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Number 4 



April, 1949 



The Record 



OmCIAl PUIIICATION 

 THE ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIAnON 



To advance the purpose for which the Farm Bureau was organfzej, namely, 

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

 tional interests oj the farmers of Illinois and the Nation, and to develop 

 agriculture. 



OmCERS 



CHARLES B. SHUMAN. Sullivan, President 



FLOYD E. MORRIS 

 Vice-President 



PAUL E. MATHIAS 

 Secretary 



ARTHUR F. SCHUCK 

 Treasurer 



GEORGE E. METZGER 

 Field Secretary 



CL.\RENCE C. CHAPELLE 

 Comptroller 



DONALD KIRKPATRICK 

 General Counsel 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



Lyman Bunting, Ellcry ; Thomas H. Lloyd, Girard ; Lester S. Davison. 

 Minonk ; Homer Curtiss, Stockton; J. Kmg Eaton, Edwardsville ; C. J. 

 Elliott, Streator ; John T. Evans, Hoopeston ; Edwin Gumm, Galesburg ; 

 Earl M. Hughes, Woodstock : Chester McCord, Newton ; Russell V. 

 McKee, Varna ; K. T. Smith, Greenfield ; Otto Steffey, Stronghurst ; 

 Frank L. Simpson, Farmer City ; and Albert Webb, Ewing. 



DIVISION HEADS 



George E. Metzger, Organization & Information ; L. L. Colvis, Market- 

 ing; I. E. Parett, General Services; Paul E. Mathias, Building, Records, 

 and Personnel; Arthur F. Schuck, Treasurer's office; C. C. ChapcUe, 

 Comptroller's office ; and Donald Kirkpatrick, General Counsel. 



DEPARTMENT HEADS 



Frank M. Atchley, Research ; O. D. Brissenden, Organization ; G. W. 

 Baxter, Transportation-Claims ; John K. Cox, Rural School Relations ; 

 C. J, Foster Publicity ; R. E. Gish, Soil Conservation Activities ; George 

 H. Iftncr, Grain Marketing ; Roy P. Johnson, Special Services 8c Office 

 of the Building; C. E. Johnston, General Office; Donald KirkpatricJc, 

 Le^al ; Ellsworth D. Lyon, Young People's Activities ; Judson P. Mason, 

 Dairy Marketing ; Cullen B. Sweet, Rural Road Improvement ; S. F. Rus- 

 sell, Livestock Marketing ; W. E. Scheer, Personnel ; and Bert Vandervliet, 

 Property Taxation, 



ASSOCIATE COMPANY MANAGERS 



C. H. Becker, Illinois Farm Supply Company; Sam L. Hassell, Illinois 

 Grain Terminals Compaiw ; Forrest C. Fairchila, Prairie Farms Creaooeries ; 

 Darrell L. Achenbach, Cfountry Mutual Fire Company ; Judson P. Mason, 

 111. Milk Producers' Assn. ; R. S. McBride, Ilhnois Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change ; Howard McWard, 111. Grain Corporation ; C. F. Musser, 111. 

 Farm Bureau Serum Assn. ; J. L. Pidcock, 111. Co-op Locker Service ; A. 



E. Richardson, Country Life Insurance Coinpany ; Dale Rouse, Ilhnois 

 Wool Marketmg Assn. ; C. E. Strand, Illinois Agricultural Audit- 

 ing Assn. ; H. W. Trautmann, Illinois Livestock Marketing Assn. ; and 



F. V. Wilcox, Country Mutual Casualty Company. 



EDITORIAL STAPP 



Creston J. Foster 

 Editor 



James C. Thomson 

 Ass't. Editor 



Editorial Office 



4J East Ohio, Chicago II 



The Illinois Agricutural Association RECORD is published monthly 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Association at 1501 W. Washington Road, 

 Mendota, 111. Editorial Offices, 43 East Ohio St., Chicago 11, 111. Entered 

 as second class matter at post office, Mendota, 111. Sept. 11, 1936. 

 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided in Section 412, 

 Act of Feb. 28, 1925, authorized Oct. 27, 1935. Address all com- 

 munications for pubication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Agricultural 

 Association RECORD, 43 East Ohio St., Chicago. The individual mem- 

 bership fee of the Illinois Agricultural Association is five dollars a year. 

 The tee includes payment of fifty cents for subscription to the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association RECORD. Postmaster: Send notices on Form 

 3578. Undeliverable copies returned under Form 3579 to editorial offices, 

 43 E. Ohio St., Chicago U, 111. 



THE STATE FARM BUREAU PUBLICATION 



APRIL 1948 



A New Farm Tool 



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C. B. Shuman 



By Charles B. Shuman 



President Illinois Agricultural Association 



VERY farmer can remember the great thrill that 

 came as he turned the first furrow with his own 

 plow the year he started farming "for himself". 

 It was a thrill to be repeated again and again as 

 he added more efficient tools to his 

 farming equipment. My first trac- 

 tor of 1929 would make a sorry 

 comparison with today's modern, 

 speedy powerhouses of the fields. 

 These rapid and revolutionary im- 

 provements in farm machinery have 

 helped farmers increase their pro- 

 duction efficiency and in turn dieir 

 living standards. Yes, it costs 

 money — big money to modernize 

 agriculture. 



FARMERS have other valuable tools in addition to 

 the implements of the field. Our farmer coopera- 

 tives have repeatedly proven themselves to be es- 

 sential farm tools. They are making a great contribu- 

 tion toward a more stable and satisfactory American 

 agricidture by injecting increased competition and effi- 

 ciency in the fields of distribution and marketing. Yes, 

 Illinois farmers have many millions of dollars invested 

 in their cooperative tools — but not too many consider- 

 ing the size of the unfinished task. 



I NEW cooperative tool has been purchased! The 

 \ acquisition of a 2I/2 million bushel terminal ele- 

 ^" vator in Qiicago by the Illinois Grain Terminals 

 Company, in effect, gives the farmers of Illinois an- 

 other powerful machine. This was not the result of a 

 hasty decision or a sudden impulse. 



OVER a period of several years a number of Farm 

 Bureau type cooperative elevator companies have 

 been formed with the intention of eventually mer- 

 chandising grain. Two years of careful investigation 

 have resulted in this decision to take another step 

 towards the goal of bringing the producers and con- 

 sumers closer together. 



OUR cooperative grain commission and brokerage 

 operations have been and will continue to be essen- 

 tial services. However, developments during re- 

 cent harvest seasons have dramatized the need for a 

 farmer-owned terminal grain storage and handling fa- 

 cility. New early maturing varieties of corn and soy- 

 beans harvested with our modern pickers and combines 

 have resulted in a greatly increased early fall movement 

 of grain. 



I^HE grain trade and processors generally have taken 

 advantage of the pressure of this movement and 

 have extracted wide handling margins and large 

 moisture discounts. The facilities purchased by Illinois 

 Grain Terminals can handle approximately 15 million 



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