DAIRYMEN TALK STATE MILK CONTROL 

 Wilired Shaw of the lAA addressing a Fann and Home week session. He reported 

 progress in framing a milk control bill. More than 100 attended the meeting, asked ques- 

 tions, made suggestions and agreed that a good law would help them. 



While farmers and professors were 

 panning past U. S. trade policies and 

 proclaiming Secretary of State Hull's 

 new trade agreements, History Profes- 

 sor A. H. Lybyer was explaining Eng- 

 land's place in the current European 

 tangle to a large audience of farm folks 

 in the l/niversity Auditorium. Britain, 

 he said, plans to avert war, until her 

 air forces are sufficiently large to assure 

 victory, by manipulating trade and 

 money. 



Most scientific and much nearer 

 home were the several meetings in 

 which hybrid corn was the main topic. 

 Even at the annual stockmen's banquet 

 where 250 livestock producers paid 

 tribute to the state's feeders and breed- 

 ers who won important prizes during 

 the year, hybrid corn was one of the 

 main subjects of informal discussion. 



Leading cornman of the state in 1939 

 was Richmond Robison, Tazewell coun- 

 ty. On ten acres he grew 1379.6 bush- 

 els to win first honors in the ten-acre 

 yield contest. Production cost of his 

 corn was $315.28. The contest is 

 sponsored jointly by the college of 

 agriculture and the Illinois Crop Im- 

 provement Association to encourage ef- 

 ficient growing of high quality corn 

 in the state. 



Reason for the great interest in hy- 

 brid corn came to light early Wednes- 

 day when Professor George H. Dungan 

 announced results of "38 yield tests 

 which show that hybrids out-yielded 

 old-style, open-pollinated corn by 15.5 

 bushels. In northern Illinois tests, 

 open-pollinated corn ran 23. 5 bushels 

 behind hybrids. These averages are 

 based on the five best hybrids as com- 

 pared to the five best open-pollinated 

 varieties. 



FEBRUARY. 1939 



Most impressive session of the week 

 was the presentation of the memorial 

 portrait of the late Dean Herbert Wind- 

 sor Mumford. Agronomy Professor W. 

 L. Burlison presided at the ceremony in 

 which lAA President Earl C. Smith, 

 Dean J. C. Blair, and J. H. Lloyd, state 

 director of agriculture, paid tribute to 

 former Dean Mumford. The portrait, 

 painted by Sidney E. Dickinson of 

 New York, was presented by Dean 

 Blair and unveiled by the late Dean 

 Mumford's only grandson, 4-year-old 

 Robert Kimbell, Jr., son of 'Virginia 

 Mumford Kimbell. 



Frank D. £arton for eight years rep- 

 resentative of Illinois Grain Corpora- 

 tion retired on December 31, 1938. His 

 many friends among elevator managers, 

 directors and shareholders, as well as 

 the Farm Bureaus will miss Frank 

 greatly. For him no day was too long 

 nor drive to far when work was to be 

 done. One elevator manager remarked, 

 'Frank Barton was the best informed 

 and most helpful man that ever called 

 at my office." 



"Cooperative Purchasing through the 

 Illinois Farm Supply and its member 

 county companies," is the title of a 175 

 page bulletin (No. 27) recently pub- 

 lished by the Farm Credit Administra- 

 tion. The author is John H. Lister 

 who narrates the history of the com- 

 pany, describes and analyzes the opera- 

 tion and policies of the state and county 

 companies, gives the stock setup and 

 control, and observes that "the system 

 of purchasing and distributing farm 

 supplies has attained a high degree of 

 efficiency and financial strength and 

 has resulted in large savings for Illinois 

 farmers." 



BUSIEST MAN 

 W. H. Young's job oi finding meeting places 

 for Form and Home Week classes was compli- 

 cated by the destruction oi Universitf Hall and 

 a record enrollment oi 1537 ag studente^ 



CORN-GROWING FAMILY 

 Richmond Robison, 1939 com king from Taze- 

 well county, and his entire family at the Crop 

 Improvement banquet He grew 137.96 bushels 

 per acre on ten acres, his son Richmond, Ir. 

 119.59 bu. and son Alfred grew 100.51. They 

 were aMvarded ao)d tn^dals. 



THEY PAID TRIBUTE 

 State Director oi Agriculture I. H. Lloyd. 

 Dean I. C. Blair and lAA President Earl C. 

 Smith recalled memories of the late Dean Mum- 

 ford at the presentation of his portrait. 

 ALMOST SHARP ENOUGH 

 Albert H. Lynn, Schuyler county former, 

 chopped through a 10-inch black oak log in I 

 minute 47 2/5 seconds to win the state wood 

 chopping contest. I. E. Doris. U. of L forester, 

 is the shovee. 



