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^^^^^Hl l.irt:tsl sl.itt farm orii.mi/.i 

 ^^~# lion lu)IJini,' its atinii.il ion 

 ^_y \tnlion in llie hitiucM liotcl in 

 lliL world. 'Ilial's tlic set up lor the tom- 

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I he (.xpericnit ol lioMini; tin. niuiKi 

 oils sessions ot an lAA annu.il nicctin^ 

 all iinilcr one root will he the tir^i 

 sinie ilu AsMKiation spread out into 

 InisMKs^ .tiul ser\ic.e- .uliMties in l!ie 

 ninklle- twenties. 



As we S.O to press. llie proi;rani is neai 

 ini; lonipletioii. A luiinlxr ot inleresi 

 iHi; speakers eaili a leader m his field 

 uitli a message tor farmers. Iia\e heen 

 iareliil!\ seleited, lurtlier annouiu,- 

 merits will he m.ide later in the month 

 The outline ot the procr.im is as lol 

 lou ^: 



TENTATIVE PROGRAM OF ANNUAL 

 MEETING AND CONFERENCES OF IL- 

 LINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 

 AND AFFILIATED COMPANIES JANUARY 



30. 31 and FEBRUARY 1, 1939 

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 DATE AND HOUR MEETING 



Monday. Jan. 30 

 A.M. 

 9:30 — Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Co. 



Annual Meeting 

 10:00 — Illinois Farm Bureau Serum Asso- 

 ciation Annual Meeting 

 10:00 — Illinois Agricultural Auditing Asso- 

 ciation Annual Meeting 

 10:00 — Illinois Milk Producers Associalioi 



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 Conlerence 



3:00 — Country Life Insurance Company 

 Conference 



6:00 — Farm Bureau Presidents' and Farm 

 Advisers' Banquet 



7:30 — Talent Night — Entertainment 



Tuesday, Jan. 31 

 A.M. 

 9:15 — General Sessions — lAA — Report 

 of Officers and President's addre.« 

 1:30 — Public Relations Conference 

 1:30 — Soil Improvement Conference 

 1:30 — Organization and Publicity Confer- 

 ence 



P.M. 



Tuesday. Jan. 31 



1:30 — Marketing Conference — General 



Session Breaking up into commodity 



groups as follows: 



P.M. 



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 vote upon the ap- 

 proval and ratification of the reports 

 of the president, secretary and treasur- 

 er of the association and the acts ol 

 the board of directors and olficerr. 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 will 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 of 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 Illinois 

 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 



Wednesday. Feb. I 

 A.M. 



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. Schultz, 

 Chief, Department of Agricultural 

 Economics. Iowa State College. 



H, M. ■SPIKE' EVANS 



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10:00— Address "The AAA Program for 

 1939' — by Hon. R. M. Evans, Ad- 

 ministrator. Agricultural Adjustment 

 Act 



10:45 — Address — Speaker to be an- 

 nounced 

 Report of Resolutions Committee 



P.M. 

 1:00 — Business Session 



Music and Entertainment will be 

 provided throughout the convention. 



All Illinois farmers are interested in 

 the A^riiultiiral Adjustment proqram for 

 lyV;, partieiilarly its praetieal applieation. 

 llie .iddress of AAA Administrator 

 -Spike J!\ans will he of especial interest, 

 in 1 A.ins, the lorn helt has one of its own 

 sons, a nati\eot leiwa and leirmerly chair- 

 man ol his State ( orn-Ho^' Committee. 

 He later held the s.ime position with the 

 Iowa Soil (.onservation ( ommittee. ser\ - 

 ini; until lie went to \X'ashin^nton in 193rt 

 ,is assist.int to Seeretary W'alLne. 



Administrator l'\ans was horn in ( edar 

 Kapids. Iowa in I ,S9(). He graduated 

 from Iowa State (■oiicge in lyi 3 as a civil 

 engineer, served overseas during the war, 

 tr.iveled for a machinery company as far 

 west as Australia, then returned to Iowa 

 in 1 92 1 to carrying; on ^rain and live- 

 stock farming: at I.aurens. 



While the V; prouram does not \ary 

 greatly from that of 19ss, there is every 

 prospect that administration will he muih 

 improveil. State and county committees 

 and their employees liave the henefit of 

 a year's experience. Many trouhlesome 

 |irohlems have heen settled. It is ex- 

 ]x\Ied that allotments will be more uni- 

 form anel ee|uitahle hetv\een farms, llie 

 avivantayes of looperation. the henetits of 

 the corn loan program anil parity pay- 

 ments are better understood. All esti- 

 mates ot participation for the comin;.' 

 vear show a marked upward trend and 



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I. A. A. RECORD 



