At Santa Fe dinner, left to right, are: C. A. Hortquist, manager, Henderson County live- 

 stock Marlceting Association; W. I. Goodioe, general iivestoclc agent, Kansas City; Howard 

 6. Nicholson, general freight agent, Chicago; Otto Steffey, lAA board member and Hen- 

 derson Association president; R. J. Yost, division superintendent, and S. F. Russell, lAA 



director of Iivestoclc marketing. 



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During hti visit to tlM 

 lAA offices in Chicago, 

 Prof. Glen Salisbury 

 (right), head of the 

 dairy production de- 

 partment, U. of I., dis- 

 cusses marketing 

 problems with Judson 

 Mason (left), lAA 

 dairy marketing; and 

 O. H. Ryan, president, 

 Illinois Milk Producers 

 Association. 



lUmois Ranks Near Bottom 

 in Milk Production Per Cow 



ALTHOUGH Illinois has made great 

 Strides in the dairy industry with- 

 in recent years, particularly in 

 marketing, it has some real problems 

 from the production point of view. 

 This thought was expressed by Prof. 

 Glen Salisbury, head of the dairy pro- 

 duction department. University of Illi- 

 nois, when he recently met with the 

 board of directors of the Illinois Milk 

 Producers Association. 



"The dairy industry," he said, "de- 

 veloped in Illinois largely as a side line 

 operation. This may be largely re- 

 sponsible for the low degree of eflFi- 

 ciency in Illinois milk production." 



Prof. Salisbury pointed out that Illi- 

 nois ranks near the bottom in the 

 amount of milk produced per cow. In- 

 creasing milk production per cow and 

 decreasing the seasonality of milk pro- 

 duction to more nearly fit the needs of 

 fluid milk markets, were two programs 

 discussed by Prof. Salisbury. He cited 

 the need for a better dairy production 



department at the University of Illinois 

 and stressed particularly the need for a 

 good research program. 



Spray Again to 

 Kill Last of Flies 

 On Your Farm 



THE second round of spraying with 

 DDT for flies should be completed 

 soon or farmers may lose the gains 

 they've made already in the war 

 on flies. Only a few flies remain on 

 most farms, but these few can soon 

 start a new population. 



H. B. Petty, entomologist with the 

 Natural History Survey and the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois College of Agricul- 

 ture, points out that the weather dur- 

 ing recent weeks has been hot and 



Farmers, Railroad ^ 

 Men Join in Shipper 

 Appreciation Dinner ;;V 



HENDERSON County Livestock Mar- 

 keting Association is just one of 

 the youngsters in the Stronghurst 

 business family, but the community is 

 mighty proud of its bustling junior. 



New honors came to the young busi- 

 ness in August when the Santa Fe rail- 

 road gave an appreciation dinner to 

 some 100 members of the Association. 

 High officials of the railroad came from 

 Kansas City and Chicago to tell the 

 livestock shippers of the county how 

 much they appreciated their business. 



After a roast beef dinner topped off 

 with deep dish apple pie and ice cream, 

 the railroad officials, station agents and 

 livestock producers all agreed that the 

 dinner was a good idea, but they should 

 have thought of it 20 years ago. 



The Henderson Association under 

 the managership of C. A. Hartquist has 

 made a phenomenal record since it 

 opened Jan. 6, 1947. For the first six 

 months of 1948 some 478 decks of live- 

 stock have moved out of the Strong- 

 hurst point as compared with 352 decks 

 for the first six months of 1947. 



humid much of the time, ideal for in- 

 creasing the fly population. 



"Sanitation and clean-up are still in 

 order," Petty says. "We need to clear 

 out all remaining fly breeding places 

 and get busy with the DDT and spray- 

 ers again. 



"Rain, heat and sunlight tend to 

 destroy the killing power of DDT 

 previously applied to outside areas. 

 These places should be resprayed just 

 as soon as possible," he concludes. 



Illinois farmers and small town resi- 

 dents have done a remarkable job this 

 summer of ridding their premises of 

 flies. The work was directed on a 

 county-wide basis by farm advisers in 

 89 county Farm Bureaus. 



A survey completed last month by 

 the Record showed that in these co- 

 operating counties an estimated six out 

 of ten farmers sprayed with DDT. Re- 

 sults were uniformly successful. 



The fly-free campaign began in the 

 spring with a drive to rid farms and 

 cities of fly-breeding areas. This was 

 followed by spraying with DDT. 



The fly-free campaign was supported 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 the University of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture, the Natural History Sur- 

 vey, and the State Department of Pub- 

 lic Health. 



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