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ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION RECORD 



To utitance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau uas organized, namely, 

 to promote, protect and represent the business, economic, social and educa- 

 tional interests of the farmers of Illinois and the Salion, and to detelop 

 agriculture. 



THE STATE FARM 

 BUREAU PUBLICATION 



-NOT BY BREAD ALONE! 



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IT WAS a blistering liot afternoon in 

 late July when Tom drove into my 

 barn lot witli a car load of boys. 

 He asked if it would be agreeable 

 with me if they camped by the river 

 for a few days. He was somcw hat apolo- 

 getic at leaving his farm work, but ex- 

 plained that the boys had worked liard 

 and even if the neighbors talked he did 

 not intend to go back on his promise of 

 a camping trip "for the boys". 



A few years later when one of "the 

 boys ' failed to return from a tlight over 

 Germany I paid silent tribute to Tom. 

 the man who had taken time to live and 

 play vvith his boys. How much better to be able to remem- 

 ber a few days of companionship with the boy who didn't 

 come back than to have had a few more bushels of corn in 

 the crib. 



Modern mechanized farming has helped agriculture 

 advance in efficiency very rapidly during recent years. The 

 replacement of hand and horse labor by motor power has 

 increased tremendously the efficiency of every farm oper- 

 ator and worker. 



Despite the reduced size of the average farm family, 

 the family type farm has increased in area. In other words, 

 today's farmer, with fewer sons and hired men, is able to 

 cultivate many more acres and do a better job than the 

 farmer of 1920. Modern equipment and improved meth- 



unian 



ods have multiplied the output per 

 worker. This new efficiency has resulted 



in greatly increasing the income possibili- 

 ties of ever)- farm family. 



However, "Man shall not live by 

 bread alone! " 



Il'oo manv farmers look upon their 

 increased efficiency as a means to greatly 

 expand operations so that thc-y can make 

 more and more money. Some have for- 

 gotten what we "live by . 



New tools, more power, greater effi- 

 ciency .should mean more time to live, 

 greater opportunities for recreation. 

 shorter wtirking hours, a shorter working 

 week and earlier retirement. Let us use some of these 

 gains in efficiency to provide more time for real living, 

 more time for recreation and vacations, more time for re- 

 ligion and education. No family groups in America h.ive 

 a better opportunity to work and play and live together 

 than do our farm families. 



We live in the heart of nature's wonderland. Why 

 not plan a vacation trip.-" Visit some of the historical areas 

 and state parks recently pictured on the cover pages oi the 

 Record. Illinois is rich in historic as well as scenic spots. 

 Take your youngsters on a fishing trip or bring the family 

 down to the Illinois Farm Sports I'estival at the I'niversity 

 of Illinois, Aug. 26-27. You'll have a wonderful time. 



Shall our machines work for us, or shall we become 

 slaves of the machines? 



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AUGUST, 1948 • VOLUME 26, NUMBER 8 



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



President, Charles B. Shuman Sullivan 



Vice-President. Floyd E. Morris Buifalo 



Secretary. Paul E. Mathias Hinsdale 



Field Sec, Geo. E. Metsger Chicago 



Treasurer, R. A. Cowles Bloomington 



Comptroller, C. C. Chapelle Chicago 



General Counsel, Donald Kirkpatrick Chicago 



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Earl M. Hughes, Woodstock 



CI, Elliott, Streator 



Homer Curtiss, Stockton 

 Otto Stefiey, Stronghurst 

 Edwin Gumm, Galesburg 



16th Russell V, McKee, Varna 



17th ^ E. T. Culnan, Lincoln 



18th - John T, Evans, Hoopeston 



Editor, Creston Foster. Ass't. Editor, James C. Thomson. 



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