Shaded area on map is 31st congressional 

 district represented on the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association board of directors by 

 Dan L. Clarke of New Berlin. 



pretty good insight into farm life on 

 the Illinois prairie a hundred years ago 

 through its information on prices, 

 wages, markets, livestock health and 

 progress, weather and crop returns. 



Clarke has raised and fed annually an 

 average of about 400 hogs until this 

 year, mostly Hampshires ancl Durocs. 

 On the farm also are 125 sheep, two 

 horses and four dairy cows. He has 

 had no beef cattle on his place for a 

 number of years. 



He plants his beans in rows, drills his 

 corn, grasses his waterways, and follows 

 a rotation scheme in this order: corn, 

 oats, beans, alfalfa or clover, corn. 



Only 70 acres of the Clarke farm 

 have not been limed and 100 acres have 

 not yet received an application of phos- 

 phate although preparations have been 

 made to apply one and a half cars of 

 phosphate and 17 tons of ' superphos- 

 phate. 



Clarke helped set up the soil conser- 

 vation district in his area. Although he 

 has no children he has been active in 

 working for the good of the rural 

 schools in his neighborhood. He has 

 been a trustee of his district's elemen- 

 tary schools for several years. 



Director Clarke is an active member 

 of the board of the Methodist church at 

 Ashland and was active during the war 

 in Red Cross, Community and War 



Fund drives and Victory Bond cam- 

 paigns. He is a member of the Masonic 

 Lodge at Ashland and Shrine at Spring- 

 field. >• v\ 



The Clarkes were married April 4, 

 1912 at the Congregational Church in 

 Jacksonville. 



Mrs. Clarke, the former Coral Furr, 

 takes a deep interest in her husband's 

 civic and agricultural activities as well 

 as in her own clubs, church and Red 

 Cross and likes to raise flowers in her 

 garden. 



With an abiding interest in the well- 

 being of Illinois agriculture, Clarke 

 believes that the future welfare of farm- 

 ing lies in concerted effort through 

 organization. For this reason, he says: 

 "As far as the Illinois farmer is con- 

 cerned, it is Farm Bureau and the lAA 

 which are destined to lead us to better 

 farm living." 



TED DAVIS IS NAMED 

 MANAGER OF ILLINOIS 

 FRUIT GROWERS EXCHANGE 



Ted Davis, sales manager of plant 

 foods for Illinois Farm Supply Company 

 until a few weeks ago when he was ap- 

 pointed manager of 

 information and ed- 

 ucation in the dis- 

 tribution division of 

 Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company, has been 

 named to succeed L. 



Ted Davis 



L. Colvis as man- 

 ager of the Illinois 

 Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change. 



Colvis resigned to 

 become secretary of 

 marketing for the Il- 

 linois Agricultural Association. Head- 

 quarters of the Fruit Growers Exchange 

 are at Carbondale. 



Davis is a 1933 graduate of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois College of Agriculture. 

 He taught vocational agriculture for 

 seven years and served as Pulaski-Alex- 

 ander farm adviser from 1941 until 

 1944 when he became district super- 

 visor for the University of Illinois ex- 

 tension service emergency farm labor 

 program in southern and western Illi- 

 nois. 



He went to the Chicago office of the 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company in Sep- 

 tember, 1945. 



Davis was reared on a farm near Ew- 

 ing in Franklin county. He is married 

 and the father of three children. 



L. L. COLVIS APPOINTCD 

 HEAD OF NEW lAA 

 MARKETING DEPARTMENT 



LL. COLVIS, lAA director of fruit 

 , and vegetable marketing and man- 

 ager of the Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change with offices 

 at Carbondale, has 

 been appointed sec- 

 retary of marketing 

 for the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Associa- 

 tion. 



He will head the 

 office designed to 

 supervise and coor- 

 dinate the activities 

 of the dairy, grain, 

 L L Celvb livestock, and fruit 



and vegetable mar- 

 keting departments. 



Colvis was born and reared on a 

 Randolph county fruit farm and special- 

 ized in horticulture at the University of 

 Illinois College of Agriculture from 

 which he graduated in 1929. 



After five years as teacher of voca- 

 tional agriculture at Chester, he ser^'ed 

 as Pulaski-Alexander farm adviser from 

 1935 to 1939 where he was chiefly con- 

 cerned with the production and market- 

 ing of fruits and small vegetables. 



Before coming to the lAA in 1941, 

 Colvis was an extension specialist in 

 rural youth at the University of Illinois. 

 He is married and has three children 

 Lawrence, Jr., 14, William, 12, and 

 John, 2. 



The Prairie Farms Creamery of Henry 

 held its annual meeting Jan. 18. This was 

 the first annual meeting since the creamery 

 began operations May 27, 1946. 



NOTICE 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIAnON ELECTION OF 



DELEGATES 



Notice is hereby given that in 

 connection with the . annual meet- 

 ings of all County Farm Bureaus to 

 be held during the months of Feb- 

 ruary and March, at the hour and 

 place to be determined by the 

 Board of Directors of each County 

 Farm Bureau, the members in good 

 standing of such County Farm Bu- 

 reau and who are also qualified 

 voting members of Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, shall elect a dele- 

 gate or delegates to represent such 

 members of Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation . and vote on all matters 

 before the next annual meeting, or 

 any special meeting of the associa- 

 tion, including the election of of- 

 ficers and directors, as provided for 

 in the by-laws of the Association. 



During February, annual meetings 

 will be held in Coles, DeKalb, Doug- 

 las, Edgar, Effingham, Grundy, Kan- 

 kakee, Lake, McHenry, Mason, Mon- 

 roe, Wayne, Whiteside and Will 

 Counties. 



During March, the Boone County 

 Farm Bureau will hold its annual 

 meeting. 



Paul E. Mathias, Secretary 

 January 10, 1947. 



FEBRUARY, 1947 



