BLAIR IS IVIEW DEA1\I 



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 tiding over the interim between the form- 

 er administration and the subsequent one, 

 which must quickly come into existence." 

 Dean Blair will automatically be retired 

 September 1, 1939. By that time he will 

 have reached the university retirement 

 age of 68 and will have completed more 

 than 43 years service to the University 

 and State. 



He w'as born on a farm in Colchester 

 county, Nova Scotia. His father was a 

 successful farmer and stock raiser, and 

 Joseph assisted him in farm operations 

 until he was nineteen years of age, when 

 he went to Massachusetts. At the age of 

 12, he plowed his first 14 acres of land, 

 and before he was 18 years old, he had 

 broken three teams of oxen to work at 

 plowing, carting, and other farm opera- 

 tions. 



He attended the Provincial College of 

 Agriculture, at Truro, Nova Scotia, from 

 1888 to 1890, and was instructor in 

 chemistry and botany at the same institu- 

 tion during 1890 to 1892. After visit- 

 ing the New England states, he entered 

 Cornell University as a special student in 

 chemistry in April, 1892. He completed 

 his work at Cornell in June, 1896, having 

 majored in chemistry, entomology and 

 horticulture. 



In July, 1896, he came to the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois as instructor in horticul- 

 ture and four years later he was made 

 head of the newly created Department ot 

 Horticulture. 



In addition to his professional, instruc- 

 tional and research work at the university. 

 Prof. Blair has had time to give consider- 

 able constructive help to religious activ- 

 ities on the campus. He was instrumen- 

 tal in launching the project for the devel- 

 opment of the Wesley Foundation, the 

 Methodist religious center at the Uni- 

 versity. For 36 years he has been a mem- 

 ber of the university Y.M.C.A. board, 

 chairman in 1933-1934. 



Shortly after coming to Illinois, he 

 purchased a 220-acre fruit farm near 

 Kimmundy, in Marion county, and in ad- 

 dition to his work at the university, was 

 a practical, successful orchardist for many 

 years. The Prof. Blairs have three sons 

 and a daughter, all living away from 

 home. 



A reconditioner for cream carrying 

 onion and other objectionable odors 

 was installed in the Producers Creamery 

 of Carbondale late in June, reports 

 Manager Harold Brackett. 



The machine, one of the first of its 

 kind, heats the cream quickly to 210 

 degrees F. under pressure. Suction re- 

 moves the odors. The result: less low 

 grade cream. 



MiUer Goes With 



FCA at St. Loxiis 



Ray E. Miller, director of livestock 

 marketing for the lAA until last fall 

 when he went to the Omaha Livestock 

 Producers as manager, has accepted an 

 appointment as secretary of the Pro- 

 duction Credit Bank at St. Louis, Mo. 

 He will take up his 

 new work in the 

 Farm Credit Ad- 

 ministration as soon 

 as his sucessor has 

 been appointed at 

 Omaha. 



Mr. Miller is the 

 second man from 

 the lAA to go with 

 the Farm Credit 

 Administration re- 

 cently. Fred Ring- 

 ham, former man- 

 ager of the lAA auditing service for 

 cooperatives became secretary of the 

 Bank for Cooperatives at St. Louis 

 more than a year ago. Chas. A. Stewart 

 who succeeded the late Dean H. W. 

 Mumford of Urbana as director of live- 

 stock marketing for the lAA in 1922 

 is now a deputy administrator of Farm 

 Credit Administration at Washington. 

 W. S. Brock, who for many years 

 was in the Horticultural Department of 

 the University of Illinois, later engaged 

 in fruit and vegetable marketing, was 

 recently elevated from secretary to 

 president of the Production Credit 

 Bank. 



Roy Millar 



Early peaches, principally Red Bird 



and Mayflower varieties, are now being 

 shipped from Southern Illinois. Other 

 crops coming on within the next few 

 weeks are early apples, cucumbers, beans, 

 tomatoes and sweet corn. 



Milk drying equipment in the Pro- 

 ducers Creamery of Olney plant is now- 

 handling about 10,000 pounds of fluid 

 milk daily, reports Manager C. W. 

 Simpson. 



More than a carload of butter was 



churned during the first week of opera- 

 tion at the Producers Creamery of 

 Carlinville. The volume of cream is 

 increasing despite the fact that competi- 

 tive prices were increased from two to 

 six cents when the plant opened. May 

 14, says Manager Fletcher A. Gourley. 



According to Illinois Producers 



Creameries' Sales Manager Countiss, 

 sales of Prairie Farms butter swelled 

 11 per cent in May as compared to the 

 same month a year ago. "Quality does 

 it I" he declares. 



The 90-score butter price on the Chi- 

 cago market vaulted two cents a pound 

 in 10 days following the organization 

 of a national cooperative butter buying 

 and selling agency, June 7. Jack Coun- 

 tiss, IPC sales manager, credits the in- 

 crease to the establishment of the co-op. 



Illinois Producers Creameries is a 



member of the association which is com- 

 posed of eight regional dairy products 

 sales co-ops. Harold Enns. of Tazewell 

 county, president of IPC. is the director 

 from this state. 



Purpose of the agency is to stabilize 

 butter and other dairy products' prices 

 through buying on the open market 

 when prices are low. The products will 

 be fed back on the market when violent 

 price advances are indicated by decreas- 

 ing production. 



Ace Egelston, fieldman for the Illi- 

 nois Fruit Growers Exchange at Anna, 

 reports growing conditions good for 

 annual crops. He says the Exchange 

 will have considerable tonnage for 

 growers in that area this year. 



Dr. Pautler's orcKard, Monroe coun- 

 ty, will produce no peaches and pears 

 this year due to the cold weather condi- 

 tions early in the season, it is reported. 



Fay Tourtellott, a cooperative cream- 

 ery supervisor for 12 years in Minne- 

 sota, was recently employed as plant 

 manager of the Mt. Sterling Producers 

 Creamery. He reduced costs and 

 churned 13,649 pounds more butter in 

 May than in April at an increased cost 

 of only $4.94. 



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