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we: (1) Must meet organized buying 

 with organized selling. (2) That ut 

 should get all the information obtain- 

 able on packing plants. (3) Bring 

 about membership consciousness. (4) 

 Coordinate our present livestock mar- 

 keting system. 



A complete list of the state committee 

 was published in the July-August issue 

 of the lAA Record. Consult this list 

 and contact your committee member 

 and let him know what your livestock 

 marketing problems are. Mr. Livestock 

 Grower, what do you think should and 

 could be done.' What will you sup- 

 port.' Your opportunity is here, what 

 are you going to do about it .' 



Victory Farm Volnnteers 



Aid in Northern Illinois 



Ernie Ellingson, Boone County 

 Farm Bureau member operating 280 

 acres with 38 purebred Holsteins, 

 would have had a hard time getting his 

 hay crop baled if he hadn't had the 

 help of Victory Farm Volunteers. 



With the help, however, of four 

 Victory Farm Volunteers he got 168 

 acres of hay and straw baled during 

 the past season. These VFVs included 

 Kenneth Turek, Cicero, a high school 

 boy; Barbara Wardrip, Poplar Grove; 

 Patricia Stevenson, Rockford, and 

 Joseph Kroc, Lyon. Kenneth worked 

 as a regular hired hand throughout the 

 summer on the Ellingson farm while 

 Joseph Kroc, who was employed on 

 the nearby Don Bohert farm, helped 

 out on an exchange of labor basis. The 

 two girls worked during the haying 

 season. 



Ellingson appreciated this help as 

 one of his two sons is in the armed 

 services. 



Such experiences were typical among 

 the VFVs in northern Illinois this sum- 



These VFVs help Emie Ellingson. Boone 

 county ianner, bale 168 acres of bay and 

 straw. Left to rigbt: Ellingson. Kenneth 



Turek. Barbara Wardrip, Patricia Steven- 

 son, and loseph Kroc There is a total 

 o< 50 VFVs working in Boone. 



VFVs work on the farm oi Louis Wetter- 

 man, Cook county, president of Illinois 

 Vegetable Growers Association. Left to 

 right: Irrin Sacbeck, Gilbert Christfber, 



mer. Some 800 VFVs worked on farms 

 in northern Illinois. Two hundred of 

 these lived on farms and worked by 

 the month, 500 were in three VFV 

 camps in Cook county, and 106- VFV 

 girls detasseled corn. 



Al Ames, Lake County Farm Bureau mem- 

 ber, shows Larry Woods. VFV, how to 

 hand feed a calf. 



Farm Boys and Girls Are 

 Urged To Collect Milkweed 



Rural school children, 4-H, Rural 

 Youth and FFA members will have an 

 opportunity to do an important war 

 job this month. This job is collecting 

 milkweed floss urgently needed in mak- 

 ing life jackets and life rafts for fighting 

 men in the battle areas. 



Patriotic young Americans who want 

 to pitch in and help should get in 

 touch with their school leaders, 4-H 

 leaders, county farm and home advisers 

 for details on where and how the milk- 

 weed floss is to be collected and de- 

 livered. The milkweed harvest will 

 start about Sept. 15 and continue about 

 six weeks, according to Dr. W. I. 

 DeWees, assistant professor of agri- 

 culture, Illinois State Normal Univer- 



^4rs. Wetterman, Marcus Crown, and Wet- 

 terman. Wetteiman is chairman of the 

 North Cook County Farm Labor Commit- 

 tee. 



sity, who is in charge of the program 

 for the state. 



Dr. DeWees explained that onion 

 bags would be provided for the col- 

 lection and boys and girls would be 

 paid 15 cents a bag for pods, plus 5 

 cents a bag for drying. 



Milkweed floss is being used in life 

 jackets in place of kapok from the 

 Dutch Indies, the supply of which has 

 been cut of by the Japs. 



Garl F. Mees is Union Adviser 



Carl F. Mees, a native of Union 

 county, is the new farm adviser in 

 Randolph county, succeeding E. C. Se- 

 cor who served in that capacity for 21 

 years. 



Born near Anna, Mees was gradu- 

 ated from the U. of I. College of Ag- 

 riculture, and has had 10 years of 

 teaching experience • — two years in 

 Union county, three in the high school 

 at Vienna and five at Waterloo. He be- 

 gan work Aug. 1. 



Secor is employed in 4-H work for 

 the U. of I. College of Agriculture in 

 southern Illinois. 



SEPTEMBER. 1944 



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