Eldon Powel, 33, farm adviser in 

 Brown county, has accepted a position 

 with Illinois Farm Supply Company as 

 district sales manager in the feed and 

 plant food department, distribution di- 

 vision, eflFective June 1. Powel will 

 serve approximately 28 member com- 

 panies in the DeKalb and Bloomington 

 districts. 



Powel became farm adviser in Brown 

 county two years ago, after previously 

 serving Warren county as assistant farm 

 adviser and organization director. Prior 

 to his entry into Farm Bureau work, 

 he spent almost seven years as a voca- 

 tional agriculture teacher. He is a 

 graduate of the College of Agriculture, 

 University of Illinois, class of 1938. He 

 is married and has one daughter four 

 years old. 



An Australian, Dr. Alexander K. 

 Sutherland, has been added to the 

 staff of the College of Veterinary 

 Medicine staff of the University of 

 Illinois. Sutherland graduated 

 from the University of Sidney in 

 1937. Another addition to the 

 college is Dr. J. E. Frier, a 1946 

 graduate of Cornell University. 



Herman L. Schuette has been hired 

 by Douglas and Moultrie county as 

 youth assistant in charge of 4-H and 

 Rural Youth activities. Schuette at- 

 tended the College of Agriculture and 

 until recently has been farming in 

 Madison county. 



Manning Kessinger, Macoupin 

 county, is the new assistant farm 

 adviser for Champaign county. A 

 graduate from the College of Ag- 

 riculture at Urbana and veteran of 

 the last war, Kessinger has been 

 teaching vocational agriculture at 

 Tolono. 



American Farm Bureau President 

 Edward A. O'Neal and state Farm 

 Bureau Presidents Ransom Aldrich, 

 Mississippi, and H a s s i 1 Schenck, 

 Indiana; and AFBF Research Director 

 T. K. Cowden are representing Farm 

 Bureau at the International Federation 

 of Agricultural Producers conference 

 in The Hague, Holland, May 12-23. 



August 28 and 29 are the dates 

 set for the eighth annual Illinois 

 Farm Sports Festival which will 

 be held again on die campus of the 

 University of Illinois at Cham- 

 paign-Urbana. 





Iowa Farm Bureau predicts a mem- 

 bership of 125,000 and has already 

 exceeded its 1947 goal by more than 

 1,000 members. The goal was 115,000 

 and now membership is more than 

 116,000. 



Henry county last year on an 

 exf>erimental basis offered its mem- 

 bers an insect spraying service for 

 barns, barnyards and livestock. 

 About SH) farms were sprayed, 

 principally for flies and fleas. It 

 provea so successful that a new 

 portable spray outfit has been 

 ordered for next season. 



The ninth state-aid cancer diagnostic 

 center has been opened at the Passa- 

 vant Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville. 

 Other clinics are located in Chicago, 

 Evanston, East St. Louis, Champaign, 

 Rockford, Springfield, DuQuoin and 

 Peoria. 



Havana River Grain Company 

 will build a large ear corn process- 

 ing building in connection with 

 the new terminal elevator in Ha- 

 vana. It will be a wooden build- 

 ing with bins for 12,000 bushels 

 of ear corn and 8000 bushels of 

 shelled corn. 



Although the farm census figure of 

 1945 shows the average-size farm grew 

 from 174 to 194.8 acres, a gain of 20.8 

 acres, farm tenancy actually decreased 

 by 402,850. Since there are 243,630 

 fewer farms this would indicate that 

 160,000 farm families advanced from 

 tenants to owners during the five year 

 period. 



Marking Hm 20th 

 anniversary of the 

 Country Mutual Cas- 

 ualty Company, 

 President Charles B. 

 Shuman of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural As- 

 sociation (right) 

 cuts the birthday 

 caice and offers first 

 slice to Franie V. 

 Wilcox, Country Cas- 

 ualty manager. 



Walter S. Batson, Shelbyville, has 

 been employed by Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company to head up member company 

 relations activities, according to an 

 announcement by C. H. Becker, man- 

 ager. Batson will take up his new 

 duties June 1. Batson has been farm 

 advisor in Shelby county for the past 

 16 years. Previous to his going to 

 Shelby county, he served as vocational 

 agriculture teacher in Ridgefarm, 111. 

 He was born and reared on a farm 

 in Wabash county and received his 

 degree in agriculture from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois in 1924. 



Batson's work will bring him in con- 

 tact with boards of directors and man- 

 agers of member companies of Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company on matters of 

 policy and genefal relationship sub- 

 jects. This position was created in the 

 reorganization that took place in Illi- 

 nois Farm Supply Company Jan. 1. 



Effingham county opened its new 

 cooperative stockyards at Effing- 

 ham April 1. Frank Grieme has 

 been hired as manager. Hogs and 

 veals are being bought dirert. 

 Sheep and cattle will be bought or 

 shipped to a terminal market as 

 desired by the producer. 



Hadley R. Read, assistant editor in 

 agricultural extension at Iowa State 

 College, will become extension editor 

 of the University of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture in June. 



The rural pastors' short course 

 will be held Majf 19-23 at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois College of Agri- 

 culture. 



Three hundred and fifty-six charter 

 members have formed a new Home 

 Bureau in Qay county and are the 90th 

 county to join the Illinois Home 

 Bureau. There are now only 12 coun- 

 ties that do not have Home Bureaus. 



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