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The annual American Farm Bureau 

 Federation Midwest Training School for 

 Farm Bureau officials and organization 

 staff of 11 Midwestern states will be 

 held June 23-24-25-26 in Kansas City. 



A program will also be arranged for 

 Farm Bureau wornen and Rural Youth. 

 .\11 county and state officials interested 

 in the mechanics and methods of farm 

 organization are invited to attend. 



San Frandsco will be the site of 

 the 28th annual meeting of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation, 

 the AFBF board of directors de- 

 cided at their recent quarterly 

 meeting in Chicago. 



Gilbert E. Lampe, former teacher of 

 vocational agriculture at Highland, 111., 

 has been named farm adviser in Scott 

 county. He succeeds George Reid, 

 now Rock Island farm adviser. Lampe 

 is a graduate of the University of Illi- 

 nois College of Agriculture and has 

 been teaching for the past 11 years. He 

 is married and has no children. 



Marshall-Putnam counties have 

 been chosen as one of the denwn- 

 stration areas for the bookmobile, 

 a rural library service being started 

 by the University of Illinois. 



Paul Wilson, farm security super- 

 visor at Carbondale, became Saline 

 county farm adviser April 1. Wilson 

 graduated from the University of Illi- 

 nois College of Agriculture in 1933 

 and was employed by the St. Louis 

 board of health following his gradua- 

 tion. He worked for FSA in Pope and 

 Hardin counties before going to Car- 

 bondale to do sihiilar work in Jackson 

 and Randolph counties. He succeeds 

 A. C. Kamm, now farm adviser in Piatt 

 county. 



W. C. Anderson, recently dis- 

 charged navy lieutenant after 20 

 nwnths service, is the new farm 

 adviser in Jackson county. He is 

 a 1932 graduate of the University 

 of Illinois College of Agriculture 

 and has served as farm adviser in 

 Johnson and Franklin-Hamilton 

 counties. He succeeds J. G. Mc- 

 Call, now Perry county farm ad- 

 viser. 



Mrs. W. B. Bunn, wife of Farm 

 Adviser W. B. Bunn of Pike county, 

 died a few days after her husband re- 

 turned from Farm and Home Week 

 exercises at the University of Illinois 

 where he was elected president of the 

 Illinois Association of Farm Advisers. 

 Funeral services were held at Pittsfield 

 with interment at Olney. 



A. L. Oxford, Gallatin county 

 farm adviser since Sef>teniber, 

 1943, has resigned to enter the 

 feed and fertilizer business. He is 

 a 1942 graduate of the Univeraty 

 of Illinois College of Agriculture 

 and taught vocational agriculture 

 at Woodlawn. 



Earl D. Peterson, Mercer county 

 farm adviser from 1936 to 1941, has 

 been apjKjinted assistant state super- 

 visor of the extension farm labor pro- 

 gram in Illinois. Peterson entered the 

 service in 1941 and was discharged Jan. 

 14, 1946. He is a graduate in agricul- 

 ture from Iowa State College. 



Cumberland county farmers 

 have indicated a demand for 60 

 cars of phosphate and 35,000 tons 

 of limestone, according to Farm 

 Adviser Charles Tarble, who 

 points to it as a "very ambitious 

 program for 1946." 



Dr. Roger P. Link, associate profes- 

 sor of veterinary physiology at Kansas 

 State College, has been appointed to 

 the faculty of the new College of Vet- 

 erinary Medicine at the University of 

 Illinois. 



He has been made assistant professor 

 and assistant chief of veterinary phys- 

 iology and pharmacology. Dr. Link 

 attended Iowa State College, Kansas 

 State College, and the University of 

 Chicago. He also has taught at Mich- 

 igan State CoHege. 



One air force vet signs up another as the 

 2,000th Fann Bureau member in Whiteside 

 county; Left to right: Clair Gsell, county 

 organization director, ond Ronald Bradley, 

 the new member. 



Hotel Shermaa in Chicago again 

 will be headquarters for the an- 

 nual meeting of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association starting Mon- 

 day, Nov. 18, 1946. Approval was 

 made at a recent meeting of the 

 LA A board. Choice was limited ' 

 again by the serious housing short- 

 age. 



Keenly interested in promoting co- 

 operative marketing of milk and cream, 

 Jasper County Farm Bureau has organ- 

 ized a dairy committee to study and cor- 

 rect the difficulties of dairymen in feed- 

 ing, breeding, pasturing and producing. 

 One member has been appointed from 

 each township in Jasper county and six 

 committee meetings have been scheduled 

 for the year. 



Dirk Heezen, Country Life actu- 

 ary for the past 15 months, has 

 been named assistant manager in 

 charge of the home office and con- 

 sulting actuary for the three Farm 

 Bureau insurance companies. 

 Country Life, Country Casualty 

 and Country Fire. Heezen came to 

 the lAA from Guardian Life In- 

 surance Company of Madison, 

 Wis., where he was actuary. 



Dr. L. B. Howard of McLean county 

 has been appointed chief of the bureau 

 of agricultural and industrial chem- 

 istry in Washington. He succeeds Dr. 

 O. E. May, who resigned to go into 

 private industry. Dr. Howard is a 

 graduate of Purdue University and has 

 been associated with the bureau for 14 

 years. Dr. May was the first director 

 of the Soybean Products Laboratory at 

 Urbana and the first director of the 

 Northern Regional Research Labora- 

 tory in Peoria, a large penicillin pro- 

 ducer. 



J(^n White, assistant farm ad- 

 viser in Livingston county in 1941, 

 has returned to his former job 

 after four years* service with the 

 army air forces. 



Broadcasts by the American Farra Bu- 

 reau Federation can be heard on the 

 America United program over NBC 

 April 28, May 12 and 26, and June 9. 

 The program is a national forum gen- 

 erally dealing with farm questions during 

 the AFBF appearance on alternate Sun- 

 days at 12:15 p.m. The program will 

 be revived July 14 for another AFBF 

 series on alternate Sundays. 



W. C Mummert, DeKalb coun- 

 ty farm adviser, reports that suf- 

 ficient Ranger alfalfa seed has 

 been obtained to plant about six 

 plots throughout the county for 

 demonstrauonal purposes. 



APBIL 1946 



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