AT THE GOLDEN GATE 

 ON DECEMBER 8 



(Continued from page 6) 



President Walter Hammond of the 

 Texas Farm Bureau has advised the 

 lAA that he will help in any way pos- 

 sible to make the Illinois farm folks' 

 trips in Texas as pleasant as possible. 



Following the convention in San 

 Francisco and a motor trip over the 

 Golden Gate bridge to the giant red- 

 wood trees in Muir woods, the Illinois 

 party will stop off at Salt Lake City to 

 see the Mormon Temple and after a 

 200-mile trip through the Colorado 

 Rockies will stop in the Royal Gorge. 

 The train will arrive in Chicago Dec. 

 1 5 at 6 p.m. 



Further information on the trip may 

 be obtained by writing Roy Johnson. 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, 608 

 South Dearborn Street, Chicago 5. or 

 by picking up a printed folder on the 

 trip at your County Farm Bureau office 



NITRATES! BOOSTERS 

 FOR TIRED SOILS 



(Continued from page 15) 

 will often double yield, Shuman has 

 found. 



Old corn ground. Broadcasting 150 

 pounds of ammonium nitrate (32-0-0) 

 on second or third year corn just be- 

 for planting on soils low in nitrogen 

 will give excellent results in most cases. 



Pastures. When applied to worn out 

 blue grass, nitrogen may double the 

 protein content and may well more 

 than double grass yields. 



Failures. Nitrates may be used when 

 legumes fail and when animal manures 

 are not available. 



As a word of caution, Mr. Shuman 

 says, nitrates may serve as real pinch- 

 hitters in plant food programs and are 

 good emergency substitutes but will not 

 supplant the time proven lime-iegume- 

 fertilizer program. 



He believes, however, that as a way 

 to speed the return of depleted soils to 

 adequate levels of fertility the nitrates 

 are often helpful. 



In any case farmers are taking a 

 studied interest in the plant food pro- 

 gram throughout the state and well 

 they may. Over 1000 laboratory tests 

 prove that the average Whiteside 

 county farmer has a $500 plant food 

 bill annually on each 160 acres if he is 

 to maintain maximum yields. This is 

 for lime, phosphate and potash alone. 

 Quick cash returns from nitrate may be 

 used as a means of financing a desirable 

 long range fertility program. 



Cavities in fruit trees should be screened 

 or plugged as a codling moth control meas- 

 ure. . 



This It the alavotor at •osco In Hancock 

 county which has boon purchased by Han- 

 coclc Groin Company, on Illinois Grain Ter- 

 minals affiliate. The elevator Is one of a 

 number being bought by Honcoclc Groin to 

 provide grain for river and terminal op- 

 . orcrtions by the parent company. - 



U. OF I. PRESIDENT TO 

 ADDRESS lAA CONVENTION 



(Continued from page 4).-:;" :■ • ' 



17, Arthur, 14, Eleanor, 12, Caroline, 9, 

 and Alfred, 3. 



He was educated at Pennsylvania 

 State College, the University of Paris, 

 France, and the University of Iowa. 

 Before going to New York in 1942, he 

 served 17 years on the faculty of the 

 University of Iowa department of psy- 

 chology and in later years as head of 

 the department. 



He is a member of the American So- 

 ciety for the Advancement of Science, 

 the Society for Child Development, the 

 American Psychological Association 

 and the National Educational Associ- 

 ation. He is also a member of Sigma 

 Pi, and the following honorary so- , 

 cieties : Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, 

 Delta Sigma Rho, and Sigma Xi and 

 Phi Delta Kappa. 



Left: Workmen put in the foundation for the new elevator being constructed at Havana 



by the Havana River Grain Company, Illinois Groin Terminals Company ofnilcrte. Right: 



This view shows the new structure in relation to the old elevator. 



PRAIRIE GRAIN BUYS 

 RIVER FRONTAGE 



Ten acres of river frontage for the 

 construction of an elevator has been 

 purchased by the Prairie Grain Com- 

 pany on the south bank of the Illinois 

 river at Ottawa. 



Construction will be started on the 

 elevator as soon as building materials 

 and labor are available. Purchase was 

 made for the company by President 

 H. T. Marshall of Serena and Carl O. 

 Johnson of Varna. 



Prairie Grain Company comprises the 

 counties of LaSalle, Lee, Marshall, Put- 

 nam, Stark, Peoria, Woodford and 

 Bureau, and is an affiliate of the lAA's 

 Illinois Grain Terminals Company. 



Prairie Grain Company is one of the 

 river companies being organized for the 

 purpose of providing grain for coop- 

 erative terminal operations by the 

 parent company. 



Experiments at the University of Illinob 



College of Agriculture show that soybean 

 meal prepared from damaged soybeans was 

 equal in feeding value to soybean meal from 

 sound soybeans for growing-fattening pigs 

 in drylot. Damaged beans were 75 to 80 

 per cent "bin-burned," caused by an excess 

 of moisture. 



Yellow com may not provide enough 

 vitamin A in a drylot ration for beef steers 

 if no other source of vitamin A is available. 



Clinton oats is not a hybrid, but a new 



variety that originated from a hybrid. 



NOVEMBER, 1946 



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