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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



December^ 19 il 



CO $3 each and $1.25 for additional 

 cots; Park hotel, 40 rooms (no bath) 

 ~$1; Hayes hotel, 15 rooms (no bath) 

 $1 each; Illinois hotel, 34 rooms, rates 

 (1 to $1.50 per persoi;! daily, cots $1; 

 Chandler hotel, 16 rooms (with bath) 

 $1.75 each, cots $1.25 — 44 rooms 

 (without bath) $1.25, cots $1. The 

 majority are within four to five blocks 

 of the Faust. 



Tentative Program 



The tentative program of the con- 

 vention provides for officer's reports 

 Thursday morning, January 28, and for 

 sectional conferences that afternoon. 

 The sectional conferences are arranged 

 primarily to give the delegates and 

 members a chance to express themselves. 

 Most of the time will be available for 

 impromptu discussion. 



A list of able and prominent speak- 

 ers to discuss such current questions as 

 revenue legislation, co-operative market- 

 ing, stabilization of money, and other 

 economic problems is being considered. 



District caucuses to select directors 

 from the 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 

 22nd, and 24th districts will be nom- 

 inated. 



The tentative program provides for 

 the annual banquet on Thursday even- 

 ing and a luncheon Friday noon where 

 speakers of nt^t^on-wide prominence are 

 expected to appear. 



Number of Delegates 



The number of delegates frorii each 

 county will be based on the paid mem- 

 bership on the last day of December, 

 1931. One delegate is allowed for the 

 first 500 of paid memberships or frac- 

 tion thereof, and one additional dele- 

 gate for each additional 500 members 

 or major fraction thereof. 



Speakers are being scheduled for the 

 annual meetings of the Illinois Farm 

 Bureau Baseball League, Illinois Farm 

 Bureau Serum Association, Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Mutual Insurance Company, 

 and Illinois Agricultural Auditing As- 

 sociation. Country Life Insurance 

 Company and Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company plan to sponsor conferences 

 and meetings of agents, managers, and 

 talesmen. 



WENDELL MORGAN OF MERCER COUNTY AND HIS PRIZE 



ANGUS STEER 



Illinois Wins In Junior 



Feeding at Stock Show 



Attendance Lower But Exhibits Are 

 ~~' Up To Standard 



Master Farmers Are Chosen 



Six Illinois farmers, all Farm Bureau 

 members, were honored by Prairie 

 Farmer and awarded the gold Master 

 Farmer medal on Sunday afternoon, No- 

 vember 29, in the WLS broadcasting 

 ttudios. 



Illinois men who received the honw: 

 were: E. E. Houghtby, DeKalb county; 



w C. E. James, Piatt county; Henry 

 Brinkman, Livingston county; W. 

 Frank Reid, Winnebago covmty; A. L. 



' Doubet, Knox county; and M. S. Mc- 

 Collister, Greene county. 



THE International Live Stock Expo- 

 sition, America's most colorful pa- 

 geant, agriculture's greatest sporting 

 event, is again a matter of history. 



Into the huge oval of Chicago's fa- 

 mous stock yard arena during the week 

 swept a constant procession of the con- 

 tinent's best livestock, while judges se- 

 lected champions. The attendance was 

 smaller than in former years. 



The central figure of the 12,000 ani- 

 mals was a stocky, jet black, little Aber- 

 deen Angus steer. Briar Clifif Thickset, 

 from Duchess county, New York. He 

 won the highest honor a beef animal 

 can obtain when he was named grand 

 champion steer of the world by Judge 

 Walter Biggar of Scotland. 



Briar Cliff Thickset, owned by Briar 

 Cliflf Farm, Pine Plains, N. Y., is the 

 first steer from an eastern farm to win 

 this honor in 31 years. Illini Major, a 

 Shorthorn steer, exhibited by the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, was chosen as reserve 

 champion. 



The Corn Belt shared honors with 

 Canada and the Rocky Moimtain area 

 in the grain and hay show. 



Edward N. Lux, Shelby county, In- 

 diana, is corn king. He comes from a 

 family of championship corn growers. 



A Canadian won the wheat crown with 

 an exhibit of Durum wheat. To Colo- 

 rado goes the laurels for sending the 

 finest oats, produced by Dr. J. F. Mein- 

 zer of La Jara. 



It was in the junior feeding contest 

 that Illinois came to the front. The 

 championship fight in the junior fat 

 steer show turned out to be a contest 

 between two Angus yearlings shown by 

 Wendell Morgan and Lawrence Morgan, 

 brothers, from Aledo, Mercer county, 

 Illinois. 



"Coalie," Wendell's entry, was de- 

 clared champion. "Coalie" already had 

 the distinction of being champion in his 

 class and grand champion at the Mercer 

 County Fair, Illinois State Fair, and the 

 Mississippi Valley Fair, Davenport. 

 Wendell is 16 years old, Lawrence 10. 



Mercer county also won the honor of 

 having the best group of three steers 

 shown. Illinois won first on the best 

 group of ten junior steers. Twenty-three 

 Illinois counties entered club steers. 



Against a field of 14 pens of fat bar- 

 rows, Raus Brown, 14, also of Aledo, 

 took first place with his purebred Duroc 

 Jerseys. Second place went to John Ash 

 of Ashkum, III. Edwin and Harold 

 Brown, Aledo club members, placed 

 fourth and fifth. ;! 



A load of Herefords, shown by John 

 D. Moeller, Schleswig, Iowa, copped the 

 prize for car lots of fat cattle after a 

 close contest with the car of Angus 

 yearlings, entered by E. P. Hall, veteran 

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