LIST CHANGES 



IN FARM ADVISERS 



Hugh D. Triplett, Ford County farm 

 adviser for the past 11 years, has re- 

 signed to become a 

 distributor for a 

 rock phosphate 

 company in western 

 Missouri and east- 

 ern Kansas. He will 

 make his home in 

 Liberty, Mo. His 

 resignation took ef- 

 fect Oct. 1. 



He was gradu- 

 ated in agriculture in 1923 from the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri and has since spent 

 16 years in farm advisory work, includ- 

 ing three years in Kentucky. He was as- 

 sistant farm adviser for two years in 

 Adams county before going to Ford 

 county. 



During Triplett's tenure as adviser 

 Ford county won the American Farm 

 Bureau trophy in 1936 for the best 

 community unit program and in 1937 

 for the best county-wide extension serv- 

 ice. He also assisted in the establish- 

 ment of the first soil conservation dis- 

 trict in east central Illinois and helped 

 to organize other educational projects. 



Triplett will be succeeded by Arnold 

 Rowand, Washington county farm ad- 

 viser, according to an announcement by 

 J. C. Spitler, associated director of ex- 

 tension and state leader of farm advisers 

 for the University of Illinois college of 

 agriculture. 



Rowand has served as Washington 

 county farm adviser since October, 1941. 

 He is a 1933 graduate of the state uni- 

 versity college of agriculture and former- 

 ly served with the soil conservation serv- 

 ice at Sparta. V ■ '.' • 



Paul V. Curtis, associate farm adviser 

 of McLean county since May 1, 1941 

 and county 4-H club leader, has ten- 

 dered his resignation to the McLean 

 County Farm Bureau advisory commit- 

 tee effective Dec. 1. 



He will leave the Farm Bureau to 

 become associated with Frank R. Hu- 

 bert of near Saybrook, a former county 

 Farm Bureau president, in raising hogs 

 on the Hubert farm. Hubert will re- 

 tire from active management of the 

 farm but will continue to live there. 

 The farm produces between 2,000 and 

 3,000 hogs annually. ' > ' 



CHURCHILL GOES TO 

 JO DAVIESS COUNTY 



Wayne Churchill, assistant farm ad- 

 viser in Sangamon county for the past 

 7I/2 years, has been named farm ad- 

 viser for Jo Daviess county succeeding 

 Homer E. Kearnaghan. He was sched- 

 uled to assume his new duties Oct. 1. 



Kearnaghan, als6 a former assistant 

 farm adviser in Sangamon county, re- 

 signed to take a job as fieldman for a 

 commercial dairy products company in 

 northwestern Illinois. 



Churchill is a former instructor in 

 vocational agriculture at Bardolph. He 

 has been especially successful in Sanga- 

 mon county with his 4-H club program. 



PRODUCERS REPORT 

 SUCCESSFUL YEAR 



A successful year was reported by the 

 Producers' Crop Improvement Associ- 

 ation, Ford county, at the recent annual 

 meeting. •/■--■^■•■' :,.)..'■■: o- ■■:"", r ' 



According to the financial report is- 

 sued, total net worth at the end of the 

 fiscal year was $116,777.10. 



Total sales for the year amounted 

 to $217,407.83 and total dividends and 

 patronage refunds declared amounted 

 to $27,197.04. Net profit for the year 

 amounted to $32,669.67. 



The cooperative is now building a 

 new warehouse near their seed corn 

 processing plant in Piper City. 



Illinois farmers produce and harvest com 



with about seven man hours of labor an 

 acre. 



In 1880 the average Illinois farm worker 



produced 23 acres of harvested crops. Now 

 the average production is more than three 

 times as much. 



Tha Erie CooparotiT* Elevator is the 12lh 

 true cooperative owMed and controlled by 

 farmers to serve Whiteside county formers. 

 Officers and directors are: Arthur E. 

 lames, president* Seth Wilson, vice-pres- 

 ident' Floyd Adams, secretary-treasurer; 

 Harry Eddy, George Hoerler, Frank Joslin, 

 and Kenneth Cocldng, directors. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



HUNOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL 



INSURANCE COMPANY 



Notice is hereby given that the 

 annual meeting of the members of 

 Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur- 

 ance Company will be held in the 

 Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, on 

 Tuesday, the 27th day of November, 

 1945, at 1:00 o'clock P.M. to receive 

 and if approved, confirm the re- 

 port of the Board of Directors of 

 the Company for the fiscal year 

 ending September 30, 1945; to con- 

 sider and if approved, ratify cmd 

 confirm all the acts and proceedings 

 of the Board of Directors done and 

 taken since the last annual meeting 

 of the members ol the company; to 

 elect directors for the coming year 

 and for the transaction of such 

 further and other business as may 

 properly come before the meeting. 



Charles B. Shuman, Secretary 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



nXINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION 



Notice is hereby given that the 

 annual meeting of the members of 

 Illinois Agricultural Association will 

 be held in the Sherman Hotel, Chi- 

 cago, Illinois, on the 28th day of 

 November, 1945 at 9:00 o'clock A.M. 

 for the following purposes: 



To consider and vote upon the 

 approval and ratification of the re- 

 ports of the president, secretary and 

 treasurer of the Association and the 

 acts of the Board of Directors and 

 officers in furtherance ol the matters 

 therein set forth, since the last an- 

 nual meeting of the members of 

 the Association. 



To approve, ratify and confirm the 

 several purchases heretofore made 

 by this Association of stocks and 

 evidences of indebtedness of cor- 

 porations whose activities will di- 

 rectly or indirectly promote agricul- 

 ture or the interests of those en- 

 gaged therein. 



To secure consent and authoriza- 

 tion to acquire on behalf of the As- 

 sociation, by purchase, certain 

 stocks and evidences of indebted- 

 ness of corporations whose activities 

 will directly or indirectly promote 

 agriculture or the interests of those 

 engaged therein. 



To elect seven members of the 

 Board of Directors for a term of 

 two years. 



To elect a f»-esident and vice- 

 president, who shall also serve as 

 directors, for a term of one year. 



To consider such propxDsed amend- 

 ments to the Articles of Association 

 or of the By-Laws of Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association as may be 

 properly submitted. 



For the transaction of such other 

 business as may properly come be- 

 fore the meeting. 



Paul E. Mathias, Secretary 



OCTOBER. 1945 



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