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Fall Livestock Outlook 



Meetings Now Underway 



First in the series of annu-al fall live- 

 stock feed outlook meetings sponsored 

 by County Farm Bureau livestock mar- 

 keting committees were held during the 

 last week in August. Participating in 

 the meetings were the U. of I. College 

 of Agriculture, cooperative marketing 

 agencies and the livestock marketing 

 department of the lAA. 



Main topics discussed at the August 

 meetings and scheduled for the Sep- 

 tember meetings include: livestock 

 marketing conditions (stocker and 

 feeder movement), general economic 

 situation, more technical problems per- 

 taining to livestock feeding. Following 

 the consideration of these topics there 

 will be a general discussion period. 



Remainder of the meetings to be held 

 in September in County Farm Bureaus 

 are as follows: Sept. 1, Marshall-Put- 

 nam, Sangamon, Will and Wayne ; Sept. 

 5, Madison; Sept. 6, Hancock, Iroquois, 

 Douglas, Macoupin, Wabash and Ver- 

 milion. 



Sept. 7, McDonough, Grundy, Piatt, 

 Bond, Effingham and Edgar; Sept. 8, 

 Warren, Kane-Kendall at Sugar Grove; 

 Macon, Clinton, Marion and Coles. 



Sept. 11, Lawrence, Gallatin-White; 

 Sept. 12, Henderson, St. Clair-Monroe 

 at Waterloo; Johnson; Sept. 13, Knox, 

 DeKalb, Pike, Union and Clark. 



Sept. 14, Mercer, Livingston, Moul- 

 trie, Adams, Williamson, Jasper-Craw- 

 ford at Oblong, and Pulaski-Alexander. 

 Sept. 15, Rock Island, McLean, Shelby, 

 Brown, Saline. 



Sept. 19, Whiteside, Fulton and Jef- 

 ferson; Sept. 20, Henry, Ford, Mason, 

 Greene, Richland and Washington; 

 Sept. 21, Bureau, DeWitt, Tazewell, 

 Scott and Franklin-Hamilton. 



Sept. 22, LaSalle, Champaign, Peoria, 

 Cass, Pope-Hardin and Edwards ; Sept. 

 26, Ogle; Sept. 27, Carroll, Lake and 

 Schuyler. 



Sept. 28, Jo Daviess, DuPage and 

 Morgan; Sept. 29, Stephenson and 

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Bond County Hires Adviser 



Harold H. Kuhnen, fieldman for a 

 milk company, Greenville, has been 

 hired as farm adviser in Bond county 

 succeeding W. H. Tammeus, who is 

 now serving as farm adviser in Wood- 

 ford county. 



Born and reared in Madison county, 

 Kuhnen was graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois College of Agricul- 

 ture in 1925. He is scheduled to start 

 work Sept. 15. 



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PLANT FOOD PROGRAM 



. FOR ILLINOIS 



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New »mphatit is b«mg p/oc*</ on th» 



'PERMANENT SYSTEM" 



• Good Crop Rottrtion and 

 Soil Managoment 



* Soil Testing and Recom- 

 mendations to be ntade 



by Extension Service 





• Limestone 



• Potash 



• Legumes 



Blue Seal Plant Food materials V 

 and Grow-Crop Fertilizers are 

 recommended as supplements only, to be used 

 when properly recommended on farms with a 

 good foundation built by "Permanent System." 



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A Special 

 THIS FALL 



Consid«robl« tennag« 

 of superphosphoto 

 and torn* high onoly- 

 sis mixed grades are 

 now available for use 

 this fall. For further in- 

 formatien co-ntact 

 your present Blue Seal 

 distributor or your 

 county Farm Bureau 

 office. 



THE PROGRAM 



This Plont Food Program for Illinois has been a long time in formation. 

 It has been evolved democratically after much discussion and debate. 

 It now rests upon a sound foundation, with full recognition of the 

 teachings of the University, the Extension Service, #\c Farm Bureau, 

 and our farmer-owned cooperative distribution system. 



A SOUND FOUNDATION 



This Plant Food Program rests upon a sound foundation because it 

 has Farm Bureau approval, which means tlfat the appointment of on 

 authorized distributor of Blue Seal Plant Foods and materials will 

 be made by your local Farm Bureau Board after careful consideration 

 of the following qualifications: 



A Distributor must be a Form Bureau type cooperative. 



B It should be engaged in another successful line of business. 



C It should hove adequate warehousing. 



D It should hove adequate capital. 



E It should have sufficient personnel to render a county-wide 

 service in this seasonol type of business and 



F To return the savings brought al>out by volume and efficiency 

 to tttose wito made tfiose savings possible — to Form Bureou 

 member patrons. 



FARMER CONTROL OVER 

 MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION 



Blue Seat Plant Food materials and Grow Crop Fertilizers will be 

 manufactured by "Cooperative Plant Foods, Inc." jointly owned by 

 four state groups of farmers — Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and 

 Illinois. A quality control committee has been set up by ttie Illinois 

 Agricultural Association to make sure that farmers in Illinois receive 

 the best available in plant food materials and mixed grades. 



ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY CO., Chlcogo 5, 



SEPTEMBER, 1944 



