Manning L. Kessinger, for the past 

 year vocational agricultural teacher at 

 Tolono high school, has been hired as 

 assistant farm adviser at the Champaign 

 County Farm Bureau. He succeeds Bob 

 Castle who resigned to serve as fieldman 

 for Country Life Insurance Company. 

 Kessinger received his degree in agricul- 

 ture from the U. of I. last spring after 

 three years of war service interrupted his 

 education. He is a native of Carlinville. 



Wayrie A. Gilbert, Stark county 

 farm adviser for nearly 16 years, 

 has resigned to work as general 

 manager for the Stark Locker 

 Service, a Farm Bureau co-op with 

 1500 lockers in three plants lo- 

 cated at Wyoming, Toulon, and 

 Bradford and a large rendering 

 and slaughter plant at Wyoming. 



Do farmers work hard.' Yes, results 

 from a national survey would indicate. 

 But not the winter-and-summer, 5 a.m. 

 to 9 p.m. grind, they used to. Farmers 

 the nation over work 65 hours a week, 

 workers in factories average -40, the re- 

 port shows. 



Lee Shafer will work with 800 

 patrons as fieldman for Prairie 

 Farms Creamery of Olney. Born 

 and reared in Richland county, 

 Shafer graduated from the College 

 of Agriculture at Urbana, taught 

 at Farina, and served in the army 

 for more than three years. 



Two assistant farm advisers, both Jan- 

 uary graduates and war disrupted stu- 

 dents from Illinois' College of Agricul- 

 ture, have been hired by the McLean 

 County Farm Bureau. They are: Howard 

 J. Stevenson, Jacksonville, to be in charge 

 of youth work, and Andrew Harris, to 

 handle soils and livestock. Harris, as a 

 dairy herd tester, worked in Adams, 

 Hancock, Brown, Pike and Schuyler 

 counties for three years. 



Robert Castle, assistant farm ad- 

 viser in Champ>aign county, has re- 

 signed to work as a coordinator of 

 sales agencies in 24 Illinois coun- 

 ties for the three state Farm Bu- 

 reau insurance companies. 



In Knox count)' Paul McQueen, man- 

 ager of the Knox- Warren Livestock As- 

 sociation, resigned to work for Peoria 

 Producers; M. O. Vesass, assistant farm 

 adviser, transferred to the Knox County 

 Oil Company as assistant manager in 

 charge of feed and fertilizer; Wayne 

 Leinbach, from Rock Island county, was 

 hired as insurance director. 



Roger B. Corbett, secretary- 

 treasurer for the AFBF for three 

 years, has resigned. He will re- 

 turn to the University of Maryland 

 as associate dean and director of 

 extension for the college of agri- 

 culture. 



At Farm and Home Week stockmen 

 were told that "necro" in hogs, con- 

 sidered almost impossible to treat, shows 

 promise of responding to a new miracle 

 drug, sulfathalidine. 



Illinois Home Bureau has set about 

 the task of bringing its total membership 

 to a round 40,000 by June 1, 1947. It 

 has decided upon a quota of 4,052 new 

 members to be added to Home Bureau 

 ranks by next June. 



When the lights went on at 

 Ernest C. William's farm near 

 Argenta, Macon county, the Com 

 Belt Electric Co-op last month had 

 connected its 5,(X)0th farm with 

 electricity. 



Special honors were reserved at Farm 

 and Home Week for 1,500 Illinois farm- 

 ers who have kept University of Illinois 

 account books for 10 years or more. At 

 a dinner held in their honor. Dean H. P. 

 Rusk told representatives of the group 

 that their records have served as a guide 

 to thousands of other farmers to adopt 

 better farming methods. 



Mason county swept away all top 

 honors at the Illinois Safe Homes pro 

 gram at the University of Illinois 

 Farm-Home Week celebration. Mason 

 received both major awards for hav- 

 ing the largest number of enrolled 

 families reporting no home accidents 

 during 1946 and for having the lowest 

 percentage of accidents among the 

 number of families enrolled. Ninety- 

 nine percent of Mason, county's en- 

 rolled families had no home accidents. 



Highest grain yields in Illinois 

 have been recorded on farms 

 where at least 25 f>er cent of the 

 tilled land is kept in legumes and 

 where enough livestock is kept to 

 use the roughage and grain raised 

 on the farm. 



The 1947 convention of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation will be held in 

 Chicago, Dec. 14-18, it was decided at 

 the Februar)- meeting of the board of 

 directors. 



Clarence H. Castle, new assistant 

 farm adviser in Will county, goes 

 to hi^ new job after 10 months as 

 assistant adviser in DuPage county. 



Roy Will has been employed as the 

 new youth assistant for Iroquois county. 

 Reared on a farm three miles north of 

 Normal in McLean county, he graduated 

 from the University of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture ' in January after having 

 ser\'ed in-the armed forces. 



D. G. Carter, agricultural engineer, 

 told farmers at Farm and Home Week 

 that Illinois has 200,000 all purpose 

 barns about 40 years old that need re- 

 modeling, particularly the over-head hay 

 storage, horse stalls and drive ways. 



Ending 33 years of Farm Bureau organization work at director of the southern Illi- 

 nois district, John C. Moore and Mrs. Moore are shown with the case of silverware 

 presented to them In appreciation by southern Illinois county erganizatien directors. 

 The presentation was made recently at a luncheon held in Mt. Vernon. 



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