Tha stata poultry committee which will act in on advisory capacity 

 for the poultry project to be carried on in Illinois under the Hope- 

 Flanagan bill holds its first meeting in Chicago. Left to right: T. 

 S. McCurley, State Department of Agriculture; J. R. Harris, U. of I. 



College of Agriculture; H, H. Alp, AFBF; E. C. Secer, superintendent, 

 division of marlcets. Department of Agriculture; H. P. Templeten, 

 Illinois Chain Store Council; Lyman Bunting, lAA; Sam Honegger, 

 Forrest; L. F. Stice, U. of I. I 



LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 



GOOD FOR CLINTON 



PLEASE accept my congratulations on the 

 fine write-up in the May Record you gave 

 the soil erosion control work being done in 

 Clinton county. 



Sam Sorrells 

 Montgomery County 



KEEP RADIO STATUS QUO 



I UNDERSTAND you favor raising 50,000 

 watt radio stations to 75,000 watts as you 

 think they would reach more farmers. These 

 big stations don't broadcast local farm news. 



Our small stations are the ones that furnish 

 us general and local farm news. 



Leave the 50,000 watt stations as they are. 

 Albert E. Debatin 

 Clinton County 



THANKS TO lAA 



1 THINK we on. the committee all owe 

 the lAA and Mr. Lyon (director, young 

 people's activities) a big thanks for making 

 our trip to Canada possible. 



It certainly was a new and interesting 

 experience for all of us and one 1 am sure 

 we won't forget for a long time. 



The Junior Farmers of Ontario have a 

 good solid organization and we surely re- 

 ceived some good ideas from them to bring 

 home. 



Our committee had the opportunity to 

 meet and make new friends across the 

 border. Sometimes I believe making friends 

 is more important than anything else in life. 



To me this exchange of young people 

 from one state to another and from one 

 nation to another is only a small part in 

 creating good feelings among states and na- 

 tions. Is it a small contribution toward 

 peace among nations? It's only a drop in 

 the bucket, but I feel if such an exchange 

 program could be carried on on a larger 

 scale, not only by our farm groups but 

 other organizations it would tend to make 

 a more secure world for all of us. That's 

 reaching for a star I guess, but I'd rather 

 have a star to reach for than a war to 

 stare me in the face. 



Id like to thank the lAA for the oppor- 

 tunity of going to Canada and for the other 

 benefits we have received from them. I 

 only hope I can live up to what the lAA 

 expects of the committee members. 



Edna Dew 

 Ogle County 



and I might say, left a wonderful impres- 

 sion of the rural young people of Illinois. 

 I hope all arrived home safely, and were 

 not too tired after the strenuous week. I 

 will try to keep you informed as to the 

 activities of our organization during the next 

 year. 



Ross Beattie, President 



Ontario Junior Farmers' Association 



THE PLEASURE'S MUTUAL 



I UST a line to say how much we enjoyed 

 ^ the visit of the Illinois Rural Youth 

 Group to our conference and annual meeting 

 at Guelph, Ontario, Canada. You certainly 

 made a fine contribution to our conference. 



CATCHING FISH 



Here's part of a letter from Frank Gougler, 

 uho retired in March from the lAA market- 

 ing department. We are pleased to hear 

 from Frank. 



The Sunday following my departure from 

 ^ the office Ida and I took a three weeks va- 

 cation in Oklahoma and even got down into 

 Texas. 



I must tell you of my fishing experience. It 

 was the best I have ever had. After fishing 



OUR cover this month is a picture of the 

 "Old Ag" building at the University of 

 Illinois where the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association was born 32 years ago. This 

 is the 13th of our series of picturesque 

 and historical Illinois scenes. Known affec- 

 tionately to thousands of students as the Old 

 Ag building since it was constructed in 1900, 

 the name was changed last year to Davenport 

 Hall to commemorate the late Dean Eugene 

 Davenport. 



It was here on Jan. 26, 1916 that repre- 

 sentatives of 20 counties met to federate the 

 22 existing county Farm Bureaus. 



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Front 

 Cover 



A leader in the nation's cavalcade of agri- 

 cultural colleges, the Illinois College of Agri- 

 culture has had 7,156 graduates. This month's 

 class numbers 166. Students from nearly every 

 nation in the world have come to the Urbana- 

 Champaign campus to study the latest in Amer- 

 ican agriculture. The college has contributed 

 tremendously to the welfare of Illinois agri- 

 culture through research. 



Across the face of Davenport Hall runs the 

 quotation: "The Wealth of Illinois is in Her 

 Soil and Her Strength Lies in Its Intelligent 

 Development." 



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