THE 



ILLINOIS 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 

 BUREAU PUBLICAnON 



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SEVERAL years ago a friend gave me a reproduction 

 of the great painting, "Man With A Hoe." Today, 

 it serves to remind us that agricultural progress 

 through the centuries can be measured by the extent 

 to which we have applied more efficient power to the 

 hoe. During the pioneer days of our own America, the 

 sweat and sinew of many men equipped with hand tools 

 was required to produce enough food to feed one city 

 family. 



The birth of our present great industrial empire was 

 in large part due to the release of millions of men from 

 agricultural labor by the increased use of the draft horse 

 as a source of power to pull more efficient farm tools. For 

 several generations the chief source of agricultural power 

 was the farm grown corn, oats and hay that old Dobbin 

 converted into useful energy. 



Today we have practically completed the transition 

 to a new and more efficient source of power for the "hoes" 



of agriculture. Millions 

 of farm tractors and 

 trucks have made a 

 wonderful contribution 

 to the efficiency and 

 progress of agriculture, 

 but they have also 

 helped create new prob- 

 lems. ... A tractor 

 won't eat oats! 



The present pe- 

 troleum shortage offers 

 a serious threat to Illi- 

 nois farmers in their ef- 

 forts to maintain abun- 



dant production in 1948. What are the facts? The oil 

 industry is operating at capacity and is expanding as 

 rapidly as short supplies of steel will permit. However, 

 the consumption of petroleum products has increased 

 at a much faster rate than production. Farm use of 

 gasoline has doubled in the past seven years. Our own 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company and its County Service 

 Company members now supply more than half of the farm 

 tractors of the state with fuel. The 190,000,000 gallon 

 annual petroleum needs of this, your own company, repre- 

 sents the greatest single concentration of rural business in 

 the world. When supplies are short and conditions diffi- 

 cult, other oil suppliers can and do abandon certain areas 

 of rural service. This practice throws additional demands 

 upon your local Service Company. 



I am sure that in the months ahead, Illinois farmers 

 will have occasion to appreciate the prompt action taken by 

 the leadership of their own cooperative in its all-out efforts 

 to secure needed supplies of fuels for farming. The Farm 

 Bureau members of Illinois are responding magnificently 

 to the call for needed additional capital funds. The thirty- 

 five million gallon Parta refinery is now a part of your or- 

 ganization and is helping meet your needs. 



Despite all of these actions, your tractor may be 

 stopped for want of fuel unless all Illinois farmers co- 

 operate to eliminate unnecessary use or wastage of tractor 

 fuel. You can help by eliminating all possible extra field 

 operations, by adjusting motors for maximum efficiency, by 

 reducing idling or traveling time — in short, by doing 

 everything possible to conserve fuels for farming. 



May the "man with the hoe" stay in the picture over 

 the mantel and may the horses continue to fatten in the hill 

 pasture while Illinois tractors hum on through the night. 



MAY, 1948 • VOLUME 26, NUMBER 5 



lUINOtS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS and BOARD OF DIRECTORS (By Districts) 



PtaudanI, CharlM B. Shuman Sullivaa 



ytc«-Pr*sidant, Floyd E. Monis Buiialo 



Sacratary, PmU E. Mothioa Hinadala 



Fiald Sac, Oao. E. Matsgar Chicago 



Tiaaiurar, R. A. Cowlas Bleemington 



Comptrollar, C. C. Chapalla Chicago 



<«naral Couasal, Donald Kirkpatrick — Chicogo 



1st to llth £ail M. Hughes. Weodsiock 



12th C. I. Elliott. Straator 



13th _ Homer Curtiss, Stockton 



14th. Otto Steffey, Stronghurst 



ISth... 

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 17th.... 

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Edwin Gumm. Golesburg 



Busaell V. McKee. Varncz 



_ E. T. Culnan. Lincoln 



loha T. Evans. Hoopeston 



19th... 



20th 



21st... 



22nd. 



23rd.. 



24 th. 



Milton W. Warren. Mansfield 



K. T. Smith. Greenfield 



..- Dan L. Clarke. New Berlin 



- I. Sing Eaton. EdwardsTiila 



_ Chester McCord, Newton 



..Lynaan Bunting, EUery 



25th Albert Webb, Ewing 



Editor, Cr««ton Fester. Ass't. Editor, Jamet C. Thomson. Field Editor, Lewis A. Reisner. 



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