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. 



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WE SHIVERED in the raw wind of a gray November 

 day as we stood reverently paying our last tribute to a 

 saintly farm grandmother. Standing there, back of 

 the little country church, I thought of the years of loving 

 service that our neighbor had so will- 

 ingly given to hundreds of relatives 

 and friends. My glance fell upon a 

 nearby headstone with its dim inscrip- 

 tion, weathered by eighty years of ex- 

 posure — it read, "Hannah, wife of 



Ezra , age 38 years". 



Modern medical knowledge has 

 added many years to the life span of 

 the farm wife — to that of all rural 

 people. Modem home equipment 

 and conveniences can make those years happier and 

 easier. Again I thought of our neighbor. For forty- 

 five years she had carried water over the same 100 step 

 route that Hannah had trod nearly a century before. 

 She had daily cleaned, filled, trimmed and suffered eye- 

 strain from the same kind of kerosene lamps that 

 Hannah knew. Sanitary facilities were built to the same 

 specifications and with the same art woric of a century 



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before. The kitchen range and two heating stoves had 

 a little more nickel and chrome, but the same voracious 

 appetite for fuel as Hannah's new stove of long ago. 

 Perhaps it was some consolation for "Mother" to step out- 

 side the kitchen on a summer day and hear the hum of a 

 modern, rubber-tired tractor in the fields. 



Sad but true, modernization of farm homes has in 

 no way kept pace with modern mechanization of farm 

 work! True, there are some legitimate reasons and plau- 

 sible excuses. Tenancy, scarcity of materials and labor, and 

 low farm incomes have hindered progress. However, let 

 us be honest. 



If our desire for modem, pleasant, dmdgery-frec 

 homes for ourselves and our loved ones is strong enough, 

 we can surely find a way to make these desires a reality. 

 At present levels of farm prices and farm income we 

 should have more than the present 10 per cent of our 

 homes completely modernized. 



Isn't it about time for us men to give more considera- 

 tion to providing some modern equipment and conven- 

 iences for our women folks? I am confident that husbands 

 and landlords working in cooperation can do much toward 

 making the farm home a better place in which to live. 



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APRIL, 1947 



VOLUME 25, NUMBER 4 



lUINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS and BOARD OF DIRECTORS (By Cengrvtsiefiol Districts) 



Pnaidsnt. ChariM B, Shuman. SnUiTon 



Vic*-Pr*sid*nt. ' Floyd E. Merria. Jofiale 



Saentorr. Paul E. Mathiaa JOasdcd* 



PMd S*c., G«e. E. M*iag*r.. Chicago 



T^aosnrar. R. A. Cowl**. ...Bloomiatrten 



AmL Trwis., A. R. WrlgbL — .Vonia 



ComplioUitT, C. C. ChopelU CUcoyo 



G«n«ral CounsaL Donald Kiikpatriclc..„...CUcage 



Isl lo 11th. Earl M. Hughes, Woodstock 



12lh. _ C. I. Elliott, Stroator 



13th. Jlemor Curiias, Stockton 



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16th. 



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Otto Stoiior, Strenghurst 



Xdwin Gumm. Galosbuig 



RussoU V. McToo, Vania 



.E. T. Culnon, Lincoln 



..John T. Evans, Hooposton 



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..Milton W. Worron. Monafiold 



.- X. T. Suth, Gnonfiold 



Don L. Clark*. Now Borlia 



— J, King Eaton, EdwardsrUlo 



Chostor McCord, N«w«aa 



Lyman Boating, Ellary 



JUkort Wobb. Ewiag 



Editor, Cresten Fettw. Ass't. Editor, James C. Tliomseii. FieM Editor, Lowis A. Roisnor. 



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