Paul V. Dean, Bureau county 

 farm adviser for the past 16 years, 

 has turned in his resignation and 

 plans to move to a farm near 

 Columbia, Mo., in September. He 

 has been in ill health. Dean grad- 

 uated from the University of Illi- 

 nois College of Agriculture in 1925 

 and taught vocational agriculture 

 in high schools until 1930 when he 

 went to Bureau county as associate 

 adviser and served until 1932 when 

 he was made adviser. 



Illinois farm advisers and home ad- 

 visers will receive salary increases on 

 the part of their salaries which comes 

 from federal funds, according to J. C. 

 Spitler, state leader of farm advisers. 

 Since federal funds are allotted equally 

 to farm advisers throughout the state, 

 the increase will be uniform. The in- 

 crease for farm advisers is from $2,000 

 to $2,160 and for home advisers from 

 $2,000 to $2,280. Each county sup- 

 plies additional funds to supplement 

 advisers' salaries. 



Manager L. L. Colvis of the Illinois 

 Fruit Growers Exchange reports that 

 the main structure of the new cold stor- 

 age building at Carbondale is com- 

 pleted and that work was being rushed 

 on the storage section to install refrig- 

 eration and insulation in order to get 

 ready for the fall apple crop. 



The Flying Farmers, a group of farm 

 operators who fly their own planes, 

 will hold their next annual meeting at 

 the University of Illinois airport. Six 

 hundred planes from Illinois, Indiana, 

 Wisconsin and Michigan flew to La- 

 fayette, Ind., recently for the 1946 

 meeting. The organization has 1,000 

 pilots and expects to fly 1,000 planes 

 to the university airport next year. 



The suggested wheat acreage to 

 be planted by Illinois farmers for 

 harvest in 1947 has been set at 

 1,600,000 acres. This acreage is 

 similar to the goal set in 1946 al- 

 though only 1,367,000 acres were 

 planted. 



O. L. Welsh, McLean county 

 farm adviser for the past five 

 years, has asked to be relieved of 

 his duties by Dec. 1. Welsh of- 

 fered his resignation in order to 

 go into private business in Bloom- 

 ington. He will head a fuel and 

 lumber company handling farm 

 supplies, machinery, fencing, lum- 

 ber and coal. 



B. H. "Barney" Heide, general 

 manager of the International Live 

 Stock Exposition, died at his home 

 in Chicago, Aug. 3. He will be 

 missed by countless stockmen from 

 the U. S. and Canada. Mr. Heide 

 had been associated with the Inter- 

 national since the first one in 1900. 

 William £. Ogilvie, assistant to 

 Mr. Heide, has been named acting 

 manager of the 1946 exposition. 



Guy H. Husted, farm adviser for 

 the past 26 years, has resigned after 

 serving in Cass county since 1925. 

 Husted graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois College of Agri- 

 culture in 1915 and taught two 

 years before farming. In 1920 he 

 went to Scott county as farm ad- 

 viser serving • there for five years 

 before going to Cass county. 



G. Tupper Swaim, former Kankakee 

 county farm adviser, is up to his neck 

 in work organizing and directing Camp 

 Shaw-waw-nas-see, the new 50-acre 

 northern Illinois district 4-H camp 

 along Rock creek in Kanakakee county 

 which already has served as the sum- 

 mer camp grounds for many northern 

 Illinois 4-H groups. 



A crew of 40 cleared trees, built 

 roads, leveled space for a Softball dia- 

 mond during a work week held in 

 August at Livingston county's new 4-H 

 club park three and one-half miles 

 northwest of Pontiac. Local townships 

 donated trucks for hauling dirt and 

 gravel. Under construction is a build- 

 ing for rest rooms, park's first perma- 

 nent structure. 



Farm Bureau membership in Il- 

 linois at the end of July was 129,- 

 723, according to the report of 

 Organization Director O. D. Bris- 

 send^n. Membership at the end 

 of June was 128,5)40. Membership 

 at present is assumed to be over 

 the 130,000 mark. 



A grasshopper outbreak in the west- 

 ern and southwestern areas of Illinois 

 is reported by H. B. Petty, extension 

 entomologist at the University of Illi- 

 nois. The outbreak is serious and may 

 damage crops as far north as Mon- 

 mouth. Poison bait is available at your 

 county Farm Bureau, Petty said. 



Jo Daviess County Farm Adviser 

 Wayne Churchill will become Will 

 county farm adviser this month. 

 He succeeds John H. Brock, who 

 resigned to become business man- 

 ager of the Northern Illinois. Dairy 

 (^ttle Breeders' Association at 

 Dundee. Churchill is a graduate 

 of the University of Illinois Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. He taught at 

 Bardolph high school and was as- 

 sistant farm adviser in Sangamon 

 county for seven years. 



Organic matter can be added to the soil 

 by plowing under legumes and residues of 

 other crops. 



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Norman McCoy (center) of Macon county, was reelected president of the Flying Formers 

 at their recent meeting In Lafayette, Ind. He Is shewn with William Renshaw (left) and 



Arthur Moore of Prairie Farmer. 1 . 



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