24th Annual \M Meeting 



V/^V^HE largest state farm organiza- 

 ^^"Y^ f'on holding its annual con- 



^__/ vention in the biggest hotel in 

 the world. That's the set up for the com- 

 ing meeting in Chicago, Jan. 30-31 and 

 Feb. 1, 19.39. 



The experience of holding the numer- 

 ous sessions of an lAA annual meeting 

 all under one roof will be the first 

 since the Association spread out into 

 business and serx-ice activities in the 

 middle twenties. 



As we go to press, the program is near- 

 ing completion. A number of interest- 

 ing speakers, each a leader in his field 

 with a message for farmers, have been 

 carefully selected. Further announce- 

 ments will be made later in the month. 

 The outline of the program is as fol- 

 lows; — 



TENTATIVE PROGRAM OF ANNUAL 



MEETING AND CONFERENCES OF IL- 



UNOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



AND AFFILIATED COMPANIES JANUARY 

 30, 31 and FEBRUARY I. 1939 



All meetings will he held in the Steiefn 

 Hotel, Ch/cugo. 



DATE AND HOUR MEETING 



Monday. Ian. 30 



A.M. 

 9:30 — Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. 

 Annual Meeting 



10:00 — niinois Farm Bureau Serum Asso- 

 ciation Annual Meeting 



10:00 — Illinois Agricultural Auditing Asso- 

 ciation Annual Meeting 



10:00 — Illinois Milk Producers Association 

 Annual Meeting 



10:00 — Illinois Farm Supply Company Di- 

 rectors' Conference 



11:00 — Illinois Agricultural Holding Co. 

 Annual Meeting 



P.M. 



1:00 — Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur- 

 ance Company Annual Meeting 



1:00 — Illinois Producers' Creameries An- 

 nual Meeting 



1:30 — Rural Youth Conference 



3:00 — Country Liie Insurance Company 

 Conierence 



6:00 — Form Bureau Presidents' and Farm 

 Advisers' Banquet 



7:30— Talent Night — Entertainment 



Tuesday. Ian. 31 

 A.M. 

 9:15— General Sessions — lAA — Report 

 oi Officers and President's address 

 1:30 — Public Relations Conference 

 1:30 — Soil Improvement Conference 

 1:30 — Organization and Publicity Confer- 

 ence 



Tuesday. Ian. 31 

 P.M. 

 1:30 — Marketing Conierence — General 



Session Breaking up into commodity 



groups as follows: 



PJ4. 



2:00 — Livestock Marketing 



2:00 — Grain Marketing 



2:00 — Fruit <& Vegetable Marketing 



2:00 — Cream and Produce Marketing 



2:00— Milk Marketing 

 4:00 — District Meetings and Conferences 



for the nomination of directors in 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION 



Notice is hereby given that the an- 

 nual meeting of the members of Illinois 

 Agricultural Association will be held at 

 the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, 

 on the 31st day of January. 1939 at 

 9 o'clock A. M. for the following pur- 

 poses: 



To consider and vole upon the ap- 

 proval and ratification of the reports 

 of the president, secretary and treasur- 

 er of the association and the acts of 

 the board of directors and officers in 

 furtherance of the matters therein set 

 forth, since the last annual meeting of 

 the members of the Association. 



To approve, ratify and confirm the 

 several purchases heretofore made by 

 this Association of stocks and evidences 

 of indebtedness of corporations whose 

 activities Mvill directly or indirectly 

 promote agriculture or the interests of 

 those engaged therein. 



To secure consent and authorization 

 to acquire on behalf of the Association, 

 by purchase, certain stocks and evi- 

 dences of indebtedness of corporations 

 whose activities will directly or indirect- 

 ly promote agriculture or the interests 

 of those engaged therein. 



To elect eight members of the Board 

 of Directors for a term of two years. 



To elect a president and vice-presi- 

 dent, who shall also serve as directors, 

 for a term oj one year. 



To consider such proposed amend- 

 ments of the articles of association or of 

 the by-laws of Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation as may be properly submitted. 



For the transaction of such other busi- 

 ness as may properly come before the 

 meeting. 



Dated at Chicago, Illinois, December 

 20, 1938. 



Paul E. Mathias, Secretary 



the odd numbered districts and 

 general conferences in the even 

 numbered districts. 



7:30 — General Session — lAA 



Address — Hon. Scott W. Lucas. U. 

 S. Senator from Rlinois 

 Address — "Putting Culture in Ag- 

 riculture." by Dr. Mark A. Dawber. 

 Executive Secretary. Home Missions 

 Council, New York City. 

 Election of President and Vice-Presi- 

 dent and directors from the odd- 

 numbered districts 



A.M. 



Wednesday. Feb. 1 



9:00 — General Session 



Report of Nominating Committee 

 and Election of Directors — Illinois 

 Agricultural Mutual Insurance Com- 

 pany 



9:10 — Report of Nominating Committee 

 and election of Directors — Illinois 

 Agricultural Holding Co. 



9:20 — Address "Agriculture and Foreign 

 Trade " — by Prof. T. W. Schulti, 

 Chief, Department of Agricultural 

 Economics. Iowa State College. 



R. M. "SPIKE* EVANS 



"Engineer to Farmer lo AAA Admin- 

 istrator." 



10:00 — Address "The AAA Program for 

 1939 " — by Hon. R. M. Evorxs, Ad- 

 ministrator, Agricultural Adjustment 

 Act 



10:45 — Address — Speaker to be an- 

 nounced 

 Report oi Resolutions Committee 



P.M. 

 1:00 — ^Business Session 



Music and Entertainment will be 

 provided throughout the convention. 



All Illinois farmers are interested in 

 the Agricultural Adjustment program for 

 1939, particularly its practical application. 

 The address of AAA Administrator 

 "Spike" Evans will be of especial interest. 

 In Evans, the corn belt has one of its own 

 sons, a native of Iowa and formerly chair- 

 man of his State Corn-Hog Committee. 

 He later held the same position with the 

 Iowa Soil Conservation Committee, serv- 

 ing until he went to Washington in 1936 

 as assistant to Secretary Wallace. 



Administrator Evans was bom in Cedar 

 Rapids, Iowa in 1890. He graduated 

 from Iowa State College in 1913 as a civil 

 engineer, served overseas during the war, 

 traveled for a machinery company as far 

 west as Australia, then returned to Iowa 

 in 1921 to carrying on grain and live- 

 stock farming at Laurens. 



While the '39 program does not vary 

 greatly from that of 1938, there is every 

 prospect that administration will be much 

 improved. State and county committees 

 and their employees have the benefit of 

 a year's experience. Many troublesome 

 problems have been settled. It is ex- 

 pected that allotments will be more uni- 

 form and equitable between farms. The 

 advantages of cooperation, the benefits of 

 the corn loan program and parity pay- 

 ments are better understood. All esti- 

 mates of participation for the coming 

 year show a marked upward trend and 



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