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Title: Illinois Agricultural Association record (microform)
Identifier: 5060538.1923-1930
Year: 1923 (1920s)
Authors: Illinois Agricultural Association; Illinois Agricultural Association. Record
Subjects: Agriculture -- Illinois
Publisher: Mendota, Ill. : The Association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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December 6, 1924 The nBnoU AgJCTiltural A«»oci«tion Record P««e 3 i 6TH ANNUAL A.FJ).F. CONVENTION SLATED FOR DEC. 8,9 AND 10 Subconunittee* Will Settle Question*; To Broadcact Programs By Radio When the hand of time rings up Dec. 8, 1924 there will be convening In Chicago, at the Congress Hotel, one of the most important meetings of farmers America has ever held. The occasion will be the 6th annual meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The convention lasts three days, Dec. 8, 9 and 10, during which some of the weightiest problems ever to face the directors of the Fed- eration will be threshed out by agricultural leaders. Handle Majiy Problems The complete program for the several sessions has been an- nounced by the program commit- tee. Aside from the regular pro- gram that has characterized an- nual A. F. B. F. meetings in years before, there has been ar- ranged plans for a detailed study of the many problems which should be discussed. To accomplish the detailed plan of handling questions tiie Board of Directors will be di- vided into six subcommittees. To these special committees will be assigned special matters which they will settle in three periods set aside for that purpose. Prob- lems of organization and finance, research and transportation, pub- licity, legislation and taxation, rural life and co-operative mar- keting are the principal ones to come up. Community develop- ment and boys' and girls* club work will also be included. Banqnet on Tuesday On Tuesday evening, Dec. 9, the delegates and farm bureau leaders from all over the United States will lay aside their heavy and vexing problems while they attend the 6th annual A. F. B. F. banquet. Radio will play its part in this Stb annual convention. By spe- cial arrangements with station KYW. the opening address of President Bradfute, which will commence at 10:15 sharp, Mon- day morning, Dec. 8, will be broadcast. Arrangements have also been completed with this same station to broadcast the entire program on banquet night. * i » < MACON COUNTY GIRL WINS ESSAY TILT
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LA.A. ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT HELPS 101 MEMBER CO^PS Make Applications for Income Tax Exemption; Schedule S3 Audits Fourteen of the best essay tcriters in Illinois. Some of them didn't send their pictures in time to get them in icith this bunch. (I) lona Henry, (2) Curtis Weathers, (3) Oscar Hamlik, (4) Roberta Zeller, (5) Mttrforet Catharine Schnapp. (6) LaVeta McQuigg, (7) Opal Rixie, (8) Hasel Wilde, (9) Adeline Stevenson, (10) Kirby Todd, (11) Elbert McCarthy, (12) Everett A. Sancken, (13J Faith Dishong, (14) Herman DUtmar. (Continued from page 1) Prophetstown, Whiteside county and Margaret Catherine Schnapp, Talulla, Menard county. Three Judges, Arthur C. Page, editor of Orange Judd Illinois Farmer. C. E. Hay, president of the Farm Advisers' Association of Illi- nois, and J. E. Hill, head of vo- cational agriculture department at Springfield, spent an entire day in choosing the best essays. Immediately after announcing the results of the contest the judges issued the following statement; Statement of the Judges "We find a great deal of merit in these essays, and highly com- mend those boys and girls who have put in thorough effort to seek out the facts about the Farm Bureau. "We are pleased to see the breadth of vision concerning the nature and purpose of the Farm Bureau as a national, state and county work, by which It Is dhown to be not only a means of Increasing profits In dollars and cents, but building a basis for more abundant country life. "The first and second prize win- ners particularly bring out an Idea which is the foundation of successful Farm Bureau operation In a county, state and national way. and that is that after all, while live stock, crops, soil, laws, marketing, etc., need careful at- tention, folks themselves are of highest value, and the ultimate Job of the farm bureau Is de- veloping rural life." First Prize Paper Here Is the essay picked by the judges as the one best typifying the Ideals and purposes of the farm bureau movement. By Dorothy Heckman, Macon County The farmers have begun to tblnk. Thiey think (arming la equal to any other business. They want other folks to know this. So they have begun to organize. The Farm Bureau Is the result. The Farm Bureau as it is or- ganized to-day includes county, state and nation. These working together stand for profitable farm- ing and social welfare. The mem- bers consist of farmers who look forward to the future for results, not only In money, but In de- veloping a higher type of rural life. In Illinois alone there are sixty-three thousand Farm Bu- reau members. My Dad is one of them. He is a booster for the Farm Bureau, first; because its program of work has put on a campaign of education to have farmers test cattle for tubercu- losis. It has made possible for farmers to get free tests under the supervision of the United States Department of Agriculture. Also to get pay for two-thirds of the loss of cattle that prove to have the disease. Second; For encouraging the raising of soybeans as a com- mercial crop to fight the chinch bug. Tblrd; For conducting corn di- sease plots to make possible the best choice of seed corn to plant. Fourth; Because a general practice has been brought about in sowing wheat after the fly- free date, which has saved farm- ers thousands of dollars. Fifth; Because co-operative shipping associations have been established to Improve the mar- keting of live stock. And last; perhaps the best thing of all the Farm Bureau is doing is the building of better community life through co-op- erating with the Home Bureau and organizing boys' and girls' clubs. The Farm Bureau be- lieves in developing the resources of the farm. This can be done by giving higher standards for rural living. The live stock, the crops, and the soil all need care- ful attention but the folks them- selves are of more value than all. Because the Farm Bureau Is doing and believes all these things. My Dad Is a member and a booster for the Farm Bureau. $15 Fee (Continued from page 2) I have kad coBsldrrablc experteaee la ■oUrltfair work and la •omp aec- lloBii have railed oa far aiore hcb who fvoBid BOt Jeia thaa who would. The apposite was asaallr the ir;-«J« case, however, rinOS the aaaaber he- iBK BOBiewhBt la proportloB to a w »/„» Hish desire to do their '* •" "«g" partiathlB Brent work. In aoine on«e« the ■aeBiberahip fee wan the thins ob- leeted to, bnt, in mr Judirment. much the same arisam*'"* woold have been used iB mOBt oa>*e« reSfardleMU of the aaaoaat of the fee. I like an orgrnn- tsatloa Independent of local tax aopport. aa or(::aBlxatluB flaaaced by fanaera themnelvea and obll- irated to BO taxpayer oppoaed tv our work. A alidinK »t€*ale for member- ship fees based on land owned or operated, as sometimes advocated, would necessitate a revisal of fees each year, be a aoorce of eternal dIssatlsfactloB. aad re4;Bire a tre- nteadous amouat of work. A S19 annual membership fee Is none too hi^h conslderias the capital and la- bor invested on the averaire farai. Other hnainess combines and labor orKaataatioBS have siicccericd be- cause of representative nieniherMhip with fees lar^e enoush to adequate- ly finance their undcrtnklnKS. More efflclent production la the fundamental program of our Farm nureao, but ne must co-nprrate in merehaadlsins our products. Co- operative marketing is not aettiag: prices OB our commodities, but it should afford a means of refculatlBir the flow of our products from the farai to the aiarkets la accordaace vrith demaads of time aad place, aad ahonid eheapea the coat of dis- trlbullea. If ail membera of the Farm Bu- reau tvould co-operate fully, recoip- Bise and patron- ise the successful c o-o perativc markellasr proj- e c t s as their owB, sullicieBt of the flow of our products to mar- ket would be la our hands where vre have an ia- alleaable riKh t io have it. The Klutted nsarket periods would s o o B disappear aad we would come iBto our OWB irithout any lajary to the O. L. Hatch eoaaaailBK puh- lic. The Farm BureaD aad Its afllll- ated orf^anixations are children of our own production. Let's protect them, help them to f^row, aad the farm will be a healthy aad profit- able abldlBff place In our old mfie. Yonrs for suecessfai co-operation. O. U, Hatch. Presldrat, Stark C'ouaty Farm Bureau.

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