Shown here with the DeWitt County Farm 

 Bureau war service flag representing 280 

 members' sons in service, and three who 

 hove given their lives, are officers re- 



cently re-elected: Frank L. Simpson, pres- 

 ident; H. Ray Buck, vice-president- and 

 Farm Adviser H. N. Myers.' 



(Pontagroph Photo) 



McLEAN COUNTY FARMER 

 NAMED CORN CHAMPION 



CORN planted in a field that had 

 been in blue grass pasture for 20 to 

 30 years won the corn king crown 

 for Forrest Woods, Bellflower, McLean 

 county, in the Illinois 10-acre corn grow- 

 ing contest, according to a report made 

 by the Illinois Crop Imprqvement Asso- 

 ciation and the U. of I. College of Agri- 

 culture. 



Woods' yield was 182.05 bushels per- 

 acre, basis No. 2 corn, 15.5 per cent 

 moisture. Champion last year was Carl 

 M. Howard, Tazewell county, with 

 136.21 bushels. 



Lester E. Leigh, Sparland, Marshall 



county, topped contestants in the 10-acre 



soybean growing contest with a yield of 



. 47.78 bushels per acre, basis No. 2 beans. 



The average yield of all com con- 

 testants was 109.89 bushels, while the 

 average yield of all soybean contestants 

 was 38.18 bushels per acre. 



Woods held a high score of 79.96 

 per cent out of a possible 100 per cent 

 based on high yields, low cost and high 

 quality. His cost of production was 

 $412.74 for 10 acres with a 17.97 per 

 cent out of 20 for corn quality. 



Woods planted his contest acreage in 

 standard 40-inch rows with the hills only 

 28 inches apart and used seed at the 

 rate of one bushel to three acres. On 

 other fields, not for contest purposes, he 

 used one bushel to 7 or 8 acres. 



William Woods, McLean county, a 

 brother of the champion, had high 

 yield in the 1942 contest with 174.32 

 bushels, but Paul H. Peabody, Edinburg, 

 Christian county, had a higher combined 

 score for all judging points. 



C. F. Davis, Sullivan, Moultrie 

 county, produced 44.92 bushels per acre 



and had the high soybean growing score 

 with 93.13 per cent. He has been grow- 

 ing soybeans for 20 years and this year 

 had the high soybean growing score with 

 93.13 per cent. During the past year 

 he produced 122 acres of the lUini va- 

 riety. Since 1929 no other variety has 

 been grown on his farm. As a result 

 of a field inspection of his beans last year 

 his crop was given a rating of 99.8 per 

 cent purity. 



Leigh with the high yield in the 

 state showed a cost production of 

 $275.87 for 10 acres, a quality grade 

 of 80 per cent, oil 22 per cent, for a 

 total score of 90.69 per cent out of a 

 possible 100. 



Lt. Col. Dave Henry Back 

 From South Pacific Dnty 



Take it from a soldier who has been 

 in the South Pacific for more than 34 

 months • — it's good to be home, but it's 

 hard to leave the men you've been work- 

 ing with through many long campaigns. 



Lt. Col. Dave Henry, from the Illi- 

 nois Producers Creameries office in Chi- 

 cago, just back from overseas found him- 

 self the center of attention among lAA 

 staff members when he dropped in for a 

 brief visit early in February. 



Dave entered the service March 18, 

 1941, as a second lieutenant and was first 

 stationed at the subsistence research lab- 

 oratory of the U. S. Army Quartermaster 



Courier Photo 

 Forrest Woods. McLean county, shows a 

 sample of the com that won him the 1944 

 state title of com king. 



Lt. Col. Dave Henry wanted to know all 

 the news about what the Producer Cream- 

 eries had been doing since he donned the 

 uniform of the U. S. Army. I. B. Countiss. 

 IPC sales manager, tried to bring him up 

 to date on all the happenings. 



depot, Chicago. In March, 1942, he 

 went to Australia and later to New 

 Guinea where in his spare time he started 

 a vegetable garden. He later returned 

 to Australia for a short period and then 

 moved on with the U. S. forces in their 

 campaigns to recapture the Philippines. 

 One of the last campaigns he was in was 

 at Leyte. During a good share of his 

 duty in the Pacific, Dave was working 

 with food supplies, and had a good op- 

 portunity to find out what the men liked 

 and didn't like. One of the popular 

 items of tinned food, he reports, is ham 

 and eggs. He also reported that the 

 butter industry in Australia is far ahead 

 of the United States. 



One of the happy incidents that Dave 

 had to tell about was that of meeting his 

 "kid brother," Maj. Arthur Henry, com- 

 mander of a bomber squadron in the 

 South Pacific, whom he encountered in 

 October of 1943. 



MARCH. 1945 



