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two-month period. During the month of 

 January the drive brought in 22 new young 

 people. 



Illinois Rural Youth have gone over the 

 top again! Latest reports show that the 

 $75,000 War Bond goal equalling the pur- 

 chase price of a pursuit plane has been 

 passed. And what's more that isn't a com- 

 plete report on all the purchases for the 

 campaign. There are still some more figures 

 to comf in and we hope that county officers 

 will see to it that they are all sent in soon. 

 The figure compiled on bond purchases as 

 the Record goes to press is $75,130.10. In 

 1943, Illinois Rural Youth bought $183,913 

 in the "Bonds for Bombers" campaign. This 

 total more than equals the cost of a medium 

 bomber. The campaign for the purchase of 

 a pursuit ship was held during the last 

 three months of 1943. Rural Youthers can 

 • take pride in launching two fighting ships 

 for the country's Air Force, a bomber and 

 a pursuit ship. 



Now that Macoupin County Rural Youth's 

 meinbership contest is over, (with a swell 

 increase of from 15 to 50) they plan to give 

 a 'Valentine's dance at Chesterfield to ac- 

 quaint young people in that district with 

 their program. And that's not all — there's 

 a big carnival coming up the latter part of 

 February. Look's like these Rural Youthers 

 are in for some fun ! 



Patriotism isn't lacking in Tazewell and 

 Washington County Rural Youth groups. 

 Both are busy with drives for paper scrap. 

 Tazewell President Franklin Allen also re- 

 ports a 30-minute panel discussion over 

 WMBD in Peoria on "Patriotic Spending 

 Of Wartime Farm Income". 



We agree with Rural Youth President 

 Wanda Kenshalo when she says "jewelers 

 were certainly busy a few days before leap 

 year" when we look at the list from 

 Wayne County. Here are the couples to 

 be congratulated : Bernice Winters and 

 Kenneth Stephens; Wanda Kenshalo and 

 Paul Trapp; Ruby Cox and Pvt. Orlen 

 Brach; Esther Simpson and Seaman 2/c Earl 

 Meeks; Eleanor Finley and Pvt. Leonard 

 Morris; and Grace Cockrum and A/Seaman 

 George Book. 



The party committee in Peoria County 

 Rural Youth saw to it that everyone had a 

 real good time at the dance held at Orange 

 Grange Hall Jan. 25. Admission was 25c 

 to cut rugs and waltz to Ruth Eslinger's 

 orchestra. The committee also has tentative 

 plans for a roller skating party. 



HELP! HELP! Ogle County Rural Youth- 

 ers were disappointed in the small attend- 

 ance at their recent dance. Looks like they 

 need some new members to swell the crowd. 

 What's keeping the rest of the crowd away 

 from all the fine dances and skating parties? 



President Everett Sturm reports that 

 White county held a box supper for their 

 New Year's Eve celebration. They had a 

 very impressive ceremony for making reso- 

 lutions. Each of the 101 members present 

 lit a candle for one of the four freedoms as 

 he made his resolution. 



Brown County Rural Youth held a talent 



night recently attended by 125 parents and 

 Rural Youth members. The program con- 

 sisted of songs, readings, blackface and 

 comic dialogues, a talk by Farm Adviser 

 E. H. Garlich on the history of Brown 

 County Rural Youth, PLUS a peppy recrea- 

 tion session to top off the meeting. 



Former Monltrie 4-H Clnb 

 Member Missing In Action 



Mr. and Mrs. John T. Smith of Lake 

 City, Moultrie County Farm Bureau 

 family, recently received word from the 

 War Department that their son, T/Sgt. 

 Charles E. Smith, had iseen m'issing in 

 action since Dec. 22 over German terri- 

 tory. He was a radio operator in a 

 B-24 heavy bomber. 



Charles is a former member of the 

 Sunnyside Flea Flicker 4-H club and of 

 the Lovington FFA. He was graduated 

 from the Lovington Township High 

 school in 1941 and was a leader in 

 school activities. Charles, who has 

 passed his 20th birthday, has a brother, 

 Leonard, who is stationed at Camp 

 Crowder, Missouri. 



U. of I. Issnes Booklet 



*^eU-Feeders For Hogs" 



To help swine producers conserve 

 the limited amounts of feed available 

 for 1944, a circular, "Self-Feeders for 

 Hogs," has been prepared by D. G. 

 Carter, professor of farm structures, 

 and W. E. Carroll, professor of swine 

 husbandry, U. of I. College of Agri- 

 culture. 



Plans for self-feeders for shelled 

 corn and mixed feed, ear corn, legume 

 hay and mineral supplement are shown 

 in the circular together with formulas 

 for rations for fattening hogs, young 

 pigs and brood sows. 



Copies of the circular No. 562 may 

 be obtained from the county farm ad- 

 viser or upon request to the College of 

 Agriculture, Urbana. 



"Our slogan is, 'Remember — a new mem- 

 ber' ", says Theron Summers, Edwards Coun- 

 ty Rural Youth president. They are spon- 

 soring a membership drive extending over a 



Junior Vegetable Group 



Announce 1944 Contest 



Some $6000 in scholarships for farm 

 youths will be offered in the 1944 Na- 

 tional Junior Vegetable Growers' As- 

 sociation Production and Marketing 

 contest. 



Those who wish to enter the contest 

 and become a member of the National 

 Junior Vegetable Growers' Association 

 may write to Prof. Grant Snyder, 103 

 French Hall, Massachusetts State College, 

 Amherst, Mass. 



Requirements for membership and en- 

 trance in the contest are: 



1. You are at least 14 years of age at 



the time of registration and you will not 

 have passed your 22nd birthday by Dec. 

 31, 1944. 



2. You have completed at least two 

 years of garden work or vegetable project 

 work, including the current year. 



3. You were not the national or a 

 regional champion in the 1943 contest. 



Those who become members will re- 

 ceive the official insignia of the organiza- 

 tion and the monthly newsletter of the 

 association. 



George Whitman Resigns 

 As Adams Farm Adviser 



George B. Whitman, Adams county 

 farm adviser for the past six years, has 

 resigned his position effective March 1 

 to work as field representative of the Il- 

 linois Chain Store Council with head- 

 quarters in Chicago. His work with the 

 Council will be to secure closer coopera- 

 tion between rural and urban citizens 

 and with farm and city organizations and 

 the 45 chain store manager groups. 



Prior to his period of service in Adams 

 county, Whitman was farm adviser in 

 Henderson county for four years, and he 

 has been active in Extension work since 

 graduating from the University of Illi- 

 nois in 1920. During World War I he 

 was an ensign in the Navy. 



In Adams county, 'Whitman developed 

 the 4-H "Little Fair," promoted an ex- 

 tensive reforestation project that resulted 

 in the planting of 600,000 saplings on 

 the sub-marginal lands of the county, 

 was instrumental in organizing the 

 Adams county soil conservation district 

 of 458,000 acres and many other projects 

 of great benefit to the farmers of the 

 area. 



'43 Production Sets New 

 Record. Wickard Reports 



Food production in the United States 

 attained another high record in 1943, 

 for the seventh year in succession, ac- 

 cording to Secretary of Agriculture 

 Claude R. Wickard in his annual rep>ort 

 just issued. 



This record was made, he said, pri- 

 marily because farm people applied their 

 skill, resourcefulness, and energy to the 

 job as never before, and secondly be- 

 cause they tackled it cooperatively on 

 plans worked out farm by farm with 

 federal and state help from one end of 

 the country to the other. 



Total food production, he reported, 

 was about 5 per cent greater than in 

 1942, and about 32 per cent above the 

 average for the period 1939-39. This 

 achievement, says the report, should be 

 viewed against the background of 1942"s 

 much more favorable wea*her conditions. 



Crop production in 1943 was 6 per 

 cent less than in 1942, but nearly 5 

 per cent more than in any. previous year. 



FEBRUARY. 1944 



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