Fazin and Home Week Tisitors found their 



COTS buried under snovir when they came 



irom the laat day aeaaions. Many were 



snowbound until Friday. 



Dean H. P. Rusk oi the U. oi I. College 

 oi Agriculture (left) presents the 1944 

 award oi the Illinois Farm Managers As- 

 sociation to Joe Fulkerson, widely known 

 larsey county stockman and farmer. In 

 the center is E. J. McConnell. Macon coun- 

 ty, retiring president of the Farm Man- 

 agers. Fulkerson has been a member of 

 &e animal husbandry advisory committee 

 of the U. of 1. since 1902. is a member 

 of the board of St. Louis Livestock Pro- 

 ducers Association, and served as its 

 president from 1928-40. 



CAN '43 PRODUCTION 

 BE MATCHED IN '44? 



FARMERS SEEK WAYS OF GETTING 

 MOST OUT OF ALL RESOURCES 



CAN the farmer equal his 1943 pro- 

 duction record in 1944.' 

 His machinery is a year older, 

 which increases the liability of break- 

 downs, and although some moves have 

 been made toward easing the ma- 

 chinery and repair parts situation, the 

 problem isn't licked yet. 



Labor will be harder to get. In ad- 

 dition, some of the older men with 

 years of "know how" experience 

 worked last year although they were 

 past retirement age. Some of them 

 tried to do too much and they were 

 forced to retire this year. Whether 

 production drops on these farms will 

 depend on the efficiency of the oper- 

 ator who takes over the land. 



But there's one bright spot in this 

 picture which helps to whittle the big 

 problems down to man-size propor- 

 tions. That's the fact that farmers 

 don't quit when the going gets tough. 

 They have proved this to be true time 

 after time. Look at the record of 1943. 



These were some of the things folks 

 talked about at Farm and Home Week 

 in February. That's what brought most 

 of the 2329 visitors to the 43rd annual 

 sessions — they wanted all the pointers 

 they could get to help them do the 

 best job in 1944. They know it's going 

 to take a lot of figuring to meet the 

 staggering production goals, and that 

 in spite or the most carefully laid 

 plans, weather will tip the scales one 

 way or another. 



Speaking of the weather, the 11 -inch 

 record snowfall and blizzard that kept 

 a number of Farm and Home week 

 visitors snowbound in Champaign-Ur- 

 bana after the final sessions Thursday 

 was a mighty welcome sight in spite of 

 the stalled cars and wet feet. As one 

 said, "A person ought to know better 

 than to come to Farm and Home Week 

 without overshoes." When some of 

 them had left home they had been do- 

 ing spring plowing and some had been 

 carrying water for their stock because 

 wells had gone dry. 



One of the many questions brought 

 to the front at Urbana was whether the 

 soybean goal would be met in 1944. 

 R. F. Fuelleman, assistant professor of 

 crop production, suggested that if ev- 

 ery acre of soybeans in the state could 

 be made to yield one extra bushel of 

 beans in 1944, the state's total yield 

 would be increased by approximately 4 

 million bushels. 



With a support price of $1.94 

 announced foi 1944 on beans there is 

 a reluctance on the part of some feed- 

 ers to increase bean acreage in view of 

 the difficulty they had getting bean 

 meal last year. Others feel that the dis- 

 count rates on beans are unfair. 



During the last month a shortage of 

 soybeans developed on the markets in 

 Illinois and processors were hard 

 pressed to find beans. The price was 

 upped 6 cents a bushel by processors, 

 making No. 2 yellow beans of 14 per 

 cent moisture 1 1.86 to the farmer. 



The shortage is believed to have de- 

 veloped in Illinois because so many 



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Participants in a panel discussion at the 

 organization dinner meeting during Farm 

 and Home Week, left to right C. L. Mast 

 Jr., lAA director of publicity: August Eg- 

 gerding, lAA board memben L. B. Hom- 

 beck, and John C. Moore, assistant di- 

 rectors of organisation: Otto Steffey, lAA 

 board member: Harry Claar, assistant di- 

 rector of organisation, and W. P. Sandford. 

 LAA director ei aclea •ervice. 



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