LLINOIS Agricultural Association 

 and all but one of its 15 affiliated 



1 companies have moved — lock, stock, 

 and barrel — into their new Chicago 

 office building. 



The transfer was completed on 

 June 28 when Country Mutual Casualty 

 Company, last of the companies to be 

 transferred, was moved into the new 

 office building purchased this spring by 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



Along with newly decorated, smoke- 

 free offices the lAA and associated com- 

 panies have acquired 'a new address, its 

 second in more than 25 years in Chicago. 



All mail should be addressed to 43 

 East Ohio Street, Chicago 11, Illinois, 

 except for Farm Supply Company. 



Illinois Farm Supply Company, only 

 company not yet moved, will remain at 

 its present address in the Transportation 

 building for at least a year. 



Moving the lAA and associated com- 

 panies was one of the largest moving 

 jobs tackled by the Chicago moving 

 concern that contracted the operation. 

 The large, covered moving vans made 

 150 trips to complete the transfer of 

 more than II/2 iniles from one office to 

 the other. 



The transfer company, experts in their 

 field, moved most of the larger com- 

 panies, as well as the lAA, during week- 

 ends. The offices during the work week 

 were not seriously disturbed. 



The new home has 86,000 square feet 

 of rentable floor space and is now fully 



occupied, principally by the lAA and its 

 associated companies. 



The ground floor is occupied by eight 

 shops, including a restaurant. The sec- 

 ond floor is occupied by the lAA office 

 manager, personnel director, and depart- 

 ments under their charge. 



On the third, fourth and fifth floors 

 is contained the Country Life Insurance 

 Company, largest single user of office 

 floor space. The Illinois Agricultural 

 Auditing Association is also on the fifth 

 floor. Country Mutual Casualty Com- 

 pany is located on the sixth and seventh, 

 and Country Mutual Fire Company on 

 the eighth floor. 



The ninth and tenth floors will be 

 used by the Farm Supply Company as 

 soon as they are available. At present 

 the ninth is being used for files and the 

 tenth for offices of the president, treas- 

 urer, comptroller, and legal and publicity 

 departments. 



The eleventh floor houses all other 

 departments of the lAA and affiliated 

 companies. 



In its moving the lAA did not run 

 into a serious hitch. Because they 

 started remodeling the new building 



early in the spring, they got ahead of 

 the homebuilding rush and, due to the 

 wet spring, had no trouble hiring work- 

 men who otherwise might have been 

 employed out-of-doors. 



Steady growth of the lAA and asso- 

 ciated companies has accentuated the 

 move to acquire new office quarters. In 

 1921 the lAA leased 5050 square feet 

 of space in the Transportation Building, 

 its former location. 



Today before moving, the lAA and 

 associated companies occupied 56,190 

 square feet of office space and 7,665 

 square feet of storage space, more than 

 11/2 acres. Employees have also grown 

 in numbers from 54 in 1920 to 425 per- 

 sons now employed in the Chicago 

 offices. 



The new location lies 12 blocks north 

 of the Transportation Building in a busi- 

 ness district one block off Michigan Ave- 

 nue. The heart of the Loop can be 

 reached in three minutes by subway from 

 the near-by Grand Avenue subway sta- 

 tion. 



SOIL TESTS VALUELESS 

 WITHOUT A BALANCED 

 PERMANENT PROGRAM 



There are no miracles in the mechanics 

 of soil testing and a lot of requests for 

 soil tests are valueless unless they're 

 followed by a 'planned, permanent soil 

 improvement program." 



This warning appears in a short ar- 

 ticle in the June issue of the Madison 

 County Farm Bureau News. 



"If you have a poor old field you 

 want to get the last bushel of corn or 

 tomatoes out of," the article states, 

 "don't bring in a pint of dirt and ex- 

 pect the Farm Adviser to tell you how 

 to do it. It cant be done. 



"The soil testing laboratory is set up 

 to give farmers a valuable guide on the 

 present fertility condition of their farm 

 and a program to build it up to the 

 best economical farm output. 



"That isn't done in one year either 

 — it can't be. Test first, then follow 

 a planned, permanent soil improvement 

 program." 



JULY-AUGUST, 1947 



