LEADERS IN LIVESTOCK MARKETING (GonHnued) 



C. A. Pane* 



Clark 



He ships to th* 



Indianapolis 



Producers. 



L. F. Brissenden 

 CloT 



*1 like the St. 

 Louis Producers 



credit service." 



Cliiford Morris 



Edgar 



A top notch cattle 



feeder he. 



Albert Aderman 

 Eifinghoxn 

 Pioneered in co- 

 operative 

 trucking. 



I. E. Samuelson 



Henry 



925 cars irom his 



county in '36> 



Nick Maes 



Jackson 



A real cooperator. 



E. W. Rentmeister 



Logan 



A "100 percenter" 



he. 



Harvey Hemdon 

 McDonough 



Director of State 

 Association. 



Wm. Burroughs 



Marshall-Putnam 



He puts pep in 



the program. 



Who's Who Among the 

 Farm Advisers 



Bond County Farm Bureau is dis- 

 playing a lot of activity these days and 

 activity takes power. There's plenty of 

 power among Bond county farmers but 

 the spark that sets the power into 

 action is the farm adviser, I. F. Green. 



"He's a peppy little guy," is the way 

 one well-known Bond county farmer des- 

 cribes the youthful adviser. And that 

 description fits him well except that he 

 is not small, but is of average size. His 

 cat-like quickness of movement that is 

 usually associated with fly-weight boxers 

 is, perhaps, responsible for the feeling 

 that Green seems smaller than he really 

 is. 



Green's main interest is soil improve- 

 ment which is one of the major farm 

 problems in Bond county. The soil, a 

 tight gray clay, has not been treated 

 kindly by the generations of farmers 

 ■who have worked it. Drainage is poor, 

 there is little humus in the soil and it 

 lacks nitrogen and phosphorus. Wheat 

 is the main crop and corn produces 

 stunted stalks and small yields. 



Most of the farmers realize the faults 

 of their land but they know that their 

 adviser is a dependable soil doctor. In 



the two years that he has served Bond 

 county. Green has been able to demon- 

 strate the value of limestone, legumes 

 and rock phosphate on stubborn gray 

 clay. Farm Bureau members are, as their 

 finances permit, beginning to build up 

 their land, Green says. 



Green's experi- 

 ence with soil- 

 building began 

 on his father's 

 Gallatin county 

 farm near Equal- 

 ity where I. F. 

 was born 28 years 

 ago. He helped 

 his father until 

 he w a s through 

 Equality high 

 school. Then he 

 went to Carbondale teachers college. Af- 

 ter two years at Carbondale, Green de- 

 cided to learn more about farms and soils, 

 so he enrolled in the college of agricul- 

 ture at the University of Illinois. 



Although he graduated in February 

 1930, Green started at once to teach 

 vocational agriculture in Sparta high 

 school, Randolph county. For five and a 



L F. Green 



George Knoles 



Mason 

 A Peoria Pro- 

 ducers customer. 



lohn W. North 

 Woodford 



A Peoria Pro- 

 ducers "100 

 percenter." 



half years he taught young farmers the 

 proper methods to use in building up 

 the unglaciated soil around Sparta. The 

 more he studied the problems of soil 

 fertility the more Green became con- 

 vinced that Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins had 

 the right idea when he advocated lime- 

 stone, legumes, crop rotations, manure 

 and rock phosphate for soil improvement. 



It was at Carbondale that Green met 

 Florence Kircher, the daughter of a 

 Franklin county dairyman. Miss Kircher 

 had come to learn the methods teachers 

 use to impart knowledge to sun-baked 

 country kids. But here was this fellow. 

 Green. It looked like a college romance 

 right from the start. Then Green went 

 to Urbana and Florence took a country 

 school near Benton. 



The romance matured and Florence 

 became Mrs. Green on July 30, 1931. 

 Now there are two more in the family, 

 Ronald, age 5 and Jerome Kieth, age 

 one year. 



And Bond county's Farm Bureau fam- 

 ily has increased also. In the first four 

 months of 1937, 53 new members signed 

 up, 1 3 more than the year's quota. Green 

 takes none of the credit for the sudden 

 increase in membership. He says that 

 Perry Schmoellinger, organization chair- 

 man, is responsible. Be that as it may, 

 farmers of Bond County think both 

 Schmoellinger and Green are "great guys." 



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