Kane County Honors Organization Teams With Victory Dinner 



Upper leit: Kane County crowns Jeane 

 Swinehamer queen of organization drive 

 during celebration dinner. Others, left to 

 right, are Enut lohnson, oldsters team cap- 

 tain: Maid oi Honor Lillian Claude: and 

 Vemer Bowgren, youngsters skipper. Up- 

 per right: Hampshire township teom wins 



honors after signing up 33 new members. 

 Left to right: (back) Donald Stoxen, How- 

 ard Thompson, Frank Widmayer: (front) 

 Alfred Crane, Harry Klock and Farm Bu- 

 reau President Edgar Allen. Absent from 

 winning team picture is W. Wendell Ral- 

 ston. Lower left: Seated at speakers' table 



are left to right: President Allen. lohnson. 

 Miss Claude, Dexter Norton, organization 

 committee chairman. Miss Swinehamer. 

 Bowgren and Harry Claar, lAA Dist. I or- 

 ganization director. Lower right: Don Stox- 

 en, who signed up most members, enjoys 

 prize kisses from queen and maid of honor. 



Membership Nears 125,000 



CORReCTIOIt 



MEMBERSHIP in the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association has moved 

 over the 124,000 mark and is inching 

 closer and closer to the 125,000 goal 

 for 1946 set unofficially at the annual 

 lAA meeting in November by Organi- 

 zation Director O. D. Brissenden. 



In reporting membership at 115,057 

 for the lAA year ending Sept. 30, 1945 

 at the organization-information con- 

 ference held during the annual meet- 

 ing, Brissenden expressed hopes for 

 membership of 125,000 by Sept. 30, 

 1946. 



Latest unofficial figures, Brissenden 

 said, indicate that our membership is 

 now more than 124,000. This com- 

 pares with 110,838 a year ago and 

 73,066 for the corresponding period 

 five years ago. 



A great deal of the credit for the in- 



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creasing membership can be given to 

 Farm Bureau members, thoroughly sold 

 on Farm Bureau themselves, who have 

 volunteered to explain the advantages 

 of their farm organization to their 

 neighbors. 



Membership now averages better 

 than 1,200 for the 99 county Farm Bu- 

 reaus in the state, Brissenden reported. 

 Four county Farm Bureaus have passed 

 the 3,000 mark. According to latest 

 official figures. Cook county had a 

 membership of 3371 ; LaSalle, 3331 ; 

 McLean, 3272; and Champaign, 3183. 



Illinois remains well out in first 

 place as the largest state farm organi- 

 zation in the nation. In second place 

 is Iowa Farm Bureau Federation which 

 recently passed the 100,000 member- 

 ship mark. 



We are repeating a subpoint from 

 the Progress Report on Livestock Market- 

 ing which appeared in the March Issue 

 of the lAA Record with a short passage 

 omitted. Under point 3, subheading (c) . 



"The statewide agency would represent 

 all Farm Bureau members in Illinois in 

 nominating and electing directors to the 

 Board of Directors to the respective pro- 

 ducer agencies. Nominations should be 

 made at district caucuses. Under this 

 sort of arrangement, the producer agen- 

 cies on the larger terminal markets would 

 retain their separate corporate identity. 

 However, Illinois livestock farmers would 

 have representation on the Boards of 

 Directors of these agencies in prof>ortion 

 to the volume of livestock originating in 

 Illinois." 



The passage beginning "Nominations," 

 and ending with "identity," was omitted 

 in the Progress Report carried in the 

 March Record. y •- •. ;. 



LA. A. RECORD 





