In top picture Director Webb (left) is shown with his Dad at Illinois 

 Farm Supply gas tank. 2. At heme with wife and daughters. Sue, and 

 Carolyn. 3. In front of Webb home with daughters. And (bottom) 

 showing to Jack Hewlett, southern Illinois organization director, grass 

 waterway and concrete spillway to prevent erosion caused by care- 

 lessness of previous owner. 



lAA DIRECTOR FINDS 



Grass Farming 



most profitable 



Tbii is the \6th in a series of articles to further acijuaiul fou 

 uilh the men who represeul "son on the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 uiaatKDi hoard of directors. 



"Gl 



OOD fences make good neighbors," an American poet 

 once said. It's true, too, that good fences are made by 

 -good farmers. So when the Webbs, Albert and his 

 father, J. S., rebuilt their fences several years ago, 

 they did something which symbolized the sturdy farm 

 background of the Webb family. 



Into six feet of concrete they sank heavy railroad rails for 

 corner posts. It would take" a tractor to budge tliem. The 

 Webbs have been on the land east of Ewing a long time — five 

 generations of them. Since 1818 when Albert's great great 

 grandfather came from Kentucky. The Webbs build things to 

 last, even fence posts, because they plan to be there for a long 

 time to come. 



As Illinois Agricultural Association director from the 25th 

 district. Albert Webb has represented the counties of Randolph. 

 Perry. I'ranklin. Jackson, Williamson, Union. Pulaski, and 

 Alexander, since 19i<i. He succeeded August Eggerding of 

 R.uidolph lounty. 



The Webbs, father and son. consider themselves "grass 

 farmers. " They operate 600 acres in jiartnership and raise pure 

 bred polled Herefords as their principal activity. 



Director Webb attended the local rural school and the 

 liwiiig College Academy at nearby Ewing. Later he enrolled 

 at Southern Illinois University and received his degree in com- 

 merce at the University of Illinois in 192S. 



I'oUowing graduation he taught at Dahlgren high school 

 lor three years then joined the Farm Security Administr.uion as 

 a supervisor. He helped make some of the first Tenant Pur- 

 chase Loans. Later he served for two years as a land appraiser 

 for the same loans in southern Illinois. 



His travels in southern Illinois familiarized him with 

 jiroblems of erosion and over-cropping, so when he returned to 

 the home farm, he promoted contouring and terracing. He 

 banned up-and-down-hill plowing and turned large tracts of 

 cropland into pasture and hay. 



By careful selection. Webb has made a great improvement 

 in the beef cattle herd. The bull. A.L.E. Choice Domino 10. 

 is a five-eighths brother to the world's champion bull shown at 

 Knoxville in 19 i7. About 75 cows are maintained and the young 

 bulls are sold off as breeding stock. 



To use pasture lands efficiently, he carries a flock of 125 

 breeding ewes and buys about 600 additional feeder lambs each 

 vear. Webb buys 300-400 baby chicks each year and keeps a lay- 

 ing flock of around 200 hens. These are disposed of about the 

 time they are one year old. A few pigs are raised for the family's 

 own use. Director Webb likes horses and usually has a few 





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