

lAA President Charles B. Shuman 

 and several members of the lAA staff 

 also appeared on the Farm and Home 

 Week program. 



The numerous talks included many 

 valuable hints that mean more dollars 

 in the farmer's pocket. For instance, 

 A. L. Neumann of the animal science 

 department pointed out the importance 

 of feeding experiments as related to 

 pig mortality. In an Illinois trial, he 

 said, a ration containing 10 per cent 

 alfalfa produced 97 per cent strong 

 pigs and 97 per cent of the pigs far- 

 rowed were weaned. 



As usual the mechanical engineering 

 building on the south end of the uni- 

 versity campus was a beehive of activity 

 as farmers swarmed in to get a look at 

 the latest in machinery. Most of the in- 

 terest appeared to be centered about the 

 crop driers, a soil tiller, and a tractor 

 operated by liquefied natural gas. It 

 was predicted that the tight farm ma- 

 chinery supply situation may ease con- 

 siderably in late 1918. 



H. R. Franklin 

 Named Illinois 

 Corn King 



HAROLD R. FRANKLIN, St. 

 Anne, Kankakee county, won 

 the coveted crown as 19 i7 Illi- 

 nois Corn King by earning the 

 highest score in the 10-acre corn 

 growing contest sponsored by the Illi- 

 nois Crop Improvement Association. 



An annual event among the state's 

 top grain producers, the winning 

 growers were announced at Farm and 

 Home Week held last month on the 

 campus of the University of Illinois at 

 Champaign-Urbana. 



Franklin's winning plot yielded 

 128.73 bushels an acre, among the top 

 four in yield of the dozens entered. 

 His relatively low total cost of $358.12 

 for all expenses cinched the crown in 

 this highly competitive contest. Three 

 points are considered in scoring: Yield, 

 total cost, and quality of the kernel. 



The highest yield recorded was 

 141.25 bushels an acre on the 10-acre 

 field grown by H. T. Thompson, Gales- 

 burg, Knox county. 



William A. Feldott of Plainfield, 

 Will county, won the 10-acre soybean 

 contest. His beans yielded 42.8 i bushels 

 an acre and cost 65.5 cents a bushel to 

 produce. Second place went to Verle 

 Steele of Table Grove, Fulton county. 

 His beans yielded 36.93 bushels and 

 cost 90 cents a bushel to produce. 



Franklin, the corn king, won on a 

 field of corn grown on old sod that had 

 been fall plowed and to which he had 



added $64.37 of commercial nitrogen, 

 $21.88 of phosphorus and $12.23 of 

 potash, a total of $98.48. 



The soil was a silt loam. No manure 

 or lime had been added. The corn had 

 been drilled in rows 40 inches apart 

 and the field had been gone over twice 

 with a rotary hoe and twice with a cul- 

 tivator. 



Total cost for labor, machinery costs, 

 seed, overhead, harvesting, taxes, and 

 land rent came to $358.13. It cost 



Franklin about 26 cents a bushel to 

 grow the corn. 



Franklin was winner in Section 3. 

 Other sectional winners were: Section 



1, L. A. Abbott, Whiteside county, 

 135.99 bu., $433.05 total cost; Section 



2, H. T. ThompNon. Knox, 1-41.25 

 bushels, $^65.86 cost; Section 4, Paul 

 J. Stafford, Edgar, 97.66 bushels. 

 $338.32; Section 5, Oscar Leighty and 

 Sons, St. Francisville, Lawrence, 95.06 

 bushels, $300.22. 



Amateurs try rheir 

 hand at judging beef 

 cattle at the stock 

 pavilion during Farm 

 and Home Week. 



Officers and directors of the Illinois Association of Farm Advisers are shown shortly after 

 their election during Farm and Home Week. Left to right, front: Ed Garlich, Morgan; 

 Retiring President William Coolidge, Livingston; L. E. McKinzie, Edgar, president; H. N. 

 Myers, De Witt, vice president; O. O. Mowery, Macoupin, secretary-treasurer; back row: 

 Art Johnson, Kane; Carl F. Mees, Randolph; A. J. Rehling, Henderson; Arnold Rowand, 

 Ford; Thurman Wright, White; and C. S. Love, Christian. 



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