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Rat Killing Day, Ford county, is Nov. 

 20. Poison will be applied around every 

 farm, elevator, feed storage space and 

 garbage dump in the country. 



A series of two day tours of the lAA, 

 American Farm Bureau Federation, 

 National Livestock Marketing Associa- 

 tion and lAA Associated Companies 

 offices by representatives of county 

 Rural Youth groups began November 1 

 and 2. Other tours are slated for Nov. 

 8 and 9, and Nov. 15 and 1 6. 



The Class 1 milk price in the St. Louis 

 milk shed for the month of Septem- 

 ber was increased 25 cents per cwt. 

 (from 12.45 to $2.70) on October 2 by 

 the board of arbitration recently chosen 

 by milk producers and milk distribu- 

 tors. The board was composed of Wil- 

 fred Shaw, lAA Director of Milk 

 Marketing, Karl P. Spencer, St. Louis 

 attorney, and Prof. F. R. Lininger, 

 Pennsylvania State College. 



Miller Leaves lAA 



Sam Russell Hired 



Roy E. Miller 



Sam F. Russell 



Sam F. Russell, Adams county farm 

 adviser and president of the State Asso- 

 ciation of Farm Advisers, has been 

 employed as director of the livestock 

 marketing department of the lAA. He 

 succeeds Ray E. Miller who became 

 general manager of the Omaha Producers' 

 Livestock Commission Association, 

 Omaha, Nebr., November 1. 



Russell was born 45 years ago on a 

 Wyoming sheep and cattle ranch operated 

 by his father. The family moved to 

 Savannah, Missouri, when Sam was a 

 small boy. After graduating from the 

 College of Agriculture, University of 

 Missouri, in 1915, Russell served two 



SEE PRESIDENT ON CORN LOAN 

 President Earl C. Smith, Edward A. O'NeaL AJ'.BJ'. President, and Cliiford V. 

 Greyory, associate publisher of Wallace's Farmer as they visited White House Oct 20. 

 The Farm Bureau Federation requested a loan of 63c a bushel, or 75 per cent oi parity. 



years as a county agricultural agent at 

 Troy, Mo. Later he became a member of 

 the Animal Husbandry staff at Oklahoma 

 A. and M. College, then a livestock 

 extension specialist at the University of 

 Missouri. He was farm adviser in Adams 

 county for ten years where he made an 

 excellent record. 



Mr. Miller made an outstanding record 

 during the ten years he served the state 

 association. Under his direction, Illinois 

 climbed to the top among all the states 

 in percentage of livestock sold through 

 cooperative channels. 



The maximum depth of Lake Michi- 

 gan is 923 feet. 



Cost of producing a bushel of wheat 



on central Illinois farms has been re- 

 duced from $1.08 to 66 cents a bushel 

 during the past ten to 15 years, says 

 R. H. Wilcox, farm management de- 

 partment. University of Illinois. 



For four years, Frank E. Trobaugh, 



fruit grower and attorney at West 

 Frankfort, III., has led his famous 

 Egyptian Choral Club to victory at the 

 Tribune's annual music festival in Chi- 

 cago. Many of the singers work on 

 Trobaugh's fruit farm of nearly 500 

 acres. "It is interesting to be around 

 our peach packing shed and hear some 

 of the numbers sung that later go on 

 the national network before 100,000 at 

 Soldier's Field, " he writes. There are 

 100 voices in the club. 



New Milk Contract Signed 

 At Bloomington 



Class 1 milk, delivered under new 

 contracts with two Bloomington-Normal 

 distributors, will be paid for at the rate 

 of 32.75 cents per hundred weight more 

 than the minimum evaporated milk code 

 price for 3.5 milk, announces the Mc- 

 Lean County Milk Producers Association. 



The minimum evaporated code price 

 for September milk was $1,587 per 

 hundred weight for 3.5 milk. Using 

 this quotation and applying the terms 

 of the new agreement, the price for 

 Class 1 milk would be $1.91. 



Class 2 price was set at 2.62 cents over 

 the evaporated milk code price for 3.5 

 milk. The Class 2 price under the 

 agreement would be $1.61 p)er cwt. The 

 average price then, for a producer selling 

 60 per cent of his milk in Class 1 and 

 40 per cent in Class 2 would be $1.79 

 per cwt. for 3.5 milk. 



"Under the new contracts, association 

 members will receive payments for milk 

 from the association rather than directly 

 from the distributors. Payments will 

 be made from funds collected by the 

 association from distributors and all 

 member producers will be paid the same 

 price per hundred weight for their milk," 

 says Wilfred Shaw, milk marketing di- 

 rector of the lAA. 



Two requirements of a safe, conven- 

 ient clothes closet are light and air; 

 both help to discourage moths. 



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