WHAT 



LIKE the Sword of Damocles which 

 hung over a king's head sus- 

 pended by a single thread, a great 

 sword is poised over the heads of 

 American farmers. It is labeled 

 "surplus." 



What are farmers going to do about 

 it? Yes, farmers. Not bureaucrats. 

 Your state Farm Bureau leaders want 

 to know what YOU think. You will 

 have a chance to tell them at the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association annual meeting 

 to be held Nov. 14, 15. 16, and 17 at 

 the Hotel Sherman in Chicago. 



Your Farm Bureau leaders are faced 

 with a dilemma. It is the problem of 

 surplus. Surplus corn, surplus hogs, 

 surplus wheat, surplus cattle, surplus 

 fruits, and vegetables. If farmers don"t 

 decide what they want done, bureau- 

 crats will. 



Already a half dozen farm plans are 

 on the fire. . . . the Brannan plan, the 

 Anderson plan, the Aiken plan. What 

 effect will all these plans have on Illi- 

 nois farmers? \^ hat is going to happen 

 to the prices of grain and livestock in 

 1950? What are the answers? Come 

 to the annual meeting in Chicago this 



month. Perhaps you can find out. 



You will hear discussions of national 

 issues by prominent speakers, talks on 

 specific farm problems and discussions 

 of programs and projects being spon- 

 sored by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation. 



Two of the principal speakers will be 

 Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson and 

 Romeo Short, vice president of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation and 

 former president of the Arkansas Farm 

 Bureau. Gov. Stevenson will address a 

 general session Wednesday evening. 

 Short will speak Thursday morning. 



More than 5,000 farmers are expected 

 for the four-day sessions which will 

 review the year's activities of the lAA 

 and its affiliated companies. Their 

 financial reports will be presented by 

 company managers and a summary of 

 the year's progress will be made in the 

 president's annual address by Charles 

 B. Shuman. 



An example of the projects that will 

 come up for discussion and approval is 

 the lAA Road Study Committee Report. 

 This report was made recently by the 

 lAA Road Study Committee. It points 



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out the defects in the Illinois road sys- 

 tem and recommends what should be 

 done about it. 



The same high class program of en- . 

 tertainment as last year is being planned 

 for the Tuesday night session by Roy P. 

 Johnson, lAA director of special serv- 

 ices. This year two performances of 

 the entertainment will be given — one 

 starting at 6:30 p.m. and the other at 

 8:30 p.m. Voting delegates will attend 

 the second show. Tickets will be used 

 for admission to each performance and 

 Johnson advises everyone to be sure to 

 obtain tickets, when he registers, to the 

 performance he plans to attend. 



The first two days of the annual 

 meeting will be devoted to conferences. 

 Rural Youth activities, and the annual 

 meetings of the lAA-affiliated coopera- 

 tives. The third and fourth days will 

 be devoted to the general sessions of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and to conference meetings on subjects 

 of importance to Illinois farmers. 



Conferences will be held on national 

 legislation, schools, roads, soils, market- 

 ing, safety, and taxation. 



The closing hours of the convention 



I. A. A. RECORD 



