S 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. 



THE STATE FAIM 

 MIREAU PUBUCAnON 



SAFETY ISLANDS IN THE COUNTRY 



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SEVERAL years ago an elderly friend came with me to 

 Chicago on one of our annual cattle marketing trips. 

 We rode all night on the caboose, watched our steers 

 sell and, it being his first trip to the City, we started 

 to see the sights. After a wild ride on the elevated 

 train to the Loop, we started walking 

 up a busy street. Suddenly we were 

 caught in the middle of a crossing by 

 the changing traffic light and were 

 forced to stand on a safety island while 

 traffic whizzed by. Visibly shaken by 

 these experiences, John insisted that 

 I take him to the railroad station, from 

 where he refused to move until train 

 time. Safe and sound at home, John 

 was convinced that the city was the 

 most dangerous place on earth. 



Months later, I realized that John had a false sense 

 of security, as I stood at a distance in helpless, frozen 

 horror and watched a friend drive his farm truck squarely 

 in front of a speeding passenger train. Again and again 

 Lhave had this sense of security shaken as I watched the 

 lifeless body of a neighbor boy pulled out of the lake, or 

 the hired man's wife picked up with a broken leg after a 



fall from a cherry tree, or another neighbor rushed to the 

 hospital for amputation as a result of pulling at clogged 

 weeds in a combine. 



We on the farms must face facts. Agriculture is one 

 of the three most hazardous industries in America today. 

 Farm accidents in Illinois alone last year resulted in 190 

 deaths and 230 permanent injuries and disabilities. If 

 all the victims of farm accidents in Illinois last year were 

 gathered together in one place, we would have a crowd of 

 1327 people. 



We are in the midst of a great era of mechanization 

 in agriculture. If we are not to be overcome by our 

 machines, we must add the elements of skill and safety to 

 power and speed for success in modern farm operation. 

 Accidents can be prevented if we will train ourselves and 

 our children to be safety conscious. 



The designated period of July 20 to 26 as Farm 

 Safety Week could well be used by all of us to carefully 

 eliminate hazardous conditions in our homes and on our 

 farms. We can, in effect, make "safety islands " out of our 

 own farms so that we can in truth say "safe and sound at 

 home on the farm." 



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JULY-AUGUST, 1947 • VOLUME 25, NUMBER 7 



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



Pi*sid»al. Chorlas B. Shiunan SulliToa 



Vie*-Pr*«id*nt, Floyd E. Morris Buiialo 



Socrolory, Paul E. Mothias Jlinsdola 



Flold Ssc, Goo. E. M«tigsr....„ _ Chicago 



Troosuror, R. A. Cowlos Bloomington 



Comptrollor. C. C. ChopoUo Chicago 



Gonoral Counsol. Donald Eirkpotiick Chicago 



1st to lltL ZaA M. Hughos. Woodstock 



12th. C. I. Elliott. Stroalor 



13th. .Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



14th - -Otto Stailoy. Stronghurst 



15th Edwin Gunun. Golosburg 



16th. BussoU V. McKes. Varna 



17th _ E. T. Culnan. Lincoln 



18th - John T. Evans. Hooposton 



19th. MUton W. Warren. Monsiiold 



20th. - K. T. Smith. GrMnSold 



21st - Don L. Clark*. Nsw Bsrlin 



22nd. J. King Eaton. Edwardsvillo 



23Td...... - Cbsstsr McCerd. Nswten 



24th. _ Xymon Bunting. EUory 



25th _ AlboH Wobb. Ewing 



Editor, Creston Fester. Ass't. Editer, James C. Thomson. Field Editor, Lewis A. Reisner. 



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