

THE 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 



To adtunit the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organized, namtly, 

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

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

 agriculture. 



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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 

 1 informed him the number would 

 probably be in excess of 1,000 peo- 

 ple and, furthermore, these folks were 

 giving of their time and inHuence 

 with no thought of monetary reward. 

 He wanted to know how much it 

 wDuld cost for him to obtain that kind 

 of cooperation for his organization! 



There are things beyond price. 

 The loyalty and ctx>peration 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 

 Jiance 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 

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



nois Farm Supply Company were the answer, margins wert 

 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 nc-eded t«> 

 have insurance adapted to its needs there were jobs to 

 do and they were done! 



As the years have come and gone, the demands t<>r 

 new services have increased. The American {x-ople liavt 

 officially, tlirough 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 A<.l 

 justment Act and Rural Electritication Administration were 

 launched by the Federal Government Hovv were these 

 programs carried into every community and to individual 

 farmers.'' We all know tiie .mswer. It was done h\ 

 these same I'arni Bureau mcnilxrs doing the job that had 

 to be done. 



Nothing I, or ,ui\one else, nn say will in any mea.surc 

 repay these unselfish leaders and memlxrs 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 lonie from 

 within. I once askeil a friend of mine why he hail re- 

 peatedly taken of his own time to call upt)n a neighbor 

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

 Farm Bureau membership and to sell him on the ad- 

 vantages ot REA. His repiv was, I will not live as a 

 neighlx)r of John's for long, but my m)uI and eonsiienie 

 will be with me f\)rever. ' 



These are the people who are putting the Golden Rule 

 into practice. The world today nc-eds more of this spirit 

 and more of these people. 



SEPTEMBER, 1946 • VOLUME 24, NUMBER 8 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 

 OFFICERS 



President. Charlea B. Shuman SuUivan 



Vice-President. Floyd E. Morris Builalo 



Secretary. Paul E. Mathias Hinsdale 



Field Sec.. Geo. E. Metzger Chicago 



Treasurer. R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Asst. Treas.. A. R. Wright Varna 



Comptroller, C. C. Chapelle Chicago 



General Counsel. Donald Kirkpatrick Chicago 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



<By Congressional Districts) 



Ist to 1Kb Harvey W. Adair. Chicago Hts. 



12th C. I. Elliott. Streator 



13lh ^Horner Curtiss, Stockton 



14lh Otto SteHey, Stronghurst 



ISlh Ronald A. Holt. GaWa 



16lh Russell V. McKee. Varna 



17th Charles Laurilzen. Roddick 



18th ... John T. Evazis. Hoopeston 



19th Milton W. Warren, Monsheld 



2Dth E. T. Smith, Greenfield 



21st Dan L. Clarke. New Berlin 



22nd I. King Eaton. Edwardsville 



23rd Chester McCord. Newton 



24th Lyman Bunting. Ellery 



2Sth August G. Eggerding, Red Bud 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Doiry Marketing Wilfred Shaw 



Fruit and Vegetable Marketing L. L. Colvis 



Grain Marketing 



Legal 



L<**^ Stock Marketing 



Oilice 



Organization 



Produce Marketing 



Publicity 



Reseorcn and Taxation 



Rural School Relations 



Solely 



George H. Iftner 

 Donald Kirkpotrick 



S F. Russell 



— C. E. Johnston 



O. D. Brissenden 

 . ..... F. A. Gougler 



Creston Foster 



. .- L. H. Simerl 



Tohn K. Cox 



W. W. Whitlock 



Soles Service W. P. Sandtord 



Special Services Roy P. Tohnson 



Transportation-Claims G. W. Baxter 



Young Peoo'e'a Activities Ellsworth D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 

 Country L t^ Ins Co. Dav© M'o'^er. Mgr. 



Country Mutual Fire Co. T. H. Kelker. Mgr. 



Country Mutual Casualty Co. A. E. Richardson 



Mgr. 

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



111. Agr. Service Co. Donald Kirkpatrick. Sec. 



111. Co-op Locker Service C. F. Musser. Mgr. 

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

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



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

 III. Grain Corporation Frank Hoines. Mgr. 



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

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

 Prairie Farms Creameries I. B. Countiss. Mgr. 

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



Editor, Creston Foster. Ass't. Editor, Jomes C. Thomson. Field Editor, lewis A. Reisner. 



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