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Howard is a graduate of Iowa State 

 College and was recently dis- 

 charged after serving three years 

 with the armed services. 



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Lt. Fred P. Bierer, recently returned 

 from two years service in the Navy, has 

 been named manager of the Fruit Ex- 

 change Supply Company, subsidiary or- 

 ganization of the Illinois Fruit Grow- 

 ers Exchange, lAA associated company 

 located at Carbondale. 



Prior to entering the service, Bierer 

 was assistant sales manager for the 

 Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange, but 

 devoted most of his time to the Supply 

 Company. 



Bierer will work with L. L. Colvis 

 who will continue as general manager 

 for both the Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change and Supply Company. Colvis 

 is also director of fruit and vegetable 

 marketing for the lAA. 



Bierer was graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois in 1937 where his 

 main interest was in horticulture. He 

 then spent several years on his own 

 fruit farm and served two years as the 

 youngest member of the board of di- 

 rectors of the Fruit Growers Exchange. 



Kenneth A. Stocker, Jacksonville, has 

 been employed as assistant farm adviser 

 and youth adviser at the Woodford Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau. He began work March 

 1. 



Recently discharged from the service, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Stocker and their daughter 

 will move to Eureka as soon as housing 

 can be secured. 



Stocker is a native of Morgan county 

 and was graduated from the University 

 of Illinois in 1942. He was assistant 

 farm adviser in Madison county prior to 

 entering the service. 



John L. Diamond, Edwards 

 county farm adviser for the past 

 2'/2 years, has taken over his 

 duties as Peoria county farm ad- 

 viser, succeeding I. F. Green, who 

 resigned to work for a Peoria 

 bank. 



Diamond is a 1938 graduate of 

 the University of Illinois College 

 of Agriculture. He taught voca- 

 tional agriculture at Greenville 

 high school and served as assist- 

 ant farm adviser in Peoria county 

 in 1942-43. He is married and 

 has two children. 



Robert J. Howard of Boone, la., 

 has been named assistant farm 

 adviser for Kane county. He will 

 have direction of Rural Youth, 4-H 

 Clubs and other extension aaivities 

 with Farm Adviser A. C. Johnson. 



W. A. Viehe, president of the Frank- 

 lin County Farm Bureau, died at his 

 home in Ewing, Jan. 19. He was a 

 charter member of the Farm Bureau 

 and had served on the board of direc- 

 tors for seveal years before becoming 



OiticetB oi the Dlinoia Fcom Adviaers Aa- 

 sociation elected during Farm and Home 

 Week are left to right, front row: I. E. 

 Parett Vennilion, director; W. F. Coolidge. 

 Liringston, rice president* W. B. Bunn. 

 Pike, preaident' O. O. Mowery. Mocoupin, 



■ecretory, and Rot V. Watson. Mason, 

 director. Back row, all directors: Glenn 

 C. Smith, Pope-Hoidin: C. S. Cutright, 

 EUingham: Charles E. Yale, Lee. 1945 

 association president* A. I. Rehling, Hen- 

 derson, and H. S. Wright oi Du Page 



president. Mr. Viehe was a firm be- 

 liever and champion of farm coop- 

 eratives, working hard the past year in 

 promoting and organizing the Franklin 

 County Service Company. 



Eugene F. Hugo, recently dis- 

 charged from the Army after more 

 than four years of service, is the 

 new assistant in the St. Louis of- 

 fice of the Illinois Grain Corpora- 

 tion. Illinois Grain is an associ- 

 ated company of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association. 



During his Army service Hugo 

 worked two and one-half years as 

 special agent. Counter Intelligence 

 Office, Washington, D. C. He re- 

 ceived his training for this work 

 at the Counter Intelligence Corps 

 investigators' school in Chicago. 



Hugo also served one and one- 

 half years as special agent in the 

 Counter Intelligence Corps in the 

 European theater of operations in 

 France, Holland and Germany. His 

 duties consisted chiefly in arrest 

 and apprehension of enemy 

 wanted personalities. Arrests in- 

 cluded officials in the German high 

 command, the Gestapo, storm 

 troops, the SS corps. 



Karl F. Adams of McLean county 

 was elected president of the Illinois 

 Society of Farm Managers and Rural 

 Appraisers at the organization's annual 

 meeting held in connection with Farm 

 and Home Week at the University of 

 Illinois. 



He succeeds George Maxwell of 

 Champaign county. C. M. Cassidy of 

 Macon county was elected vice presi- 

 dent. O. H. Mendenhall, Champaign 

 county, and J..B. Andrews, Champaign 

 county, were reelected treasurer and 

 secretary respectively. 



A dividend of four cents per 

 bushel on grain purchased was dis- 

 tributed in early March by the 

 Savoy Grain and Coal Company to 

 its 250 patrons. 



The total dividend, according to 

 President L. G. Johnston, was 

 approximately $20,000 — about 

 three-fourths of the total dividend 

 paid a year ago. 



In addition to the patronage div- 

 idend in grain, the company paid 

 five per cent on preferred stock. 

 Grain handled by the elevator dur- 

 ing the past year amounted to 

 650,000 bushels. i 



A com plant uses about 368 pounds of 



water to produce one pound of dry matter, 

 while cucumbers use 713 pounds of water 

 and pumpkins 834 pounds of water to make 

 one pound of dry matter. 



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