FARM LEADERS 

 lAA President Earl C. Smith congratulates Irene Brown. 

 Mercer county, owner of the International Live Stock Show 

 Grand Champion steer, while Ed O'Neal, president of the 

 AFBF, looks on. Irene was guest oi honor at the 17th annual 

 IAA-4-H banquet, December 1. 



STATE CHAMPS ' 



DeKalb county's poultry judging team coached by Paul 

 Furr, leit, is composed oi Walter I. Peterson. Walter P. Peter- 

 son and loe Faivre. Walter P. blinked. 



FTJN-MAKERS 



Leit to right, Rosalie Braasch. Eiiingham county, lAA REC- 

 ORD editor George Thiem and leanie Canterbury, Sangamon 

 county, in a gay mood at the lAA 4-H banquet. 



OVERFLOW CROWD 

 The Great Northern Hotel's ballroom was tilled and about 

 100 ate in another room. Record attendance was 500. 



AUTOGRAPHER SEEKER 

 Edwin Henderson, Fulton county, got Irene Broom's name 

 in liis book. 



4-H BEEF SHOW AND SALE 

 196 calves irom 39 Illinois and Missouri counties, owned 

 and ied by 4-H Club members or students oi vocational agri- 

 culture, were showed and sold at the 15th annual sale 

 sponsored by the St. Louis Producers at National Stock Yards. 



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