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Plan Co-op Marketing 



Meetings for Febraary 



A series of district meetings for the 

 purpose of discussing all phases of the 

 co-operative marketing program is be- 

 ing sponsored throughout the state by 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 during February. Purpose of the meet- 

 ' ings is to discover, if possible, ways 

 and means through which the co-opera- 

 tive marketing program can be im- 

 proved or strengthened. 



The meetings are scheduled as fol- 

 lows: 



Mt. Vernon, Emmerson Hotel, Feb. 

 3. 



Galesburg, Farm Bureau Building, 

 Feb. 11. 



Champaign, Farni Bureau Building, 

 Feb. 16. 



Jacksonville, Farm Bureau Building, 

 Feb. 17. 



De Kalb, (place to be announced 

 later), Feb. 2-1. 



All meetings will start promptly at 

 10 a.m. and they will be adjourned 

 by 3 or 3:30 p.m. 



Expected to attend the meetings are: 

 County Farm Bureau marketing com- 

 mittees, farm advisers. Farm Bureau 

 presidents, county organization direc- 

 tors, and other members of the County 

 Farm Bureau boards, if they desire to 

 attend. Attending from the lAA will 

 be the heads of the marketing depart- 

 ments, field secretary, one or more 

 members of the lAA marketing com- 

 mittee, and other members of the lAA 

 board if they desire to sfttend. 



Prodncer Annual Meetings 



Springfield Producers — Feb. 26 — 



St. Nidiolas Hotel 

 St. Louis Producers — March 8 — 



J'jfferson Hotel 

 Chicago Producers — March 9 — 



Hotel Sherman 



Charles H. Berg, DuPage County Fotm Bu- 

 reau member, demonstrates the powder- 

 dry condition o< his soil in January. 



FEBRUARY. 1944 • 



Annual meeting oi the Southern Illinois 

 Horticultural Society Ian. 17 at Carbon- 



dale was well attended by growers ol 

 the area. 



¥Am ANV HOME WEEK 



ILLINOIS farmers will take over the U. 

 of I. campus Feb. 8 to 10 as they 

 gather for the 49th annual Farm and 

 Home Week program and prepare for 

 the big job of production in 1944. A 

 list of rooms available for Farm and 

 Home week visitors will be maintained 

 at the registration desk in the U. of I. 

 auditorium. Meals may be secured at the 

 mini Union Building between the hours 

 of 7:15-8:30 a.m.; 11:30 a.m. — 1 p.m. 

 and 5:30-7 p.m.; and at local restaurants. 



For those who are unable to attend the 

 program at the university, arrangements 

 have been made to broadcast as much as 

 possible of the program. Station WILL, 

 580 on the radio dial, will broadcast 

 these programs. 



The 1944 program is streamlined to 

 make the best possible use of time and 

 yet is designed to cover every subject 

 from taxes to machinery. The various 

 sessions are arranged so that visitors may 

 select those they wish to attend by the 

 general topic listings. 



GENERAL SESSIONS 



There will be a general session at 3 

 p.m. in the University Auditorium on 

 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and 

 an evening session at 7:30 p.m. on Tues- 

 day and 8:pjn. Wednesday in the Audi- 

 torium. Vesper services will be held at 

 5:15 pJTi on Tuesday and Wednesday in 

 Smith Music Hall. 



Speaker for the Tuesday general ses- 

 sion will be John H. Kolb, research work- 

 er and author in rural sociology, Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin. His topic will be 

 "Youth in the Rural Community." Fea- 

 ture of the Tuesday evening session will 

 be an address and slides on "Some Im- 

 pressions of Brazil," by H. H. Alp, spe- 

 cialist in poultry production, U. of I., re- 

 cently returned from an assignment in 

 Brazil. At 8:30 p. m. Tuesday there will 

 be a "Farm and Home Week Ojjcn 

 House" in the Illini Union. 



General session speaker Wednesday 

 afternoon will be Paul G. Hoffman, 

 chairman of committee for economic de- 

 velopment. New York, and president of 

 the Studebaker Corporation. His topic 

 will be "Productivity — The Key to the 

 Maintenance of Freedom." Evening ses- 

 sion speaker will be Roscoe Turner, win- 

 ner of air races and pioneer in aviation, 

 who will discuss "Aviation, Yesterday, 

 Today, and Tomorrow." At 9 p. m. 

 there will be a social recreation program 

 in the lower gymnasium of the Woman's 

 Building. 



Speaker for the Thursday afternoon 



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Jones Reorganizes WFA; 



Sets Up Office of Price 



Marvin Jones, War Food Adminis- 

 tration director, has announced a re- 

 organization of the WFA which estab- 

 lishes a new "Office of Price " within 

 the WFA and sets up the AAA, FSA 

 and Soil Conservation Service as inde- 

 pendent agencies reporting directly to 

 Jones. Previously the AAA, FSA and 

 SCS were under the Food Production 

 Administration. 



Jones named Ashley Sellers, assistant 

 administrator, as temporary head of the 

 Office of Price. It will supervise all 

 WFA functions relative to approval of 

 maximum prices and pricc-suppjrt pro- 

 grams. The Office of Price takes over 

 some of the functions of the Commod- 

 ity Credit Corporation and will recom- 

 mend directly to Jones what commod- 

 ities should be supported and the levds 

 and methods of support. 



J. B. Huston, head of the CCC, re- 

 mains as head of the Food Production 

 Administration, which is renamed 

 Office of Production. 



The Food Distribution Administra- 

 tion under Lee Marshall was renamed 

 the Office of Distribution. 



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