BRAZILIAN COMES TO 

 ILLINOIS TO STUDY 

 SOY BEAN CULTURE 



Just below the equator at Recife 

 where the Brazihan bulge reaches 

 farthest into the warm South Atlantic, 

 a young employee of the Brazil depart- 

 ment of agriculture heard something 

 about Illinois farmers being pretty good 

 at raising soy beans. Shortly thereafter, 



his government requested him to spend 

 a year in Illinois studying soy bean 

 culture. 



Today, Francisco Targino de Si- 

 Queiro, the 30-year-old Brazilian, is 

 learning everything he can about the 

 beans under the tutelage of Prof. W. 

 L. Burlison, head of the department of 

 agronomy at the University of Illinois 

 college of agriculture in Urbana. 



Frank, as his name has been Angli- 

 cized by his friends, doesn't spend all 

 of his time hanging around college 

 halls and laboratories. Since early sum- 

 mer he has spent much of his time at 

 the Berl Wilson farm 214 niiles north 

 of Champaign watching the cultivation 

 and growth of soy beans. 



During the soil conservation demon- 

 stration on the Roelf farm at Rantoul, 

 Sept. 6, he was an interested spectator 

 at the terracing exhibition, but was es- 

 pecially interested in a soy bean field 

 which was planted on the contour. 



Speaking fluent English, the affable 

 Brazilian said he was looking forward 

 to an old-fashioned cold, snowy Illinois 

 winter before he goes back home- next 

 spring. He explained he once saw a 

 little snow on a hillside in southern 

 Brazil but here he expects to see the 

 real thing. 



We'll wager he won't be disap- 

 pointed. 



This two-ton litter of 16 pigs, weighing 

 4,044 pounds alter 180 days, may be the 

 nation's heaviest. The National Duroc As- 



BROWN COUNTY MAN 

 RAISES TWO-TON LITTER 



One of the nation's heaviest litters of 

 hogs was raised this year in Brown county 

 by J. H. Carnicle of Mt. Sterling. At 

 180 days the l6-pig litter weighed 4,044 

 pounds. 



The National Duroc association reports 

 it is the heaviest litter for 180 days re- 

 ported so far for this year's contest. The 

 pigs have gained an average 1.4 pounds 

 since birth. 



The largest hogs, two boars, weighed 

 291 pounds and the average weight of 

 the 16 was 252.7 pounds after the 180- 

 day period. 



sociation notified J. H. Carnicle of Brown 

 county that his champion litter was the 

 heaviest reported this year. 



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 A long-time Farm Bureau member, 



Mr. Carnicle has a widespread reputation 

 as a breeder of fine hogs during the past 

 30 years. He carries on a swine sanita- 

 tion program keeping each sow and litter 

 in separate lots on clean ground. 



His champion litter was kept with the 

 sow and he kept the litter under close 

 daily observation supplementing the 

 feeding with the bottle. 



Mr. Carnicle believes "concentrated 

 effort" is the secret of his success as a 

 hog raiser. Asked to explain exactly 

 what he meant by concentrated effort, he 

 said: "I would rather keep a few sows 

 and give them good personal attention 

 and raise them all than have too many 

 and lose one-third of them." 



CARL NEUREUTHER DIES 

 AFTER LONG ILLNESS 



Carl A. Neureuther, 45, for 23 years 

 a director of the Bureau County Farm Bu- 

 reau, one of the organizers and officers 

 of the La Salle-Peru 

 Milk Producers for 

 17 years and for 10 

 years a director of 

 the Producers 

 Creamery at Gales- 

 burg, died Oct. 2 in 

 Spring Valley after 

 a long illness. 



He was born in 

 Peru, 111., May 13, 

 1900, attended La 

 Salle-Peru schools and the University of 

 Illinois and was married in 1928 to the 

 former Adele Hillman of La Salle. 



Mr. Neureuther was prominent in agri- 

 cultural, business and Masonic affairs. 

 Besides his work with the Producers 

 Creamery and the Farm Bureau, he was 

 for 17 years secretary-treasurer of the 

 La Salle-Peru Milk Producers Associa- 

 tion. 



He also held a directorship in the Na- 

 tional Sheet Metal company of Peru and 

 was secretary of the board at the time of 

 his death. He served as master of the 

 Peru Masonic lodge and was commander 

 of the order of Knights Templar. 



Mr. Neureuther was a veteran of 

 World War I and a member of the 

 American Legion. j,: 



He is survived by his widow and two 

 daughters, Duane and Carol, a brother, 

 Aaron, and a sister, Mrs. Leroy Steepe, 

 both of Peru. 



Among the 175 persons attending the 

 Pope-Hardin-Massac county sponsored 

 tour of the Dixon Springs experimental 



station in late September was this dele- 

 gation (left) from Lawrence county and 

 (right) a group of farm advisers, soil con- 



servation supervisors and University of 

 Illinois college of agriculture extension 

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