ILLINOIS farmers offered a repeat 

 performance at the International 

 Live Stock Exposition in Chicago 

 last month by^ placing first among 

 ail states entered. Illinois won 

 52 championships and 106 first places. 

 Indiana was second with 43 champion- 

 ships and 68 firsts. 



Among the Illinois winners in grain 

 classifications were: R. Howe, Parmer 

 City; Clarence Walter, Grand Ridge; 

 Kenneth Furr, Genoa; H. Li Stiegel- 

 meier. Normal; J. R. Dunseth, Modes- 

 to; Leo Bollar, Ridgefarm; Jerry Shive- 

 iy, Cerro Gordo; Mrs. F. H. Flint, 

 Bellflower; E. W.Doubet, Hanna City; 

 Hunnerkoch Seed Co., Metropolis. 



Horses — John W. Taft and Sons. 

 Mechanicsburg; Frank J. Rathje, Pala- 

 tine; E. A. South, Orion; Harold E. 

 Stangle, Olney. 



Cattle — Nelson Farms, Geneseo; 

 Vandeveer Farms, Taylorville; Tilden 

 J. Biirsj, Scioto; Richard Lacey and 

 Son, Kansas; W. H. McDonnell, York- 

 ville; Mathers Brothers, Mason City; 

 Otis A. Carter and Son. Eldorado; J. 

 Garrett Tolan Farms, Pleasant Plains; 

 Charles Daubs, McNabb. 



VC'ool — Deep Valley Farm, Fiatt; 

 William Duncan, Lake Villa. Sheep 

 and Lambs — University of Illinois, 

 Urbana; Alvin L. Helms and Son, 

 Belleville; Deep Valley Farm, Fiatt; 

 Robert M. Jackson, Seneca; Charles 

 Dooley, Grayslake; C. P. Harding, 

 Sigel. 



Swine ■ — E. G. Crandall and Sons, 

 Erie; Oscar W. Anderson. Leland; 

 Walter Schlichting, Apple River: Lau- 

 rence Neitomer, Mt. Carroll; Hullinger 

 and Roberts, McLean; Brusally Farm, 

 Lake Forest; Perry A. Clauss, Mazon ; 

 Curtiss Company, Chicago; Wallace 



ILLINOIS AGAIN! 



State Honors With 52 Championships and 

 106 First Places Go to Illinois at 

 International Livestock Exposition 



Norris, Normal; S. C. Moon, Towanda. 



Junior Feeding, Cattle — Janel 

 Shoger, Kendall; Jim Mills, Mon- 

 mouth; Herman W. Alber Jr.. Dixon. 

 Swine — Morris Pratt, Cropsey; Rol- 

 land Anderson. Leland. Cattle — Vic- 

 tor ZecDyke, Danforth; county group 

 of three animals, Warren county in- 

 cluding Dale Hanson, Carol Corzatt, 

 and Jim Mills. 



Pratt hard the champion barrow and 

 Alber had the champion Shorthorn 

 steer of the junior livestock feeding 

 contest. 



In the 4-H Club contests held at the 

 same time as the International, Martha 

 Klempfer, 20. of Speer was awarded 

 a S200 scholarship by the International 

 Harvester Company for preserving 2.- 

 t)00 pounds of frozen foods. She spe- 

 cialized in frozen foods during the last 

 five of her 10-year i-H Club career. 



H. L. Stiegelmcicr was crowned re- 

 serve champion in the soybean contest 

 with his Hawkeye variety- Stiegelmeier 

 was also named champion in the open 



hybrid shelled corn class. In 19)6 and 

 19->7 he was champion in the soybean 

 section of the International Hav and 

 Grain Show. He has won more than 

 700 trophies .ind rilibons with his ag- 

 ricultural products. E. W. Doubet's 

 corn won the reserve grand champion- 

 ship. 



Frank Rathje won every title in the 

 percheron m.ue championships in eight 

 categories, except one. 



Reisner Leaves lAA Staff 

 To Go Into Farming 



Lewis reisner. field editor for the 

 lAA RicoRD for the past tw'o years, 

 resigned effective Jan. 14 to farm near 

 Warren in Jo Daviess county. 



During the two years, Reusner trav- 

 eled throughout the state for tiie lAA 

 securing feature articles and photo- 

 graphs for the RiXORD, and assisted in 

 the general work of the publicity de- 

 partment. 



He will operate a 200-acre dairy 

 and grain farm which he owns 

 ■'' in a partnership with his 



father. 



Reisner farmed before 

 the war, and during the 

 war w-as an officer in the 

 navy. He joined the lAA 

 staff in July of 1945. He 

 is married and has a son. 

 David, 2. 



Morris Pratf, 70, (Mt), 

 Cropsey, III., i% shown with 

 his barrow which won jun- 

 ior feeding contest at Inter- 

 national Live Stock fxposf> 

 tion. Above is Martha Plep- 

 fer, 70, of Speer, III., win- 

 ner of a $300 4-H schofor- 

 ship for her skill in preserv- 

 ing 7,000 pounds of frozen 

 food. 



Ask Farmers 



To Produce More 



SENSING continued pros- 

 perity in 1949 the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture is 

 asking farmers to produce extra 

 jltr)-, pigs, milk, vegetables, sheep 

 and lambs next year. 



The USDA already had asked for a 

 17 per cent boost in the 1949 spring 

 pig crop. 



Goals call for a 10 per cent increase 

 in young chickens and turkeys but that 

 laying hens be cut 20,000,000 from 

 1948's 425.000,000. Milk — an in- 

 crease in production by three p)er cent. 



