Elliott has a wide range of reading interest and 



reads a good assortment of magazines to keep 



abreast of current affairs. Here he sorts some 



periodicals in his magazine rack. 



THERE'S a farmer down in La Salle 

 county who feels as strongly as any 

 chamber of commerce booster on the 

 motto that says: "To the past we take 

 off our hats, to the future, our coats." 



He is Charles J. Elliott, Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Association director from the 

 12th district representing La Salle, De- 

 Kalb, Grundy, Kendall, Winnebago, 

 and Boone counties. 



America's great tradition, says El- 

 liott, was established by hard work. 

 So let's get to work and make for our- 

 selves a better way of life. 



That, in a nutshell, is Elliott's realis- 

 tic answer to much of the confusion 

 that plagues the nation today. Does 

 he follow his own advice.' 



He does. For proof take a look at 

 his efficiently ancf profitably operated 

 360-acre farm near Streator. Or look 

 at his Farm Bureau record. Since 1914, 

 when the La Salle County Farm Bu- 

 reau, which he helped found, was or- 

 ganized, Elliott has taken an active and 



Director Elliott pitches manure with two of 

 his four sons, Wayne (left) and Quintin. 



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IM DIRECTOR ELLIOTT 



PCoA c£ofi^ fisiDhd wiih j 



FARM BUREAU 



By JIM THOMSON 



Ass't Editor, lAA RECORD 



responsible part in promoting agri- 

 culture in his area. 



He was elected to the lAA board 

 in 1944 to fill a vacancy caused by the 

 sudden death of R. E. Peddicord of 

 Marseilles. 



Last, but by no means the least of his 

 accomplishments, is his successful job 

 of rearing a family of five sons and a 

 daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott can 

 be proud that their children would be 

 considered valuable assets in any com- 

 munity. 



Mr. Elliott was born on the place he 

 now farms and attended local schools 

 and Streator high school before enter- 

 ing the University of Illinois College 

 of Agriculture. He was graduated from 

 the University in 1912. 



Editor's Note: This is the sixth of a 

 series of articles to acquaint you with 

 the men you elected to the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association board of directors. 



Following his graduation he re- 

 turned to the home place, which he 

 has farmed since. He was married to 

 Lillian King, a Hancock county farm 

 girl and graduate in home economics 

 from the state university. 



Elliott is descended from John Eliot, 

 the distinguished colonial clergyman of 

 the 17th century. His grandfather 

 farmed 95 acres of the present Elliott 

 farm when he came to Illinois in 1850. 

 His mother's people came from Ger- 

 many to La Salle county and started 

 farming in 1828. 



The Elliott farm is composed of 

 three separate tracts comprising 225, 

 95, and 40 acres. The 40-acre tract 

 slopes down to the Vermilion river. 



Principally a hog and beef cattle 

 farmer, Elliott ordinarily feeds all he 

 raises to about 65 feeder and pure-bred 

 Shorthorns and 250 Durocs. His sows 

 generally farrow late in the season and 

 he markets late in March. He uses 

 and likes concrete feed lots. Last year 

 his acreage included 130 acres of corn, 

 35 of soybeans, 70 of oats, 56 of red 

 clover and the rest in pasture and lots. 



In the past his rotation has followed 

 this scheme: corn, oats, and clover. 

 But in recent years he has substituted 

 soybeans for oats. 



All of the Elliott farm has been 

 limed and phosphated. He started ap- 

 plying plant foods as far back as 1912. 

 Today he follows good erosion control 

 practices because part of his land 

 slopes. One of his grassed waterways 

 extends half a mile. 



The lAA director from the 12th dis- 

 trict served from 1919 until 1945 on 

 the executive committee of the La Salle 

 County Farm Bureau except from 1935 

 to 1939 when he was an appraiser for 

 the Federal Land Bank. He also 

 worked as a farm evaluator for the 

 Federal Housing Administration. While 

 on the Farm Bureau executive commit- 

 tee, he served as vice president and 

 chairman of the finance committee. 



He helped organize the La Salle 



Shaded area includes five coun- 

 ties of the 12th Congressional dis- 

 trict represented en the lAA board of 

 directors by Charles J. Elliott. Winne- 

 bago is also in 12th district. 



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