HENRY H. PARKE 

 RECEIVES AWARD 



HENRY H, PARKE, Genoa, DeKalb 

 county, a pioneer in the Farm Bu- 

 reau movement in Illinois and president 

 of the Chicago Producers Livestock Com- 

 mission Association since 1927, is the 

 winner of the 1945 achievement award 

 of the Illinois Farm Managers Associa- 

 tion. 



Presentation of the award was made 

 at the February meeting of the Farm 

 Managers' Association at Urbana by 

 Dean H. P. Rusk of the U. of I. College 

 of Agriculture. 



Said Dean Rusk: "I am delighted and 

 honored to have this opportunity to 

 assist in the presentation of the Illinois 

 Farm Managers Association annual 

 achievement award. I am honored, for 

 I know of no one more deserving of this 

 signal recognition than the man selected 

 this year. I am delighted because for 

 more than 35 years I have enjoyed the 

 friendship of this man, and therefore 

 with a feeling of reflected glory I share 

 the pleasure and satisfaction that I know 

 this recognition brings to him." 



Quoting from a booklet published in 

 June, 1922, on the occasion of the cele- 

 bration of the 10th anniversary of the 

 Farm Bureau movement in Illinois, Dean 

 Rusk read, " "The birth of the Farm Bu- 

 reau was not an accident. We now 

 know that as early as 1902 the mind of 

 a certain young college trained farmer 

 was inoculated with the germ of im- 

 proved agriculture. This young man's 

 father before him was an exponent of 

 improved breeding, better feeding, and a 

 more or less regular crop rotation. It 

 was this father who influenced his son, 

 Henry Parke of Genoa, DeKalb county, 

 to go to college to study agricultural 

 science. It was he who gave Henry the 

 responsibilities which directly led him 

 to attend the Agricultural Short Course 

 at Urbana in 1903 and 1904. 



" 'From that time on Henry Parke was 

 a leader." 



"He is named as the man largely re- 

 sponsible for an important series of 

 events that finally culminated in the or- 



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Henry H. Parke, DeEalb County Farm 

 Bureau pioneer, receives the 1945 agricul- 

 tural award of the Illinois Farm Manager's 

 Association from Dean H. P. Rusk, U. of I. 

 College of Agriculture. 



ganization on March 27, 1912, of the 

 DeKalb County Soil Improvement Asso- 

 ciation, the forerunner of County Farm 

 Bureau in Illinois," Dean Rusk pointed 

 out. 



"This made DeKalb the first county in 

 the United States to build a definite 

 farmers' organization to carry local re- 

 sponsibility for extension work in agri- 

 culture. It was the pattern set in De- 

 Kalb county and followed throughout 

 the state that gave the Agricultural Ex- 

 tension Service a firmer anchorage with 

 the people of Illinois than it enjoys in 

 any other state I know. 



"But you men know H. H. Parke bet- 

 ter for his activities outside bis home 

 county. He was assistant director of agri- 

 culture in Illinois from 1917 to 1921, 

 has been a director of the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers Commission Association since 

 1924, and president of that association 

 since 1927. He was vice-president of the 

 National Livestock Association for two 

 years and since 1930 has been treasurer 

 of the National Livestock Marketing 

 Association. He has been president of 

 the Producers Livestock Credit Asso- 

 ciation since 1926. 



"For many years he has served on ad- 

 visory committees of the College of Agri- 

 culture, first for the department of ani- 

 mal husbandry, and in recent years for 

 the department of agricultural economics. 

 But those who know him best think of 

 him as an outstanding citizen and farmer 

 operating 410 acres of good Illinois land, 

 on which large numbers of cattle, hogs, 

 and sheep are finished for market annu- 

 ally. 



"Yes, Mr. Parke, your signature is 

 written large across the pages that re- 

 cord 40 years of progress in American 

 agriculture. . ." 



Annonnce Cash Prizes For 

 Ideas On Postwar Policies 



According to an announcement re- 

 ceived from Dr. L. J. Norton, president 

 of the American Farm Economic As- 

 sociation, 4 series of cash awards for 

 suggestions on constructive postwar 

 price policies for agriculture is being 

 sponsored by that association. 



The awards, which total $12,500, will 

 be made from a special fund made avail- 

 able to the association for this purpose. 

 In addition to three major awards of 

 $5000, $2500, and $1250, there are 15 

 awards of $250 each. 



Any citizen of the United States is 

 eligible to compete for the awards, 

 which will be made on the basis of 

 practical contribution to the solution 

 of agricultural price problems. 



A committee of outstanding author- 

 ities will judge the entries. The com- 

 mittee will include: Chester Davis, 

 president. Federal Reserve Bank of 

 St. Louis, chairman; Prof. Alvin H. 

 Hansen, Harvard University; Dean W. 

 I. Myers, Ne^^ York State College of 

 Agriculture, Cornell University; Dr. 

 Henry C. Taylor, managing director, 

 The Farm Foundation, Chicago, and 

 W. W. Waymack, editor, the Register 

 and Tribune, Des Moines, la. 



Information about the awards, en- 

 tries for which must be in July 15, 

 1945, can be secured from Dr. Asher 

 Hobson, secretary-treasurer of the 

 American Farm Economic Association, 

 College of Agriculture, University of 

 Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 



Possibly there is no more important 

 question before the American people as 

 we approach the postwar period, than 

 that of determining upon a clean cut 

 price policy that is fair to all groups 

 in our economic society. 



For many months, the press has been 

 carrying stories of the various sugges- 

 tions on price policies. Of particular 

 importance in this announcement of 

 awards by the Farm Economic Associ- 

 ation, is the roster of able and thinking 

 men who have been selected as judges 

 to evaluate the proposals submitted in 

 the association's competition. 



Financing this war is such a big job that 

 we must all do our share. Our march to 

 victory is costing; about 90 billion dollars 

 a year. That's over 700 dollars for every 

 man, woman, and child in the United States. 

 Slightly over half this amount must be raised 

 from selling bonds. The rest we get from 

 taxes. Now of course some can buy more 

 bonds than others — but have you and your 

 family done their share? The only way 

 any of us can do our share is to buy every 

 bond we can possibly afford. 



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