Honor Three Farm Advisers 



H. P. Joy, Morgan county, rises to ask a 



question at the Illinois Grain Terminals 



meeting during the lAA convention in St. 



Louis. 



said the company is about ready to go 

 with its merchandising program. Much 

 of the work of organizing has been 

 completed. 



Three river and 27 county grain 

 marketing companies have been incor- 

 porated into the new company which 

 will be state-wide in its operations. 



Illinois Grain is a state-wide grain 

 cooperative that will handle the grain 

 of its members from farm to final mar- 

 ket, the processor, through county and 

 river terminal elevators being built 

 along principal Illinois waterways. 



"we will limit our operations to the 

 terminal marketing of grain and will 

 not duplicate services now oflFered by 

 Illinois Grain Corporation which was 

 set up to engage in the commission and 

 brokerage business at terminal mar- 

 kets," Iftner said. 



The first of the river terminal ele- 

 vators to start operating this year was 

 Western Illinois Grain Company at Dal- 

 las City. They handled about three quar- 

 ters of a million bushels of corn, oats, 

 wheat and soybeans in their first eight 

 months of operation. 



Havana River Grain Company, also a 

 river company, has been in business about 

 six months. It will handle well over a 

 half million bushels of grain, Iftner pre- 

 dicted. 



The Producers River Grain Company 

 of Morris was organized in August. Iftner 

 said that it had not started to operate at 

 the time of the annual meeting. 



The Prairie Grain Company recently 

 finished pouring concrete on a new 140,- 

 000-bushel elevator at Hennepin. It will 

 soon start work on a similar elevator at 

 Lacon. 



A number of county-wide elevator 

 companies are in operation, Iftner said. 

 They include . Henry, Stark, Knox, Bond, 

 Montgomery, Lee, Champaign, Moultrie, 

 Jersey, Coles, Schuyler, Monroe, Grundy, 

 Livingston, Macoupin, Hancodc, Mason, 

 Ford, LaSalle, and St. Clair. 



THREE Illinois farm advisers were 

 among 90 throughout the nation 

 to receive the Distinguished Serv- 

 ice Award from the National 

 County Agents Association at a 

 banquet during their annual conven- 

 tion held in Chicago Dec. 2 at the 

 Edgewater Beach Hotel. 



The Illinoians honored for outstand- 

 ing work in the extension service were 

 Edwin Bay, Sangamon county, Harold 

 N. Myers, DeWitt county, and Frank 

 H. Shuman, farm adviser for White- 

 side county. All three were gradu- 

 ated from the College of Agriculture 

 at the University of Illinois in 1921. 



The citation which announced that 

 Farm Adviser Ed Bay had received the 

 Distinguished Service Award was word- 

 ed: "He has carried on for many years an 

 aggressive and successful soil improve- 

 ment program and has done an out- 

 standing job in 4-H club activities. He 

 has taken an active part in working for 

 the improvement and advancement of 

 the profession of the farm adviser." 

 Bay has been in extension work and 

 farm adviser in Sangamon county since 

 1926. 



Harold N. Myers, farm adviser in 

 DeWitt county since 1929, was hon- 

 ored because "he has carried on a well 

 balanced extension educational pro- 

 gram and his leadership has influenced 

 the farm people to help themselves in 

 adapting production and marketing 

 problems to present day situations." 



Before going to DeWitt county, Myers 

 served as farm adviser in Edwards 

 county from 1927 to 1929. 



The citation for Farm Adviser Frank 

 Shuman read : "He is recognized for his 

 leadership in developing a well- 

 rounded soil improvement program in 

 Whiteside county. He is a firm be- 

 liever in the extension philosophy of 

 furnishing people with factual informa- 

 tion which will enable them to find a 

 solution to their own problems. Shu- 

 man has also carried on educational 

 programs dealing with farm family liv- 

 ing and youth programs which have 

 been highly successful." 



Sangamon County Farm Adviser Edwin Bay 

 is shown in a rare mood at the National 

 County Agents Association meeting at 

 Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. He was 

 one of three Illinois farm advisers ho n ored 

 at tlie meeting. 



One of the Illinois farm advisers honored at the annual meeting of Hie National County 



Agents Association in Chicago was DeWitt County Farm Adviser Harold Myers (second 



from left). Others in picture are Mrs. George Reld, Rocic Island county (left); Mrs. Myers, 



imd O. O. Mewery, Macoupin county farm adviser. 



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