Left: Don Ellison, Producers' Sup- 

 ply manager, shews lewans John 

 Cousin, R. W. Ashby, and Ira Caf- 

 ferty how Winnebago's soil tester 

 works. Below: Greeted as they 

 left train is Iowa group arriving 

 In Monmouth. Warren County 

 Farm Bureau men doing the hon- 

 ors for the guests are, left to 

 right: Farm Adviser E. H. Wal- 

 worth, Arnold Isher, President 

 Durham Lucas, and Russell White. 



Driving ever from Galesburg, lowans pose for a picture before inspecting the impressive- 

 ly up-to-date office building of the Henry County Farm Bureau at Cambridge. 



ILLINOIS 

 HOST 



''T T was time well spent." 



■*■ That was the general opinion ex- 

 pressed by Iowa guests at the close of 

 their tour of 24 Illinois Farm Bureaus. 



"I just hope," one Iowa farmer said, 

 "that you folks return our visit. I would 

 just like to pay back a little of your 

 wonderful hospitality." 



The lowans arrived March 4 in two 

 special trains, about 600 of them. Half 

 came in through Galesburg and half 

 through Amboy. County Farm Bureaus 

 and the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 were ready for them. 



Breaking up into small groups, the 

 visitors swept across northwestern Illi- 

 nois visiting one Farm Bureau after an- 

 other, inspecting buildings, offices and 

 plants, devouring all available informa- 

 tion and tirelessly asking questions. 



They came to Illinois principally to 

 learn something about our Farm Bureau 

 ways of doing things. They were im- 

 pressed by what they saw. They said so. 

 They liked our progressive spirit. They 

 liked our enterprise. Above all they 

 were impressed hy the fine Farm Bureau 

 buildings they visited and by the expla- 

 nation that they were generally debt free. 



Soil testing laboratories attracted large 

 groups of the visitors and many wanted 

 to know how they could be set up in 

 their own county Farm Bureaus. 





Left: lAA Field Secretary George Metzger addresses general session of the Iowa groups at Amboy. Behind him on platform are left 

 to right: Floyd E. Morris, vice president, I A A; Allen Kline, president, IFBF; Dean H. P. Rusk of the University of IlllneU College of 

 Agriculture; Vernon Vonimon, AFBF organization director. Midwest; and Wayne Tyler, organization director IFBF. Right: Henry Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau President M. S. Morgan addresses Iowa group crt Cambridge. 



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