Page Four 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



January, 1933 



Charles Bates, Browning; and A. B. 

 Schofield, Paxton, will hold its first 

 meeting in Chicago, Saturday, Jan- 

 uary 14 when resolutions offered 

 will be given consideration. 



Members who have resolutions to 

 offer for consideration of the board 

 of delegates, the supreme govern- 

 ing body of the organization, should 

 send them to Secretary Geo. E. 

 Metzger at the Association offices 

 at once. 



Members of the Cre- 

 dentials Committee for 

 the convention are as 

 follows: M. G. Lambert, 

 Ferris; C. J. Gross, At- 

 wood; W.L. Cope, Salem; 

 and Fred Dietz, DeSoto. 

 The number of voting 

 delegates eligible to rep- 

 resentation in the an- 

 nual meeting will be 

 based on the paid-up 

 membership in each 

 county as stated in the 

 by-laws. 



Friday morning session it is planned 

 that delegates and visitors will get 

 their lunch quickly and return to 

 start the afternoon session prompt- 

 ly at one o'clock. This arrangement 

 should make possible adjournment 

 of the convention by four or five 

 o'clock. 



The fact that Peoria lies in the 

 heart of one of the most populous 

 Farm Bureau sections of Illinois in- 

 dicates that attendance this year 



DIVIDEND 

 NEWS 



A Busy Day 



The annual meeting of 

 the Illinois Farm Bureau 

 Baseball League will 

 start off the day on Jan- 

 uary 25 when the asso- 

 ciated companies all or- 

 ganized by the I. A. A. 

 will hold their annual 

 meetings and confer- 

 ences. This day promises 

 to be busiest of all for 

 the delegate or visitor 

 whose interests are di- 

 vided between auto in- 

 surance, fire, hail, and 

 winds torm insurance, 

 auditing the accounts of 

 co-operatives and farm 

 organizations, produce 

 marketing, serum serv- 

 ice, life insurance, and 

 baseball. Meetings and 

 sessions of companies 

 and associations repre- 

 senting all these services 

 and activities will be 

 held that day, many of 

 them simultaneously. In 

 addition there will be a 

 meeting for managers of 

 the county service com- 

 panies sponsored by Illi- 

 nois Farm Supply Co. 



Programs for these 

 sessions are now being 

 prepared but none has 

 been definitely outlined 

 so as to be ready for pub- 

 lication at this writing. 



Speed Up Friday Session 

 Complaints of previous 

 years that the Friday afternoon 

 business session was allowed to 

 drag on too late into the evening 

 making it necessary for many dele- 

 gates to stay an extra night, will be 

 met this year by the abolition of the 

 luncheon and the long drawn out 

 introduction of guests. After the 



A Word From Our President 



A S WE pause to look back over events of the past 

 ^^ year and attempt to anticipate developments of 

 the future, nothing stands out more impressively 

 than the loyalty, the courage and the determi- 

 nation displayed by the membership of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association and County Farm Bureaus 

 during the year 1932. The fact that Illinois now 

 leads all states by a substantial margin in support- 

 ing Farm Bureau membership is a record of which 

 we all should be proud; a record that should be a 

 source of satisfaction and further encouragement 

 to continue our united efforts toward correcting 

 those evils which have all but impoverished the in- 

 dustry we love, and now engulf the Nation. 



Agriculture has felt the .full effects of deflation 

 and depression which has crystallized in its most 

 acute form during 1932. Failure of government for 

 twelve years to face the farm problem fairly and 

 squarely has resulted in forcing the farmers out of 

 the market as buyers and this depleted buying 

 power of nearly one-half of the population has 

 finally resulted in the closing of a large per cent 

 of our manufacturing industries and has paralyzed 

 business in general. Almost single handed and 

 alone, constructive farm organizations have for 

 eight years anticipated such a condition, unless ag- 

 riculture was recognized in such proper and just 

 manner as would restore a balance between agri- 

 cultural income and industrial prices entering into 

 the cost of farm production. If nothing else, this 

 general paralysis of business has resulted in focus- 

 ing the attention of thinking business, industrial 

 and political leaders on the farm problem and a 

 rapidly growing conviction that a restoration of 

 farm buying power is a first essential to the return 

 of America to a normal basis. 



Farmers have in the past been the backbone of 

 America in meeting and overcoming serious dangers 

 confronting the Nation. Their continued stamina, 

 courage and determination, coupled with the fast 

 increasing support of thinking business interests 

 will again meet and overcome present difficulties. 

 The time has arrived for directing our thoughts to 

 facts and not fiction; for action and not debate. 



To this end our efforts must be dedicated, for 

 only through constructive thinking and united ac- 

 tion can agriculture hope to gain its rightful posi- 

 tion in the economic life of the Nation and can 

 the Nation hope to recover. 



Many favorable reports have been 

 received concerning the patronage 

 dividends declared by local Farm 

 Bureau service companies associated 

 with Illinois Farm Sup- 

 ply Company, and other 

 Farm Bureau organized 

 co-operatives. 



Among the companies 

 that closed their books 

 during the fall months, 

 Adams Service Company, 

 Rich-Law Service Com- 

 pany, Jersey County 

 Farm Supply Company, 

 and Marshall - Putnam 

 Oil Company declared a 

 refund of 20 per cent or 

 more to Farm Bureau 

 member patrons. 



Some of the companies 

 that have declared a 

 patronage dividend of 15 

 per cent or more are: 

 Champaign County Serv- 

 ice Company, Ford Coun- 

 ty Service Company ($8,- 

 446.60), Fulton Service 

 Company ($9,000), 

 Greene County Service 

 Company ($4,184.51), 

 Henry-Stark Service 

 Company ($10,966.50), 

 Kane County Service 

 Company, LaSalle Coun- 

 ty Farm Supply Com- 

 pany, Livingston Service 

 Company, Logan-Mason 

 Service Company ($8,- 

 500) , Peoria County Serv- 

 ice Company, St. Clair 

 Service Company, Ste- 

 phenson Service Com- 

 pany, Tazewell Service 

 Company, Tri-County Oil 

 Company ($17,550), 

 Whiteside Service Com- 



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will be heavy. At least 5,000 dele- 

 gates, members, and friends are ex- 

 pected to gather during the three - 

 day session. Those who contemplate 

 attending the convention are asked 

 to make reservations at once with 

 the Peoria County Farm Bureau, 

 Peoria, 



pany. 



One thousand one 

 hundred and sixty-three 

 patronage dividend 

 checks, totaling over 

 $24,000, were distributed 

 to Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers in good standing in 

 LaSalle County. 



Champaign County 

 Service Company has re- 

 turned $24,561.71 to Farm 

 Bureau members the past 

 two years. Seven hundred 

 and ten Farm Bureau 

 members received dividend checks 

 this year. One patron received over 

 $250, two over $100, 41 over $50, and 

 102 over $25. The average refund 

 for the past fiscal year was $16.47 

 per member. 

 Six hundred and eleven Farm Bu- 

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