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The board of directors of the Menard 

 County Farm Bureau has purchased 21/^ 

 lots south of the Farm Bureau building 

 in Petersburg. The Farm Bureau now 

 owns a half block on Main street. The 

 new property will be used for expansion 

 when desired. 



J. G. McCall, Jackson county 

 farm adviser, has announced he 

 will become Perry county farm 

 adviser after his resignation from 

 his present post March 1. 



McCall has served at Murphys- 

 boro since March 1, 1930 and dur- 

 ing that time was farm adviser for 

 the Jackson-Perry Farm Bureau 

 until last year when the two coun- 

 ties split into separate Farm Bu- 

 reaus. 



Harold P. Templeton, former lieldman 

 with the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 livestock marketing department, has been 

 employed as agricultural relations field 

 representative by the Illinois Chain Store 

 Council. Templeton was expected to be 

 discharged from the army this month 

 to take over his new job. He is a former 

 Champaign county assistant farm adviser. 



Three Illinois farm advisers 

 were among the nation's 85 coun- 

 ty agents who received distin- 

 guished service awards at the an- 

 nual meeting of the National As- 

 sociation of County Agricultural 

 Agents in Chicago in December. 

 They were E. A. Bierbaum, Union; 

 John R. Gilkey, Macon, and H. H. 

 Lett, Wabash. 



I. F. Green, Peoria county farm ad- 

 viser, is resigning and plans to take a 

 job with a Peoria bank within a few 

 weeks. Green graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois college of agriculture 

 in 1930 and went to Peoria county after 

 teaching vocational agriculture at Sparta 

 and after serving as farm adviser in Bond 

 county. 



A feature story of the daily ac- 

 tivities of B. W. Tillman, St. Clair 

 county farm adviser, appears in 

 the December issue of Country 

 Gentleman under the title "Coun- 

 ty Agent — He Looks to the Fu- 

 ture." Tillman has been St. Clair 

 county farm adviser for more than 

 26 years. 



Earl C. Smith, retiring lAA president and 

 Mrs. Smith receive chest oi silver from 

 lAA staif at dinner in Edgwater Beach 

 hotel, Chicago, Jan. 9. Presentation is 

 made by lAA Counsel Donald Kirkpatrick 

 (right). 



A. C Kamm, Saline county farm 

 adviser for the past four years, will 

 succeed E. O. Johnston as Piatt county 

 farm adviser. Johnston resigned to 

 become head of the new plants food 

 division of the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company in Chicago. Kamm is a for- 

 mer University of Illinois star basket- 

 ball player. 



H. H. Alp, extension poultry- 

 man with the University of Illinois 

 college of agriculture for nearly 

 20 years, will leave the university 

 March 1 to work for Lester J. 

 Norris, Kane county banker and 

 industrialist at St. Charles. His 

 new work will be in the field of 

 public relations and he also will 

 serve as agricultural adviser to 

 the state bank at St. Charles. 



The nation's largest live stock show, 

 the International Livestock Exposition, 

 will be held Nov. 30 to Dec. 7, 1946, 

 after a wartime lapse of four years. 

 The show will be held at the Chicago 

 Stock Yards. The announcement was 

 made by the president of the exposi- 

 tion, Henry W. Marshall of Lafayette, 

 Ind. 



W. A. Viehe, president and charter 

 member of the Franklin County Farm 



Texts on the addresses of Con- 

 gressman Everett M. Dirksen and 

 Rev. George M. Gibson given at 

 the lAA annual meeting are still 

 available in a limited number. Per- 

 sons wishing copies of these 

 speeches may write the lAA Pub- 

 licity Dept., 608 South Dearborn 

 St., Chicago 5, 111. 



Bureau, died at his home in Ewing, 

 Jan. 19 after an illness lasting only a 

 few hours. Mr. Viehe was vice presi- 

 dent in 1945 and was named president 

 at the annual Farm Bureau meeting last 

 November. 



Ward Cross of Ogle Coun- 

 ty, recently discharged from 

 the armed forces as a captain, 

 has assumed his duties as De- 

 Kalb county assistant farm ad- 

 viser. He is a graduate of 

 the University of Illinois col- 

 lege of agriculture, class of 

 1941. He will be in charge of 

 4-H activities and will assist 

 with the extension program. 



Floyd M. Smith, former Sandoval 

 high school agriculture teacher, has 

 taken over his new job as Clinton 

 county farm adviser. Smith graduated 

 from the University of Illinois college 

 of agriculture in 1937 and owns a farm 

 northwest of Patoka. He is married 

 and has three daughters and a son. 



Cap Mast, former director of 

 publicity for the lAA, has just 

 been announced as the new editor 

 and publisher of the Agricultural 

 Leaders' Digest. He succeeds the 

 late Estes P. Taylor who devoted 

 23 years of his life to editing and 

 publishing the magazine. 



Cap was assistant farm adviser 

 and 4-H club leader in LaSalle 

 county before and after he was 

 graduated from the U. of I. Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. He later 

 served assistant editor of Prairie 

 Farmer, 1936-37. From 1937 to 

 1940 he was head of the field serv- 

 ice department of the lAA, and in 

 1940 was named head of the pub- 

 licity department to succeed George 

 Thiem, now of the Chicago Daily 

 News. Cap left the lAA in De- 

 cember, 1944, to become editor of 

 "The Business of Farming," pub- 

 lished by U. S. Gypsum Company. 



IT'S COUNTRY CASUALTY 



(Continued jrom page 7) 

 lars. In addition, 25,000 policies, pro- 

 viding 94 million dollars of hail insurance 

 coverage on growing crops, were written 

 in 1945. 



Country Life, established in 1928, had 

 more than $250,000,000 of life insurance 

 in force on Jan. 1, 1946. The record estab- 

 lished in writing this amount of life in- 

 surance in 17 years of operation has ne%'er 

 been equalled in the insurance field. 



Managers of the three lAA associated 

 companies are: Country Life, Dave 

 Mieher ; Country Casualty, A. E. Richard- 

 son, and Country Fire, J. H. Kelker. 



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FEED 



ILLINOIS Fa 

 liveries of h 

 stock in 1946 

 equal 1945 de 

 J. Lanter, feed 



Lanter poin 

 the feed suppli 

 the amount of 

 able by processi 



"By forcing 

 tein meal into 

 he said, "the n 

 the U. S. Def 

 on the sale ( 

 should help lUi 

 pany obtain lai 

 trons." 



Restrictions 

 meal in the mai 

 for livestock ; 

 efifect Jan. 16. 



The order \ 

 consumption b 

 poultry on fai 

 volume of catth 

 roads on the na 

 ing protein she 

 the country. 



The situation 

 by some proces 

 manufacturing i 

 ing established 

 their normal s( 



The governn 

 no manufacture 

 protein meal i 

 for livestock th 

 during the c 

 quarter of 1945 



It also provii 

 use in the mam 

 a larger quantii 

 the following p 

 tity so used in ti 

 of 1945 : Januai 

 March — 95 ; A 

 months of 1946 



L A. A. RECORD 



FEBRUARY. IJ 



