lAA Luncheon 

 Opens Campaign 

 To Promote Pork 



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N W eilorl III |i(M)-l llic ^al^■ ol |H)rk 

 and lifl|i lo kff|) liop [iiict's ahoM 

 llic uoMTiinu'iil >l!|i|ii>it level, llie 

 Illinois Agrieullurul Xssoeiation 

 spon-iored a pork caiiipaij.'ii liinelieon 

 Nov. 1 in (iliicapo alleiuled liy rejuc 

 seiilalives of tiic packers, cliaiii and iri 

 de|ienil«/nt groceries, meat retailers and 

 dislrilmlors. neuspajiers and radio sla 

 tions. Also rejiresented at the meetini; 

 were the Illinois (iliandier ol Connmrce 

 and Illinois (Ihain Store ("ouiicil. .Na- 

 tional Live.'Stock Producers Association. 

 National Live Stock and M<'at Board 

 and .American Meat Institute. 



Charles B. Shninan. president of the 

 Illinois Apriiiiltural .Association, ad- 

 dressinji the linuheon said that the live- 

 stock pro(hicers of the state are a-kini: 

 the coojieration of the meat industrv to 

 ptush the sale of pork. 



.Shuman pointed out that farmers arc 

 worried ahout the hog price outlook ami 

 werv concerned ahout tht." recent drops 

 in the market, lie pointed out that if 

 prices drop too drastically, hoji num- 

 bers will lie reduced and in 1!! months 

 to two years there will he a scarcitv. 

 Such a scarcity, he said, will mean 

 higher prices to the consumer. There- 

 fore. Shuman said, it is in the interests 

 of tlie consumer and producer if prices 

 and production can he stahilized. 



Shuman said that ]uoducers were en- 

 deavoring to <lo their |)art to avoid 

 market gluts through a more orderlv 

 marketing of lighter weight hogs. 



The lAA leadeif indicated that farm- 

 ers prefer to produce ahundantlv and a 

 fair price rather than to depend upon 

 government for supports. He said that 

 the governments experience in the sup- 

 port programs on eggs and })Otatoes had 

 not heen too successful. 



As the lAA HF.COHI) went to press 

 plans were aiuioiniced hy four County 

 farm Bureaus to hold pork jtromotional 

 lunrlieons for their respective areas. 

 Cooperating in these four luncheons 

 will he local units of the Illinois Cliani- 

 her of Commerce and Illinois Chain 

 .'^tore (iouncil. Producers, retailers, 

 meat dealers, and all segments of the 

 meat industry for the areas will be in- 

 vited to attend the limcheons. 



Tentative dates for the four lunch- 

 eons are \V innebago County Farm Bu- 

 reau. Rockford. Dec. .t; Knox County 

 F'arm Bureau. Galesburg. Dec. C: Pe- 

 oria ('oiintv Farm Bureau. Peoria, Dec. 

 7. and McLean County Farm Bureau. 

 Bloomington. Dec. 8. 



These are the /Morrow ptofs which hove 

 been under constant cultivation for the past 

 74 years and under close scrutiny since that 

 time. They are shown looking north from 

 the University of Illinois College of Agrltul- 

 fure. 



Morrow Plots 

 Give Different 

 Result This Year 



FOR THF first time in 71 years com 

 yields on the Morrow plots at the 

 Illinois College of .Agriculture 

 turned out differently than exj)ected 

 tlris year. 



The surjirise came when the |)lot with 

 a three-year rotation of corn-oats-ciover 

 treated with manure, lime and phos- 

 jihate didnt produci^ llie 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-oals-clover plot. leading 

 producer until this year, grew 101- 

 luishel corn during I''. 



That's the rej>ort of F. C. Bauer, head 

 of soil experiment work at the college. 

 The Morrow (dots are the oldest soil 

 experiment field in .America. 



Two reasons were pixen for the lower 

 vield on the treated corn-oats-clover 

 |)lot. One was an insect, the grape 

 colapsi^. that feeds on corn roots in 

 earlv summer and stunts the plant. Tlie 

 other was stalk rot. 



Three rotations are used on the Mor- 

 row ])lots: continuous corn, corn-oats 

 and corn-oats-clover. F.nch plot is di- 

 vided eijually and one half gets manure, 

 lime and j>hosphate while the other half 

 is left untreated. ■ .All six ])lots were 

 planted in corn this year. 



L. B. Miller, agronomist who checks 

 vield data, reported the following 1919 

 yields: continuous corn without treat- 

 ment. 20 bushels an acre: continuous 

 corn with treatment. 61 bushels; corn- 

 (C.ontinucii on page '22) 



LETTERS 



SI.XCK L.AST summer, when you so 

 gencrouslv sent me all available 

 copies of the LAA RKCOKD in the 

 .series of historical and picturesque 

 scenes in Illinois. I have made an elTort 

 to secure No. .>. .April 1917. and No. 1. 

 May 1917. which are the only copies 

 missing. 



A notice was inserted in the Farm 

 Bureau j)age of our county newspaper, 

 the .Mt. Vernon Register-News which 

 has a large circulation, to which no 

 resjionse was received. 



F.arlv in the fall I attended a series 

 of DAR Division meetings from Harvey 

 ♦to Carmi at which 1 requested members 

 I of our society who reside in agricul- 

 tural conununities 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. 

 Wrnon. it was suggested that 1 ask you 

 lo insiMl a brief request in a forthcom- 

 ing issue of the RFCORD. 



1 believe that this series of covers to- 

 gether with the descriptive sketches will 

 be an outstanding feature of the histori- 

 cal scraj) book that we intend to enter 

 in national competition at \\ asliington 

 next April. 



Thanking you for giving this matter 

 your favoralde attention. 



Marie P. Carson 

 Waltonville. III. 

 Jefferson County 



Editor's \ ()/(■■ I)i) any of our rcwlvrs 

 half copies oj the April or May l'>47 

 issurs oi Ihr lAA HECORD? It \ou ,lo 

 pli-usc lift ill touch with Mrs. Carson. 

 You uill do her a great personal favor 

 and ue tiould be pleased to hear of it 

 should she trin the scrap hook contest 

 with the RECORD series of cover pic- 

 tures. 



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