New offfcerf and dfrectors of the IWneU Auoelatlen of farm Advltert named during farw 

 and Home Week, front row, left to right, ore: O. O. Mowery, Macoupin, secretary- 

 treasurer; 1. f. McKlnzle, Edgar, post pratldent and ex-offlcle member of board; N. N. 

 Myers, DeWItt, president, and V. J. Banter, Stephenson, vice-president. Second row: t. 

 H. Oarttth, Morgan, district four director; A. J. Rehling, Henderson, district two; M. {. 

 Tascher, Orundy, district one; Glen Sons, Shelby, district five; W. C. Anderson, Jackson, 

 district six, and Kenneth Imlg, Iroquois, district three, fred J. Blackburn, Marlon, district 

 seven, was absent when picture was taken. 



prices to prevent ruinous collapse rather 

 than the fixing of farm prices at rigid 

 levels. 



President Shuman paid tribute to the 

 College of Agriculture as a great re- 

 search and educational institution which 

 continues to point the way to a better ag- 

 riculture. He also commented on the 

 fine relationship between the Extension 

 Service and the lAA and Farm Bureau 

 and the important contribution Dean H. 

 P. Rusk of the College of Agriculture 

 has made to it. 



On the scientific side, several new de- 

 velopments were reported of major in- 

 terest to farmers. 



Prof. R. R. Snapp reported a new hor- 

 mone, stilbestrol, which acts on the thy- 

 roid gland and speeds growth and fatten- 

 ing of cattle. Cost of injecting the new 

 hormone under the skin is about six cents 

 per head. Further tests must be made. 

 however, before it can be recommended 

 to cattle feeders. 



Winners in the official 10-acre corn 

 contest of the Illinois Crop Improvement 

 Association revealed that most big yields 

 were with corn grown after clover on soil 

 that had been limed and phosphated. 

 Additional fertilizer was used by many 

 contestants. 



Oscar Lcighty who was named corn 

 king had a score of 83. ''2 based on yield, 

 cost of production and quality of corn. 

 He had i yield of n^.98 bushels per 

 acre. The corn field of the champion is 

 a 98-acre field. It was spring plowed 

 and disked and harrowed twice after 

 plowing. Forty acres, including the 10- 

 acre plot, were side dressed w-ith 100 

 pounds of ammonium nitrate at tiie 

 second cultivation. 



Highest yield in the 10-acre contest 

 was credited to James Yontz, Tazewell 



county, who had 190.06 bushels per 



acre. He was third with 82.61 points. 



Some of the contestants with high 



yields mixed two or more varieties of hy- 

 brid com in their fields. Early planting 

 was generally noted in the high yield 

 reports, but the Leighty field was planted 

 May 24, 25 and 26. 



Yontz planted his top yielding corn in 

 a 53-acre field that had been in pasture. 

 He plowed in April and planted on May 

 11, using three varieties of hybrids, in 

 rows spaced 40 inches apart, hills 1~ 

 inches in the row, two kernels per hill. 



Aden A. Danielson, LaSalle county, 

 was named soybean king with a score of 

 88.9 in the official 10-acre contest. He 

 had a yield of ^4.20 bushels per acre with 

 Hawkeye soybean .seed. He used only 2t) 

 to 30 pounds of seed per acre in 40 inch 

 rows planted May 25 and 26. 



Early in February, J. C. Hackleman. 

 extension agronomist at the university, re- 

 ported that 50,000 bushels of Hawkeye 

 soybean seed was available. Price of the 

 new Hawkeye seed varies widely in coun- 

 ties, but a ceiling of S6 a bushel has been 

 set. Hackleman said that he did not ex- 

 pect the supply to last too long and rec- 

 ommended early ordering. Farm advisers 

 in the county Farm Bureaus have lists of 

 Hawkeye growers for the area. 



f>rof. R. I. Shawl ex- 

 plains a lew points 

 about a butane burn- 

 Ing tractor to farm 

 and Home Week visi- 

 tors. 



Oscar Leighty, corn 

 king, Lawrence coun^ 

 ty, left, and Aden 

 Danielson, La Salle 

 county, right, soybean 

 king, show their tro- 

 phies to Dr. W. I. 

 Burlison, university 

 agronomy head, cen- 

 ter. 



Weed spraying equip- 

 ment received con- 

 siderable attention at 

 farm and Home Week 

 this year. Left to right 

 are Allan Zehr, Rob- 

 ert Swanson and C. 

 V. Swanson, all of 

 Champaign county. 



MARCH, 1949 



