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state 

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 years. 



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Form advisers covering the entire period 

 of Adams County Farm Bureau history to 

 date had a lOOy, attendance record at the 

 lAA annual meeting. Starting with E. W. 

 'Tarmer" Rusk, Ruhm Phosphate Co., sec- 

 ond from the left, in order of tenure are 

 F. A. Gougler, lAA director of produce 

 marketing; Ray E. Miller, secretary, St. 

 Louis PCA; S. F. Russell. lAA director of 



livestock marketing: George B. Whitman. 

 Illinois Chain Store Cotmcil; and T. E. 

 Myers, present farm adviser. At the ex- 

 treme left is C. C. Most manager of the 

 Adams County Shippers Association, ac- 

 tive in Adams County Farm Biueou work 

 since the beginning, and at extreme right 

 ProL I. C. Spitler, state leader of farm ad- 



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'AS FARMERS 

 FORWARD GO 



ORGANIZATION NOTES 

 By O. D. Brissenden 



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MEMBERSHIP Maintenance meetings 

 will furnish the organization high- 

 lights of the midwinter season, with 

 lAA Organization fieldmen Harry 

 Claar, L. B. Hornbeck and John C. 

 Moore now engaged in scheduling 

 them in their respective districts. 



The "M-M" meetings of 1944 proved 

 to be sparkplugs in focusing attention 

 on the great possibilities yet remaining 

 (or increased Farm Bureau member- 

 ship. Every county in the state set 

 long-range goals, totaling more than 

 117,000, to be achieved by Sept. 30 of 

 this year. Employees of Farm Bureau 

 and the associated cooperatives met to 

 hear discussions of their role both in 

 acquiring and servicing membership. 



Now — with the accomplishment of 

 these goals as a keynote — county 

 groups will meet once more, to re-study 

 their objectives, to re-plan their pro- 

 grams of acquisition and maintenance. 

 W. P. Sandford, lAA director of sales 

 service, and the three assistant directors 

 of organization, will conduct the pro- 

 grams. Scheduling is being done now 

 by Claar, Hornbeck and Moore. 



Illioois was in its rightful place as 

 one of the ten states that achieved the 

 AFBF's Million Member Goal, when 

 the national organization's annual 

 meeting was held. Of the 98 county 

 Farm Bureaus, 52 in the state made 

 their local goals and were rewarded by 



;jiM«JA!lY. '1945 ' ' "■::■-■/"■ -^V"-: 



the AFBF prize of expenses of a repre- 

 sentative at the annual meeting. 



Roger Corbett, AFBF secretary, has 

 appealed to counties which have al- 

 ready attained their goals to take an 

 extra quota of 50 additional members 

 or 10 per cent of the remaining poten- 

 tials, whichever is larger, thus when 

 achieved, will entitle each to be known 

 as a "Big Brother" county. 



One of this year's objectives is to 

 have all of the remaining 46 counties 

 make their Million Member goal, and 

 the 52 to qualify as "Big Brother" 

 counties. 



Illinois County Farm Bureaus readiinf; 



their goals in the Million Member contest 

 were: Boone, Calhoun, Cass, Champai(?n, 

 Christian, Clark, Coles, Cook, DuPage, Ed 

 gar. Ford, Fulton, Gallatin, Greene, Grundy 

 Henderson, Henry, JoDaviess, Kane, Kan 

 kakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, 

 Livingston, Logan, McDonough, McLean, 

 Macon, Macoupin, Madison, Nfarshall-Put 

 nam, Mason, Menard, Mercer, Monroe, Mor 

 gan, Moultrie, Piatt, Randolph, Richland 

 Rock Island, St. Clair, Sangamon, Schuyler, 

 Scott, Stark, Stephenson, Will, Winnebago, 

 Woodford. 



News from county organization activities 

 in all parts of the state continues to be 

 splendid. Certainly 1945 is THE year to 

 build membership higher. 



Wabash county signed a total of 48 in 

 its recent drive. 



Brown county drove on to attain its long- 

 range goal of 600 members. The drive was 

 followed by a new member meeting. 



Schuyler county is within iust a few mem- 

 bers of its long-range goal of 800. 



Woodford county workers reported 72 

 new members signed in 172 visits, and be- 

 lieve 31 more can be signed in another 

 contact. 



JeffersoD county's contest resulted in 35 

 signed by the East Side team and 32 by the 

 West Sixers to dimaz a Tcry successful 



drive. l 



Peoria's membership effort was laundied 



by a /ipsnortin' kickoff meeting attended 

 by 104, and there were 102 contracts turned 

 in at the report meeting a week later. 



Rock hland had 160 men and women at 



their kickoff meeting. Other counties re- 

 cently launching drives are Warren, with 

 90 present; Mason, 'Marion, Cumberland and 

 Kendall. 



McHenry county signed 86 new members 

 in its November campaign, led by E. M. 

 Lehman, who brought in 21 contracts. "We 

 are still quite a way from our ambition, 

 1500, but now have well over 1200," COD 

 Earl Swenson writes. 



Fayette's report for the drive ended Nov. 

 9 was 74 new members. 



Henry county had signed 68 new members 



with several townships yet to report, ac- 

 cording to latest word from the C. O. D. 



Mason county's recent drive netted 46 



new members. 



Williamson's contest campaign netted 30 

 new contracts. 



Effingham county came up with 70 new 



members. Those born in the 20th Century 

 signed 44, while the 19th Century group 

 brought in 26. Penalty for the losers: 

 eating without a fork, and using a burlap 

 napkin. 



Marion county held a memorable kickoff 

 meeting Dec. 9 with 150 farmers and their 

 wives, representing all 17 townships, in 

 attendance. Interesting is the item in the 

 Marion County Democrat, which says among 

 other things, "Preceding the meal the group 

 sang 'America,' gave the pledge of alle- 

 giance to the flag and repeated the Lord's 

 Prayer in unison. Onward Christian Sol- 

 diers' was sung midway in the speaking 

 program." They are using a 20th-vs.-19th 

 Century contest plan, too. 



Franklin county is driving on toward more 



memberships, reports Carl Cox, while Ham- 

 ilton county, which recently set up the 

 98th Farm Bureau, held its first annual 

 meeting recently. Butch Wanstreet and Jerry 

 Embser as captains for the East Siders and 

 West Siders respectively are both fighting 

 for the coveted goal of a membership of 

 500 and soon. 



Warren, Kendall, Kane and Rode Island 



counties are among those who have held 

 their kickoff meetings in December, but re- 

 ports on the results are not yet available. 



Smith Resigns As Faim 



Adviser in Livingston 



R. C. Smith, Livingston county farm 

 adviser, is leaving his position in that 

 county March 1, to accept a {position with 

 the Harry Ferguson company of Dear- 

 bom, Mich., according to an announce- 

 ment of Livingston County Farm Bureau 

 officials. 



Smith submitted his resignation in No- 

 vember, but is renuining until March. 



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