Ex-Glis 

 Cook County's 

 3500th Member 



\\T 'M MORE convinced than ever 

 1 that the farmer needs to be or- 

 ganized. That's why I joined the Farm 

 Bureau when I returned from service." 



These are the words of Cook County 

 Farm Bureau's 3500th member who re- 

 cently signed a membership contract. 

 He is Richard Nesler, who is farming 

 a 130-acre dairy farm with his father, 

 Fred, five miles northeast of Elgin. 



Richard returned to farming this 

 year after nearly five years in the army. 

 Most of the time was spent in New 

 Guinea and the Philippines. 



""I figure young farmers should pitch 

 in and join the Farm Bureau and help 

 build the organization," Richard said. 

 "My Dad has been a Farm Bureau 



Richard Neiler, canter, •x-tervicamon and 

 Cook county's SSOOth Farm Iwreau member, 

 shake* hands with lAA President Charles 

 B. Shuman. C. H. Mills. Ceok COD, left, 

 looks en. 



member for 20 years, but I figured it 

 was pretty near time when I went on 

 my own and h;id a membership too." 

 C. H. Mills, Cook county organiza- 

 tion director, considers it prophetic 

 that the 3500th member should be a 

 young man returning from overseas 

 duty to take his place in the life of the 

 community. One of the first things 

 Richard did when he returned was to 

 enter into a partnership with his father 

 in operating the home farm. The next 



step was to identify himself with an 

 organization working for a better farm 

 life — the Farm Bureau. 



"Just as this young man had joined," 

 Mills said, "so are thousands of young 

 farmers entering the Farm Bureau, and 

 by so doing helping to restore the na- 

 tion to normalcy. As has always been 

 the case, the hope of the future lies in 

 our young men stepping out and tak- 

 ing their proper place in the business 

 world." 



Signing the 3500th member in the 

 Cook County Farm Bureau marks the 

 achievement of another goal. It doesn't 

 seem quite possible that back in 1927, 

 Cook county had less than 200 mem- 

 bers. At that time there was some sug- 

 gestion that perhaps there wasn't 

 enough agriculture in Cook county to 

 maintain an organization. The leaders 

 thought differently and as a result the 

 Cook County Farm Bureau has moved 

 ahead steadily. In 1940, the 2000- 

 member goal was reached. Three years 

 later, the 2500-mark was passed, and 

 in 1944, membership had climbed to 

 3000. 



With the 3500-mark attained, Cook 

 County Farm Bureau is ready to move 

 to new highs. 



Porky passed away rather suddenly. 

 He TVon*t he around to finish his 

 course in "How To Be Fat, Healthy 

 and Make Lots of Money." His Boss 

 didn't believe in vaccination for H**g 

 Cholera. But tvhy tvait for a prac- 

 tical demonstration of the effect of 

 H. C. on your unvaccinated pig} Use 

 F. B. Serum notv and avoid losses. 



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