and 



Terminals Company, thanked everyone 

 who had a hand in the success of the 

 campaign which raised $2,750,000 from 

 the sale of stock to finance the company. 

 A word of caution was spoken on 

 the further expansion of the physical 

 plants of the lAA affiliated companies 

 by President Shuman. "I would strong- 

 ly advise that further expansion be 

 curbed at this time," he said. "We need 

 to assimilate the expansion that has al- 

 ready been made." 



lAA Director Otto Steffey asked for 

 a show of sentiment among Farm Bureau 

 leaders as to whether the Sports Festival 

 should be continued. Steffey said the 

 Sports Festival had grown to great pro- 

 portions and that it was fulfilling the 

 purpose for which it was started — to 

 get farmers to play together, to get 

 more young people interested- in Farm 

 Bureau and to promote leadership qual- 

 ities. 



When Steffey asked the audience if 

 they wanted to have the Sports Festival 

 continued, virtually all raised their 

 hands. When asked if they wanted it 

 discontinued, two or three hands went 

 up. 



President Shuman commented on the 

 importance of the County Farm Bureau 

 annual meeting and suggested that it be 

 made attractive enough to draw as many 

 Farm Bureau people as possible and 

 that they be encouraged to express them- 

 selves and take part in open discussions. 



Discussing a rivalry of business in- 

 terest that has arisen between three lAA- 

 affiliated cooperatives — Illinois Grain 

 Corporation, and Illinois Grain Termi- 

 nals Company, and Illinois Farm Sup- 

 ply Company. President Shuman called 

 for greater cooperation and greater 

 effort in the interests of all the farmers 

 of Illinois. 



"Coordination of all Farm Bureau 

 cooperatives," he said, "is essential, and 

 can be accomplished through the efforts 

 of the state management board, the 

 Illinois Agricultural Service Company." 



Front Cover 



THE scene of the birth of the atomic age 

 is the 29th in our series of historic and 

 picturesque pictures of Illinois. The first 

 successful atomic pile was started under 

 the west stands of Stagg Field (picture) at 

 the University of Chicago. A plaque with 

 the following inscription has been set in the 

 wall just ahead of the car in picture: "On 

 December 2, 1942 Man Achieved Here 

 the First Self-Sustaining Chain Reaction and 

 thereby Initiated the Controlled Release of 

 Nuclear Energy." 



Announce Price Support 

 Rates on Corn and Hogs; 

 Corn Averages $1.40 Bu. 



PRICE support rates on corn and 

 hogs have been announced by the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. Corn price support rates for the 

 1949 crop are at an average of SI. 40 

 per bushel nationally. Tentative infor- 

 mation as the lAA RECORD goes to 

 press indicates that the rates for Illinois 

 will range by county from $1.37 to $1.44 

 per bushel. This shows a three cents 

 per bushel decrease from 1948 county 

 rates straight across the board for each 

 county. 



The 1949 loan and purchase agree- 

 ment rates are based on 90 per cent of 

 the parity price of corn as of Oct. 1. 

 1949. Parity for that date was $1.55 

 per bushel as a national average, ac- 

 cording to the Illinois Production and 

 Marketing Administration committee. 



Under the 1949 crop program, loans 

 and purchase agreements will be avail- 

 able to farmers from time of harvest 

 through Mav 31. 1950. and will mature 

 on July 31. 1950. 



The monthly hog price support levels 

 for the period Oct. 1949 through March 

 1950 are as follows: October, $16.40 

 per hundred pounds; November. $15; 

 December, $14.20; January. $14.90; 

 February, SI 5.50. and March. $16.20. 



Previously the support prices were 

 on a weekly basis. 



The Department of Agriculture says 

 that since purchases of live hogs for 

 price support do not now appear feasi- 

 ble, purchases of pork and pork prod- 

 ucts will be the method used if support 

 for hog prices become necessary. 



LETTERS . . . . 



I NOTICED that one of your pictures 

 in the article "The Road Problem" 

 in the October issue of the lAA Record 

 showed a school bus with the door on 

 the driver's side. I ride the school bus 

 every day and I have never seen a bus 

 with the door on the driver's side. 



I find good information in your pub- 

 lication and read about every story in 

 your magazine. 



Dennis Schaefer 

 Bureau County 



You re a keen observer, Dennis. May- 

 ^ be we could say it was an English bus. 

 "* Actually the photograph was printed in 

 reverse Editor. 



Two Chicago newspapermen fweoring 

 hats) Interview the Whiteside County farm 

 Bureau tug o' war team a few minvfe* 

 after they had jerked a Chicago railroad 

 worker team clear across the stage of the 

 "Wheels a ftollln' " pageant during closing 

 week of the Railroad fair In Chicago. 

 When the Whiteside huskies, weighing 1^ 

 875 pounds, started dragging the railroad 

 men across the stage, one railroader yelled 

 "Hey, leave us In Chicogol" 



NOVEMBER. 1949 



