(PRAIRIE FARMS 

 BUHER) 



for 

 SERVICEMEN 



WE KNOW the boys in the service are 

 getting the best! Here's interesting 

 evidence of that fact. 



Kenneth Eugene Dilworth, an Army 

 Medical Gsrps man, while enroute to 

 Europe on a hospital ship discovered that 

 they were carrying Prairie Farms butter. 



In a letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 

 J. R. Dilworth, Fulton County Farm Bu- 

 reau family, Eugene said that seeing the 

 familiar Prairie Farms label on a ship 

 in the middle of the Atlantic nude him 

 feel that he was not so far from home. 

 The emblem, he wrote, indicated'- that 

 this was a product of the farm on which 

 he grew up as a child. 



The discovery, he said, started him to 

 thinking about some things. Perhaps, he 

 wrote his folks, some of this butter came 

 from the Jersey herd on their farm, near 

 Table Grove. He could vision his moth- 

 er helping milk the cows, the products 



Left to right or* m«Bb«n oi the Dilworth 

 iamilT: J- R- Dilworth. HorrioL Mrs. Dil- 

 worth. Eannath Eugcn*. and in the front 

 row. Elden. 



of which through the Farm Bureau or- 

 ganization had found their way through 

 channels of commerce and into the ship 

 carrying hospital supplies to the war 2one. 

 It brought home to him, he wrote, the 

 realization of what his father and mother 

 were contributing to support the efforts 

 being made by the civilized countries to 

 liberate enslaved countries. He paid a 

 very high tribute not only to his own 

 father and mother but to all other par- 

 ents of those in the military service and 

 to others who are back on farm front so 

 patriotically supporting those in the 

 service. 



Eugene, 22, is the eldest son in the 

 Dilworth family and was a junior in the 

 U. of I. College of Agriculture when he 

 entered military service March 12, 1943. 

 Trained in the medical corps he was as- 

 signed to a U. S. Army medical ship and 

 made his first trip to Italy in April, 1944. 

 Since then he has made several trips on 

 the ship which carries nothing but hos- 

 pitij supplies from the United States and 

 returns with hospitalized soldiers. 



The discovery of Prairie Farms butter 

 on a hospital ship is not such a startling 

 fact in itself as a good percentage of IPC 

 production has been set aside for govern- 

 ment use each month. The story is un- 

 usual in the coincidence of the youth 

 being on a ship carrying butter which may 

 have been produced on his parents' farm. 



It also makes a good story because he 

 comes from a pioneer family in Fulton 

 county and because the Dilworths were 

 builders of Farm Bureau and Producer 

 Creamery, organizations which were re- 

 sponsible for the butter being on the 

 ship. Eugene is the fifth generation 

 growing up in the same community and 

 on the same farm selected by his ances- 

 tors, whose family remained near the soil 

 all these many years. 



Eugene's great grandfather settled just 

 north of Table Grove in 1834 after hav- 

 ing come to Fulton county from the east- 

 ern states by horseback. Eugene's moth- 

 er, Helen Miner Dilworth, also is a 

 descendant from a pioneer family, who 

 settled in the same locality about the 

 same time as the Dilworths. Aaron Min- 

 er, brother of Mrs. J. R. Dilworth, was 

 the first farm adviser in Fulton county, 

 according to J. E. Watt, present adviser. 



Farm Adviser Watt also reports that 

 he had the good fortune of knowing 

 Eugene's grandfather, William Harvey 

 Dilworth, who was one of those progres- 

 sive and thoughtful farmers who took his 

 farming seriously. It was on his farm in 

 1920 that Farm Adviser Watt saw the 

 results for the first time of an application 

 of both lime and phosphate. He was in- 

 terested in the Farmers Institute and in 

 the work of the experiment stations, and 

 was among the early pioneers in the or- 

 ganization of the Farm Bureau. 



Estimate State Corn. Bean 

 Prodnction Lower Than '43 



Illinois 1944 prospective production of 

 corn and soybeans is much above the 10- 

 year average although slightly below last 

 year's, according to the reports of the 

 state and federal agricultural departments 

 issued Oct. 12. 



The corn crop was estimated a fourth 

 larger than the 1933-42 average and the 

 soybean crop more than twice as large. 



The yielci per acre of corn appeared 

 above the 10-year average and those of 

 soybeans, hay and small grains except 

 oats average or better. 



Corn crop for the year was estinuted 

 at 419,934,000 bushels compared with 

 426,600,000 last year and the 10-year 

 average of 330,989,000 bushels. 



Soybean production was placed at 68 

 million bushels compared with 70,602,- 

 000 last year. 



The supply of old corn on Illinois 

 farms was set at 20,412,000 bushels com- 

 pared with 848,231,000 a year ago and 

 the 10-year average of 57,906,000 bush- 

 els. 



Homer Fisher Resigns as 



Editor of CLIC Magazine 



Homer Fisher, editor of CLIC maga- 

 zine since May, 1935, resigned Oct. 15 

 to take a position with the Chicago Sur- 

 face Lines, as assistant in the publicity 

 department. 



In addition to his duties as editor of 

 CLIC, Fisher was in charge of the In- 

 surance Service office which takes care 

 of all agents' production records and 

 supplies. The Insurance Service office 

 was inaugurated several years after Fish- 

 er became editor of CLIC. Fisher also 

 worked in preparing sales promotional 

 material for the Farm Bureau insurance 

 companies. 



Under Fisher's editorship, CLIC maga- 

 zine won several annual awards in na- 

 tional contests covering the field of pub- 

 lications published by insurance com- 

 panies for their agents, as well as awards 

 for sales promotion material. 



At this date no successor has been 

 named to take over the editorship of 

 CLIC. 



AFBF Annual 

 Meeting 



The 26th annual meeting of 

 the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration will be held in the Hotel 

 Sherman, Chicago, December 12- 

 14. Commodity Conferences will 

 convene December 11, and the 

 Tenth Annual Convention of the 

 Associated Women will be held 

 December 10-11. 



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