Farm Adviser Ray Benbow of the Mc- 

 Donough G)unty Farm Bureau, Macomb, 

 resigned effective March 4 to work with 

 the Stiegelmeier of Normal hybrid seed 

 corn business. He has experimented in 

 corn breeding for the last five years. 



Frank Mealiff of Mendon in 

 Adams county has been hired as 

 youth assistant for Logan county. 

 He is a war veteran and recent 

 graduate of the University of Illi- 

 nois College of Agriculture. 



President David M. Hardy of the 

 St. Louis Bank for Cooperatives has 

 been hired as general agent of the 

 Farm Credit Administration of St. 

 Louis. A large land owner and farm 

 operator in Monroe county, he is a 

 leader in the farm cooperative field 

 in Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas, 

 states comprising the district of the 

 FCA. 



This year marks the 50th anni- 

 versary of the Farmers' Institute 

 in Monroe county and Edgar S. 

 Amrine, farm advisor, said they 

 arranged a program similar to the 

 first one. The original program 

 included discussions on roads, 

 hogs, dairy cattle, property insur- 

 ance, and wide vs. narrow wagon 

 wheels. 



Aphids and mites, insect pests not 

 affected by DDT, can be killed by a 

 new insecticide called tetraethyl pyro- 

 phosphate, or TEP, researchers for the 

 Illinois Natural History Survey an- 

 nounced recently. TEP apparently 

 does not leave a poisonous residue, 

 important when controlling aphids on 

 peas, apples, potatoes, peaches and 

 other crops. 



G. W. Baxter, director of trans- 

 portation for the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, has been ap- 

 pointed as a member of the Trans- 

 portation Advisory Committee 

 which will work with the U. 5. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Baxter has been asked to serve 

 because of his "broad knowledge 

 and experience in this important 

 field", Anderson stated in his 

 letter. Baxter has been director 

 of transportation for the lAA for 

 more than 23 years. 



Fred J. Watts, 30, manager of the 

 Western Illinois Grain Company at 

 Dallas City since last June has trans- 

 ferred to Havana where he will man- 

 age the Havana River Grain Company. 

 Both companies are subsidiaries of Il- 

 linois Grain Terminals Company, 

 lAA's new 53,000,000 grain marketing 

 co-op. 



A strong scattering of dairymen 

 shipping grade A mdk to the Chi- 

 cago market from Lee, Whiteside, 

 and Ogle counties have signed a 

 Pure Milk Association contract 

 and have formed a local of that 

 organization. Pure Milk is a bar- 

 gaining agency for dairymen in 

 the Chicago milk shed. 



The British agriculturai attaclie at Washington, A. N. Ouclcham (third from ieft) discusses 

 British agricultural policy before the Economic Study Committee of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association In Chicago. Reading clocicwise: Earl M. Hughes, McHenry; Leo Knox, White- 

 side; Duckhom; lAA Vice President Floyd E. Morris, Sangamon; K. T, Smith, Greene; Al- 

 fred Rister, Gallatin; and Russell Hayes, Randolph. 



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News of Vegetable Crops and Gar- 

 dens, a weekly radio round-up for gar- 

 deners, will be broadcast by 13 radio 

 stations for 26 weeks beginning March 

 16. It will be transcribed by Lee Som- 

 ers of the College of Agriculture at 

 Urbana. Stations carrying the talks 

 are: KHMO, WCAZ, WCNT. WEBQ, 

 WGN, WJBC, WJPF, WKRO, 

 WLBH, WLDS, WMMJ, and WSOY 



Harlow B. Mills, state entomolo- 

 gist for Montana since 1937, has 

 been hired as chief of the Illinois 

 State Natural History Survey, suc- 

 ceeding Dr. T. H. Frison who died 

 Dec. 9, 1945. 



W. E. Schmidt is the new assist- 

 ant farm advisor for Cook county and 

 will be in charge of 4-H Club and 

 Rural Youth Activities. Born and 

 reared in Kankakee county, Schmidt 

 is a graduate from the College of Ag- 

 riculture at Urbana. , 



Emmett Bunyan of Lawrence- 

 ville was hired as assistant farm 

 adviser and county organization 

 director for Sangamon county to 

 replace H. E. Humphrey who re- 

 signed to work for an advertising 

 firm in St. Louis. Bunyan, an Il- 

 linois College of Agriculture grad- 

 uate and specialist in soils and 

 agronomy, served during the war 

 in the Army Air Corps. 



More than 750,000 acres of land 

 in the 16 most southern counties of 

 Illinois would be highly productive 

 if planted in forest trees, particularly 

 evergreens, J. N. Spaeth, University 

 of Illinois professor of forestry, re- 

 cently told the University committee 

 on development of Southern Illinois 

 resources. 



Dr. C. D. Van Houweling, lAA 

 Director of Veterinary Medical 

 Relations, has been appointed to 

 the national Newcastle Disease 

 Committee. The national com- 

 mittee of 17 members includes pa- 

 thologists, live stock sanitary of- 

 ficials, veterinarians, the Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, and several 

 branches of the poultry industry, 

 organized to make recommend- 

 ations for the prevention, con- 

 trol and eradication of the disease. 



Woodland on the H. K. Patterson 

 farm near Timewell in Brown county, 

 has made a growth valued at $2.37 an 

 acre each year during the past five 

 years, not exceptional for a well-man- 

 aged timber, reports Eldon Powcl, 

 Brown county farm advisor. 



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