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Breeding chart shows how four inbred lines 



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chiclcen. 



Another flock owner, Mrs. James 

 Daley, DeKalb, a neighbor of the Floits, 

 picked a day's production at random ■ — 

 the 29th day of each month — and fol- 

 lowed it through for a 12-month period. 



Chicks Cost More 



She bought her chicks from the hatch- 

 ery Mar. 3, 1946. She housed a flock of 

 476 pullets that fall. Here are her pro- 

 duction figures for that day of the month 

 picked at random: Oct. 29, 392; Nov. 

 29, 353; Mar. 29, 347; July 29, 238; 

 Sept. 29, 187 (moulting period). 



Mrs. Daley substantiated the claim that 

 the birds have a high resistance to colds 

 and flu. They do well under adverse 

 conditions, she said, and recover quickly 

 from attacks of disease. 



Prices for sexed pullet chicks are al- 

 most twice that for the standard breeds. 

 After a look at egg production evidence 

 it seems safe to say that they will produce 

 enough additional eggs to pay for the 

 extra cost. 



17 YEARS ON JOB 



E. I. Pilchard, state leader of boys 4-H 

 club work, has completed 17 years as 

 superintendent of the junior livestock 

 feeding contest, a national event held each 

 year as part of the International Live- 

 stock Exposition in Chicago. Pilchard 

 was graduated from the University of Il- 

 linois in 1917. ; 



YOUTH LEADER RESIGNS 



Lawrence Herbig has resigned as youth 

 assistant for Stephenson county to work 

 in GirroU, Jo Daviess, and Stephenson 

 counties as agricultural engineer for an 

 electric utilities company. 



Tim ^CighsiAt m dUMohn 



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.->'./<. By BERT VANDERVLIET, Director IAA Dept. of Taxation 



ILLINOIS farm real estate taxes rose 

 an average of 30 cents per acre from 

 1945 to 1946 — from $1.06 to 

 $1.36 per acre. 



This 28 per cent increase to an 

 all-time high in Illinois farm real estate 

 taxes is far above the 12 per cent average 

 increase for the nation as a whole and 

 the 8 per cent average increase for other 

 states in the Midwestern region. 



This tax increase, according to figures 

 released by the U.S. Bureau of Agricul- 

 tural Economics, was higher than it was 

 in the strong agricultural states of Iowa. 

 Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska. 

 Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, 

 Indiana, and Kansas. 



The Illinois increase in farm real estate 

 taxes to an all-time high was exceeded 

 only by Massachusetts and California. 



Nation-wide the average increase in the 

 value of farm real estate runs close to 

 the average tax increase, that is approxi- 

 mately 12 per cent. Generally speaking 

 this upward trend in farm real estate 

 taxes is regarded as reasonable. On the 

 other hand, farmers in Illinois are apt to 

 consider a 28 per cent increase in their 

 taxes in one year as anything but reason- 

 able. 



The flagrant increase in Illinois may be 

 largely attributed to rural school oflficials, 

 highway commissioners, and members of 

 county boards who chose to hie higher 

 tax levies during 1945. Also, passage of 

 the Butler or 100 per cent tax assessment 

 laws in the 194^ regular session of the 

 Illinois General Assembly, made higher 

 taxes possible from 1945 to 1946 in many 

 rural areas by as much as 60 per cent. 

 In addition, Illinois farmers voted in 

 numerous elections held for the puqx>se 

 of increasing school tax rates and for the 

 construction of new school buildings. In 

 some counties additional tax levies were 

 voted for increased road and bridge taxes. 



The restoration of numerous senices 

 rendered by local governments which 

 were cut down during the war also is 

 largely responsible for the increase in 

 property taxes in rural as well as in 

 urban areas. The increased cost of ma- 

 terials and higher wage and salary scales 

 for public employes represents important 

 factors. The chart indicates clearly that 

 a parallel movement occurred in farm 

 real estate taxes following World War I. 



(Continued on pJge 26) 



REAL ESTATE TAXES PER ACRE IN lUINOIS, MIDWEST, U. S. 



DOLLARS 



I. SO 



1.25 



1,00 



.75 



.50 



.es 



1909- 1920 



t9l3 AV. 



1925 



1930 



1935 



1940 



1945 



1950 



Graph shews how liiinois farm reai estate taxes have risen shorpiy in the post few y 

 Figures at ieft show average tax per acre. Midwest states are ether than Illinois. 



FEBRUARY, 1948 



