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The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD is 

 published monthly except August by the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association at 1501 W. Washington 

 Road, Mendota, 111. Editorial Offices, 608 So. 

 Dearborn St., Chicago, III. Entered as second 

 class matter at post office. Mendota. 111.. Sept. 11, 

 1936. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of 

 postage provided in Section 412, Act of Feb. 28, 

 1925, authorized Oct. 27. 1935. Address all com- 

 munications for publication to Editorial Offices, 

 Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD. 608 So. 

 Dearborn St., Chicago. The individual member- 

 ship fee oi the Illinois Agricultural Associotion is 

 five dollars a year. The fee includes payment of 

 fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association RECORD. Postmaster: Send 

 notices on Form 3578 and undeliverable copies 

 returned under Form 3579 to editorial offices. 608 

 So. Dearborn St.. Chicago, 111. 



Director of Information, Creston Foster; Editor, 

 Merrill C. Gregory, on leove of absence with the 

 United States Army; Director of Advertising, C. 

 M. Seagraves. 



Illinois Agricultural 

 Association 



Greatest State Form Organization 

 ' in America 



OFFICERS 

 President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President, Talmage Defrees Greenville 

 Corporate Sec, Paul E. Mathias Hinsdale 

 Field Sec, Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Asst. Treas., A. R. Wright Varna 



Comptroller, R. G. Ely Chicago 



General Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick 



Chicago 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (By Congressional Districts) 



Isl to llfh Harvey W. Adair, Chicago Hts. 



12th C. I. Elliott, Streator 



13th Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



14th Otto Steffey, Slronghursf 



ISfh Ronald A. Holt, Galva 



IBth Albert Hayes. ChUlicothe 



17th Charles Lauritzen, Reddick 



18th W. A. Dennis. Paris 



19th Charles B. Shuman, Sullivan 



20th K. T. Smith. Greenfield 



2Ut F. E. Morris. BuHalo 



22nd Alvin O. Eckerf, Belleville 



23rd Chester McCord. Newton 



24th Lyman Bunting, Ellery 



25th August G. Eggerding. Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shavr 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing L. L. Colvis 



Grain Marketing _ George H. Iftner 



Legal Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing S. F. Russell 



Office C. E. Johnston 



Organization O. D. Brissenden 



Produce Marketing F. A. Gougler 



Publicity Creston Foster 



Research and Taxation. L. H. Simerl 



Rural School Relations lohn K. Cox 



Safety C. M. Seagrav?s 



Sales Service W. P. Sandford 



Soil Improvement John R. Spencer 



Transportation-Claims G. W. Baxter 



Young People's Activities Ellsworth D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Ins. Co. Dave Mieher, Mgr. 



Farmers' Mutual Reinsur. Co.. J. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



111. Agr. Auditing Assn. C. E. Strand, Mgr. 



111. Agr. Mutual Ins. Co. A. E. Richardson. Mgr. 



lU. Agr. Service Co. Earl C. Smith, Pres. 



Donald Kirkpatrick. Sec. 

 ni. Co-op Locker Service ... Dana Cryder, Pres. 

 111. F. Bur. Serum Assn....S. F. Russell. Sec. -Mgr. 

 111. Farm Supply Co. C. H. Becker, Mgr. 



111. Fruit Growers' Exchange. L. L. Colvis. Mgr. 

 111. Grain Corporation . Frank Haines, Mgr. 



111. Livestock Mktg. Assn. H. W. Trautmann, Mgr. 

 III. Milk Producers' Assn. . Wilfred Shaw. Mgr. 

 111. Producers' Creameries J. B. Countiss, Mgr. 

 IlL Wool Mktg. Assn S. F. Russell. Sec.-Mgr. 



MAY. 1945 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was 

 organized, namely, to promote, protect and represent the 

 business, economic, social and educational interests of the 

 farmers of Illinois and the Nation, and to develop agriculture. 



MAY, 1945 



VOLUME 23 - NUMBER 5 



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IF \'OU want to know anything about 

 the Farm Bureau or its various sub- 

 sidiary organizations, ask any of the 

 more than 100 members of the Lake 

 County FBI. The members of this Farin 

 Bureau Information Club are keeping 

 abreast of tiic times when it tomes to 

 agricultural problems and the way the 

 Farm Bureau is contributing to the agri- 

 cultural economy of the nation. 



For the members of this Lake County 

 Farm Bureau group are atforded an op- 

 portunity at regular monthly meetings 

 to get the latest infonnation on acti\ities 

 in the agricultural field. 



Organized back in NLirih of 19i.> as 

 a means of stimulating more interest 

 among a larger group of l"arm Bureau 

 folk in Lake county, this club lias been 

 meeting for supper and a progr.un on 

 the fourth Wc-clnesday e\ening of every 

 month at a restaurant in Libertj-v iile. 



To date not a single month has been 

 missed and the attendance is on the grad- 

 ual increase. Starting out more than two 

 years ago with about 25 members attend- 

 ing, the attendance has grown to 60. One 

 of the factors contributing to the fine at- 

 tendance is that meetings are adjourned 

 promptly at 10 p.m. 



Speakers who have appeared before 

 the group have come from the lAA and 

 its subsidiaries, the U. of I. College of 

 Agriculture, Pure Milk Association and 

 other organizations. 



Not e\cry program int hides an outside 

 spe.ikcr, for on .some occasions the pro- 

 gr.im is left largely to local talent. 



The whole idea of the IHI Cilub is to 

 build I'arm Bureau membership and 

 kc-cp them informed. That the idea is 

 working in Lake county is evident trom 

 the intrease in membership which has 

 resulted. Lake county had no organization 

 dircitor until recently so membership ac- 

 quisition and maintenance was depend- 

 ent largely upon loyal Farm Bureau inem- 

 bers. The FBI Club plan is based on the 

 idea that if the number of properly in- 

 t'ormed members is increased, there will 

 be more of them talking Farm Bureau." 



On March 1, l'>i^. Lake county had 

 '■)S\ members, and today the membership 

 IS .It I I '>■=>. 



\\'hene\er a township tails to make its 

 monthly quota, a new member is added 

 to the FBI Club from that particular 

 township. Should a member fail to at- 

 tend the monthly meetings he is dropped 

 from the dub and .mother member lakes 

 his pi. ice. 



Every means is used to acquaint the 

 new member with the Farm Bureau, both 

 through personal contact and other chan- 

 nels. Once that a member knows he is 

 being serviced, membership maintenance 

 becomes less of a problem, and there is 

 nothing that makes for memlsership main- 

 tenance more than personal contact. 

 There is no substitute for it. 



