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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Seven 



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Southern Clover And 



Alfalfa Seed To Sing 



Swan Song Is Report 



New Government Seed Service To Tell 

 Source Of Origin 



THE death knell of southern clover 

 and alfalfa shipments to com belt 

 farmers has been sounded. 



The U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture recently instituted a new service 

 whereby the source of origin of al- 

 falfa, clover, and seed corn will be 

 given on every bag or package. All 

 the large seed dealers who handle ap- 

 proximately 90 per cent of all the 

 clover, alfalfa and seed corn used in 

 the country have subscribed for the 

 service. 



The inspection service is a benefit 

 to the seed companies as well as to 

 Middle West farmers who have lost 

 thousands of dollars in times past by 

 sowing worthless southern grown al- 

 falfa or clover seed only to see a nice 

 stand kill out completely the follow- 

 ing winter. 



Each Bag Labeled . 



Each seed bag will carry a verified 

 origin certificate tag. There will be 

 no government guarantee of germina- 

 tion, purity, or variety, however. 



Each grower or shipper of seed un- 

 der the department's service submits 

 to the dealer either a declaration of 

 origin or an official State certificate of 

 origin of each shipment. The shipper 

 filling in a shipper's declaration states 

 that the lots described therein have 

 been obtained directly from growers 

 with proper declaration or other suffi- 

 cient evidence as to locality of pro- 

 duction; that the facts stated are cor- 

 rect to the best of his knowledge and 

 belief, and that the locality of pro- 

 duction and identity of each lot are 

 properly covered in his records, which 

 will be made accessible for verification 

 by a Federal seed inspector at any 

 time upon request. 



How It Is Done 



With declarations at hand covering 

 the various lots of seed for which 

 verification is desired, the verified- 

 origin dealer makes application to the 

 nearest inspector for an inspection 

 certificate, giving the kind of seed, 

 name of shipper and shipping point, 

 or declaration number covering the 

 shipment, date of shipment, shipper's 

 lot number or mark, the verified- 

 origin dealer's receiving lot number, 

 the quantity in pounds, place where 

 the seed was grown, and kind of dec- 

 laration covering the shipment. This 

 certificate is in effect a copy of the 

 dealer's own record which may be ex- 

 amined at any time by a seed in- 

 spector. It entitles the verified-origin 

 dealer to issue verified-oripn seed 

 certificates for all lots covered by it. 



The verified-origin seed certificate 

 is the recognized commercial docu- 

 ment verifying the origin and iden- 

 tity of the seed which it covers. 



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[MEUER MIMD' 

 DRV, MADAM? IPY POUt.CS 



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This tag certificate gives, in addi- 

 tion to the name and address of the 

 verified-origin seed dealer, the kind of 

 seed, lot number, and where the seed 

 was grown. It is attached to every 

 bag in shipments made to purchasers 

 who are not verified-origin seed deal- 

 ers. 



The department's new service is 

 conducted under authority of Con- 

 gress to establish an inspection service 

 for perishable farm products. The act 

 provides, among other things, for fees 

 that are reasonable and that cover as 

 nearly as possible the cost of the 

 service. Accordingly, for seed listed 

 in an inspection certificate a fee of 3 

 to 5 cents per 100 pounds is charged. 



T. B. In Hogs Drops 



55 Per Cent at Yards 



TUBERCULOSIS infection in hogs 

 received at the Chicago livestock 

 market decreased 55 per cent during 

 the past four years according to a 

 survey recently completed by the Chi- 

 cago Livestock Exchange. 



Last December only 10.2 per cent of 

 the hogs at the Union Stock Yards 

 were retained by the federal inspec- 

 tors because they were infected with 

 tuberculosis. 



During 1927 packers paid at Chi- 

 cago $97,652.46 alone in 10c premiums 

 on 382,570 hogs from accredited T. B. 

 free counties. A county becomes ac- 

 credited when all the breeding cattle 

 within its borders have been tuberculin 

 tested and the infection reduced to less 

 than half of one per cent. : 



439 Accredited Coanties 



There are now 38 accredited coun- 

 ties in Iowa, 7 in Illinois, 12 in Minne- 

 sota, 27 in Wisconsin, 29 in Indiana, 

 and enough in the other states of the 

 Union to make 439 in all. 



In 1908, the survey shows, less than 

 four per cent of Chicago hogs had 

 tuberculosis. Then as T. B. spread in 

 poultry and dairy herds, tuberculosis 

 in hogs rose steadily until it had 

 mounted to 20 per cent in 1922. 



Premiums paid by all packers for 

 hog^ from accredited counties in the 

 corn belt totalled $500,000 during 1927. 



Eight Counties Get 



New Farm Advisers 



EIGHT Illinois counties have an- 

 nounced or will announce new 

 county farm -advisers according to re- 

 ports received at the I. A. A. offices. 



R. J. "Rusty" Laible, farm adviser 

 in Greene County for the past three 

 years, recently started work for the 

 Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau where 

 he succeeds F. E. Fuller who moved to 

 Bloomington. The Greene County 

 Farm Bureau membership grew 70 

 per cent during Laible's incumbency. 

 Mr. Fuller is managing a large num- 

 ber of farms in McLean County. 



W. F. Coolidge of Blooming^ton, 

 who has been active in the McLean 

 County Farm Bureau, was employed 

 by the Macoupin County Farm Bu- 

 reau as adviser to succeed Earl W. 

 Rusk. Mr. Rusk resig^ied to become 

 agricultural agent for the Chicago 

 and Illinois Midland Railroad, an In- 

 suU holding. Claude C. Coots of Mo- 

 desto, has been engaged by Rusk to 

 manage the railroad's experimental 

 farm at Havana in Mason County. 



Geo. H. Iftner, former teacher of 

 vocational agriculture at Robinson, 

 was employed recently to succeed 

 Farm Adviser Wascher in Effingham 

 County. 



R. H. Clanahan, agricultural teach- 

 er from Pittsfield, has been chosen to 

 succeed Farm Advisor Laible in 

 Greene County. G. O. Stanley is the 

 new county adviser in Cumberland 

 County, while H. M. Adams was re- 

 cently employed to succeed Charlie 

 Robinson, former county adviser in 

 Shelby County. L. Kimmel, former 

 county adviser in Pope County, re- 

 signed April 1. H. F. Crosby, farm 

 adviser in Menard County, according 

 to reports will leave his office there 

 May 15. 



L. W. Braham succeeded J. F. 

 Hedgcock as farm adviser in Will 

 County several months ago. 



-Marchant Heads Farm Advisers 



LR. MARCHANT of Knox county 

 • was elected president, C. H. Kelt- 

 ner of Winnebagro county, vice-presi- 

 dent, J. W. Whisenand of Henry 

 county secretary, and W. B. Bunn, of 

 Richland county, treasurer of the Illi- 

 nois State Association of Farm Ad- 

 visers for i928. 



Directors are: C. E. Yale, Lee 

 county; R. C. Doneghue, McDonough 

 county, and F. W. Garrett, Douglas 

 county. 



Charter members of the State As- 

 sociation were active in helping or- 

 ganize the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation back in 1916. Representative 

 farm advisers serve on each advisory 

 committee of the I. A. A. and the 

 president attends all meeting^s of the 

 I. A. A. executive committee. 



