1970 Illinois Crop Improvement’s Bylaws

“The objects of this association shall be to promote the agricultural interests of Illinois, emphasizing especially those of crop improvement in general and seed improvement in particular, by

• encouraging the breeding and general improvement of farm crops;
• stimulating the growing and dissemination of pedigreed or improved seeds in every section of the state;
• husbanding, propagating, and maintaining the purity of adapted new varieties or improved strains produced by the Plant Breeder;
• supporting and fostering local, county, district, state, and national shows where purebred seeds are to be shown.”