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Bott Named Sales 

 Manager for Prairie 

 Farms Creameries 



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RANK Bott, 56, manager of the 

 Producers' Dairy at Danville since it 

 was organized in 1934, has been named 

 assistant manager of 

 Illinois Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Supply Com- 

 pany and sales man- 

 ager for Prairie 

 t'l'^S ' M/ Farms Creameries. 

 Both are affiliates of 

 the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association. 



Bott will be suc- 

 ceeded at Danville 

 by I. C. Hochstras- 

 frank Bolt jgr^ manager of the 



Prairie Farms Creamery of Champaign, 

 who will also continue to manage the 

 Champaign creamer)'. 



Bott was born at Danville, and was 

 formerly employed by the C. and E. I. 

 Railroad. He served in World War I, 

 was treasurer of the military home at 

 Danville with the rank of major for 12 

 years. He resigned to go into the meat 

 business in Danville and in 1934 be- 

 came manager of the Producers' Dairy 

 which started with a gross business of 

 $30,000 to a little less than a million 

 dollars last year. 



He is married and has two boys in 

 high school. 



Illinois Youth Wins 

 National Honors 



P AUL STONE, an FFA member from 

 ^ Greenview, in Menard county, won 

 top honors in the junior division of a 

 nationwide swine picture judging con- 

 test sponsored by The Duroc News. 

 Stone scored 571 out of a possible 600 

 points in the contest to win the junior 

 division and a tie for third among more 

 than 10,000 contestants in all divisions. 

 Paul is secretary of the Greenview 

 chapter. Thirty-seven seven-member FFA 

 teams averaged more than 500 points 

 in the contest. High team honors were 

 won by the Belleville, Kansas, FFA 

 with an average score of 558.6 per boy. 



Dream of the Future — 

 200 Bu. Corn Per Acre 



ILLINOIS farmers will be growing 

 200 bushels of corn to the acre within 

 20 years or less, and they'll think it is 

 an ordinary yield, according to A. L. 



The majesty of Gutzea 

 Borglum't great sculp- 

 ture of fovr of A' 

 merico's presidents 

 will be teen at Mt. 

 Kushmore by farm 

 Bureau people at- 

 tending the Midwest 

 farm Bureau Training 

 School to he held at 

 Custer tttite park In 

 the Black Hills of 

 South Dakota, June 

 S'6'7. farm Bureau 

 leaders will explain 

 there the techniques 

 of building farm Bu- 

 reau membership. 



Romeo Short, feft, 

 Arkansas, vice-presi- 

 dent of the American 

 farm Bureau, and 

 Charles B, Shuman, 

 lAA president, right, 

 chat In Washington 

 with Dr. Edwin Nourse, 

 chairman of President 

 Truman's Economic 

 Councii. 



Lang, University of Illinois agronomist. 

 Lang said we can double and triple 

 our present yields because plant breed- 

 ers are sure to produce higher yielding 

 strains of hybrid corn. Last year's 

 average yield was 61 bushels per acre, 

 an all-time high. 



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ganization it makes it so much easier 

 for them to sell their neighbors. 



It is to these men and the organiza- 

 tion directors who provided the leader- 

 ship that Brissenden gives all the credit 

 for the success of Farm Bureau mem- 

 bership drives. "Practically all of the 

 counties have done a splendid job," 

 Brissenden said. "It is a pleasure to work 

 with such men who have so much faith 

 and loyalty to their organization. " 



Illinois is still the nation's greatest 

 state Farm Bureau organization. With 

 165,000 members it is now far ahead 

 of its nearest rival, Iowa, with approxi- 

 mately 125,000 members. 



Employ C. W. Mitchell as Field Representative 

 For The Illinois Livestock Marketing Association 



W. MITCHELL, 40, has been em- ers at Springfield, 111. 



C ployed as a field man and public 

 • relations representative for the Illi- 

 nois Livestock Marketing Association, 

 an lAA affiliated company with head- 

 quarters at Decatur. He will work 

 with member livestock marketing 

 points and do contact work with pack- 

 ers and other associated organizations 

 in the livestock industry. 



Mitchell was bom in Cass City, Mich., 

 where he attended local schools. He 

 attended Michigan State College. He 

 left college to work for the American 

 Berkshire Association with headquart- 



During his 17 years with American 

 Berkshire he served as secretary and 

 started the organization's official publi- 

 cation in 1935 which goes to 9,000 

 Berkshire breeders in 48 states and 14 

 foreign countries. Last year he was 

 president of the National Association 

 of Swine Records. 



Mitchell is married and has four 

 children, two boys and two girls. The 

 family will move to Decatur as soon 

 as they can obtain housing accommoda- 

 tions. 



MAY. 1949 



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