CALFHOOD VACCINATION — 

 DOES IT WORK? 



(ConlhiueJ jrom paf,e 15) 



Frank S. Parsell: Tve been vacci- 

 nating everything in my herd of "75 pure- 

 bred Hercfords since 1942. No, I never 

 have had any trouble with Bang's disease 

 before or after vaccination. But I have 

 enough confidence in my Farm Bureau 

 that when they recommended vaccination 

 of my herd that was good enough for 

 me." 



Henchel Fritz: "\ had trouble with 

 abortions from Bang's back in '37 and 

 '.^8. In 1938 I had a private test and 

 had my Angus vaccinated. Since vacci- 

 nation I have had no trouble. If the 

 state and federal governments should 

 stop the program now I would have it 

 continued on my own." 



L^uireiice F inker. "I started vacci- 

 nating in 1940 after becoming discour- 

 aged with the test and slaughter method 

 of control. After losing 11 cows by test 

 and slaughter I decided to vaccinate on 

 my own hook. My herd of Holsteins 

 has doubled in size to 81 head since pre- 

 vaccination days. I'm sure it could never 

 be that big without vaccination. " 



THERE'S GOLD AT 

 THE GRASS ROOTS 



{C"»ii>mtJ Jrom t^u^e 10) 



200 bushels per acre are possible with 

 special procedures. 



More Butterfat Per Cow 



The 1946 report of 1124 Dairy Herd 

 Improvement Associations of the Na- 

 tion shows that cows producing about 

 5,000 pounds of milk and 200 of but- 

 terfat per year returned only S78 above 

 the feed cost. The return was $208 

 above feed cost when the cow yielded 

 twice the amount of milk and butterfat 

 per year. 



Of the 627.878 cows tested, approxi- 

 mately 100.000 cows produced more 

 than 125 pounds of butterfat per year. 

 So you see it can be done. Tor con- 

 trast, the average production for all 

 cows in Indiana last year was 4,200 

 pounds of milk and ISS pounds of but- 

 terfat, with a net return over the cost 

 of feed only S52 per cow. 



The five million farmers who pro- 

 duce our milk supply must have fewer 

 and better cows, with more milk per 

 cow per feed unit and less work and 

 more profit. The market could be 

 wider too, because most people would 

 like to buy more milk if they could 

 afford it. 



More Plant Food 



About 21 per cent of the cash the 

 American farmer spends for production 

 is for feed purchased, and he spend^ 

 only about 4 per cent for the purchase 

 of plant food and lime. Plant foods 

 are cheaper than teeds. 



Doctor O. C. Rost, University of 

 Minnesota, has new data to show how 

 seven <.lollars spent for phosphate alone 

 — not a good, complete fertilizer prac- 

 tice — returned about $50 in oats, 

 alfalfa, and corn over a five year period. 

 This data is the average of five year's 

 results from increased yields of 17) 

 T. V. A. test demonstration farms scat- 

 tered over the state of Minnesota. 



Why not get 1.000 bushels of lOrn 

 from only 10 acres and have 10 acres 

 for -to tons of good alfalfa hay, instead 

 of having 1,000 bushels of corn from 

 20 acres and no alfalfa? 



Every average dollar spent for sound 

 research in our American industries has 

 returned untold hundreds of dollars. 

 Some of our most successful great 

 american business industries spend as 

 much as four to even six per cent of 

 their gross income for research. The 

 gross farm income in 1945 for eight 

 North Central States was about 6.9 bii 

 lion dollars. In the same year these 

 eight North Central States appropriated 

 about 3.2 million dollars for research 

 for their Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tions which was only about 0.045 per 

 cent of the gross farm income. 



By contrast eight Southeastern States 

 had a gross cash farm income in 194'i 

 of about 2.6 billion dollars, which is 

 about 4.3 billion dollars less than that 

 of the eight North Central States. 

 These eight States appropriated about 

 2.i million dollars state funds for their 

 Agricultural Experiment Stations, which 

 was about 0.088 per cent of their gross 

 farm income. 



It is interesting to note that these 

 Southern States with a much lower in- 

 come spent twice as much of their in- 

 come in support of new farm facts as 

 did these Northern States. In both 

 cases home support is much too low. 



Federal support is good and indica- 

 tions are that it may be much better. 

 Perhaps if we fear Federal Government 

 programs that are administered far 

 trom home with checks that come from 

 Washington, we need to do more for 

 ourselves. Let's not overlook that 

 farming is on a national scale, but 

 grass-rooted in its problems. Programs 

 that are national in scope need Federal 

 coordination and assistance but grass- 

 rooted administration because there is 

 where the folks and the problems arc 

 ■ — and that is where the cold is. 



STAFF DIRECTORY OF 

 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION & 

 ASSOCIATED COMPANIES 



GENERAL SECRETARIES 



Sec'y, Organization & Iniormation G. E. Metzg«r 

 Secretary oi Marketing L. L. Colvis 



Secretary o! General Services I. E. Parett 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Dairy Marketing 



Grain Marketing 



Legal 



Live Stock Marketing 



General Office 



Organization — . 



Personnel 



Publicity . . , 



Research 



Road Improvement 



Rural School Relations 



Safety and Public Health 



Special Services 



Property Taxation 



Transportation -Claims 



Vet. Medical Relations C. 



Young People's Activities 



E. E. Houghtby 



George H. Iftner 



Donald Kirkpatrick 



S. F. Russell 



C. E. lohnston 



O. D. Brissenden 



W. E. Scheer 



Creston Foster 



L. H. Simerl 



Charles Mayfield 



John K. Cox 



W. W. Whitlock 



Roy P. Johnson 



Bert Vandervliet 



G. W. Baxter 



D. Van Houweling 



Ellsworth D. Lyon 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZATIONS 



Country Life Ins. Co. A. E. Richardson, Mgr. 

 Country Mutual Fire Co. ]. H. Kelker. Mgr. 



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



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



III. Agr. Service Co. Donald Kirkpatrick. Sec. 



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

 111. F. Bur. Serum Assn. S. F. Russell. Sec. -Mgr 

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



III. Fruit Growrers' Exchange Ted Davis. Mgr- 

 111. Grain Corporation Howard McWard. Mgr. 

 IH. Gr. Terminals Co. G. H. Iftner. Acting Mgr. 

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

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

 III. Wool Mktg. Assn. Dale Rouse. Mgr. 



Prairie Fms. Creameries Dave Henry. Sales Mgr. 



PLAN BIGGEST SPORTS 

 FESTIVAL ON RECORD 



( Cnntiiiued from pj^e \ ) 



through the Champaign County Farm 

 Bureau. 



The eighth annual Sports Festival is 

 the second since the four-year lapse dur- 

 ing the war. It is again being spon- 

 sored by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, County Farm and Home Bureaus. 

 University of Illinois. Agricultural Ex- 

 tension Service, Prairie Farmer — WLS, 

 WILL, >X'DZ and other cooperating 

 radio stations. 



Chairman of the administrative com- 

 mittee of the Festival is Otto StefFey. 

 lAA director from Stronghur.st. Co- 

 ciiairmen of the swing festival are Oliver 

 Gaebe of the university and Gladys 

 Skelley ot Prairie Farmer. Square dame 

 jamboree co-chairmen are Ralph Mt- 

 Kenzie, Kane county, and Helen Pellc- 

 tier, Douglas county home adviser. 



Co-chairmen of the general program 

 of entertainment at the Auditorium are 

 .Mrs. Florence Kimmelshue of the uni- 

 versitv and Gc-orge E. .Vfetzger of the 

 lAA. 



To compete in the Sports Festival con- 

 testants must be affiliated with Rural 

 Youth or -^-H Clubs or belong to a Farm 

 Buri.au or Home Bureau family. Entr)' 

 blanks arc now available at your county 

 Farm Bureau. 



JULY- AUGUST, 1947 



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