State Seed Corn 



Winner Used Farm 

 Buroau Testing Service 



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Clarence Watson of McDonough 

 county who won first prize in the Util- 

 ity Corn Show at the last Farm 

 and Home Week in Urbana, was the 

 first secretary of the McDonough 

 County Farm Bureau and later became 

 president. He was one of the first 

 farmers in the county to take an ac- 

 tive interest in the corn improvement 

 program when the project was 

 launched by McDonough County Farm 

 Bureau. Before that time he had been 

 following out a permanent soil fer- 

 tility program and also had been do- 

 ing some com breeding work, . 



He has been a consistent patron of 

 the seed corn testing laboratory the 

 County Farm Bureau established at 

 Macomb in 1925. Careful and con- 

 sistent seed corn testing and selection, 

 made possible by the McDonough 

 County Farm Bureau, was helpful to 

 Mr. Watson in winning the title of 

 Illinois Corn King. ^ -^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ : .v r . 



McDonough county also produced 

 the winner of the 10-acre yield con- 

 test in Illinois last year. H. B. Smith 

 of Bardolph won this contest with a 

 yield of 99 bushels. , 



Whafs in A Name? 



Quite a lot when some patron of 

 JU Producer Livestock Commission 

 agency fails to get his returns prompt- 

 ly or at the end of the year gets no 

 refund or a refund on only part of the 

 livestock consigned. The explanation 

 for a lot of the difficulties of this sort 

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One consignment of hogs may go in 

 the name of John L. White, the next 

 Jack White. A later shipment may be 

 in the name of J. L. White and still 

 another John White. This situation 

 often delays the check at the local post 

 office. Instances have been known 

 where a check has lain in the local 

 post office for days or even weeks be- 

 cause the postmaster did not recog- 

 nize that Jack White might have been 

 John L. White. 



Trouble is always encountered at 

 the end of the year when Producers 

 Associations make up their refund 

 checks. During the corn-hog signup 

 complaints were made by shippers 

 who were mistakenly given credit for 

 only a part of their hogs. It will save 

 a lot of confusion if every farmer 

 makes it a rule to send his livestock 

 to market always using exactly the 

 same name and initial. - 



OlarMM* Wattoii, Farm Bureau MemlMr af MeDonough County, wfio won First Priza m kis It tar Muipla tl 

 Utility Typa Saed Cora during Farm and Home Work of tha Illinois Collaoe of Agrlcttltars, Ur1»na. 

 |Mr. Watson Is shown pointing to McDonough eounty on the Illinois map. Ha used tha seed eami tostlnf sanrica 

 af the McDonough County Farm Bureau to help him develop high ylalding, disease frea corn. 



Lime and Legumes 



On Contracted Acres 



a Smart Illinois farmers are spread- 



ing limestone and sowing their con- 

 tracted acres to sweet clover, alfalfa, 

 and other legumes for three reasons: 

 to improve the soil, stop soil erosion, 

 cut production costs by upping yields. 



The University of Illinois reports 

 that around one-tenth of Illinois crop 

 acres will probably be retired this 

 year through the corn-hog and wheat 

 programs. This land should not be 

 allowed to wash. It won't wash with 

 a stand of clover on it. 



At the Dixon field, says A. L. Lang, 

 sweet clover on a limed soil of good 

 productivity, when rotated with corn, 

 oats, and wheat and plowed under as 

 green manure, improved the corn yield 

 17 bu. an acre annually as a three 

 year average. 



It takes just about as much work 

 to grow a 40 bu. corn crop as a 60 

 bu. crop. The extra 20 bu. makes the 

 difference sometimes between profit 

 and loss. . 



Call your Farm Bureau and order 

 limestone for those idle acres if they 

 are acid. Your farm adviser will be 

 glad to test soil samples delivered to 

 the office. Sow alfalfa in July, or 

 sweet clover in the corn field at the 



last cultivation to be plowed under asl;; 

 a green manure crop later. Soybeans,i 

 too, will yield better on sweet soil that 

 has been limed. In Randolph county 

 manured soil yielded only 340 pounds ; 

 of soybean hay per acre but when>^ 

 limestone was added (light gray silt^ 

 loam) the yield of bean hay was 1,700 



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L A. A, Board Action 



The I. A. A. board recently approved 

 a proposed membership card to be 

 given to members on payment of dues. 

 The board also authorized the exec- 

 utive officers to negotiate limestone 

 contracts with quarry operators, to 

 center purchases of agricultural lime- 

 stone in the Illinois Farm Supply y 

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NRA Boosts Printing 



The minimum price of stereotype 

 cuts like those supplied County Farm 

 Bureaus by the I. A. A. cartoon serv- 

 ice has been raised under the graphic 

 arts code from 15c to 77c each. Simi- 

 larly the cost of copper and zinc en- 

 gravings has been increased from 25 

 to 50 per cent depending on size. 

 Printing likewise is much more ex- 

 pensive as a result of minimum NRA 

 wages and increases in the cost of 

 paper stock, i , 



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