I. A. A. Record — March, 1934 



NEW DIRECTORS ELECTED TO I. A. A. BOARD 



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£. E. HOIfOHTBY 

 12th 



OTTO STEFFEY 

 14th 



ALBERT HAYES 

 16th 



MONT FOX 

 18th 



A. 0. ECKERT 

 22nd 



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TO acquaint members of the I. A. 

 A. with the five new directors 

 chosen at the recent annual 

 meeting, short biographical sketches 

 are presented herewith: 



A. 0. Eckert of Belleville, 22nd dis- 

 trict, is a former vice-president and 

 director of the I. A. A. He served on 

 the board in 1921-1922 and was vice- 

 president i 1923 when Sam H. Thomp- 

 son was president. 



Mr. Eckert has long been active in 

 farm organization work. He assisted 

 in organizing the St. Clair County 

 Farm Bureau and the Illinois Fruit 

 Growers Exchange, serving, s even 

 years as president of his local Farm 

 Bureau. He was also on the board of 

 the Federated Fruit Growers of 

 America, established more than a 

 decade ago, as a nation-wide market- 

 ing agency. ■: •^::T; '••\ •.V---^-^--- '..>•... •>- - . 

 '■: Mr. Eckert operates a 340 acre 

 farm, 125 acres of which are planted 

 to producing apple, peach, and cherry 

 trees. He also is an extensive feeder 

 of live stock, marketing around 500 

 sheep, 300 hogs, and 200 cattle an- 

 nually. A large part of the produce 

 from the farm is marketed direct to 

 consumers through his local roadside 

 market and through the Belleville 

 Fruit and Produce Market of which 

 he is president. 



Customers are brought direct to the 

 Eckert farm through consistent adver- 

 tising in the daily newspapers of St. 

 Louis. He spends approximately (1,000 

 annually on advertising alone. 



Two of Mr. Eckert's boys. Curt and 

 Cornell, took the agricultural course 

 at the University of Illinois and are 

 on the farm now assisting their Dad 

 as partners in the business. The third 

 son, Vernon, is a junior at Urbana and 

 he too will be offered a partnership on 

 graduation. ' '• -r-''^' ■'•.'• .kri'" ""■ ''" ' 



Last year 300 hogs were butchered 

 on the farm and sold to consumers 

 mostly in the form of hams, bacon and 

 sausage. Fifteen to twenty acres of 

 potatoes are produced annually, and 

 what fruits and vegetables are not 



sold through the roadside market are 

 trucked to neighboring towns for sale. 

 One of the boys is in direct charge 

 of the orchard, the other manages the 

 livestock operations, while their father 

 supervises all. 



Mr. Eckert served for two and one- 

 half years as president of the Illinois 

 State Horticultural Society. He was 

 given the Master Farmer gold medal 

 by Prairie Farmer about ten years ago 

 and was president for several years of 

 the Master Farmer Club of America. 

 He is a member of the Grange and 

 director of the Belleville Chamber of 

 Commerce, v ^ /^ 



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ALBERT HAYES of Peoria 

 county, new director from the 

 16th district, is well known 

 throughout central Illinois. He has 

 been prominently identified in farm 

 organization work for many years. 

 Active in the Peoria County Farm Bu- 

 reau from the beginning, he was elec- 

 ted director of Medina township in 

 1920, served successfully on the exec- 

 utive committee and as secretary un- 

 til 1929 when he was elected president. 

 He assisted in organizing and served 

 as the first president of the Peoria 

 County Service Company. 



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Mr. Hayes owns and operates a 194 

 acre farm north of Mossville. He is 

 director in the First National Bank of 

 Chillicothe, also the Peoples Building 

 and Loan Association of the same 

 town, has been supervisor of his town- 

 ship for the past six years, director 

 of the Peoria County Federal Land 

 Bank Association, chairman of the 

 Peoria County Farm Debt Adjustment 

 Committee, and vice-president of the 

 Pekin Production Credit Association. 

 In addition to operating his own farm 

 he is supervising two farms for a 

 non-resident owner. He was awarded a 

 gold Master Farmer medal by Prairie 

 Farmer several years ago. ; - 



Mr. and Mrs. Hayes have three boys, 

 two of high school age and one in the 

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MONT FOX, new director from 

 the 18th district, is an exten^ 

 sive livestock feeder. He has 

 lived in Vermilion county all his life. 

 A member of the Farm Bureau for the 

 past 15 years, Mr. Fox has served on 

 the board of directors since 1928. 



He retired from general farming in 

 1918 and began feeding cattle, lambs 

 and hogs exclusively, buying most of 

 the feed. In 1924 he discontinued cat- 

 tle feeding and began feeding western 

 lambs. His farm is all in grass. Dur- 

 ing the season he usually finishes 5,000 

 western lambs and around 500 hogs. 



He has been president of the Ver- 

 milion County Live Stock Marketing 

 Association since its organization four 

 years ago. He represents his district 

 on the board of the Illinois Livestock 

 Marketing Association, and also has 

 served on the board of the Vermilion 

 Service Company since it was formed 

 two years ago. He is a director in the 

 State Bank of Oakwood. ^ . 



EE. HOUGHTBY of Shabbona, 

 president of the DeKalb Coun- 

 • ty Farm Bureau, is the new 

 director from the 12th district. - 



After graduating from the Illinois 

 State Teachers' College in 1913 Mr. 

 Houghtby taught school for five years 

 acting as superintendent of the high 

 schools at Ohio and Neponset. For 

 two years he taught mathematics at 

 the Rock Island high school. In 1919 

 he began farming near Shabbona. 



He operates 237 acres, has a herd of 

 30 pure bred Brown Swiss cattle, also 

 raises purebred Chester White hogs 

 and White Rock chickens. < 



Mr. Houghtby was awarded a Mas- 

 ter Farmer medal by Prairie Farmer 

 in 1931. He has been a leader in 

 community and civic work. He is sec- 

 retary of the board of the Shabbona 

 community high school and was re- 

 cently chosen director from the eighth 

 district on the board of the Pure Milk 

 Association. Mr. and Mrs. Houghtby 

 have one child, Joan Elizabeth, Qve 

 years old. (Continued next page) ' 



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