...AS FARMERS 

 FORWARD GO" 



ORGANIZATION NOHS 

 By O. D. Bissenden 



Christian County Farm Bureau started an 



intensive membership drive on a township 

 basis September 27th. The Farm Bureau Di- 

 rectors and members of the staflt will meet 

 with the workers of three or four townships 

 at 8: JO a. m. each morning, divide up into 

 teams and spend the day calling on their 

 non-member neighbors. 



A Kick-Off Meeting in Madison county, 



Sept. 19, in preparation for a member- 

 ship drive, was attended by 85 enthusiastic 

 boosters, reports W. H. Faires, county or- 

 ganization director. Madison County Farm 

 Bureau enrolled 247 new members during 

 the past year. 



Jo Daviess, Scott, Sangamon, Pike, Ogle, 

 Hancock, Henry, McDonough, Brown, 

 Douglas, Clay, Moultrie, Kankakee and Liv- 

 ingston are among the county organizations 

 that are staging late September or early Oc- 

 tober membership drives. Everyone of them 

 achieved splendid records during the past 

 year in membership acquisition. They are 

 now getting set for the new year. 



Chelsea Williams, county organization di- 

 rector of Massac county, reports that they are 

 now in the midst of a membership drive and 

 that the leaders of that county will have 

 their long range goal of 4}0 members on the 

 books by October 1, 1944. 



Lyman Bunting, the leader of the "Old 



Birds" in Edwards county says that he's 

 afraid that the "Young Birds" will compiel 

 the "Old Birds" to eat "old birds" at the re- 

 port meeting. The above comment may be 

 appropriate in view of the fact that they are 

 in the midst of a membership contest with 

 the leaders over 40 years of age competing 

 against those under 40, and the losers are 

 to eat Old Rooster while the winners feast 

 on fried chicken at the report banquet. 



The Greene County boys are at it again. 

 Three breakfast meetings were held in the 

 county on Sept. 21, starting a drive with de- 

 termination to reach the 1,000 mark by Oct. 

 1, 1944. Past results prove that these Greene 

 county boys really know what the word 

 cooperation means. 



Bert Jones has resigned as county organi- 

 zation director in Mashall-Putnam County 

 Farm Bureau and has accepted a similar 

 position with the Pike County Farm Bureau. 



Ridiard O'Dell is now serving as count\ 



organization director in Piatt county on a 

 temporary basis pending the return of R. J. 

 Lee, who is now in the armed forces. O'Dell 

 succeeds J. E. Miner, who resigned eflFective 

 July 31, 1944. 



Leslie N. Finkenbinder is the new count>' 

 organization director in Stephenson county. 



Reports from Lake county indicate a most 

 successful membership drive in August and 

 September. The long range goal of 1150 

 members was exceeded and lohn Stiehr, a 

 new volunteer worker, signed 14 members 

 and collected full dues from all of them. 



George W. Christman. Sodorus. signs as 

 the 2700th member in the Champaign 

 County Farm Bureau. Left is Russel Bur- 

 dick, a neighbor, and right is I. Walker 

 Robbins, COD. 



Congratulations to all the leaders who par- 

 ticipated with special recognition to Stiehr. 

 May many more like him come forward 

 with their talents this year. 



Scott County Farm Bureau has organized a 



"Fifty Club" which will meet at regular in- 

 tervals to discuss their organization's pro- 

 grams and opportunities. And last, but not 

 least, to have a good time with a good 

 bunch of fellow farmers. 



R. H. Kelly, county organization direaor. 

 reports that }5 new members were signed 

 in a recent drive in Shelbv county and that 

 they are now staging an intensive campaign 

 on the township basis. 



The Johnson county organization meeting 

 held in September was attended by 25 in- 

 terested workers "who are now on their an- 

 nual membership campaign assisted by 

 County Organization Director Harry Cum- 

 mins. 



Pope-Hardin County Farm Bureau expects 

 to sign at least 40 more members before the 

 dedication of the New Farm Bureau Build- 

 ing, early in October. 



That August campaign in Clark count> 



netted 32 new members. Twenty-five volun- 

 teers assisted by the genial County Organi- 

 zation Director Tom Drummond were re- 

 sponsible for these results. 



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In the September issue of the lAA 

 Record, W. H. Tammeus incorrectly 

 was reported to be serving as farm ad- 

 viser in Woodford county. Tammeus, 

 former farm adviser in Bond county, 

 is the new farm adviser in McHenrv 

 county. T. H. Brock is farm adviser 

 in Woodford county, and the other 

 Brock in farm adviser circles (1. H.) 

 who served as farm adviser in McHenry 

 county is the new adviser in Will 

 county. 



In a picture on page 7 of the Sep- 

 tember issue of the lAA Record, the 

 youth having his chest measurement 



taken is Paul Kimmelshue of Kankakee 

 county. The picture caption incorrectly 

 reported the youth to be Orville Dick- 

 haut, St. Clair county. 



What is vision but the imagiiutioa to see 

 today what others will be willing to see 

 and use tomorrow. 



Farm Bureau Institute 



Proves Great Success 



For one week in September there were 

 no harder working students on the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois campus than 134 Farm 

 Bureau workers from 23 states attending 

 the first National Farm Bureau Institute. 



At the end of a week of study and in- 

 struction on how to do a better job of 

 building Farm Bureau, every worker 

 voted in favor of another Institute. There 

 was unanimous approval of the facilities 

 afforded on the university campus with 

 the air-conditioned class rooms and caf- 

 eteria in the Illini Union building. 



Sentiment of the majority of those 

 attending the Institute was expressed by 

 one worker who said: "It is something 

 we have needed for a long time." 



The Institute was sponsored by the 

 Farm Bureau in response to widespread 

 demand from workers for a meeting at 

 which they could mingle with other 

 workers in this field, learn the latest 

 methods being employed in various areas, 

 and in general absorb new enthusiasm 

 and additional information about their 

 job. 



Serving on the faculty of the Institute 

 from the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 were George E. Metzger, field secretary; 

 O. D. Brissenden, director of organiza- 

 tion; Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel, 

 and W. P. Sandford, director of sales 

 service. Illinois had 27 enrolled in the 

 course of study. 



Leslie Finkenbinder, center, new COD in 

 Stephenson county, chats with Floyd Mc- 

 Donald, Indiana, and Leslie Parsons, Iowa, 

 at National Farm Bureau Institute held at 

 Urbona. 



OCTOBER, 1944 



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