J. E. Harris, veteran Champaign 

 county farm adviser, has resigned 

 to head the Iowa sales force of a 

 phosphate company. Before com- 

 ing to Champaign in 1934 he 

 ■served eight years as farm adviser 

 in Mercer county. Graduate of 

 the University of Illinois College 

 of Agriculture, he taught voca- 

 tional agriculture at Washington 

 two years before acting as assist- 

 ant Farm Adviser in Tazewell 

 county. 



Nye F. Bouslog, 26, of Edgar county 

 has been hired as assistant farm adviser 

 and organization director for McDon- 

 ough county. He replaces Carroll Lewis 

 who will work for an Adams county 

 seed corn firm. Reared on a farm 

 near Paris, Bouslog was active in 4-H 

 work, graduated from the University of 

 Illinois College of Agriculture in 1943 

 and since that time served in the army 

 until his discharge in August as a 

 first lieutenant. 



William E. Riegel, 62, pioneer 

 soybean grower and former pres- 

 ident of Champaign county Farm 

 Bureau, died suddenly this month. 

 Honored nationally as an out- 

 standing farm manager, he helped 

 organize the American Soybean 

 association and had been a presi- 

 dent of the Illinois and board 

 member of the International Crop 

 Improvement association. 



The Bond county Farm Bureau re- 

 cently bought a building to house their 

 expanding activities and expected to 

 move in by Sept. 15. Considered tem- 

 porary quarters, they plan to build 

 later. 



The U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture estimated the 1946 corn 

 crop at 3,371,707,000 bushels in 

 September for the highest crop on 

 record. This is below the opti- 

 mistic estimate the department 

 made in August that the com crop 

 would total 3,496,820,000 bushels. 



Ray T. Nicholas, Lake county 

 farm adviser, got a pleasant sur- 

 prise the other day and it wasn't 

 wholly unexpected. The James F. 

 Lincoln Arc Welding foundation 

 awarded him $2,643.15 for his 

 paper on agricultural application 

 of arc welding. Four scholarships 

 for $250 each at the University of 

 Illinois also have been named for 

 him. Ray says the money will help 

 him pay oil a loan on his home 

 and of course, Mrs. Nicholas could 

 use a nice new coat. 



University of Illinois tests of winter 

 wheat varieties find Marmin and Wis- 

 consin 2 best suited for northern Illi- 

 nois. Pawnee was choice hard wheat 

 and Prairie and Fairfield leading soft 

 varieties for central Illinois. For south- 

 ern Illinois Fulcaster is most popular 

 but will likely be supplanted by New- 

 caster when seed is available. 



Sunflower growers in Piatt coun- 

 ty mav start developing their own 

 inbreds and hybrids, says A. C 

 Kamm, Piatt farm adviser. Major 

 variety for 1947 plantings will be 

 Jupiter, developed at Saskatoon 

 university and grown extensively 

 in Canada. Commercial scale 

 plantings in Piatt county have not 

 yet been attempted. 



Research in growth regulating plant 

 hormone sprays has brought new ways 

 to kill weeds, regulate flowering, pre- 

 vent preharvest drop of apples says W. 

 A. Ruth, University of Illinois Horti- 

 culturist. These harvest sprays are now 

 on the market. 



LETTERS 



TO 



THE 



EDITOR 



CITY BIDDERS 



Yesterday I went to a farm sale with 

 the idea of bidding but I didn't have 

 a chance. Two men from nearby towns 

 and one from a city 30 miles away ran 

 the farm up to $210 an acre. I knew 

 from experience it wasn't worth more 

 than $150. 



The city man got it. He had money, 

 he said, and wanted a place to invest. 

 He didn't have to figure on repairing 

 the house because he wasn't going to 

 live in it. 



For 24 years I've been a hired man or 

 tenant and often the work I've done has 

 been pretty close to slaving. Now with 

 my boys half grown and with a little 

 money ahead I'd like a place of my own. 



But city people are coming out and 

 bidding land out of sight. Two out of 

 three of my neighbors are tenants like 

 myself and it looks like they'll be tenants 

 the rest of their lives. . 



Land should belong to the men who 

 farm it. He does the work. Owners 

 outside the community should be forced 

 to sell. If they love the soil like I do 

 they'd move back on it. 



My tenant neighbors are beginning to 

 feel like I do. We're being driven off 

 the land as farms get bigger and prices 

 higher. Some day we'll get smart and 

 organize. There's plenty about a tenant's 

 life that could stand changing. 



C.R.B. 



Stephenson County 



Stopping in to «€qr Hallo to Tolmogo Do- Tohnogo on|oys spooking bolero rorm •«• 



froot at III* farm noar Smithboro, wo roau gathoringt and i* gonorally ovallablo 



fovnd tho formor lAA vico protldont hard en short notice. He can be reached by 



at work cleaning out his bam (left) and phone at his heme in Oroenvillo or at hU 



loading firewood. In his spore time, Mr. farm near Smithboro. 



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