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ILUNOIS' OUTSTANDING 4-H CLUB MEMBERS 



Left to right: Donald Mosher. DeEalb county; Helen Woli, Fulton; 



Harold Reusch, loDaviess; Helen Bitterman, Will, and E. L Pilchard, 



U. of L 4-H specialist The quartet went to the National 4-H Club Camp 



at Washington. D. C. the third week in lune, at delegotes from Illinois. 



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BEATING THE RAIN WITH MOLASSES-ALFALFA 

 SILAGE 

 Lloyd Decker. Livingston county, fills his silo with 

 freshly mown alfalfa mixed with 60 pounds of 

 black-strap to the ton. A valve on the end of the 

 hose from the barrel to the cutter controls the flow of 

 molasses on the forage. The mixture makes o 

 palatable silage that gives milk a deeper color and 

 better ilovor. 



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CAPONIZING DEMONSTRATION 

 H. M. Scott, U. of L poultry husbandman, shows 

 Cook county 4-H Club members how to perform the 

 operation. Left to right: Scott, Robert DeBaer, Rich- 

 ard Bahne, George Bencke, David Paarlberg, and 

 Donald Adair. 



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HERBERT W. MUMFORD 

 The late Dean of the college 

 of agriculture. University oi Il- 

 linois, who died May 31 as a 

 result of injuries received in 

 on auto accident on May 14, 

 is succeeded by Prof. loseph 

 CuUen Blair, left, noted horti- 

 culturist. Dean Blair was ap- 

 pointed by the university 

 board of trustees to head the 

 college, lune 9. He is also 

 director oi the agricultural ex- 

 periment station and director 

 of the extension service in 

 agriculture and home econom- 



