i Dean Mumford 



^Z LLINOIS agriculture lost a cour- 



l)i ageous leader and a sincere 

 \^_^ friend in the recent death of 

 Dean Herbert W. Mumford of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, University of Illi- 

 nois. 



Dean Mumford was modest and re- 

 tiring, a deep thinker, wise counsellor 

 and a good judge of human nature as 

 well as livestock. Since 1922, when he 

 became Dean after serving the College 

 as chief of animal husbandry since 1901, 

 Dean Mumford proved himself an able 

 executive and administrator. Under his 

 leadership the college, experiment station 

 and extension service were strengthened 

 and made more effective in sers'ing the 

 farmers of Illinois. 



Just prior to his appointment to suc- 

 ceed Dean Davenport at the state college, 

 Mumford served for a short time as the 

 first director of livestock marketing for 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association. He 

 served on the committee of 15 which 

 drew up the plans for the Producers live- 

 stock commission associations. Earlier, 

 as a professor, he had made a thorough 

 study of livestock marketing at the ter- 

 minals and had drawn up a classification 

 of market grades of livestock which was 

 adopted on most markets. Dean Mum- 

 ford was generally credited with outlin- 

 ing the setup of the Producers Commis- 

 sion companies and getting them under 

 way at E. St. Louis and Chicago. 



He studied livestock conditions abroad 

 in his earlier years, was in Germany in 

 1928 as a meniber of the American Study 

 Commission for German Agriculture, was 

 drafted as a member of a commission to 

 assist in their agricultural and educational 

 problems by the Mexican government in 

 1930. 



Dean Mumford is survived by Mrs. 

 Mumford and four sons and daughters, 

 Curtis, Herbert Jr., Virginia, and Mary. 

 Jimmy, another son, died as a young lad 

 of high school age. 



Prof. J. C. Blair Is 

 Ag College Dean 



Prof. Joseph Cullen Blair, head of the 

 department of horticulture of the College 

 of Agriculture, University of Illinois, for 

 the past 38 years was appointed to suc- 

 ceed the late Dean H. W. Mumford by 

 the board of trustees. 



"My principal job, as I see it, will be 

 to carry out the policies that already have 

 been established for and by the univer- 

 sity," Prof. Blair said when notified. 



As the new chief executive of the col- 

 lege, the noted horticulturist will be dean 

 of the agricultural college, director of the 



agricultural experiment station and di- 

 rector of the extension service in agricul- 

 ture and home economics. 



"I regard the appointment as an hon- 

 or," Prof. Blair said. "I regard it, too, 

 as an opportunity to serve the excellent 

 staff that has been here through the years. 



As far as I am concerned, they will get 

 every consideration which maturity of 

 judgment and seasoned experience can 

 give them. 



"At best this is only a tempiorary move, 



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The pigs shown 

 above are healthy 

 and thrifty, immun- 

 ized against cholera 

 with fresh, potent 

 serum and virus. 



Right: These shoats 

 have the cholera. 

 They were not vac- 

 cinated. 



MAKE SURE YOUR 

 GO TO MARKET- 



PIGS WILL 



USE FRESH, POTENT 

 FARM BUREAU SERUM 



SEE YOUR COUNTY 

 FARM BUREAU 



OUT 



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