lAA Luncheon 

 Opens Campaign 

 To Promote Pork 



IN AN effort to boost the sale of pork 

 and help to keep hog prices above 

 the government support level, the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association 

 sponsored a pork campaign luncheon 

 Nov. 1 in Chicago attended by repre- 

 sentatives of the packers, chain and in- 

 dependent groceries, meat retailers and 

 distributors, newspapers and radio sta- 

 tions. Also represented at the meeting 

 were the Illinois Chamber of Commerce 

 and Illinois Chain Store Council, Na- 

 tional Live Stock Producers Association. 

 National Live Stock and Meat Board 

 and American Meat Institute. 



Charles B. Shuman, president of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, ad- 

 dressing the luncheon said that the live- 

 stock .producers of the state are asking 

 the cooperation of the meat industry to 

 push the sale of pork. 



Shuman pointed out that farmers are 

 worried about the hog price outlook and 

 were concerned about the recent drops 

 in the market. He pointed out that if 

 prices drop too drastically, hog num- 

 bers will be reduced and in 18 months 

 to two years there will be a scarcity. 

 Such a scarcity, he said, will mean 

 higher prices to the consumer. There- 

 fore. Shuman said, it is in the interests 

 of the consumer and producer if prices 

 and production can be stabilized. 



Shuman said that producers were en- 

 deavoring to do their part to avoid 

 market gluts through a more orderly 

 marketing of lighter weight hogs. 



The lAA leader indicated that farm- 

 ers prefer to produce abundantly and a 

 fair price rather than to depend upon 

 government for supports. He said that 

 the government's experience in the sup- 

 port programs on eggs and potatoes had 

 not been too successful. 



As the lAA RECORD went to press 

 plans were announced by four County 

 Farm Bureaus to hold pork promotional 

 luncheons for their respective areas. 

 Cooperating in these four luncheons 

 will be local units of the Illinois Cham- 

 ber of Commerce and Illinois Chain 

 Store Council. Producers, retailers, 

 meat dealers, and all segments of the 

 meat industry for the areas will be in- 

 vited to attend the luncheons. 



Tentative dates for the four lunch- 

 eons are Winnebago County Farm Bu- 

 reau, Rockford, Dec. 5 ; Knox County 

 Farm Bureau. Galesburg, Dec. 6; Pe- 

 oria County Farm Bureau, Peoria, Dec. 

 7. and McLean County Farm Bureau, 

 Bloomington, Dec. 8. 



These are the Morrow plots which have 

 beSn under constant cultivation tor the past 

 74 years and under close jscrutlny since that 

 time. They are shown looking north from 

 the University of Illinois College of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Morrow Plots 

 Give Different 

 Result This Year 



FOR THE first time in 74 years corn 

 yields on the Morrow plots at the 

 Illinois College of Agriculture 

 turned out differently than expected 

 this year. 



The surprise came when the plot with 

 a three-year rotation of corn-oats-clover 

 treated with manure, lime and phos- 

 phate didn't produce the most corn. 

 The plot with the best corn — 107 bush- 

 els an acre — was the one with corn- 

 oats rotation and the same soil treat- 

 ment. 



The corn-oats-clover plot, leading 

 producer until this year, grew 104- 

 bushel corn during '49. 



That's the report of F. C. Bauer, head 

 of soil experiment work at the college. 

 The Morrow plots are the oldest soil 

 experiment field in America. 



Two reasons were given for the lower 

 yield on the treated corn-oats-clover 

 plot. One was an insect, the grape 

 colapsis, that feeds on corn roots in 

 early summer and stunts the plant. The 

 other was stalk rot. 



Three rotations are used on the Mor- 

 row plots: continuous corn, fcorn-oats 

 and corn-oats-clover. Each plot is di- 

 vided equally and one half gets manure, 

 lime and phosphate while the other half 

 is left untreated. All six plots were 

 planted in corn this year. 



L. B. Miller, agronomist who checks 

 yield data, reported the following 1949 

 yields: continuous corn without treat- 

 ment, 20 bushels an acre; continuous 

 com with treatment, 64 bushels; corn- 

 (Conlinued on page 22) 



SINCE LAST summer, when you so 

 generously sent me all available 

 copies of the lAA RECORD in the 

 series of historical and picturesque 

 scenes in Illinois, I have made an effort 

 to secure No. 3, April 1947, and No. 4, 

 May 1947, which are the only copies 

 missing. 



A notice was inserted in the Farm 

 Bureau page of our county newspaper, 

 the Mt. Vernon Register-News which 

 has a large circulation, to which no 

 response was received. 



Early in the fall I attended a series 

 of DAR Division meetings from Harvey 

 to Carmi at which I requested members 

 of our society who reside in agricul- 

 tural communities to try to locate these 

 copies, but evidently they have been un- 

 successful as no information has come 

 to me. 



At the Farm Bureau office in Mt. 

 Vernon, it was suggested that I ask you 

 to insert a brief request in a forthcom- 

 ing issue of the RECORD. 



I believe that this series of covers to- 

 gether with the descriptive sketches will 

 be an outstanding feature of the histori- 

 cal scrap book that we intend to enter 

 in national competition at Washington 

 next April. 



Thanking you for giving this matter 

 your favorable attention. 



Marie P. Carson 

 . Waltonville, 111. 

 Jefferson County 



Editor's Note: Do any of our readers 

 have copies of the April or May 1947 

 isswes of the lAA RECORD? It you do 

 please pet in touch tvith Mrs. Carson. 

 You will do her a great personal favor 

 and we would be pleased to hear of it 

 should she win the scrap book contest 

 with the RECORD series of cover pic- 

 tures. , , 





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