Tha llllnolt Farm Supply Company truck ii a ragular callor at th« Warran farm. During 

 , . a racant call, Warran talks for a memant with track salaiman Carlisle Davis. . 



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By Jim Thomson 



; Ass't Editar, lAA RiCORD ' 



Editor's Note: This is the second of a 

 series of articles to further acquaint you 

 with the men who represent you on the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association board of 

 directors. 



BESIDES devotion to Farm Bureau 

 acquired through the years, lAA 

 Director Milton W. Warren, of 

 Mansfield in Piatt county inherits a 

 tradition of loyalty from his father, 

 Thomas H. Warren, a charter member 

 of the Piatt County Farm Bureau when 

 it was founded in 1918. 



And when Charles B. Shuman of 

 Moultrie county was elected lAA pres- 

 ident last fall, Milton Warren ap- 



Ames Claw, lilrad man driving mula team, 

 clwts with Warran in back yard. Warren 

 says ha Is still aid-fashienad aneugli to 

 own a team af mules and a team of liorses. 



peared to be the logical man to take 

 his place as lAA director from the 

 19th congressional district represent- 

 ing Moultrie, Piatt, Champaign, De- 

 Witt, Macon, Shelby, Coles, and Doug- 

 las counties. 



Behind him is a long record of serv- 

 ice to his county Farm Bureau. For 

 eight years he was a member of the 

 board of directors followed by 11 

 more years, ending in 1946, as presi- 

 dent. During the depression Piatt 

 county had a low of 250 members. 

 When Warren left to take up his duties 

 as lAA director, the county had 1150 

 members. 



The roots of the Warren family go 

 deep into the soil and reach back more 

 than 80 years to the time Milton's 

 grandfather arrived in the Mansfield 

 community from England and started 

 farming 80 acres. Since that time the 

 farm has grown until it is now 440 

 acres. 



Warren grew up on the land and 

 graduated from Mansfield high school 

 in 1916. In 1921 he earned his degree 

 in animal husbandry at the University 

 of Illinois College of Agriculture. Fol- 

 lowing his graduation, he joined his 

 father on the farm and carried a joint 

 Farm Bureau membership with him 

 until 192^. 



He soon took a deep interest in Farm 

 Bureau and community affairs result- 

 ing in his election to the board of the 

 Farm Bureau. Later he served on the 

 Production Credit Association board of 

 directors at Champaign for six years, 

 on the county AAA committee for 



seven years, and for several years on 

 the Mansfield Cooperative Locker 

 board of directors. 



As a member of the Mansfield com- 

 munity high school board of directors 

 he had strong convictions on the edu- 

 cational needs of the community. Dur- 

 ing his nine-year tenure of office — 

 he is board president now — the 

 community built a new school. He 

 was firmly behind the move which put 

 vocational agriculture and home eco- 

 nom"ics on the curriculum. 



Following his marriage to the former 

 Claradine Dickson, Warren settled 

 down to a career of general farming. 

 He owns a small herd of about 25 

 purebred Aberdeen Angus cattle and 

 a milking herd of 10 Guernseys. He 

 has raised as many as 300 hogs a year 

 but now averages about 150 Durocs. 



Mrs. Warren is as deeply interested 

 in farming and Farm Bureau as her 

 husband. Gardening is her hobby and 

 she has taken part in a number of near- 

 by gladiolus shows besides serving as 

 president of the local garden club. Her 

 father, brother and brother-in-law are 

 all members of the Piatt County Farm 

 Bureau. 



She is especially interested in their 

 Angus cattle and Hyline hybrid chick- 

 ens which are turning in unusual pro- 



. (Continued on page 20) 



Sliodad area is tha 19th cawgre s stonol dis- 

 trict which IMihon W. Warran of Molt 

 caunty represents an tita lAA boord af 

 directors. 



NOVEMBEB, 1946 



