MORE STUDY FOR 

 lUINOIS FLOOD 

 CONTROL PLAN 



Rumors that the 190,000,000 Illinois 

 river flood control plan has been sent 

 back to the district oflFice of army en- 

 gineers in Chicago have been branded 

 as "absolutely incorrect" by spokesmen 

 from the Chicago oflFice. 



The Washington board of army en- 

 gineers for rivers and harbors is re- 

 viewing the plan and studying the tes- 

 timony submitted at the May 31 

 Springfield hearing since it convened 

 on Oct. 6, this local authority said. 



When and if any revisions are re- 

 quested in the basic flood control plan, 

 the district engineer offices in Chicago 

 and St. Louis, Mo., would be among 

 the first informed since they would do 

 the necessary field work. 



The Chicago office of the district en- 

 gineers has on their own initiative gone 

 into certain details of the program, but 

 in a limited way, the authority stated. 



The details being revalued were 

 listed as concerning the objections 

 raised by the Springfield sanitary dis- 

 trict and also a revised study of the 

 comparison of the land in the Illinois 

 river basin to be flooded against that 

 to be protected from flood. 



Due to the gigantic scope of the 

 plan and the volume of testimony sub- 

 mitted at the Springfield hearing it 

 was suggested that the Washington 

 board would be slow in submitting its 

 recommendations to the chief of en- 

 gineers. 



The following letter to the lAA REC- 

 ORD was written in tribute to the farmers 

 of America by fames Forrestal, Secretary 

 of the Navy: 



10 IB taxssie of uekicai 



In 6«pt«Mto«r, 194$* th« Japanasc surr«ndtr«d. 

 Z r*sard It •■ significant that thay furrandarad during 

 tha barvast nonth, for* no lass than ttaa guns and tha 

 spirit of our Ban and a u ae n . It aas tha food which caaa 

 froa ttoa graat farming araas of this country that brought 

 us to Tietory. 



Tha lavy still raaasbars tha haroie work of Xb» 

 faraars, «ho» although It Is nora than a yasr sines tha 

 fighting andad, hara not lassanad thair afforts to faad 

 tha nation and tha starring paoplas of tha world. Oil 

 ■avy Day* Octobar 27, VHh, I wish to thank ttaa faraars 

 «r tearica. 



TREAT CORN PICKER WITH 

 RESPECT — IT'S DANGEROUS 



Nope! You can't "fence the corn- 

 picker in" as was suggested by a leading 

 safety engineer of a large railroad com- 

 pany when he first saw this "finger- 

 pickin' ", "corn-pickin' ", labor savin' de- 

 vice. He viewed it with horror and in- 

 dicated that if the railroad company had 

 anything like that in their shops they'd 

 build a high fence around it, put up 

 safety signs, and warn workers to "keep 

 their distince". 



We can't and wouldn't furnish this 

 bit of advice, as the corn-picker is a 

 very useful apparatus — but it is also 

 one of the most deadly machines on 

 Illinois farms. What we can do is to 

 treat the corn picker for what it is, and 

 save our legs and arms and lives to pick 

 com again next year. 



Almost half the folks that get them- 

 selves tangled up with these things will 

 come out either permanently injured 

 or disabled — or dead, according to our 

 1942 Illinois newspaper tabulations. Some 

 236 corn-picking accidents in that year 

 show the same two main causes as in 

 other years: the operator became en- 

 tangled in the power take-off, or he tried 

 to remove trash from the husking or 

 snapping rolls while the machinery was 

 in motion. 



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WHERE'S THE 



DINNER BELL? 



Shedding an editorial tear the Wal- 

 laces Farmer asks its readers — where 

 is the old dinner bell.' There aren't 

 so many these days, the paper finds. 

 In the old days the dinner bell . . . 

 told the men folks when to quit work 

 and start for the house. Rung out of 

 season, when no meals were ready, it 

 meant "Come quick!" Where is the 

 old bell.> Hidden? Broken? Lost? 

 We wonder too. Perhaps our readers 

 could tell us. 



BIGGAR TO JUDGE 



STEER CLASSES ■' 



AT INTERNATIONAL 



Walter Biggar, of Dalbeattie, Scot- 

 land, known internationally as a stock- 

 man and judge, will act as judge of 

 the steer classes at the International 

 Live Stock Show to be held at the 

 Chicago Stock Yards Nov. 30 to Dec. 7. 



The Scotsman's first judging duties 

 will fall on the first day of the show, 

 Nov. 30, when he reviews "the Junior 

 entries, a showing of beeves by boys 

 and girls aged 10 to 20. 



Biggar will also judge the open class 

 of fat cattle on Dec. 2 of the Interna- 

 tional and on Dec. 3 will pick the 

 grand champion steer of the show. 



A judge of steer classes at the Inter- 

 national 12 times since 1920, Biggar in 

 1928 chose for the grand champion the 

 first steer to receive this prize shown by 

 a boy, Clarence Goecke, a 12 year old 

 Iowa farm lad. 



Noting the excellent results farm 

 boys and girls had in feeding and show- 

 ing stock at the International, Biggar 

 started a similar movement in Scotland 

 and in recent years has been active in 

 promoting club work. 



Entries, heaviest in the show's his- 

 tory, will be accepted to Nov. l for in- 

 dividual classes and until Nov. 23 for 

 carload lots of fat cattle, sheep and 

 swine. 



Letters to the Editor are wel- 

 comed from readers on any subject 

 related to agriculture. Writers 

 should sign letters with name and 

 address. Names may be withheld 

 if desired. Address Letters to the 

 Editor, Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation Record, 608 South Dear- 

 born, Chicago 5, ///. 



SEEK 4-H CAMP FUNDS 



Mrs. Mildred M. Hanley, Illinois 

 Home Bureau 4-H Club Chairman, 

 makes a plea for every Home Bureau 

 unit to make some contribution to the 

 4-H Club Memorial Camp. There are 

 over 1,437 Home Bureau units in the 

 state. If each unit gave $1.00 that 



would be $1,437.00 but if each 



unit gave $10.00 that would mean $14, 

 370.00 . . . how mu(;h is your unit going 

 to give? 



NOVEMBER. 1946 



