Win National Honors 



12-IIHnois Young Men Awarded 

 The American Farmer FFA Degree 



ILLINOIS youth brought new honors 

 to the state last month as they took 

 awards at the 22nd annual conven- 

 tion of the Future Farmers of 

 America in Kansas City, Mo. 



Marvin Gummersheimer, 19, from 

 Waterloo. Monroe county, walked away 

 with the FFA's first national award for 

 soil and water management. He re- 

 ceived S250 cash award for first place. 

 Marvin was graduated from Waterloo 

 high school last spring after complet- 

 ing four years of vocational agriculture 

 study and membership in FFA. He has 

 adopted many soil conservation and im- 

 provement practices on the 114 acre 

 home farm, including terracing 15 

 acres, placing a grass spillway at the 

 end of the terraces, building a concrete 

 spillway and a farm poiid. 



This young Monroe county farmer 

 reclaimed six acres of wasteland into 

 profitable pasture and woodlot, eradi- 

 cated five acres of Johnson grass, uses 

 24-D to kill weeds in pasture and road- 

 ways, and since 1941 has planted 3.000 

 locust trees, 500 loblolly pines and 500 

 shortlcaf pines. He systematically 

 gathers and tests soil samples on the 

 home farm and 25 tons of fertilizer 

 have been applied as the result of these 

 tests. 



Marvin won local chapter and sec- 

 tional honors in the FFA public speak- 

 ing contest with a soil conservation 

 topic in which he said, "To leave a 

 farm less productive than you found it 

 is a crime against humanity." 



Marvin R. EckhofT, 18, Benson, 

 Woodford county, is the second Illinois 

 youth to win honors at Kansas City. 

 He was named regional winner in the 

 FFA 1949 farm electrification contest. 

 Marvin, who lives with his parents on 

 a 160-acre farm, was graduated last 

 spring from Benson high school where 

 he completed four years of vocational 

 agriculture and membership in FFA. 

 and was treasurer of his senior class. 

 His electrical work has included wiring 

 a brooder, installing lights in the ma- 

 chine shed so repair work could be 

 done at night and in the winter, re- 

 wiring the barn including the installa- 

 tion of three-way switches for con- 

 venience, installing a pole light in the 

 chicken yard, building an electric pig 

 brooder, an electric fence, and an elec- 

 tric water heater for chickens. 



Marvin fckhoff 



Eckhoff has been using an electric 

 welder for the past three years and did 

 all the wiring for two houses built by 

 his father. He has repaired electric 

 motors and appliances. His supervised 

 farming program 

 includes 50 head of 

 hogs, eight sheep, 

 one beef animal, 20 

 acres of corn, 20 

 acres of oats. 10 

 acres of soybeans 

 and 400 poultry. 



Official Illinois 

 delegates to the na- 

 tional FFA conven- 

 tion were George 

 Lewis, Hersman, 

 Brown county, and 

 Robert Herriott. Champaign, Cham- 

 paign county. 



Two Illinois FFA chapters were 

 among the 34 out of the nation's 7.250 

 local chapters receiving gold emblem 

 awards at Kansas City. They were the 

 Lanark chapter, Carroll county, and 

 Fairbury chapter, Livingston county. 

 Awards are made on the basis of com- 

 munity service, leadership activities, 

 cooperative activities, etc. 



Illinois youth receiving the American 

 Farmer degree, highest degree of the 

 organization, were: Bertil Mattson, 

 Sandwich. DeKalb county; J. M, Mol- 

 let, Greenville, Bond; Paul A. Nobbe, 

 Waterloo. Monroe; W. H. St. John. 

 Maroa. Macon; Maurice Soucie. Peo- 

 tone. Will; Gerald E. Tetzlaff. Carlin- 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 

 PRODUCERS SEED COMPANY 



To Shareholders and Members 

 of Producers Seed Company; 



Notice is hereby given that the an- 

 nual meeting of the shareholders and 

 members of Producers Seed Company 

 will be held on Monday, the I4th day 

 of November, 1949, at the hour of 

 7:00 PJVf. in the Sherman Hotel. C3ii- 

 cago, Illinois, to elect directors for 

 the succeeding year; To receive and 

 if approved, confirm the report of the 

 Board of Directors and Officers of the 

 Association for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1949; to consider and if ap- 

 proved, ratify and confirm all of the 

 aas and proceedings of the Board of 

 Directors done and taken since the last 

 annual meeting of the shareliolders 

 and members of the Association; and 

 for the transaaion of such further and 

 other business as may properly come 

 before the meeting. 



Frank L. Simpson, Secretary 



ville, Macoupin; George F. Torti, 

 Dixon, Lee; James A. Aggen, Morrison, 

 Whiteside; Roy Brammeier, Venedy, 

 Washington; A. R. Henninger, Kirk- 

 land, DeKalb; Carl R. Keltner, Pearl 

 City, Stephenson, and George J. Lewis, 

 Mt. Sterling, Brown. 



Former lAA Staffer 

 Joins Illinois Grain 



HARRISON FAHRNKOPF, Cham- 

 paign county, director of grain 

 marketing for the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association from 1928 to 1940, has 

 been hired as assistant to the manager 

 of Illinois Grain Corporation. 



Fahrnkopf will work out of the 

 Champaign office of the Illinois Grain 

 Corporation and will be engaged pri- 

 marily in membership acquisition, ac- 

 cording to Howard McWard, Grain 

 Corporation manager. 



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