found lacking in lime and phosphate. 



During the field day lime from a 

 dump truck was spread on the field at 

 a ra(e of three tons per acre. The 

 tests showed that the pasture needed 

 1300 pounds of phosphate per acre, 

 and this was also spread by truck. 



The minerals were spread after the 

 sod had been torn up by three diflfer- 

 ent farm tools — the conventional 

 mold board plow, a field cultivator, 

 and a wheat land disk. Geuther ex- 



firessed the opinion of most of the 

 armers when he said he favored the 

 field cultivator, a sort of spring tooth 

 harrow mounted on two wheels, to 

 tear the sod. 



"It gets down deep enough, three or 

 four inches, and leaves a good mulch 

 on top," he observed. It doesn't cause 

 erosion like plowing does. 



After the test field was torn up and 

 fertilized the field was diskea and 

 dragged, and a seed bed prepared. 



The pasture was seeded to four 

 pounds of brome and four pounds of 

 timothy. Next spring, probably be- 

 fore the frost is out of the ground, one 

 pound of ladino, four of sweet clover 

 and six of alfalfa will be broadcast on 

 each acre. 



W. O. Scott, of the agronomy de- 

 partment, explained the advantages of 

 this mixture as follows: "Timothy is a 

 fast starter and will make a growth 

 next year. Brome takes a long time 

 to develop but will come into its own 

 after one or two years. 



"Sweet clover is a good cheap pas- 

 ture and persists a long time. In this 

 kind of mixture it won't dominate the 

 other plants, either. 



"You know the advantage of alfalfa. 

 It's a wonderful pasture, and stays 

 green all summer long. Ladino is a 

 new clover to this country, but fur- 

 nishes a lot of high protein forage." 



Farmers who follow these five steps, 

 and seeding this mixture, will have ex- 

 cellent pasture from the field for at 

 least six years, Scott said. The present 

 cost of renovation will cost about $2.50 

 an acre per year, Scott estimated. 



To many of the farmers attending 

 the field day, this idea of pasture reno- 

 vation was new. Many were adopting 

 a wait and see attitude. They'll watch 

 the progress the pasture makes next 

 summer with real interest. 



In the meantime the significance of 

 the statement made at the meeting by 

 M. L. Mosher, University farm man- 

 agement specialist, was not lost on 

 them. "Remember," he said, "that 

 when you double the amount of stock 

 you can keep on 30 acres of pasture 

 like this, you've added 30 acres to 

 your farm." 



This is an airview of downtown St. Louis where the lliinois Agricultural Asseclaflon will 



held its 33rd annual convention Nov. 17-20 at the Jefferson Hotel, in foreground It 



Memorial Plaza. In i>aclcground is Mississippi river. 



St <^jUU NOV. 17 



THE 33rd annual meeting of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and associated companies will be 

 held Nov. 17-20 at the Hotel 

 Jefferson in St. Louis, Mo. 

 This is the first time in nearly 

 seven years that the annual meeting of 

 the lAA has been held outside Chicago. 

 During the war years, the shortage of 

 housing and the ban on unnecessary 

 travel caused the lAA to confine its 

 meetings to Chicago. 



As has been the custom in other 

 years, the associated companies will 

 hold their annual meetings during the 

 first two days of the meeting, Monday 

 and Tuesday, Nov. 17 and 18. 



This year a dinner will be held by 

 the Association for the voting dele- 

 gates, probably on Tuesday evening. 

 Also on Tuesday evening a general en- 

 tertainment program will be held for 

 all members attending the convention. 



Farm Bureau presidents and farm 

 advisers will meet at 10 a.m. Nov. 17 

 for their annual session and luncheon 

 and the Farm Bureau presidents will 

 meet later in the afternoon for their 

 annual conference. 



The annual Talkfest sponsored by 



Rural Youth also will be held Tuesday 

 at the JeflFerson Hotel with 18 dele- 

 gates participating in the state meeting. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 will hold its meeting on Nov. 19-20 

 and the annual address of the lAA 

 president will be given on Wednesday 

 morning, Nov. 19. 



Arrangements are being made to 

 house the large influx of Farm Bureau 

 members expecting to attend the con- 

 vention, and while rooms are some- 

 what easier to get than during the war, 

 those planning to attend are urged to 

 secure reservations as soon as possible 

 through their local Farm Bureaus. 



The lAA board of directors took ac- 

 tion last winter to hold the meeting in 

 St. Louis. It was their belief that this 

 would give farmers from the southern 

 part of the state a better chance to 

 attend. 



Southern Illinois Farm Bureau fami- 

 lies responded strongly to the invita- 

 tion to attend the convention held in 

 St. Louis in January, 1941. 



That meeting was the 25th or Silver 

 Anniversary of the founding of the 

 lAA and brought out the largest con- 

 vention crowd in the lAA's history. 



OCTOBER. 1947 



