Headline llluttration shows the Kiel Audi- 

 torium in St. Louis where sessions of the 

 lAA's 33rd annual meeting will be held 

 Nov. 17-30. 



annual meeting. 



Each morning at 6 o'clock during the 

 convention lAA leaders will be inter- 

 viewed on a farm program over Station 

 KMOX featuring news of the annual 

 meeting. Among the men scheduled to 

 talk are President Shuman, George E. 

 Metzger, secretary of organization and 

 information; L. L. Colvis, secretary of 

 marketing; I. E. Parett, secretary of gen- 

 eral services; and Miss Pearl Barnes, 

 president, Illinois Home Bureau Federa- 

 tion. 



Farm Bureau people in St. Louis Sun- 

 day night, Nov. 16 are invited to attend 

 a radio quiz show at KMOX at which 

 four Farm Bureau people from Illinois 

 and four from the Missouri Farm Bu- 

 reau will be featured. The program is 

 called "The Quiz of Two Cities" but in 

 this case will be the battle of two states. 



The program starts at 8 p.m. and all 

 persons wishing to attend this radio pro- 

 gram should write for tickets to Roy 

 Johnson, Director of Special Services, Il- 

 linois Agricultural Association, 43 East 

 Ohio, Chicago 5, 111., or Station KMOX 

 in St. Louis. 



Radio Station WLS of Chicago also 

 plans to make a broadcast from the St. 

 Louis meeting. 



. Arrangements have been made to 

 house a large influx of Farm Bureau 

 people and although the housing situa- 

 tion has eased somewhat, visitors to the 

 convention are advised to have housing 

 accommodations reserved before going 

 to St. Louis. 



TLcdJojud J'Wun ^Aaa; 

 Nov. 29-Dec. 7 Set For Chicago 



ANOTHER major farm event has 

 been added to the agricultural cal- 

 endar for the week of Nov. 29 through 

 Dec. 7 in Chicago. 



The new event is the National Farm 

 Show to be held in the Chicago Coli- 

 seum, 1513 South Wabash Avenue. 

 Theme of the show will be new and 

 better ways of doing things on the 

 farm. Special tickets at a reduced price 

 of 40 cents each may be obtained at 

 local county Farm Bureaus. 



It is expected that all the new de- 

 velopments in farm machinery and 

 other lines of the farm business will be 

 represented at the show. In addition 

 there will be 12,000 square feet of space 

 devoted to 4-H club exhibits. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 also will be represented by a booth 

 among the educational exhibits of the 

 National Farm Show. In addition to 

 the exhibits the latest industrial movies 

 will be shown during the afternoons 

 and evenings to supplement two major 

 shows to be given daily. 



Included on the advisory committee 

 of the National Farm Show are Charles 

 B. Shuman, president of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association and Dean H. 

 P. Rusk of the University of Illinois 

 College of Agriculture. 



Mayor Martin H. Kennelly of Chi- 



Max Corzott, 17, (above) with Conrad Tay- 

 lor, 18, both of Warren county, will repre- 

 sent Illinois In the National 4-H shearing 

 contest during the International Livestock 

 Exposition in Chicago Dec. 2, 3, and S. 

 Corzott was first in the Illinois State Fair 

 contest. Taylor was second. 



cago has proclaimed Nov. 29 through 

 Dec. 7 as National Farm Week in 

 Chicago. During that week Chicago 

 will be agricultural center of the world 

 with the national 4-H Club Congress, 

 the International Live Stock Exposition 

 and the National Farm Show. 



This Is the Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis where half the sessions of 

 the lAA annual meeting will be held Nov. 17-30. 



This Is a map of the St. Louis area showing buildings wtiere 

 sessions of the lAA meeting will be held Nov. 17-30. 



NOVEMBER. 1947 



