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nois Corn-Hog Board of Review, said: 

 "We are not asking you to do^e im- 

 possible. All that we want you to do 

 ii to make a conscientious effort in 

 every county to eliminate the surplus 

 hogs in line with the quotas reported 

 for each county. We know there has 

 been some padding. Records that can 

 ! stand up will be approved. After you 

 "have taken out every hog that should 

 come out notify the board of review. 

 The success of the program depends 

 upon the reduction of hog numbers 

 marketed. For the protection of those 

 who have made honest reports sub- 

 stantiated by complete records we 

 want the excess hogs eliminated and 

 the individual allotments brought 

 down to where they ought to be." . 



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lPor more thJEin iZO years, Surratt 

 said, we have been criticised for be- 

 ing too high on our crop estimates. 

 It seems strange now that we are 

 criticised for being too low on corn 

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The government hog allotment for 

 Illinois averages around 13 per cent 

 less than the number of hogs reported 

 by contract signers. As we go press 

 corn-hog committees throughout the 

 state are at work carefully checking 

 contracts and asking signers to get 

 more complete records where neces- 

 sary to substantiate hog numbers re- 



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■ Mr. Surratt stated that the limita- 

 tion of litters in the 1934 corn-hog 

 contract had been rescinded. This does 

 not affect the limitation of hogs mar- 

 keted, however, to 75 per cent of the 

 average sold in 1932 and 1933. The 

 corn-hog committees it is reported are 

 getting the excess pigs out of the 

 contracts. One producer with a 1000 

 hog base, Surratt said, readily sub- 

 mitted to a cut of 219 head. 



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stopping the chinch bug advance near Watseka in Iroquois county with an oil barrier. 



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Chinch Bugs On The 



Rampage Threaten Corn 



; The chinch bug infestation in lUi-^ 

 nois is the heaviest since 1860, Prof. 

 W. P. Flint, state entomologist, told 

 farm advisers at Urbana on June 11. 

 The bugs are a little ahead of normal 

 due to the early hot weather. ■■'■-< 



The government appropriated $1,- 

 000,000, he said, for insect control in 

 the midwest states, a substantial por- 

 tion of which is available for provid- 

 ing free creosote oil for farmers. As 

 we go to press large quantities of oil 

 are rolling into central and northern 

 Illinois counties where the bugs are 

 most numerous. The oil is delivered 

 in 50 gallon drums and in tank cars, 

 and is coming mostly from the Chi- 

 cago and St. Louis areas consigned to 

 county farm advisers. 



Farmers are required to sign re- 

 ceipts in which they agree to use the 

 oil only for chinch bug barriers. Fifty 

 gallons of oil are required for one- 

 quarter mile of barrier for the sea- 



Xore than 800 corn growers were in Aledo, Mercer County, June 16 after their aUotment of free 

 government chinch hug oil. The demand exceeded the supply here as in most counties. 



son. Oil must be replenished daily. 



Chinch bugs in central Illinois 

 started leaving wheat fields and other 

 small grains early in June and by the 

 middle of the month were advancing 

 into corn fields not protected by tar- 

 line barriers, in large numbers. ;; - 



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Badly infested counties such as 

 Champaign, Livingston, McLean, Will, 

 Iroquois, etc. placed orders for five 

 to ten carloads, but secured only part 

 of amounts ordered. Illinois Farm Sup- 

 ply Company had sold considerable 

 quantities of chinch bug oil before the 

 government appropriation for free oil 

 was announced. Farmers who acted 

 promptly and purchased oil from 

 county service companies have been 

 most successful in stopping advancing 

 chinch bugs. Some who waited for 

 free oil were too late. Many corn fields 

 already show the effects of damage. 



■^ On June 19 Livingston County 

 Farm Bureau reported that close to 

 45,000 gallons of oil including that 

 purchased from Illinois Farm Supply 

 Co. prior to the government grant, 

 had been distributed. Not a single 

 county reported enough free oil to 

 supply the d?mand stimulated by fre- 

 quent radio announcements. Cham- 

 paign county, the same date, reported 

 that five tank carloads of free oil had 

 melted away quickly as farmers lined 

 up by the hundreds with drums, bar- 

 rels, and other receptacles to take it 

 away. Similar experiences were re- 

 ported in Vermilion, De Witt, and 

 other counties. , 



Illinois Farm Supply Co. released 

 large quantities of chinch bug oil al- 

 ready contracted for, to the govern- 

 ment, thus speeding up delivery sev- 

 eral days. As government supplies 

 and funds dwindled county service 

 companies again started selling sub- 

 stantial quantities to fill the wide- 

 spread demand. ; ;: : . , 



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