Get Reservations 

 In Now For lAA 

 Trips East, South 



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(WWT HEELS a-rolling." Everyone 



^ ■ Vl wants to go! We have a pile 

 MjU of retjuests a foot high. It's 

 ■ ■ the lAA caravan train trips 

 " ■ to the AFBF convention in 

 Atlantic City, Dec. 13-16. 



More than 400 Farm Bureau folks have 

 already said: "Sure. Let's go!" We've 

 had that many requests. And they're still 

 rolling in. So if you want to go, please 

 let us know. We're running short of 

 train space. 



The latest development along the car- 

 avan front is a special side trip! It 

 you're going the southern route you'll 

 have an invitation to see a big Florida 

 ranch, big enough to keep 32 separate 

 herds of cattle. And you'll be entertained 

 in traditional southern style with a big 

 beef barbecue plus a rodeo staged by 

 ranch hands. 



Those taking the eastern tour will visit 

 the large U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 experimental farm at Beltsville, Md., 

 where they will see the vast dairy and 

 hog projects together with other experi- 

 mental work. They will also visit United 

 Nations headquarters and see UN in 

 action. 



The southern tour will leave on the 

 Illinois Central Railroad Dec. 5 and will 

 travel through Florida and up the 

 Atlantic seaboard on its way to the 

 convention. It leaves the convention Dec. 

 16 and arrives in Chicago the next day. 



The eastern train leaves Chicago Dec. 

 S on the Pennsylvania Railroad, arriving 

 in Washington, D. C, the next day. After 

 special tours throughout eastern states, 

 this group will arrive at Atlantic City 

 Dec. 13 in time for the convention. The 

 train returns to Chicago Dec. 19 by way 

 of New York City. 



Reservation requests have been printed 

 in the July, August, and September issues 

 of the RECORD. You can assure your- 

 self of a place on the train of your choice 

 by clipping out one of these requests and 

 mailing it in to us. 



The southern trip, longer by three 

 days, will cost about $220 and the eastern 

 trip about $175, depending on the type 

 of travel accommodations. 



Roy Johnson, who is in charge of the 

 trip for the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, has this one word of caution. He 

 says that those who are thinking about 

 travel accommodations should be warned 

 that "two in one lower" is just the same 

 as two persons sleeping in a single bed. 

 It may mean discomfort in travel for 

 many. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



ILLINOIS WOOL MARKETING 



ASSOCIATION 



Notice is hereby given that the 

 annual meeting oi the shareholders 

 and members of Illinois Wool Mar- 

 keting Association will be held on 

 Tuesday, the 16th day oi Movember, 

 1_948, at the hour of 9;30 A.M. in the 

 Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, to 

 elect directors for the succeeding 

 year; to receive and if aproved, con- 

 firm the report of the Board of Di- 

 rectors of the Association for the 

 fiscal year ending September 30, 

 1948; to consider and if approved, 

 ratify and confirm ail of the acts 

 and proceedings of the Board of 

 Directors done and taken since the 

 last annual meeting of the share- 

 holders and members of the Asso- 

 ciation; and for the transaction of 

 such further and other business as 

 may properly come before the meet- 

 ing. 



J. Kinq Ector. , Secretary 



State Honors Go 

 To Prairie Farms 

 Creamery of OIney 



PRAIRIE Farms Qeamery of Olney 

 won first prize on market milk and 



first prize on cottage cheese in the 

 dairy products class competition at the 

 Illinois State Fair. 



Competing against a large number of 

 entries from both large and small dairies 

 over the state, Prairie Farms of Olney 

 won first prize on pasteurized market 

 milk on the basis of flavor, visible sedi- 

 ment and package. TTie entry consisted 

 of four quarts of milk. 



The cottage cheese also was entered 

 in open class competition and the blue 

 ribbon fell to Prairie Farms on the basis 

 of flavor, body and texture, makeup and 

 package over a large number of entries. 

 This is the second year in succession 

 that Prairie Farms of Olney has won the 

 blue ribbon first on cottage cheese. 



The judging of the dairy products was 

 conducted by the University of Illinois. 



Due to a vigorous quality program 

 conducted by Prairie Farms with its pro- 

 ducers during the past two years, much 

 of the credit for tiiese prizes is due to 

 the Prairie Farms patrons who have im- 

 proved the quality of their milk im- 

 measurably. Careful processing in the 

 plant with high qualit)- milk from the 

 producers has made the winning of these 

 prizes possible, according to Frank My- 

 lanek, manager of the Olney plant. 



Clean plowing will destroy 95 to 98 



rcT cent of the corn borers in a rield. 



Fairchild Named 

 Manager of Prairie 

 Farms Creameries 



FORREST C. FAIRCHILD. 45, man- 

 ager of dairy and creamery coofJera- 

 lives in Bloomington for the past 22 

 years, has been named manager of 

 Prairie F'arms 

 Creameries, the state- 

 wide affiliate of the 

 Illinois Agricultural 

 .Association. He will 

 a.ssume his new 

 duties Nov. 1. 

 ^ Fairchild was born 



j^. ^^ on a dairy farm in 

 ^^^ ' ^^B Knox cou.ity and 

 ^^H A ^^^H moved to a farm 

 ^^■* ^^^B near Kansas City, 

 r. c. Fairchild Kans., with h i s 



family when five. He 

 remembers delivering milk to railroad 

 rnen near the Kansas farm. The family 

 returned to Knox county and a dairy 

 farm retailing milk in Galesburg. 



In 1923 Fairchild was a dairy herd 

 tester in Edgar county and in 1924 

 worked for Jubilee Farms in Peoria and 

 later exhibited cows for the Ruth Hanna 

 McCormick Sims farm and the Governor 

 Lowden farm at Sinissippi. He studied 

 dairy husbandry at the University of 

 Illinois for two years before doing dairy 

 herd testing work in McLean county. 



A few months later, Fairchild be- 

 came first manager of the newly organ- 

 ized McLean County Milk Producers As- 

 sociation. In 1932 when the producers 

 creamery was organized he became man- 

 ager of both until and after their oon- 

 solidation last year. 



Fairchild also served as manager of the 

 Prairie Farms Creamery of Champaign 

 while Manager Ike Hochstrasser was in 

 the armed service for 41/2 years. In 1931 

 he assisted with the reorganization of the 

 Rockford Milk Producers Association and 

 was secretary of the organization which 

 preceded the Illinois Milk Producers 

 Asscxriation. 



In 1946-47 he served on the National 

 Milk Producers Association committee on 

 national policy on social securit)' and 

 hospitalization for farmers. 



Fairchild lives in Bloomington with his 

 wife and family of two daughters, both 

 students at Illinois Wesleyan University 

 Ann, 19. is a junior. Alice, 17, is a 

 freshman. Mrs. Fairchild is a member 

 of the Bloomington board of education 

 He is a member of the IcKal Presby- 

 terian church, the Bloomington con- 

 sistory, past president of the local Rotary 

 club, and chairman of the citizens com- 

 mittee on needs of Bloomington schools. 



OCTOBER. 1948 



