"What Fan. B 



ureau 



MEANS TO ME!' 



"PI RGANIZATION is our only salva- 

 U tion," he answered without a mo- 

 ment's hesitation when asked why he had 

 stuck with his Farm 

 Bureau through the 

 years. 



"You have other 

 reasons, don't you?" 

 Clem G a r t o n, 

 newspaper column- 

 writing charter mem- 

 ber of the Logan 

 County Farm Bu- 

 reau, looked thought- 

 fully for a moment 

 across the pasture of his farm on the out- 

 skirts of Lincoln. "Yes," he smiled. 

 "Farm Bureau insurance is a strong 

 talking point, may be the strongest." 



"But," the tall spare man in his fifties 

 looked serious again, "there are other 

 things with no money value which mean 

 a lot to Farm Bureau people, like fellow- 

 ship, for instance^' 



"You mean the farmer's club idea?" 

 "Yes, in a way. Farm Bureau men 

 are good thinkers and I get a great deal 

 out of our discussions when we get to- 

 gether. We have the club spirit and it 

 feels good to know you belong to an or- 

 ganization which includes so many of 

 your friends and neighbors." 



"As far as the dues are concerned," he 

 added, "you can spend as much on a 

 night's entertainment elsewhere and have 

 nothing to show for it." 



Mr. Carton showed keenness in his 

 searching analyses of agricultural prob- 

 lems. Keenness no doubt whetted by 

 nine years of school teaching as a youth 

 in JFulton and Schuyler counties. In 1914 

 he moved to Logan county and rented a 

 farm for eight years.^ He moved to his 

 present location in 1927. 



Credit for his successful and happy 

 family life, he pointed out, was due prin- 

 cipally to his wife, the former Annie 

 Fink of Logan county. Together they 

 reared six children, five girls and a boy, 

 all but one now married. 



"All," Mr. Carton said, referring to 

 his children with a note of pride in his 

 voice, "were graduated from high school 

 and from college or business school." 



In his column, which appears in the 

 Lincoln Courier weekly, Mr. Carton dis- 

 cusses a variety of topics with an agri- 

 cultural slant and now and then his ar- 



By 

 J. C. THOMSON 



tides have a word of praise for the Farm 

 Bureau. 



Leaning back against a gatepost in his 

 back yard, Mr. Carton recalled the early 

 efforts to organize farmers. "It started," 

 he said, "with an organized effort to show 

 farmers how to farm. But it wasn't 

 popular." 



"In those early days we didn't think 

 we could accomplish very much but the 

 movement gathered momentum and in 

 1919 I joined the Logan County Farm 

 Bureau as a charter member. It appeared 

 then that we were about to face some 

 tough problems. We won't forget the 

 critical days that followed." 



Mr. Carton considers the early years of 

 the 20th century prior to World War I as 

 a period of well-balanced contentment 

 but admits farm organization became ur- 



gent when other organized economic 

 forces appeared on the scene. 



He opened a gate and turned towarw 

 the barri at the same time explaining he 

 had so much work to do. 



"Before you go do you have a message 

 suitable for our younger farmers?" 



"Well, first and last I would say, 

 farmers must be organized. We who be- 

 lieved in organization in the early days 

 of the Farm Bureau have never regretted 

 it, Younger farmers should be even more 

 enthusiastic judging from the greater 

 benefits they will reap during the flourish- 

 ing future years of the Farm Bureau." 



FARM BUREAU PIONEER DIES 



John T. Smith, 65, a charter member 

 and former officer of the Champaign 

 County Farm Bureau died December 21 

 in a Champaign hospital. He had been 

 ill several months. Mr. Smith farmed 

 near Tolono and was called by members 

 of the state college of agriculture "one 

 of the most progressive farmers in Illi- 

 nois." 



He was one of the first farmers in 

 Illinois. to raise soybeans and was prom- 

 inent in organizing farm groups. He 

 is survived by five sons, John, Robert 

 and Gilbert, "Tolono ; George, St. Louis, 

 and Pfc. Charles, en route home from 

 Europe. 



GRAHAM HEADS VET COLLEGE 



DOCTOR ROBERT- GRAHAM, head 

 of the department of animal pathol- 

 ogy and hygiene, has been named dean 

 of the University of 

 Illinois' new college 

 of veterinary medi- 

 cine by the board of 

 trustees. The col- 

 lege is to be estab- 

 lished on the Ur- 

 bana campus of the 

 University. Profes- 

 sor Graham is a na- 

 tional authority in 

 the field of veteri- 

 nary pathology and was the unanimous 

 choice of the committee appointed to 

 make recommendations for the new post. 

 He has been a member of the Uni- 

 versity faculty since 1917, and since 

 1941 head of the department of animal 

 pathology and hygiene. He was pro- 

 fessor of veterinary science at the Uni- 

 versity of Kentucky from 1911 to 1917. 

 Graham was born at Ames, Iowa, and 

 received the doctor of veterinary medi- 

 cine degree from Iowa State college in 



1910. He has written or collaborated 

 in preparing 150 scientific papers on 

 veterinary medicine and 50 bulletins or 

 circulars on animal diseases. 



In 1919 at the University of Illinois 

 he developed the first antitoxin for 

 botulinus poison in man, and he has 

 made significant and outstanding con- 

 tributions to knowledge on forage poi- 

 soning and sleeping sickness in horses; 

 brucellosis, erysipelas and enteritis in 

 swine; parasitism and abortion in sheep; 

 and the preparation of vaccine used in 

 immunizing chickens and turkeys against 

 fowl pox. 



Since 1919 the diagnostic service of 

 the state department of agriculture has 

 been under the supervision of Dr. Gra- 

 ham. During the past year 121,000 

 specimens were submitted for laboratory 

 diagnosis compared with 26,000 ten 

 years ago. 



In 1925 the U. S. department of state 

 in connection with the American oc- 

 cupation of Haiti asked Dr. Graham to 

 survey animal diseases in that country. 





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