Halsey Miles, Crawford county 

 farm adviser, has been named Bu- 

 reau county farm adviser, the post 

 va^ted by Paul V. Dean who re- 

 siglpd because of poor health. Mr. 

 Miles taught vocational agricul- 

 ture at Rock Island for five years 

 before moving to Robinson where 

 he served as Crawford county farm 

 adviser for six years. He grew up 

 on a farm in Knox county near 

 Galesburg. 



James Davies of Henry county, a 

 1943 graduate of the University of 

 Illinois College of Agriculture, has 

 been engaged as a second assistant farm 

 adviser in LaSalle county. Davies will 

 take over part of the work done by 

 Assistant Farm Adviser George Trull 

 who will now give all of his time to 

 soil conservation. Davies served in 

 Europe with the army. Farm Adviser 

 Kred A. Painter said Davies would take 

 over his new job about Nov. 15. 



E. V. Stadel, new Jo Daviess 

 county farm adviser, until recently 

 had been county organization di- 

 rector in Winnebago county since 

 his discharge from the army. Be- 

 fore entering the army in 1942, 

 Stadel servel as 4-H club leader 

 in Winnebago county for three 

 years and acted as 4-H club leader 

 and organization director in Mar- 

 shall-Putnam county during 1936- 

 39. He has worked for AAA 

 (1935-36) and as DHIA tester in 

 Brown county (1934). Stadel is a 

 graduate of the University of Illi- 

 nois College of Agriculture. 



Robert Allarton (right) of Monticello ad- 

 mires the plaque presented to him by the 

 4-H Club division of extension service. The 

 presentation was made by Dr. W. E. Car- 

 roll, acting dean of the University of Illi- 

 nois College of Agriculture, in oppreciotion 

 of his generous gift of the site of the 

 Illinois State 4-H Club Memorial Camp In 

 Piatt county. 



W. W. Holmes resigned Oa. 1 

 as Kankakee county organization 

 director. During the four years he 

 served as organization director 

 membership grew in the county 

 from 896 to I6OO. Mr. Holmes 

 resigned because of poor health. 



OUR COVER 



This month's RECORD cover is a 

 panoramic view of a stretch of 

 California's Pacific coast hetwien 

 Los Angeles and San Francisco 

 which will be seen on the lAA's 

 caravan tour to the AFBF conven- 

 tion in December. 



Farm co-op membership last year 

 increased by more than one-quarter 

 million and volume of business was 

 up by nearly 30 million dollars. 

 Of the total co-op volume in 1945 

 of $5,645,000,000 dairy, grain, and 

 fruit and vegetable marketing ac- 

 counted for nearly 70 per cent of 

 the co-op activity. 



Whatever the assets of the nation's 

 co-ops at present, they are overshad- 

 owed by the 43 giant U. S. Corpora- 

 tions, each with assets of more than a 

 billion dollars. These corporations 

 own one-fourth of all the nation's in- 

 dustrial, banking and insurance wealth, 

 the United Press reports. 



In Illinois Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers expect to spend some $1.5 

 million on co-op locker plants as 

 soon as building materials are 

 available. By the end of 1946 some 

 100 co-op plants are expected to be 

 serving members with a total of 

 40,000 individual lockers. And 

 that's pretty big business, too. 



Many Clinton oats fields, Bureau 

 county reports, grew shirt pocket high 

 on straw thick as an ordinary cigarette. 

 Blackbirds and starlings could alight on 

 the straw to picks off the plump grains. 

 Seldom is an oat straw stiff enough to 

 support the weight of a blackbird, they 

 said. 



Donald Kirkpatrick, general 

 counsel for the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association and the Ameri- 

 can Farm Bureau t'ederation, and 

 Larry Brandon, DeKalb county 

 farmer and vice-president of the 

 DeKalb County Farm Bureau, will 

 speak at the 28th annual conven- 

 tion of the Indiana Farm Bureau 

 at Indianapolis Nov. 13-15. 



A 1947 spring pig goal of 58 million 

 pigs has been announced by the 

 U.S.D.A., up 11 per cent from the 52.3 

 million produced in 1946. It will take 

 an estimated 9,170,000 sows to farrow 

 this pig crop, an increase of 13 per 

 cent from this year's 8,087,000. A 

 greater percentage of sows will be 

 needed to boost pig numbers, the 

 U.S.D.A. believes, because the pigs 

 saved per litter this year was unusually 

 high. 



Hail storms seem to hit DeWitt 

 county whenever hail falls in Illi- 

 nois and hail hit again this year. 

 Insurance claims indicate from 2 

 to 50 per cent damage on fields 

 where hail storms struck. 



Price of Clinton seed oats varies a 

 little throughout the state but growers 

 are asking about $2.25 a bushel for 

 cleaned, bagged and tagged certified 

 seed. Considered resistant to Helmin- 

 thosporium blight disease, this new 

 high yielding oat variety is available 

 now in limited supply for 1947 plant- 

 ings. 



The Morrow Plots on the campus of the 

 University of Illinois, Urbana, are America's 

 oldest soil experiment field. They were es- 

 tablished in 1876. 



Ray T. Nicholas, Lake county farm adviser, 

 smiles with the pleasure anyone would 

 have on winning $2,643.13 for a paper 

 written on the agricultural application of 

 arc welding. Here he holds the checic he 

 received from the Lincoln Arc Welding 

 Foundation which awarded the prize. 



I. A. A. RECORD 



