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Number 7 



July, 1949 



The Record 



OFFICIAL PUBLICATION 

 THE lUINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



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

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

 tional interests of the farmers of Illinois and the nation, and to develop 

 agriculture. 



OFFICERS 



CHARLES B. SHUMAN, Sullivan. President 



FLOYD E. MORRIS 

 Vice-President 



PAUL E. MATHIAS 

 Secretary 



ARTHUR F. SCHUCK 

 Treasurer 



GEORGE E. METZGER 

 Field Secretary 



CLARENCE C. CHAPELLE 



Comptroller 



DONALD KIRKPATRICK 

 General Counsel 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



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

 Niinonk ; Homer Curtiss. Stockton; J. King Eaton, Edwardsville ; C. J. 

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

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

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

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



DIVISION HEADS 



George E. Metzgcr, Organization & Information ; L. L, Col vis. Market- 

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

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

 Comptrollers office; and Donald Kirkpatrick, General Counsel. 



DEPARTMENT HEADS 



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

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

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

 H. Iftner, Grain Marketing ; Roy P. Johnson. Special Services & Office 

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

 Legal ; Ellsworth D, Lyon. Young People's Activities ; Judson P. Mason, 

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

 sell, Livestock Marketing ; W. E, Scheer, Personnel ; Jolin rt. Laxe, Saiety 

 and Public Health ; and Bert Vandervliet, Property Taxation. 



ASSOCIATE COMPANY MANAGERS 



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

 Grain Terminals Company ; Forrest C. Fairchild, Prairie Farms Creameries ; 

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

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

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

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

 E. Richardson. Country Life Insurance Company; Dale Rouse, Illinois 

 Wool Marketing Assn. ; C. E, Strand, Illinois Agricultural Auditing Assn. ; 

 H. W. Trautmann. Illinois Livestock Marketing Assn. ; and F. V. Wilcox, 

 Country Mutual Casualty Company. 



EDITORIAL STAFF 



Creston J. Foster 

 Editor 



James C. Thomson 

 Asst. Editor 



Editorial Office 



43 East Ohio, Chicago II 



The Illinois Agricultural Association RECORD is published monthly 

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

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

 as second class matter at post office, Mendota, III., 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 publication to Editorial Offices, Illinois Agricultural 

 Association RECORD. 43 East Ohio St.. Chicago. The indivi(^al mem- 

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

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

 Agricultural Association RECORD. Postmaster: Send notices on Form 

 3578. Undclivcrable copies leturned under Form 3579 to editorial offices, 

 43 E. Ohio St., Chicago 11, III. 



THE STATE FARM BUREAU PUBLICATION 



Charles B. Shuman 



To Make 



THE BEST BETTER 



ILLINOIS farmers are rightfully 

 proud of their farms, their 

 homes, and their own accom- 

 plishments, but most of all they 

 are proud of their boys and girls. 

 This pride is most evident at any 

 county 4-H fair as the new genera- 

 tion displays the results of its labor 

 and learning. No other industrial 

 or occupational group in America 

 has developed a youth program to 

 equal agriculture's 4-H, Future 

 Farmer, Future Homemaker, and Rural Youth activities. 



THOSE of us who have sometimes been discouraged 

 by the seemingly slow progress toward the general 

 adoption of improved farming methods and better 

 soil conservation practices can certainly take new hope 

 from the results of this great movement. All over 

 Illinois I hear the same story — the young people 

 are leading the way. They are assummg their re- 

 sponsibilities in the farm community as successful 

 farmers, as members of Farm Bureau and cooperative 

 association boards of directors, as leaders in every 

 important activity. 



IT is well to remember, however, that the rapid 

 gains of today would have been impossible were 

 it not for the experiences and slower progress of a 

 group of far-sighted leaders \\ho envisioned a new 

 day for farm people — scientists at the College of 

 Agriculture who developed new and better ways of 

 farming, hundreds of men and women who gave their 

 best years of service to the agricultural extension work 

 bringing these new methods to practical farmers. 

 Vocational agriculture intructors, volunteer adult 4-H 

 leaders and public spirited citizens in other occupations 

 promoted the idea of a better agriculture. 



HOWEVER, all of this activity might have gone for 

 naught had not farmers themselves taken enough 

 interest to build a powerful organization with w hich 

 to improve the economic "climate" surrounding agri- 

 culture. Without these more favorable economic 

 conditions and the improved attitude of the general 

 public towards agriculture which resulted from the 

 activity of our own organization, the best farm youth 

 would probably have continued to seek their oppor- 

 tunities in the city. 



EVERY farmer should be thankful that we can now, 

 with some degree of confidence, encourage our 

 farm young people to look for their opportunities 

 on the farm or in agricultural service — to Make the 

 Best Better! 



President, Illinois Agricultural Association 



JULY. 1949 



