place and a need for a Farm Bureau in 

 Cook County." 



The members rolled up their sleeves 

 and started buliding membership. To- 

 day with 3000 members, Cook County 

 Farm Bureau has the largest membership 

 of any county in Illinois and has two 

 offices — one at Arlington Heights and 

 the other at Blue Island. Both build- 

 ings are paid for and a reserve has been 

 put aside for a rainy day. 



Ouwenga pointed out that Cook coun- 

 ty has approximately 4200 farms. There 

 are some 2200 general and dairy farms 

 and near the metropolitan area about 

 2000 vegetable growers. 



Richards, when asked why he joined 

 the Farm Bureau said, "I know from ex- 

 perience we're living in an organized 

 world and a man by himself can't get 

 very far. Before I turned farmer I be- 

 longed to organizations. The Farm Bu- 

 reau is a strong farm organization and I 

 want to belong. Farmers can do many 

 things as an organization they can't pos- 

 sibly hope to accomplish by themselves." 



Glen Snider. Gibson City, signs a mem- 

 bership contract and becomes the 1000th 

 Ford County Farm Bureau member. The 

 solicitor is Grotis McGuire. member of 

 the Ford Couiity Form Bureau board and 

 Service Company board. 



Illinois and Iowa pledged the attainment 



of their respective quotas in the "Million 

 Member Goal" in 1944 at the Midwest Farm 

 Bureau Q)nference held in Milwaukee in mid- 

 June. Other midwest states indicated that 

 they would make their goals in 1945. Il- 

 linois reported that it expected to exceed its 

 goal of 100,453 by a slight margin in 1944. 

 Iowa indicated that it expected to have 75,- 

 000 members by the end of 1944 as compared 

 with its goal of 74,243. 



The Midwest Conference was well attended. 

 Registration from Illinois was reported at 139. 

 Wisconsin had a registration of 162, and Mich- 

 igan, 158. Total registration was reported at 

 673. 



R. B. Corbett, secretary of the AFBF, in 

 summarizing the conference said that the one 

 major thought is the tremendous responsibil- 

 ity resting on the Farm Bureau in postwar 

 readjustment. . 



JULY-AUGUST. 1944 



Ray H. Schilling, vocational agricultural 

 teacher at Elkhart, Ind., is the new county 

 organization director in Logan county re- 

 placing Lee Roy Hayes, who entered the 

 armed services May 20. 



Marion County Farm Bureau has em- 

 ployed John C. Bigelow as county organiza- 

 tion director. He took over his duties as of 

 June 23. 



H. H. Click, organization director in 

 Wayne county for 10 years, has tendered his 

 resignation to be efTective Aug. 8. 



Ang. 15 Deadline for Co-op 

 Tax Information Returns 



Agricultural organizations, exempt 

 from filing income tax returns under the 

 provisions of Section 101 of the Internal 

 Revenue Code and whose fiscal year 

 ended Dec. 31, 1943, or Jan. 31, Feb. 

 29, and March 31 of 1944, must file in- 

 formation return Form 990 (revised 



May, 1944,) on or before Aug. 15, 

 1944, according to C. C. Chapelle, tax 

 consultant for the Illinois Agricultural 

 Auditing Association. All other coop- 

 eratives must file by the 13th day of the 

 fifth month following the close of their 

 fiscal periods. 



The returns must be filed with the 

 Collector of Internal Revenue for the 

 district in which the organization is 

 located. 



Chapelle pointed out that the filing of 

 the returns calls for great care in the 

 preparation, and if it is desired, members 

 of the Association will be given assist- 

 ance in the work. . * . 



L. W. Braham, who recently resigned as 



farm adviser in Will county, will become 

 general manager of Will County Co-oper- 

 atives and also will serve as county organiza- 

 tion director. He succeeds Frank Loucks, 

 who has served well in the capacity of COD 

 since Fay Sims left to enter the armed serv- 

 ices two years ago. 



lAA LIVESTOCK MARKETING COMMITTEE 



HOLDS FIRST MEETING 



FIRST meeting of the newly organized 

 statewide livestock marketing commit- 

 tee of the Illinois Agricultural Associ- 

 ation was held July 7 in the Chicago 

 lAA offices. 



The committee discussed problems of 

 livestock marketing and formulated plans 

 for further study of the whole picture. 

 President Earl C. Smith, and George E. 

 Metzger, lAA field secretary, attended 

 the meeting. It was tentatively decided 

 to hold the next meeting some time in 

 August. 



This special committee was formed at 

 the recommendation of the lAA market- 

 ing committee made at the May 19 

 meeting of the lAA board of directors. 

 Its purpose is to study the livestock 

 marketing program in Illinois and de- 

 termine ways and means of securing 

 and maintaining a much greater bargain- 

 ing power for farmers in the sale of 

 their livestock. 



The committee is made up of two per- 

 sons from each of the Congressional dis- 

 tricts selected by Farm Bureau leaders 

 of the respective areas, together with one 

 member representing each of the co- 

 operative livestock marketing agencies 

 serving the state and members of the 

 lAA marketing committee. 



Operation of the lAA livestock mar- 

 keting committee will be similar to that 

 of the lAA school committee in that it 

 will make a study and report its rec- 

 ommendations to the lAA board of di- 

 rectors. 



Members of the committee from the 

 Congressional districts are: 11th — Earl 

 Hughes, Woodstock, and Russell Webb, 



Plainfield; 12th — Carl Johnson, De- 

 Kalb, and E. C. Phelps, Rockton. 



Thirteenth — Ed Stukenberg, Freef)ort, 

 and Ed Stengel, Mt. Morris; I4th — S. 

 S. Stetson, Milan, and Irving Graham, 

 Carthage ; 1 5th — Ed Gumm, Galesburg, 

 and A. K. Hohenboken, Osco. 



Sixteenth — Charles Haller, Edwards, 

 and R. V. McKee, Varna; 17th — Char- 

 les Smith, Eureka, and Bryon Kline, Le- 

 Roy; 18th — Alfonse Bourgeois, Rt. 2, 

 Kankakee, and C. E. Johnson, Martin- 

 ton. 



Nineteenth — Milton Warren, Mans- 

 field, and D. H. Cuppy, Kemp; 20th — 

 James Coultas, Winchester, and Charles 

 Smith, Eldred; 21st — T. H. Lloyd, 

 Girard, and Lawrence Todt, Harvel. 



Twenty-second — August Sachtleben, 

 Holeton, and T. J. Williford, Greenville; 

 23rd — William Pigg, Boulder, and Clay 

 Trimble, Montrose; 24th — Franklin 

 Bramlet, Eldorado, and L. F. Brissenden, 

 Flora; 25th — J. P. Redman, Cairo, and 

 Prosper Jacko, DeSoto. 



Representatives of the livestock mar- 

 keting agencies: J. Frank Felter, Eureka, 

 Peoria Producers; H. H. Parke, Genoa, 

 Chicago Producers; Roy Burrus, Arenz- 

 ville, St. Louis Producers; O. B. Goble, 

 Charleston, Indianapolis Producers; Dan 

 J. Maloney, Ridgway, Evansville Pro- 

 ducers; Harvey Herndon, Adair, Illinois 

 Livestock Marketing Association; John 

 P. Stout, Chatham, Springfield Producers. 



lAA marketing committee members: 

 A. O. Eckert, Belleville; Har^'ey Adair, 

 Chicago Heights; Charles Lauritzen, 

 Reddick; Ronald A. Holt, Galva; Talm- 

 age Defrees, Smithboro, and H. N. 

 Myers, Clinton. 



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