Organization Set-Up In Ogle 

 and Stephenson Counties 



By R. J. Hamilton, County Organization Director 



B. J. HAXILTOV 



THE boards of Ogle and Stephen- 

 son County Farm Bureaus hold 

 certain beliefs. They believe that 

 education and information are the first 

 essentials in developing an active growing 

 organization. They believe furthermore 

 that permanent growth and profitable 

 activity depends upon the masses being 

 active in the projects of the Farm Bu- 

 reau. They believe 

 in smaller units than 

 the township being 

 used to carry out the 

 information work to 

 be done. 



Based on the above 

 beliefs, these coun- 

 ties have adopted a 

 school district unit 

 for organization 

 purposes. They have 

 not destroyed the 

 township organiza- 

 tion, but rather sup- 

 plemented it. In Ogle County we have 

 an organization chairman. The county 

 is divided into seven sections. The coun- 

 ty chairman has selected an organiza- 

 tion leader for each section. These lead- 

 ers with the chairman constitute the 

 County Organization Committee. Every 

 organization move in the county is 

 adopted and approved by them. These 

 sectional leaders are known as Colonels 

 in our military set-up. Each section 

 comprises from three to five town- 

 ships. The Colonel selects in each town- 

 ship a leader known as a Major. The 

 Major in turn selects a Captain in each 

 school district. In the larger school dis- 

 tricts he has a helper. In each school 

 district the Captain selects a tax man, 

 an insurance man, an oil man, and a 

 marketing man. In this manner every 

 member has something to contribute be- 

 sides his $15. This activity creates or- 

 ganization consciousness. 



Of course, we don't have a complete 

 set-up in every school district. In some 

 districts we don't have any members. The 

 interesting thing, however, is that when 

 a non-member is asked to carry on for 

 that district he often accepts and makes 

 one of the best members. 

 • With this set-up we can reach every 

 farmer in the county by personal con- 

 tact in a very short time if necessary. 



Educational meetings are held by the 

 county under the General, who is county 

 chairman. Sectional meetings are held 

 by the Colonel. Towjnship meetings are 



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held by the Major in his own township. 

 School district meetings are held by the 

 Captain. 



The members like this set-up because 

 it brings the Farm Bureau closer to the 

 farm. 



When we put on a drive for members, 

 we no longer go down the road in a 

 house to house canvass but each Cap- 

 tain selects his prospect and goes after 

 just one member. Ogle county has 188 

 school districts. After our drive we re- 

 sume a series of educational meetings 

 and prepare other prospects. 



The AAA, our legislative work, taxa- 

 tion, marketing, insurance, and oil are 

 among the things which interest our 

 members and provide community meet- 

 ing topics. 



Fits Into Our Plan 



By D. E. Warren, Farm Adviser Ogle 



County 



The educational type of organization 

 program that we are using in Ogle Coun- 

 ty under Mr. Hamilton's direction fits 

 very nicely into our plan of community 

 unit work in which we are endeavoring 

 to get all township community units or- 

 ganized for holding regular meetings. I 

 feel that with the many duties the farm 

 adviser now has, that the community 

 meetings must to considerable extent 

 take the place of farm visits in making 

 contacts between the county office and 

 the individual member. 



The discussions at community meet- 

 ings help to correlate the extension 

 projects with the organization projects 

 and give the member a rather complete 

 picture of the Farm Bureau Program. 



Engle Succeeds Milnor 



To Farmers National Post 



Bill Engle, assistant general manager, 

 will succeed George S. Milnor as general 

 manager of the Farmers National 

 Grain Corporation. Mr. Milnor resigned 

 recently to resume his connection with 

 the Spark -I Milling Company at Alton, 

 Illinois. 



Engle is an old seasoned grain man 

 who knows all the ropes. He has been 

 in charge of grain operations, hedging 

 transactions, and co-ordination of the 

 branch offices for several years. > :; *. ir 



Macomb, Oct. 13: Will county won 

 the state championship of the Illinois 

 Farm Bureau Baseball League here to- 

 day by blasting out an easy 13 to 4 

 victory over the 1932 champions from 

 McDonough county. More than 3,000 

 fans saw McDonough county drop their 

 second straight game to the new cham- 

 pions. 



"Lefty" Schuldt had the McDonough 

 county sluggers standing on their heads 

 and held them to five hits, three allowed 

 in the last of the ninth. He fanned 10 

 batters. 



George Bradford started on the mound 

 for McDonough, but errors soon put him 

 in the hole and he turned the pitching 

 over to his older brother, Jesse, in the 

 third inning. The two allowed 10 hits 

 and they fanned eight. 



Manager Boots Runkle had an off-day 

 at shortstop. He booted two successive 

 drives and then threw wide to first base 

 in the second which contributed to send- 

 ing four runs across the plate for Will 

 county. 



Showman Welch, left fielder, normally 

 a heavy hitter, failed to connect. The 

 Bradford s got three of the five hits. 



Will county bunched a triple, two 

 doubles and a single with another error 

 for three more runs in the third. Mc- 

 Donough's first run came in the fourth 

 inning when Welch was hit with a 

 pitched ball. He stole second and when 

 the throw to catch him at second went 

 wild he raced on home. 



Either Schuldt weakened or the Mc- 

 Donough batsmen suddenly came to life 

 in the last of the ninth for they pounded 

 the Will county hurler for three hits and 

 as many runs in that inning. 



The largest crowd at a baseball game 

 this season saw the contest. McDon- 

 ough won 10 and lost three games in the 

 League this season. Will county was 

 runner-up against Sangamon, state title 

 winners last year. 



The silver trophy awarded annually to 

 the state championship Farm Bureau 

 baseball team by the I. A. A. will be 

 presented at a banquet to be arranged 

 later. 



Frankfort, Oct. 6: — Will county won 

 the first game of the state championship 

 series with McDonough here today by 

 driving in a run in the last of the tenth 

 inning. It was a bright but windy day. 

 Behind the effective pitching of Lefty 

 Schuldt, the Will county boys held the 

 hard hitting McDonough team to three 

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