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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



September, 1931 



2,000 at Paxton 



G. J, Johnson 



PAXTON, 111., August 2 J. —Farm 

 Bureau members who are not lined 

 up with their co-operatives are stand- 

 ing in the way of progress just as much 

 as non-members, de- 

 clared Larry Wil- 

 liams, manager of 

 Country Life Insur- 

 ance Company, be- 

 fore 2,000 Ford 

 county farmers at 

 the county Farm 

 Bureau picnic here 

 today. A. B. Scho- 

 field, I. A. A. direc- 

 tor, and Farm Ad- 

 viser Purnell had an 

 excellent program 

 arranged. 

 "Some Farm Bureau members ought 

 to wear labels so people could tell they 

 are members," Mr. Williams said. "No 

 one could ever tell it by the way they 

 act." 



Representative Gus J. Johnson, speak- 

 ing in behalf of the Association of 

 Commerce, welcomed the Farm Bureau 

 members to Paxton. He paid tribute to 

 the legislative committee of the I. A. A. 

 for the way it has functioned at Spring- 

 field. 



"The legislative committee of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association is re- 

 spected by every member of the House 

 of Representatives for the sincere way 

 it has worked for constructive legisla- 

 tion," said Mr. Johnson. "What that 

 committee recommends carries a lot of 

 weight and always gets careful con- 

 sideration." 



Music was furnished by the Paxton 

 School Band and the Danville colored 

 quartette. The public address system 

 of the I. A. A. also furnished recorded 

 music during the day. 



Prizes were given for the oldest cou- 

 ple present, the youngest baby, and the 

 family which came the greatest dis- 

 tance. A carload of limestone and a 

 pure bred gilt were given at a drawing 

 held on the platform. 



Kirkpatrick at Murphysboro 



MURPHYSBORO, 111., August 26. 

 — Around 1,500 Farm Bu- 

 reau members of the 2 5 th Congressional 

 district heard Donald Kirkpatrick, legal 

 counsel for the I. A. A., in an address 

 at the district picnic here today urge 

 more effective organization and co-oper- 

 ation as the only panacea for the pres- 

 ent conditions in agriculture. 



Mr. Kirkpatrick enumerated instance 

 after instance in which organization 

 had already benefited agriculture and 

 pointed out future possibilities. 



Fred Dietz of De Soto, director of 



the I. A. A. from the 25th district, 

 introduced the speaker. Farm Adviser 

 J. G. McCall of Jackson county pre- 

 sided.' — — — ' ' "■- ■' ■*•", ' •■'"'' '■. 



Preceding the speaker on the after- 

 noon program, the Jackson county 4-H 

 Clubs presented a special program of 

 music and club demonstrations. During 

 the morning 4-H pigs were judged to 

 pick the county winners. 



Music was furnished during the day 

 by the amplifying system of the I. A. A. 



Good Crowd at Effingham 



EFFINGHAM, 111., August 27.— In 

 direct contrast with the old system 

 of trade, co-operative selling and buying 

 by organized farmers is returning a 

 large part of the profits to the home 

 communities to be deposited in rural 

 banks, George Metzger, secretary of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, told 

 Effingham County Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers and their guests at the annual pic- 

 nic here today. 



"One of the great faults of our pres- 

 ent system is that a great part of the 

 money has been drained out of the rural 

 sections and is now concentrated in the 

 large city banks leaving the rural banks 

 stripped to the point that they are not 

 able to finance local projects," he con- 

 tinued. 



Farmers* co-operative oil companies 

 alone returned $400,000 in patronage 

 dividends to Illinois farmers last year to 

 "be deposited in their local banks, MrT 

 Metzger pointed out. In the same way 

 profits on agricultural products mar- 

 keted co-operatively are distributed 

 back to the rural communities. 



Other speakers on the program were 

 Leroy Melton, Greenville, 111., national 

 president of the Farmers Equity Union; 

 Wilbur H. Coultas, manager of the 

 Soybean Marketing Association, and C. 

 H. James, manager of the Egyptian Seed 

 Growers Exchange, red top co-opera- 

 tive. 



Hog calling, chicken calling, husband 

 calling, and other contests were con- 

 ducted from the platform. Prizes were 

 awarded for the oldest couple attending 

 the picnic, the most recently married 

 couple, and the largest family attending. 

 A horseshoe pitching contest and races 

 were held as the final events on the pro- 

 gram. The I. A. A. public address sys- 

 tem entertained with music and ampli- 

 fied the speakers' voices. , 



Southern Illinois Poultry Day was 

 celebrated on September 10 on the 

 Crome Farm at Albion in Edwards 

 county. The University and the Farm 

 Bureaus sponsored the program. 



Tills colorful "flnsher" exhibit IliaHtratinK 16 I. A. A.-Fnrm Bureau «ervioe»i 

 attracted much attention at the Illinoix State and Aurora Fairs. 



