Volume 27 



Number 9 



September, 1949 



The ItEiiiitn 



OFFICFAL PUBLICATION 

 THI ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION 



1 fi advance the putp'\e 1'>* ut-^fth the farm W,v ■,■.)', 

 to promote, pfoiect and repreient tht hu<i*ie.'. n • 

 ttcnai intemt' >>* thf taf*n-" of lllti-n jnJ tr-.' 

 ag't.'ulturt . 



OFFICtRS 



HAKl.h> H. >HUMA\. Suli 



f. J- '"ZaKizcJ. namely. 

 ";/. . iii/j/ and educs 

 ••..It: ft inj to deieiiP 



K|f)VD E. MORRrS 



Vrtc PreMiifnt 



PAt'I. !■:. MATHIA> 

 ^ei retary 



^R^HL■R F. <(An-( K 



CILORC.E F. MET/CER 



( !.ARI .\( E f.. f HAPELLE 



( ■tinptMllcr 



noNAEO KtRKPATRirK 



BOARD OF DIRECTORS 



Lvrr.an Bunting. EUery , Thoma-; H. LiuyiJ, (,iri!*i. I.e-itcr S. l^<iVisu.T. 

 MincnK ; Homer Curtrss, Stockton ; J, King Eaton. Edwardsvilie ; C. J. 

 Eiiiott. Streat»jr ; John T. Evans, Hoopeston ; hdwm Crumm. GalesburK , 

 Eirl M. HuK^es. ^X'.-*. id stock ; Chester Mc( ord. Newt.in , Russell V. 

 McKee. V'jrna ; K. T. Smith. CirccnfitlU ; Dtto ^terfc., Mron^hut^t ; 

 F:*r.k L. Sinip'si'n, Farmer f itv ; and Albert \\ (.bh, Kwini;. 



DIVISION HEADS 



* If .-ft r. Mi't/i:c' . Organization A: Int.irm.ition , L. I., f .)!■. i'., Maikel- 

 :nk ; I, E. Patctt, t.eneral ServKts . Paul E. Mathias. Building, Records. 

 art! PerM.nnel ; Arthur F. Sihuck, Treasurers offue ; C. (-, (.hapclie. 

 I ' rrp'.r-iler s urfnc ; and Oonaid Kirkpatriik, (icneral ( oiinsel. 



DEPARTMENT HEADS 



l-.-.r.K M. Atdiicy, Research; O. D. Bnsstndcn. Organ/^almn ; Ci. W. 

 h*\rtr. Transport J tion-Claims ; John K. (ox. Rural Sth<H)l Relations ; 

 C. .!. Foster, Publicity; R. E. Gish, SutI Conservjtiun Aaivities, Rov P. 

 Johnson. Special Services & Office of the Buildiny . C. E. Johnston, (ien- 

 eral Ofiice ; Donald Kirkpatrick. Legal ; Ellsworth D. Lyon, ^'oung Peo- 

 pte's Activities ; Judson P. Mason, Dairy Marketing ; (Mullen B. Sweet. 

 Rural Road Impnvcment ; S. F. Russell, Livestock Marketing; W. E. 

 Scheer. Personnel ; John A. Lake. Satctv and Public Health ; and Bert 

 V'antitrvhct. Prupt-rtv Taxation. 



ASSOCIATC COMPANY MANAGERS 



Darreli L. Achenhach. Country Mutual Fi 

 hnL.;s Farm Supply Company, L. R. Do 



C:.>mpinv , ( . M- Hcikcr. II- 

 s, Produtcr-. ^cfd C.ompanv , 

 Forrest C. Fairchild. Prairie Farms Creameries ; San L. Hassell. II 

 linois Gram Terminals Company ; Judson P. Mast>n. III. Milk Producers' 

 As^n. ; R. S. McBride, Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange ; Howard McWard, 

 111. Grain Corporation ; C. F. Musser. 111. F.irm Bureau Serum Assn. ; 

 J. L, Pidcock, 111. 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. \' . WilfX, Country Mutual 

 Casualty Company. 



EDITORIAL STAFF 



Crcston J. Foster 

 Editor 



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Thorns, 

 Editor 



Eoitorial Office 



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c A r 4 o N 



Our World 



«.\ A l\I.( IN I inot;:r trip io\criii!,' two-tiiird the 

 kii;:tli o: uir own woiukTtiilly Jcriile sUtc of 

 Illinois. \%t' ueif once apaiti impressed with the 

 size and wealth ol the fjieat Midwest. Vet thi« 

 mule which required the greater j>art of a day by car 

 can lie traversed hy a modern plane 

 in le-s than an hour. Breakfast in 

 i\ew York and supper in l.os An 

 geles is a practical reality. Atomic 

 liomhs manufacture*! in .Xmerica 

 could i'c carried non-stop to he 

 dumped on Moscow — and vice 

 \ersal Tlie childish description '"as 

 hij; as the world" is no longer ver> 

 impressive. Our world which most 

 of us jrrew up to consider so huge 

 has heen dwarfed hv modern tran- 

 portalioii. 



Charlat B. Shaman 



nil AT DOI-.S this startling ch.iimc in size and <iis 

 tance mean to us in the corrj helt'.' (!an we con 

 linuc to isolate ourselves and our thinking from 

 f\cfi llie most remote corners of the glolw-y The easy 

 method of igtioring the problems ot the rest ot the 

 \M>rld can iio lonijci 



«nccce( 



I if 



we 



lit the rest ot 

 are realistic. 



i I l\(t|S l.iirnci-- are |pri>Md ot tlic -tandard i-t 

 liung which thcv ami their nei:;hi>i>r- have attained 

 Nowhere in the world do llic opportutiitic- ami 

 lixinu (iiiulition- in ajiricnlture compare ^<i lavorahU 

 with other group- in the nation a- tins ilo in America. 

 .Some of us were \i\idlv remindeil ol thi« lact recentK 

 when we acted as host to a gri>up ol visiting agricul- 

 tural leaders from 21 foreign nation-. A farmer (mm 

 central K.urope made this brief but vital comparison in 

 explaining the dillerence- in agricultural progri'— : 

 ""^ on have built a strong larm orgatii/ation dedicalc.l 

 to ei(tialily for agriculture and based upon the prin- 

 ciple of self help while we in Europe have placed our 

 -ole .dependcnie upon government political charitv."' 



NOTHF.U signilicatit comment of our foreign \ i-i- 

 tors was that if we in America desire peace rather 

 than war. atul if we c\pect to maintain this high 

 staiulard ot li\ing. then we must help the other people- 

 of the world to improve their conditions. Not pri 

 marily bv gifts of moticv and material things, but bv 

 assistance in educational programs, improvement in 

 government, the development of independent organ i 

 /ation-. and by the -tiarin;; of technical knowled;;e 



-f I H \^()H1,I) i- too small for u- to [un our hope- 

 l'^ for peace entirely upon isolation. It is essentia! 

 » ■ that we as Midwestern farmers learn to think ot 

 foreign nation- a- neighbors somewhat a- our ance-lor- 

 welcomed a new family to the communitv. After all. 

 the community of nations i- today no farther apart, as 

 measured by traveling time, than wen- the s,att<'red 

 -cttlers of a pioneer Fllinoi- comnumitv |(M( vears a<_'o 



President, Illinois A^ritiiltinal Ahsocialion 



SEPTEMBER, 1949 



