Christian county 4-H 

 Club beys laarn soma- 

 thing about concrate 

 at a recant form con- 

 creta school hald at 

 the Farm Bureau of- 

 fice. Seated, left to 

 right: Robert Reber, 

 Dale Westerman, Don 

 Southard, Ralph Jones, 

 Cecil Damery, Bill 

 Jones, and Latter 

 Southard. Standing 

 are S. A. KIncald, ce- 

 ment company repre- 

 sentative, and Glenn 

 H. Gordon, youth as- 

 sistant. 



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Ken Cheatham of Greenville, a soph- 

 omore in the University of Illinois 

 Colleee of Agriculture, is the new state 

 president of the Future Farmers of 

 America. The state convention was 

 held in Urbana. Cheatham succeeds 

 Richard Higbee of Berwick. The new 

 secretary-treasurer is Edward Heine of 

 Hampshire. Virden Trotter of Adair 

 was named reporter. 



LaRue Sauers, 29, manager of 

 the Shelby County Marketing As- 

 sociation since 1943, has been 

 named assistant sales manager of 

 the Illinois Livestock Marketing 

 Association. Sauers comes from 

 Sangamon county and is a gradu- 

 ate of the College of Agriculture. 

 He formerly was employed by 

 Peoria Producers and taught vo- 

 cational agriculture. He has two 

 children. 



Some ISO of tha 200 members of the Illi- 

 nois General Assembly attended the reg- 

 ular biennial dinner with the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association as host at Springfield 

 in May. Left to right are: K. T. Smith, 

 lAA director, Greene county, chairman of 

 tha lAA public relations committee; John 

 K. Cox, member of lAA legislative cemmit- 

 taa and director of rural school relations; 

 Rep. Harold D. Kelsey, Barrington, chair- 

 man of the House agricultural committee; 

 Sen. Simon E. Lantz, Congerviile, chairman 

 of the Senate agricultural committee; It. 

 Gov. Hugh Cross, Jer- 

 sayvllle; Mrs. Hugh 

 Green and Hugh Green, 

 Jacksonville, spealcer of 

 the House; F. E. Morris, 

 vice-president of the lAA 

 and member of public 

 relations committee; and 

 Paul Mathias, lAA secre- 

 tary and chairman of the 

 lAA legislative commit- 

 too, who spoke briefly 

 en the lAA legislative 

 program. 



lAA membership on May 31, 

 last official count, now stands at 

 the record high 144,040, an in- 

 crease of 16,000 from the same 

 month last year. Cook leads the 

 sute with 3920 members. 



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How much can you save by buying a 

 hog, then processing, quickfreezing, 

 and placing it in a locker? Said 

 Robert Dunlap of Effingham : "At pres- 

 ent retail prices for meat my cost would 

 have been $91.20. I saved |23.11 on 

 one 191 pound dressed hog." 



Special agricultural weather fore- 

 casts prepared for Illinois by the 

 U. S. weather bureau are being 

 carried by the following radio sta- 

 tions: Qiicago, WLS, 11 a.m.; 

 Peoria, WMBD, 11:30; Peoria, 

 WWXL, 10:45; Urbana, WILL, 

 12:30; Cairo, WKRO, 11:30; 

 Springfield, W T A X, 11:35; 

 Springfield, WCVS, 11:45. 



Five Kentucky county Farm Bureaus 

 have each raised |2,000 to pay for 

 medical scholarships to finance the edu- 

 cation of future doctors who will agree 

 to practice in rural areas. The five 

 counties are Fulton, McCracken, Union, 

 Trigg, and Shelby. Many other county 



Farm Bureaus have contributed vary- 

 ing amounts for this purpose. 



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Galesburg grade school students 

 are listening to their country cous- 

 ins with quite a bit of interest this 

 summer. The reason : Knox 

 County Rural Youthers are teach- 

 ing them how to tend and get the 

 most out of a vegetable garden. 

 Sumner Johnson is chairman of the 

 group undertaking the project. 



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McLean county is the top corn pro- 

 ducing county in the United States ac- 

 cording to a recent report of the cen- 

 sus bureau. The next three, in this 

 order, also are Illinois counties: Liv- 

 ingston, La Salle and-Iroquois. Cham- 

 paign is seventh. Bureau, 12th, and 

 Henry, 15th. Other Illinois counties 

 which placed among the first 50 in na- 

 tional rank are as follows: Vermilion, 

 23; Lee, 27; Kankakee, 31; Whiteside, 

 43; Will, 45; and DeKalb, 48. 



Livingston county is the nation's 

 third largest producer of oats ac- 

 cording to the census bureau. 

 Eight other Illinois counues were 

 listed among the first 50 in the 

 nation in oats production. They 

 are: La Salle, 7; Iroquois, 11; 

 McLean, 16; Ogle, 29; Bureau, 34; 

 Will, 36; and Lee, 50. 



President Charles B. Shumon of tha lAA, at 

 extreme right, outlined tha lAA general 

 legislative policy to the state leglslcrters at 

 the biennial dinner. At President Shumon's 

 right ore Senator Simon E. Lantz and Lt. 

 Gov. Hugh Cress. 



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