of environ- 

 ment. His capabilities are lim- 

 ited not so much by heredity or 

 jwverty as by his own vision of 

 himself. 



"The tragedy is that for several 

 years our civilization has per- 

 mitted people to believe in their 

 own helplessness and, worse 

 still, encouraged the avoidance 

 of personal responsibility in pub- 

 lic affairs .... The belief that 

 people can achieve social security 

 by voting for it has become the 

 foremost superstition in the 

 United States. Jobs do not ex- 

 ist by right or by principle, but 

 only as effeaive personalities 

 create them .... A nation which 

 encourages its citizens to wait 

 for jobs to which they have a 

 right will find its population in- 

 creasingly unfit either to get or 

 hold jobs." 



If Illinois farmers demolished 

 their barns, chicken and hog houses 

 and sheds, tore down their silos, 

 plowed up the ground on which they 

 stood and planted corn, and only com, 

 in the front yard, back yard and all 



around the house up to the door- 

 step, they would approximate the 

 one-crop farming system still fol- 

 lowed by hundreds of thousands of 

 poor share croppers all over the cot- 

 ton South. 



A tour of observation through such 

 states as the Carolinas, Georgia, Ala- 

 bama, Mississippi, eastern Arkansas 

 and Tennessee will confirm most of 

 the rejxjrts citing the great need in 

 these areas for a better standard of 

 living. Yet any obser\ant person can 

 scarcely escape the conclusion that 

 our neighbors from Dixie have all 

 about them the materials, and oppor- 

 tunity for filling the larder, if not the 

 purse, with a year 'round supply of 

 meat, vegetables, fruits ana dairy 

 products. 



While the soil, except in the river 

 bottoms, is generally not as rich 

 as our black prairie soils, yet when 

 properly treated it will produce fruits 

 and vegetables and grasses abundant- 

 ly. The south can not grow corn as 

 successfully as the com belt for com- 

 mercial use, but it can produce plenty 

 to feed dairy cows, hogs, and cattle 

 for the family food supply. 



Thinking farmers, farm leaders 

 and citizens in the southern states 

 realize all these things and have 

 been campaigning aggressively for a 

 more diversified, self-sufficient type 

 of farming. Two weeks ago the 

 Commercial-Appeal of Memphis, 

 the South's biggest daily, awarded 

 its annual prize of $500 to the 

 winner of its "Plant to Prosper" 

 campaign at a dinner attended by 

 600 Southern farm folk. H. L. Ma- 

 jure of Poplar Grove, Arkansas was 

 the lucky man. "Winner Ma- 

 jure," reports Time magazine, "and 

 his family of eight raised $225 worth 

 of their own food this year, have 

 $200 worth on hand, not including 

 some hogs killed this month. They 

 spent only $49.64 for food they did 

 not raise. Mrs. Majure has on her 

 shelves 273 quarts of vegetables, 40 

 quarts of meat, six glasses of jelly, 

 99 quarts of pickles, 18 gallons of 

 symp." It can be done. — E.G.T. 



JANUARY. 1939 



