H. K. Danforth, Henry county 

 farm adviser, has resigned to be- 

 come business manager of Henry 

 County Farm Bureau. Danforth 

 has been at Henry county for the 

 past 22 years. He started as as- 

 sistant farm adviser and a few 

 years later became farm adviser. 

 The new job was created by the 

 Farm Bureau board of directors 

 because of increased membership 

 and increased demands for serv- 

 ices. 



Kenneth L. Flake, Fulton county as- 

 sistant farm adviser and county organ- 

 ization director, has been named Henry- 

 county farm adviser succeeding H. K. 

 Danforth, who resigned to become Henry 

 County Farm Bureau business manager. 

 Flake graduated from the University of 

 Illinois College of Agriculture in 1936 

 and taught vocational agriculture at 

 Arenzville and Virginia before going to 

 Fulton county. Flake will start his new 

 job about June 1. He is not married. 



The Illinois state fair, aban- 

 doned for the past five years, will 

 be resumed Aug. 9 to 18 at the 

 state fair grounds in Springfield. 

 Work has been started on the 

 preparation of the grounds which 

 were used by the air forces during 

 the war. 



Harold Neal, Peoria county assistant 

 farm adviser for the past three years, 

 resigned April 15 to become a special 

 Farm Bureau insurance agent in Ver- 

 milion county. He is from Jefferson 

 county and graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois in 1943. He is mar- 

 ried and has a small son. 



Alvin Warren, one of the first 

 direaors of the DeKalb County 

 Farm Bureau, Illinois' first county 

 Farm Bureau, died at his home 

 April 8. Besides farming, Mr. 

 Warren taught school and served 

 as a state representative from the 

 35th district. 



Added to the growing list of county 

 Farm Bureaus planning community cen- 

 ters or showplaces for 4-H clubs and 

 Rural Youth is Pulaski-Alexander. 

 Committees are at work to raise $15,000 

 to erect a building for youth activities 

 under the direction of Farm Adviser 

 Leslie B. Broom. The new structure 

 will serve as a war memorial. 



Two La Salle county farmers 

 have asked Farm Adviser Fred 

 Painter for information on seeding 

 landing strips for their planes. 



Headquarters for the Midwest Farm 

 Bureau Training School to be held 

 Sunday, June 23 to Wednesday noon, 

 June 26 will be at the 22-story Hotel 

 Continental in Kansas City. Dale Car- 

 negie, author of the book "How to 

 Win Friends and Influence People" will 

 deliver two lectures at the school for 

 Farm Bureau officers on "The Psychol* 

 ogy of Dealing With People," and "En- 

 thusiasm." 



Marjorie Fulghum of Lee county trains to 

 become o qualified tester for a dairy herd 

 improvement association at the University 

 of Illinois. She is now associated with her 

 sister Harriett, a tester in Lee county. Look- 

 ing on is J. G. Cash, extension dairy 

 specialist. 



"OUR FAULTS" 



Farmers have five main faults ac- 

 cording to a national poll con- 

 ducted recently among city people. 

 TTiey are: 



1. Too narrow and provincial. 



2. Always complaining. They 

 beef about how hard they work. 



3. Poor managers. They ruin the 

 soil. They won't learn new meth- 

 ods. 



4. Stubborn. You can't tell a 

 farmer anything, they say. 



5. They get too much money 

 for what they raise. 



Do you agree? Let's hear what 

 sou think. Address Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association Record, (>08 

 South Dearborn Street, Chicago 5, 

 Illinois. 



Earl D. Peterson, Mercer coun- 

 ty farm adviser, from 1936 to 

 1941, will succeed the late Alden 

 Snyder as Montgomery county 

 farm adviser. He expects to be 

 on the job at Hillsboro by July 1. 

 Peterson was recently appointed 

 assistant state supervisor of the 

 state extension farm labor pro- 

 gram after five years army serv- 

 ice. Following his graduation 

 from Iowa State College in 1931 

 he served a few years as county 

 agent at Louisa county, Iowa. 



In some Illinois localities sorghums 

 and kafirs will make better silage than 

 corn because they will grow better tinder 

 conditions of less rainfall, according to 

 K. A. Kendall of the dairy husbandry 

 department of the University of Illinois 

 College of Agriculture. 



In experiments by the college, Ken- 

 dall said, silage made from soybeans and 

 sorghum, and also from soybeans and 

 Sudan grass, has given good results. 



Roy K. Wise, Schuyler county farm 

 adviser, keeps in close touch with his 

 county farm friends by talking to them 

 regularly through a column in the 

 county Farm Bureau page under the 

 heading "Hello Neighbor!" 



G. Tupper Swaim, Kankakee 

 county farm adviser, plans to take 

 employment with a conmiercial 

 firm following his vacation which 

 begins June 1. 



Grant McGill of Stark county has 

 been employed as assistant farm adviser 

 in Lee county. He is a 1943 graduate 

 of the University of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture and was recently dis- 

 charged from the armed forces. He is 

 married and the father of a two-year- 

 old son. ! 



Coles county farmers are in fa- 

 vor of organizing a rural fire pro- 

 teaion distria, reports Farm Ad- 

 viser W. S. Myers. The district 

 would own and control the equip- 

 ment which would be manned by 

 Charleston firemen. 



Enough landowner signatures have 

 been obtained in Effingham county to 

 satisfy requirements for establishing a 

 soil conservation district, according to 

 Farm Adviser Clinton Cutright. 



Orin W. Henz has returned to 

 his job as farm adviser in Wash- 

 ington county after 41/2 years serv- 

 ice in the army. 



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