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Shelling com for his chickens. 



Feeding his hungry spring pigs. 



TOMORROW'S 



ILLINOIS 



FARMER 





ARM BUREAU isn't mentioned 

 very often at our meetings, but in 

 the last couple of years we have been 

 talking and thinking about farm coopera- 

 tives. But you ask if we discuss Farm 

 Bureau. No, I don't believe we think 

 too much about it." 



J. Glyndon Stuff, the 20-year-old Ogle 

 county youth who heads the nation's 

 200,000 members of Future Farmers of 

 America, knitted his brows in a puzzled 

 frown then smiled as he said: "Dad's 

 a member of the Farm Bureau and Moth- 

 er belongs to the Home Bureau. Guess 

 we just take the Farm Bureau for 

 granted. 



"Young farmers like me," the pale, 

 slender youth continued, "would like to 

 know more about our Farm Bureau. We 

 need to know more about the business 

 and service end of our farm organization. 



"Future Farmers would like to be of 

 some service to Farm Bureau and I would 

 like to see closer relations between the 

 two organizations." 



Young men like StuflF are tomorrow's 

 progressive, successful farmers — an as- 

 set to their communities and to the na- 

 tion's economy. Enlightened in all that 

 Farm Bureau stands for, they would no 

 doubt become numbered among its most 

 formidable champions. 



Studying vocational agriculture at Polo 

 high school, Stuflf rose rapidly in FFA. 

 He worked hard on local committees and 

 became local president. In 1943-44 he 

 served as vice president of Section One 

 of Illinois, was elected Illinois state pres- 

 ident in 1944-45 and is now serving as 

 national president until the annual con- 

 vention in Kansas City next fall. 



Retiring from office at that time, he 

 plans to continue his education at a col- 



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lege of agriculture. He intends to study 

 general agriculture first then specialize. 



The FFA president leads a busy life. 

 When he is not attending meetings in 

 many parts of the country, he is work- 

 ing diligently on his father's 100-acre 

 farm north of Dixon. For the past few 

 years he has worked as a pasteurizer in 

 a nearby dairy. 



Afternoons he devotes to the farm, 

 helping to take care of 12 Guernsey and 

 Shorthorn cows and the 30 lambs and 

 125 hogs the family raises annually. 

 Corn, oats, hay and red clover are the 

 farm's principal crops. The Stuffs are 

 also wise to the use of grassed water- 

 ways, contouring and the intelligent use 

 of plant foods. 



Unlike most farmers, the Stuffs can 

 get all the limestone they need for their 



Operating pasteurizer m dairy. 



soil from a small limestone hill near the 

 farmhouse. 



President Stuff pointed out that Future 

 Farmers of America has performed a fine 

 service in developing leadership among 

 farm boys and in keeping them inter- 

 ested in farming. 



His own farm life is a good example 

 of aggressiveness and achievement ever 

 since the day he joined a 4-H Club more 

 than eight years ago. Since that time he 

 has won a number of honors culminating 

 in a top honor at the National 4-H Club 

 Congress last December when he re- 

 ceived a $200 educational scholarship for 

 his egg production and chick-brooding 

 project. 



He raised 750 baby chicks and 409 

 White Leghorn hens in his laying flock, 

 earning a net income of $645. Other 

 projects he has carried include swine, 

 sheep, farm accounting and planning, 

 victory service, erosion control and home 

 grounds beautification. 



Stuff is completely sold on the im- 

 portance, dignity and destiny of agricul- 

 ture, and recognizes the value of his 

 heritage as a farmer. He has all the in- 

 gredients for a happy and useful future. 



J. Glyndon Stuff, Ogle county form youth, (third from right) visits President Trvman In 

 Washington shortly after his election as notional president of Future Farmers of America 

 last fall. With him art other national officers of FFA. Left to right: Virgil Gette, Fallen, 

 Nov.; lugene Storlcey, Orlond, Calif.; President Trwmon; Stuff; Joseph E. Espey, Maryvllle, 

 Mo.; and Marion Baumgordner, Wellington, Tex. > 



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