During tree planting ceremony 4-H and Rural Youth members listen to Dr. Blair (left 

 in black coat and hat) tell of his long experience with trees. Cabin in bacicground is 



on banic of Rocic river. 



CAMP SHAW-WAW-NAS-SEE 



FARM YOUTH GATHER TO PLANT TREES 



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OTHING should give you more 

 enjoyment in the years to come 

 than the planting of these trees. 

 May God reward all of you." 



Talking quietly and with deep con- 

 viction, Dr. Joseph Blair, dean and di- 

 rector emeritus of Illinois' College of 

 Agriculture, thus addressed 300 northern 

 Illinois Rural Youth and 4-H Club mem- 

 bers. 



The occasion was the tree-planting 

 ceremony held in April near I^nkakee 

 at Camp Shaw-waw-nas-see, once an In- 

 dian camp site and now a summer camp- 

 ing ground for northern Illinois farm 

 youth. 



Dr. Blair's talk marked the first pause 

 in a busy day for the 300 farm kids from 

 21 northern counties who gathered to 

 help plant the trees. 



Rural Youthers earlier had planted a 

 windbreak of 150 evergreens along the 

 northern boundary of the camp and 

 4-H'ers planted native deciduous trees, 

 two for each of the 21 counties repre- 

 sented, on a large open area north of the 

 Rock river and immediately below the 

 evergreen windbreak. 



Shaw-waw-nas-see is the first of four 

 district camps to be developed under the 

 new state 4-H camping program. It will 

 be administered by farm and home ad- 

 visers and state extension specialists. 



The camp will open June 22 for its 

 first group of 200 4-H Club members 

 and will run through July 15. Each 



group will get a three-day camping 

 holiday at a cost of $8 for each camper. 



The following species of trees were 

 dedicated to these counties by 4-H Club 

 members: Will, Paper Birch; Cook, 

 Horse Chestnut; McHenry, Green Ash; 

 Ford, Pyramid Linden; Bureau, Quaking 

 Aspen; La Salle, American Beech; 

 Whiteside, Sugar Maple; Lee, Hackberry. 



Grundy, English Elm; DeKalb, Scarlet 

 Oak; Woodford, American Sycamore: 



STAFF DIRECTORY OF 

 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION & 

 ASSOCIATED COMPANIES 



GENEBAL SECBETARIES 



Sec'y, Organixation & lnlomation..G. £. M*ts9«r 



Secielory ol Moikating L. L. Coins 



Secretary of General Senricei I. E. Parett 



DEPABTMENT DIRECTORS 



Dairy Marketixig X. E. Houghtby 



Gram Marlcetiiig George H. litner 



Legal Donald Kirkpotrick 



Live Stock Marketiiig _ S. F. RusmU 



General Office _ _ C. E. Johnston 



Organixation . O. D. Brissendon 



Personnel W. E. Sclieer 



Publicity Creslon Faster 



Research _ L. H. Siraerl 



Road Improvement _ Charles Moyfield 



Rural School Relations John K. Cox 



Saiety and Public Health W. W. WhiUock 



Special Services Boy P. lohnson 



Property Taxation Bert Vondervliet 



Transportation-Claims G. W. Baxter 



Vet. Medical Relations C. D. Van HouweUag 

 Young People's Activities £Usworih D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Liie Ins. Co. A. E. Richardson. Mgr. 



Country Mutual Fire Co I. H. Kelker, Mgr. 



Country Mut. C's'lty Co. F. V. Wilcox. Mgr. 



111. Agr. Auditing Assn. C. E. Strand. Mgr. 



111. Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpotrick. Sec. 



ni. Co-op Locker Service Co. C. F. Musser. Mgr. 



ni. F. Bur. Serum Aasn S. F. Russell. Sec.-Mgr. 



lU. Farm Supply Co C. H. Becker. Mgr. 



ni. Fruit Growers' Exchange. .Ted Davis, Mgr. 



lU. Grain Corporation Howard McWard, Mgr. 



ni. Gr. Terminals Co. G. H. litner. Acting Mgr. 

 111. Livestock Mktg. Assn. H. W. Trautmann. Mgr. 

 III. Milk Producers' Assn. Edwin Gumm. Pres. 



ni. Wool Mktg. Assn Dale Rouse, Mgr. 



Prairie Farms Creameries-.Dove Henry. Sales Mgr. 



Henry, White Ash; McLean, Wheatley 

 Elm; Kankakee, Pin Oak; Livingston, 

 Red Leaf Norway Maple; Kendall, Nor- 

 way Maple; Stark, Red Maple; Marshall- 

 Putnam, Thornless Honeylocust; Iro- 

 quois, American Linden ; Lake, Ginkgo ; 

 DuPage, Eastern Red Oak. 



County Rural Youth groups pro- 

 viding windbreak trees were: Bureau, 

 Lee, Livingston, Grundy, McLean, De- 

 Kalb, Iroquois, Stark, Ford, LaSalle, 

 Will, Woodford, McHenry, Kendall, 

 Stephenson, Marshall-Putnam, White- 

 side and Cook. 



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Helplng to plant evergreen windbrealc ore, left to right. Ford County Rural Yeothertt 



Joanne Radiiff, Sibley; Lyie Liddle, Sibley; James Summers, 6lbson City; Mono Stagen, 



Poxton; Robert Lawrence, Gibson City; Irene Gustafson, Paxton. 



JUNE. 1947 



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