THE 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, namely, 

 to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, social and educa- 

 tional interests of the farmers of Illinois and the Nation, and to develop 

 agriculture. 



THE STATE FARM 

 ■UUAU PUMJCATION 



TO THOSE WHO SERVE B» P-esdenl CLJe. B. Skuman 



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A PROMINENT Chicago business executive recently 

 asked me an interesting question. "How many mem- 

 bers of your organization are actively serving the local 

 and state Farm Bureau organizations and their associated 

 cooperatives through membership on 

 boards of directors or actual working 

 committees?" He was astonished when 

 I informed him the number would 

 probably be in excess of 4,000 peo- 

 ple and, furthermore, these folks were 

 giving of their time and influence 

 with no thought of monetary reward. 

 He wanted to know how much it 

 would cost for him to obtain that kind 

 of cooperation for his organization! 



There are things beyond price. 

 The loyalty and cooperation of the thousands of Farm 

 Bureau leaders and workers in Illinois and the nation is 

 one of those priceless assets that money cannot obtain. 



Agriculture has come a long way indeed since the day 

 twenty-seven years ago when the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation in its present form was organized. It is not by 

 chance that these great strides in technical progress and 

 improvements in standards of living have been made. 

 These were jobs that had to be done — jobs that business 

 and government advisers said were impossible of accom- 

 plishment because there was not enough money available 

 to pay the costs. County Farm Bureaus had to be organ- 

 ized, a great state organization was to be built, 130,000 

 farmers had to be called upon again and again. A co- 

 operative elevator and a livestock marketing cooperative 

 were needed; higher quality supplies for a machine age 

 were imperative, so a county service company and an Illi- 



nois Farm Supply Company were the answer; margins were 

 excessive and prices low, thus a milk marketing association 

 and a Prairie Farms Creameries were other "must" pro- 

 grams; farming became a business and as such needed to 

 have insurance adapted to its needs — there were jobs to 

 do and they were done! 



As the years have come and gone, the demands for 

 new services have increased. The American people have 

 officially, through the Congress, recognized the handicaps 

 facing Agriculture and have approved much of the legisla- 

 tive program of the Farm Bureau. Great action programs 

 such as the Farm Credit Administration, Agricultural Ad- 

 justment Act and Rural Electrification Administration were 

 launched by the Federal Government. How were these 

 programs carried into every community and to individual 

 farmers.-* We all know the answer. — It was done by 

 these same Farm Bureau members doing the job that had 

 to be done. 



Nothing I, or anyone else, can say will in any measure 

 repay these unselfish leaders and members who have giv- 

 en so much to make the farm a better place to live and to 

 help all farmers lift Agriculture to a higher level. Their 

 reward, as is the case of all who serve, must come from 

 within. I once asked a friend of mine why he had re- 

 peatedly taken of his own time to call upon a neighbor 

 for whom he had a mild personal dislike, to secure his 

 Farm Bureau membership and to sell him on the ad- 

 vantages of REA. His reply was, "I will not live as a 

 neighbor of John's for long, but my soul and conscience 

 will be with me forever." 



These are the people who are putting the Golden Rule 

 into practice. The world today needs more of this spirit 

 and more of these people. 



SEPTEMBER, 1946 • VOLUME 24, NUMBER 8 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 

 OFFICERS 



PT««d«nt, Cbarl*a B. Shuman SulUvon 



Vic»-Pr*ud»nt, Fiord E. Morris. Buffalo 



SocTotary, Patil E. Mathias. JUnadola 



Fiold Soc., Goo. E. Motxffor Chicago 



Troosnror. R. A. Cewloa _ Bloemington 



Awt. Trooi.. A. R. Wright Varna 



Comptroller. C. C. ChapoUo Chicago 



G«Dora] Counsol. Donald Kirkpotrick Chicago 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

 (Bt Cennotaienal Districts) 



lat to 11th. Jlanroy W. Adair, Chicago Hts. 



12th. C. J. Elliott. Siroator 



13th _ -...Jtomor Curtiss. Stockton 



Uth. Otto StoiioT, Stronghurst 



15th. _._ Ronald A. Holt. Calra 



leih. - RussoU V. McKoa. Varna 



17th.._ Chorlos Lauritxon. Roddick 



lWh.._ lehn T. Erons. Hoeposton 



Solos Sorrice.. 

 Special Services... 



_ W. P. Sondford 



AoT p. lohnson 



Transportotion-CIoiiBS G. W. Bcocter 



Young PeoD'e'i Activities Ellsvrorth D. Ltoo 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZAnONS 



Country L-(e Ins Co. Dave Mie^'Or, Mgr. 



Country Mutual Rre Co. I. H. Kelker, Mgi. 



Country Mutual Casualty Co.... A. E. Richardson, 



Mgr. 



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



ni. Agr. Sorrice Co Donald Kirlcpatrick. Sec. 



ni. Co-op Locker Serrice ...C. F. Musser. Mgr. 



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



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



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



ni. Grain Corporation Frank Haines, Mgr. 



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



ni. Milk Producers' Assn Wilfred Show, Mgr. 



Prairie Farms Creameries f. B. Countias. Mgr. 



ni. Wool Mktg. Assn. S. F. Ruaaall. Sac.-M«r. 



Editor, Cresten Foster. Ass't. Editor, James C Thomson. Field Editor, Lewis A. Relsner. 



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19th Milton W. Warren. Mansfield 



20th. X. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st Dan L. Clarke. New Berlin 



22nd I. Eng Eaton. Edwardsnlle 



23rd Chester McCord. Newton 



24th - Lyman Bunting. Dlery 



25th. August C. Eggerding. Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Dairy Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Fruit and Veyetabis Marketing L. L. Colvis 



Grain Marketing _ George H. litner 



Legal - Donald Kirkpotrick 



Lt»» Stock Marketing _ S. F. Russell 



Office - C. E. lohnslon 



Organizatioo _ O. D. Brissenden 



Produce Marketing _ .....F, A. Gougler 



Publicity Creston Foster 



Research and Taxation L. H. Simerl 



Rural School Belotiona Tohn K. Cox 



Solety W. W. Whitlock 



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