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Illinois Agricnltnral 

 Association 



Greatest State Farm Organization 

 in America 



OFFICERS 



President, Earl C. Smith Detroit 



Vice-President. Tolmage 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 Eirkpatriclc 

 > Chicago 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



(By Congressional Districts) 



1st to nth Harvey W. Adair, Chicago Hts. 



12th C. I. Elliott Streator 



13th Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



14th Otto Steiiey. Stronghurst 



15th Ronald A. Holt. Galva 



16th Albert Hayes, ChUlicothe 



17th Charles Lauritzen, Reddick 



18th W. A. Dennis, Paris 



19th Charles B. Shumon. Sullivan 



20th K. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st F. E. Morris, BuHalo 



22nd Alvin O. Eckert. Belleville 



23rd Chester McCord. Newton 



24th Lyman Bunting, Ellery 



25th August G. Eggerding. Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Dairr Marketing Wilirad Shaw 



Fruit and VegatabU Maikating L. L. Coins 



Grain Marketing _ _ George H. Iftner 



Legal Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Stock Marketing....- S. F. Russell 



Oifice C. E. lohnston 



Organisation O. D. Brissenden 



Produce Marketing _..T. A. Gougler 



Publicity _ Creston Foster 



Research and Taxation _ L. H. Simerl 



Rural School Relations John K. Cox 



Sa}es Service W. P. Sandiord 



Soil Improvement lehn H. Spencer 



Transportation-Claims G. W. Baxter 



Young People's Activities £Usworth D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Lite Ins. Co Dave Mieher. Mgr. 



Farmers' Mutual Reinsur. Co. .1. H. Kelker. Mgr. 



lU. Agr. Auditing Assn C. E. Strand. Mgr. 



ni. Agr. Mutual Ins. C0...JI. E. Richardson, Mgr. 



ni. Agr. Service Co Earl C. Smith, Pros. 



Donald Kirkpatrick, Sec. 



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



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



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



ni. Fruit Growers' Exchange L. L. Colvis, Mgr. 



ni. Grain Corporation Frank Haines, Mgr. 



ni. Livestock Mktg. Assn..JI. W. Troutmaiu, Mgr. 



lU. MUk Producers' Assn Wilired Shaw, Mgr. 



ni. Producers' Creameries I. B. Counties. Mgr. 



ni. Wool Mktg. Assn. S. F. Russell, Sec.-Mgr. 



To advance the purpose for which the Form 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. 



lULY-AUGUST. 1945 



VOLUME 23 NUMBER 7 



Secretary Anderson Starts Work 



FARMERS will watch developments in 

 the agricultural field with interest in 

 the next few months as Hon. Clinton P. 

 Anderson works into his new job as sec- 

 retary of agriculture. Secretary Anderson 

 officially started in his new position July 

 1. 



Few complete biographies have been 

 run in the press on the new secretary, so 

 here is his background as reviewed by the 

 USDA. 



Secretary Anderson owns and operates 

 a farm of 800 acres of irrigated land 

 south of Albuquer- 

 que, New Mexico, 

 and another farm of 

 640 acres near 

 Mitchell, South Da- 

 kota, his native state 

 where he was born 

 Oct. 23, 1895. 



On his New Mex- 

 ico farm. Secretary 

 Anderson maintains 

 a herd of 125 Hol- 

 stein cattle, both 

 grade and registered, and raises alfalfa, 

 oats, barley, and grain sorghum for feed. 

 The milk is sold on the fluid market. Sec- 

 retary Anderson belongs to the New 

 Mexico Cattle Growers' Association. 



The new secretary of agriculture was 

 educated at Dakota Wesleyan and at the 

 University of Michigan. He is president 

 of the Mountain States Mutual Casualty 

 Company, which he organized in July, 

 1937, and also operates a general insur- 

 ance agency in Albuquerque. He has 

 been active for years in civic clubs, and 

 in 1932-33 served as president of Rotary 

 International. 



During his career in public service, 

 Secretary Anderson has served as state 

 treasurer of New Mexico, 1933-34; ad- 

 ministrator of state relief and field repre- 

 sentative of the Federal Emergency Re- 

 lief Administration, 1935-36; chairman 

 and executive director. Unemployment 

 Compensation Commission of New Mex- 

 ico, 1936-38; managing director, Cor- 



Secy. Anderson 



onado Exposition Commission, 1939-40; 

 and was elected in succession to the 77th, 

 78th and 79th Congresses. 



He was chairman of the House Com- 

 mittee to investigate campaign expendi- 

 tures for the 78th Congress; and this 

 year was chairman of the special com- 

 mittee of the House to investigate food 

 shortages. His regular assignment in the 

 House was to the Ways and Means com- 

 mittee. 



Secretary Anderson is married and has 

 two children, Sherburne, 20, a corporal 

 stationed at Camp Crowder, Mo., and 

 Nancy, 15. 



Named as undersecretary of agriculture 

 is John B. Hutson, 55, who has been, 

 deputy director for 

 agriculture, office of 

 war mobilization and 

 reconversion, since 

 Jan. 1, 1945. Before 

 transferring to the 

 OWMR, he had 

 been both president 

 of the Commodity 

 Credit Corporation 

 and director of pro- 

 duction for the War 

 J. B. Hutson p Q Q J Administra- 



tion. From 1936 to 1940, Hutson was 

 assistant administrator of the AAA. He 

 first started work in the department of 

 agriculture in 1917. Farm-reared Hutson 

 is a native of Kentucky. 



Former Secretary of Agriculture Claude 

 R. Wickard has been confirmed by the 

 Senate as director of REA. With the 

 return of War Food Administrator 

 Marvin Jones to his post as judge of 

 the Federal Court of Claims, July 1, 

 authority over both regular and wartime 

 food programs was vested in the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture. 



Secretary Anderson has named as his 

 executive assistant, Nathan Koenig, a 

 New England man, who is now with the 

 United States News in Washington. 

 Koenig served in the early AAA days 

 on press contact and information work. 



JULY-AUGUST. 1945 



