THAT'S WHAT WE THINK 



Prairie Farms Creameries 

 Chicago, Illinois 



I HAVE had occasion to sample some of the 

 butter bearing your label. Enclosed is a 

 part of the wrapper in which the butter came. 



Do you have any distributors here in Nor- 

 folk for this product, and if so, could you 

 forward me their address? I have tried, 

 unsuccessfully however, to locate this brand 

 here. 



Your butter is the best I have ever tasted 

 in this city. 



at all, just paid me $23.80 for the whole 

 bunch. Course my brother ain't on the mar- 

 keting committee. I've always wondered 

 where they got their dividends. Well,' I'll 

 bet they don't get no more off of me ! ! 



Dick — Did you call the yards before you 

 loaded your hogs? 



Tom — Course not, what's it any of their 

 business when I sell my hogs ? 



Dick ■^— Well, of course, it isn't, unless you 

 want to sell at the highest possible market. 

 Some days they have an order for a definite 

 number of hogs for which they can pay over 

 the true market. What time did you take 

 yours in? 



Tom — Oh, it must have been 2 o'clock. 



"TO ERR IS HUMAN . . ." 



ENCLOSED is a clipping about your April 

 cover, the Baha'i Temple in Wilmette. Wil- 

 mette, my dear sir, is in Cook county not 

 Lake. If you drive north on Michigan Ave- 

 nue through Evanston, you will see the tem- 

 ple, just as you enter Wilmette. It is just 

 across the line from Evanston, on Michigan 

 Avenue and very near the lake. This site was 

 chosen because it was said to be directly op- 

 posite on >he earth from the place where the 

 Bahaism originated in Persia. I trust the 

 other information I read in the Record is 



LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 



If you do not have any distributors in this 

 dty, I certainly wish you could encourage 

 someone to carry Prairie Farms butter. 



This is beginning to sound like a "fan" 

 letter but you would understand if you had 

 been used to the good milk and butter we 

 had in my home state. New York — then 

 tried the products here. 



Mrs. Joan Miller 

 1000 Watson Street 

 Norfolk 6, Virginia 



JTish we could help you. But we who work 

 for the lAA, the parent organization, cannot 

 buy it even here in Chicago. 



LIKES RECORD 



YOUR magazine comes to my father, and I 

 certainly enjoy it whenever I have the 

 chance to read it. I am very much interested 

 in the series of cover pictures of historic and 

 picturesque Illinois. Could you please send 

 me the entire series, also the description of 

 each, to show and read to our York Home 

 Bureau Unit, which meets the first week in 

 May — for a lesson similar to this? 



Mrs. H. E. Winger 

 Clark County 



.FENCE ROW TALK 



TOM — My wife said you sold your hogs 

 this morning. 



Dick — Yep. I got back about noon. 



Tom — 'Where did you sell 'em? 



Dick — That's an odd question t'ask me, 

 I took 'em to our new co-op yards, of course. 



Tom — That's where 1 took mine this 

 time; thought I'd try 'em once. What did 

 jrour'n fetch? 



Dick — Well, for all that weighed 200 to 

 225 pounds, I got $24; the lighter ones 

 123.80. 



Tom — There, that's a good sample of all 

 this here Farm Bureau business. Mine aver- 

 aged 210 pounds and they never sorted 'em 



why? 



Dick — Well, that explains everything. 

 First, you never called the manager when your 

 hogs were ready. Second, you were too late 

 to get in on the premium till the quota was 

 filled. You received the regular market price 

 for hogs that day, with darned little shrink, 

 and you saw them weighed. You didn't get 

 gypped. I got a premium for the trouble of 

 having my hogs listed. 



Tom — O-O-O h ! I didn't know that ! 



Harry — Tom, Dick has given you the 

 answer. Don't cuss your own marketing sys- 

 tem. If you have t' gripe, cuss the other 

 Farm Bureau members that still think they 

 can beat the old "shell game" and keep supply- 

 ing the old system, "rhey are the boys who 

 are really responsible for the limited number 

 of premium hogs. With Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Missouri 

 producing 80 per cent of the hogs in the mar- 

 ket area, should they be cussing their own 

 marketing system? Hogs are not considered 

 intelligent, but they won't hunt acorns under 

 ash trees. 



or Long Green 

 Effingham County 



PRIDE IN ILLINOIS 



1AM a rural school-teacher in a little one- 

 room school. I am trying to teach the chil- 

 dren to be proud of their state. 



Among the greatest helps in this that I have 

 found are the Record covers. Those pictures 

 and the paragraphs that tell about them are 

 the most prized items in my Illinois unit. 



However, I have failed to get some of them, 

 and others are soiled or torn by use, so I 

 wondered if it would be possible for me to 

 get copies of the whole set, with the little 

 paragraphs, or old issues of the magazine. I 

 shall be glad to pay postage or to pay for the 

 set. 



I hope you continue the series, especially, 

 since they can be trimmed evenly and are an 

 excellent size and color for bulletin board;. 



Mrs. B. A. Tritchler 

 Hamilton County 



more nearly correct, although it may not be 

 geographically so near your office. 



Mrs. Knight O. Holland 

 White County 



The Bahiii Temple is in Cook county hut 

 not on Michigan Avenue. It is on Sheridan 

 Road. 



FARMERS AT HEART 



I THINK the page of "News and Views for 

 Homemakers" in our Farm Bureau maga- 

 zine, "The Record," is wonderful. Once 

 farmers, we have farm ideas and sympathies 

 for farmers — always. Always we are farmers 

 at heart. We think as farmers. 



It is really the only life in our estimation. 

 Especially since our Farm Bureau and Home 

 Bureau organizations have taken over. We 

 farmers now have a hand in legislation, etc., 

 etc. So we really help ourselves. 



Mrs. Walter Purvis 

 403 S. Sixth Street 

 Sullivan, III. 



AN OLD PICTURE 



I HAVE received your extra copy of March 

 Illinois Agricultural Association Record as 

 well as my regular issue. 



I appreciate very much the two pages giv- 

 ing voting records of the Illinois legislators. 

 Your front cover is very good but I think 

 that you might have used an up-to-date pic- 

 ture. The cars all have tires mounted on the 

 back which shows that it is several years old. 



Rep. J. Lisle Laufer 

 l4th Senatorial District 

 Hampshire, 111. 



We expected some sharp-eyed readers to 

 observe that the Record cover picture of the 

 original site of the city of Chicago was quite 

 old. We used it because it seemed to he the 

 best available. 



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