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Menard County Pledges 

 25% Member Increase 

 Here's What They Say 



Not satisfied until they have 60 new 

 ones on the Honor Roll. 



"Jesse Keen, Louis Freeman, Curtis 

 Slife, J. P. O'Brien, Orville Fischer of 

 Stockland Township signed 16 new 

 men and still going strong." 



from October 1, 1933 to April 1, 1984," 

 said Stevenson, and "we challenge 

 other counties to do likewise. The 

 time is ripe to sign members. I know 

 we can do it if we get out and work.";. 



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Menard county is out to increase 

 itfi membership at least 25 per 

 cent according to President John H. 

 Behrens of the Menard County Farm 

 Bureau. "Agriculture has built a 

 strong organization that is 

 getting results," said Mr. 

 Behrens. "However, all 

 farmers should belong to 

 the Farm Bureau and do 

 their part and we are going 

 to see that Menard meets 

 President Earl Smith's pro- 

 posal and increases its mem- 

 bership 25% in 1934." 



E. J. Rosendahl, county 

 captain in Menard, is on the 

 job pledged to achieve this 

 goal. Speaking of organ- 

 ized effort, Ira Smith, mem- 

 ber of the Menard Farm 

 Bureau, puts it this way: 

 "If we fail to build a full 



' strength organization and 



'cooperate in the recovery 

 program, my boy and your 

 boy will say, 'Dad, where 

 were you when the Presi- 

 dent of the United States 

 and the President of your 

 own organization urged you 



_ to do your part' ? You can't 

 afford to turn your boy 

 down." :.; 



80 Per Cent Signup 



Goal In Henderson 



Corn Loan News 



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"If we don't sign two out of every 



Join the Farm Bureau 



Iroquois County 

 Goal Is 500 

 New Members 



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With a goal of 500 new 

 members by April 1, more 

 than 115 lieutenants met 

 with their captain and Farm 

 Bureau officials at Watseka 

 in Iroquois county Feb. 12 

 at a pep meeting attended 

 by Messrs, Geo. E. Metzger, 

 O. D. Brissenden, and A. B. 

 Gulp of the organization 

 staff. More than 100 mem- 

 bers were reported signed 



on Feb. 16 and as this is 

 written additional reports indicate the 

 signup to be well up toward the 200 

 mark." ' ^"'^' ^■ 



A report received on Feb. 21 is as 



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"G. G. Butzow, Ora Baer, Ernest 

 Sass, Perry Parrish, W. H. Hodge, 

 James Greenburg, Bert Hixon, and 

 Wendell Adsit in Prairie Green and 

 Lovejoy townships in Iroquois county 

 in four days signed 48 new members. 



EPORTS from many counties in Illinois 

 indicate a growing interest in the farm 

 bureau and a gratifying increase in 

 membership. Farmers are coming to realize 

 much more than ever before how helpless 

 they are when disorganized; how much they 

 can do when they work together. When 

 farm folks quarrel among themselves or work 

 at cross purposes, that brings a smile to the 

 faces of the exploiters who have profited so 

 greatly at farmers' expense. 



Illinois farmers are fortunate in having in 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association, backed 

 as it is by strong county farm bureaus, the 

 strongest state farm organization in the 

 United States. Under the leadership of 

 President Earl Smith and his co-workers, the 

 I. A. A. is responsible in a very large degree 

 for the present farm program and the im- 

 provement in farm income which has re- 

 sulted. 



The work of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation has been made possible because of 

 the thousands of loyal members who have 

 continued to pay their dues during a period 

 when doing so was a real sacrifice. Most of 

 the work done by the association helps all 

 the farmers of the state. It is not fair for 

 the present members to carry all the load. 

 With times getting better and farm income 

 increasing, thousands of other farmers who 

 for one reason or another are not now mem- 

 bers, ought to join and use a small fraction 

 of the new money, which is available to a 

 large extent because of the association's ef- 

 forts, to pay their dues. • f 



If we will all do that we can make Illinois' 

 principal farm organization twice as strong 

 and twice as able to fight the battles of Illi- 

 nois farmers in the future. — Prairie Farmer, 

 Feb. 17, '34. •v-.-^ ^ •-■::".;- ^•:.••v■^ 



three farmers in Illinois this year," 

 says W. A. Stevenson of Henderson 

 county, "it will be just because we've 

 laid down on the job." Since June 1 

 Mr. Stevenson assisted in signing 

 from 140 to 150 new members in his 

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Henderson county has established 

 as its goal 80 per cent of all the farm- 

 ers in the county in the Farm Bureau. 

 "We expect to double our membership 



Additional reports from counties on 

 corn loans received since going to 

 press with the special newspaper edi- 

 tion of the February REC-V 

 ORD are as follows: 



Ford county — Farm ad- 

 viser W. F. Purnell reports 

 that 970,000 bushels have 

 been sealed for 670 farmers. 

 Average amount sealed is 

 about 1,450 bushels per 

 farm. ^^■ '.''-^--Y''':''^^ 



stark county — More than 

 500,000 bushels of corn were 

 sealed on Feb. 20, which is 

 around 40 per cent of corn 

 yet remaining on farms^:. 

 "We have well ever 700 con--: 

 tracts in the eorn-hog pro-^, 

 gram signed in the eight 

 townships of the county and 

 we expect to have close to 

 90 per cent of the farmers 

 in Stark county in this pro- 

 gram before the finish," 

 writes Wayne Gilbert, farm 

 adviser. 



"We are planning a mem- 

 bership drive for the middle 

 of March. It is under the 

 control of a committee con-* 

 sisting of Walter Gingrich, 

 vice-president; Albert Lloyd 

 Hewitt, county mobilization 

 captain; and Harvey Price, 

 at present chairman of the 

 county livestock marketing 

 committee." 



Fulton county — 158,000 

 bushels of corn sealed, |71,- 

 100 loaned, reports John E. 

 Watt, farm adviser. 



Bureau county— 1,600,000 

 bushels of corn sealed, 

 1720,000 loaned. Approxi- 

 mately 50 per cent of the 

 corn on farms sealed for 

 loans. Bureau county is plan- 

 ning to increase its Farm 



Bureau membership at least 



25 per cent by April 1 — 114 

 new members signed since Oct. 14. 



DeWitt county — Farm Adviser H. 

 H. Myers reports 384 corn loans for 

 approximately $270,000. ' ; ^ - I • 



Saline county — Seven loans made on 

 cribbed corn for a total of |S,997.85. 

 Peoria county — Up to February 8, 

 147 farmers in Peoria county had had 

 their com sealed for a total of $78,- 

 201, reports J. W. Whisenand. More 

 applications are rolling in. .->; 



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