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Dr. W. E. Carroll, head of the 

 department of animal husbandry, 

 has been appointed acting dean 

 of the University of Illinois Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. He will serve 

 in the absence of Dean H. P. Rusk, 

 who has been granted a six- 

 months' leave of absence because 

 of illness. Dean Rusk is now re- 

 covering from a major operation. 

 Carroll is recognized as an author- 

 ity on the breeding and feeding of 

 swine. He is a former dean of 

 the College of Agriculture at Utah 

 State college. 



An unknown pilot in a small plane 

 recently helped Grover Pool of Brown 

 county save a horse which was badly 

 tangled in barbed wire. Attracted by 

 the plane buzzing over his head and 

 circling a bottom field on his farm, 

 Pool investigated and found the horse. 

 A veterinarian was able to mend the 

 deep cuts in the animal's legs. 



George E. Kemp, Knox county, 

 has been naimed assistant Farm 

 adviser and county organization 

 director for Peoria county. A 

 graduate of the University of Il- 

 linois College of Agriculture in 

 15)42, Kemp served in the navy 

 and recently was discharged with 

 the rank of lieutenant, junior 

 grade. 



When the farmer counted his cash 

 at the end of the year he didn't always 

 come out with as much as he did the 

 year before. That's what F. J. Reiss 

 and O. B. Brown say. Reiss and Brown 

 are economists at the University of Il- 

 linois College of Agriculture. 



The University cooperated with 

 more than three thousand farmers in 

 the state in keeping records of their 

 businesses. Reiss and Brown say that 

 crop yields were seven percent above 

 the average for the last 10 years — 

 and that the farmers received more 

 money for their crops and livestock. 



But labor costs rose about 10 per- 

 cent, and power and machinery costs 

 went up 10 to 15 percent from 1943 

 to 1945. In general, farmers in south- 

 ern Illinois didn't make as much profit 

 last year as the year before, but in the 

 northern two-thirds of the state the 

 farmer did come out ahead of 1944. 



Of course there were exceptions. In 

 the west and northwest sections of the 

 state, where the corn yield wasn't too 

 good, earnings were lower. They were 

 lower, too, around the St. Louis dairy 

 and wheat area and in the claypan sec- 

 tion. On the other hand, income was 

 higher in the Wabash Valley and on 

 southern Illinois fruit and vegetable 

 lands. 



JULY-AUGUST, 1946 



John E. McCue is the new farm 

 adviser at Edwards county. He 

 succeeds J. L. Diamond, now Pe- 

 oria county farm adviser. McCue 

 was graduated from the University 

 of Illinois College of Agriculture 

 in 1939 and taught vocational ag- 

 riculture at Ridgway, 111., and 

 Poseyville, Ind., before entering 

 the armed services in 1943. 



The Woodlot Owners' Cooperative 

 of Peoria has appointed Jean Fisher 

 its forester-manager. Fisher assumed 

 his duties July 1. The cooperative ex- 

 tends an invitation to farmers and wood- 

 lot owners of central Illinois to discuss 

 utilization of their woodlands with Fisher 

 at the Farm Bureau office in Peoria. 

 Fisher is a 1941 graduate of the Univer- 

 sity of Idaho School of Forestry and 

 recently was discharged by the navy. 



Assistant state supervisor on the 

 farm labor staff at Urbana is 

 George B. Whitman, Henderson 

 county farm adviser from 1934-38 

 and Adams farm adviser from 

 1938-44. More recently he has 

 been working for private business. 

 Wliitman graduated from the 

 University of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture in 1920. 



Laurance McLachlan, 17, (right) of Eorl- 

 vllla. La Salle county, U intervlewad on 

 tho radio after talcing all the first prizei 

 In Hie Chicago Jvnior Market and Lamb 

 tale. He won flrits for tingle lamb and 

 for pent of three, five and ten lambt. Left 

 it Ralph Eddy, W6N attlttant farm director. 



The new farm adviser at Kan- 

 kakee county is Lloyd D. Graham, 

 former lieutenant colonel in the 

 army quartermaster corps. Graham 

 was born and reared on a Peoria 

 county farm and was graduated 

 from the University of Illinois 

 College of Agriculture in 1931. 

 He taught vocadonal agriculture 

 at Lovington until 1936 when he 

 became assistant farm adviser at 

 Peoria. He was called for army 

 service in 1942. Graham is married 

 and has two sons, aged four and 

 eight- 



A summary of the effects of soil 

 treatment on soil productivity during 

 58 years of experimental work by the 

 University of Illinois College of Agri- 

 culture is available in a new bulletin. 

 The publication states that "the crop- 

 producing efficiency of most Illinois 

 soils can be improved." Bulletin 516 

 was authored by eight members of the 

 department of agronomy. 



Roy Burrus, Cass county, was 

 elected president of the Illinois 

 Crop Improvement Associadon at 

 its annual meeting in Urbana in 

 June. He succeeds Lawrence 

 Lowe of Kankakee county. Oth- 

 er officers include Vice President 

 Hugh R. Morrison, Bureau coun- 

 ty, and Secretary-Treasurer J. L. 

 "Trisler, Vermilion county. Trisler 

 succeeds lAA President Charles 

 B. Shuman. 



Four meetings with country grain 

 elevator and feed business managers 

 and owners over the state were held 

 recently to outline on-the-job training 

 for World War II veterans in manage- 

 ment of elevators. 



The training program for the first 

 year provides for three-day sessions in 

 Chicago Aug. 21-23; Peoria, Nov. 4-6; 

 University of Illinois, Jan. 22-24; Chi- 

 cago, March 3-5; Springfield, May 5-7; 

 and University of Illinois May 26-28. 

 This training supplements the on-the- 

 job experience of veterans working at 

 elevators. 



The program is to be administered 

 jointly by the Illinois State Board for 

 Vocational Education and a committee 

 known as the Illinois Country Grain 

 and Feed Institute. The Institute is 

 composed of representatives from the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, Illi- 

 nois Grain Dealers' Association, Farm- 

 ers' Grain Dealers Association, Illinois 

 Feed Association, Bank for Coopera- 

 tives, St. Louis, and the Agricultural 

 Extension Service, University of Illi- 

 nois. L. F. Stice, extension marketing 

 specialist, U. of I. College of Agri- 

 culture, is secretary of the Institute. 



