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Newspaper
Manito Community Express
Location
Manito, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1950
Page
2
Farm Facts explains that a farm mortgage is a deed with a defeasance clause, securing a loan and binding the land to repay debt. It covers title split, equity, recording requirements, release upon payment, and Illinois statutory wording to certify mortgage status.
Illinois reports 185 169 births in 1949 far exceeding 90 931 deaths. Only 1947 saw more births, 192 420, and the 1949 birth rate of 21.9 per 1 000 tops all years except 1947 at 23.4. The 1949 death rate remained 10.5 per 1 000, level with 1948.
John A Lake of the Illinois Agricultural Association reports a 10 percent drop in farm accidents in 1949 from 1948, with 148 fewer machine related incidents and nine fewer farm deaths. October and November saw a 25 percent decline over 1948 for corn pickers and tractors.
The Illinois Agricultural Association reports Farm Bureau membership now 170,425, up 10,000 in one year and 20,000 in two years. Illinois has 179,000 farms and a census shows net income of 400 dollars or more per acre.
The University of Illinois home economics department publishes a family account book to aid budgeting and record keeping. Mrs Ruth Freeman notes it helps families track spending and educate children while 3000 books are sold annually in Illinois. The 1949 US potato yield averaged 211 bushels per acre, with 1948 at 216.
Readers learn of the 49th Farm and Home Week at the University of Illinois February 6 to 9. The Illini Union hosts the Farm and Home Week Open House and the Illinois Farmers Institute meeting. Rural Youth banquet, Home Bureau meeting, Farm Sports Festival prelims, Film Hour, Stockmen Banquet, and Winter Festival are scheduled across Lincoln Hall theater George Huff gym and surrounding venues.
On Wednesday evening three major gatherings occur the Illinois Christian Rural Fellowship Dinner the TWinois Crop Improvement association annual banquet and the Music and Drama Festival. The Illinois Turkey Growers association meets all day Thursday February 9 at 127 Mumford Hall with the annual banquet at Latter lail Y M C A.
Millinois 4-H and FFA members will have a fine opportunity to buy and sell calves at the community sale event set for February 25.
The second annual all breed calf club sale at Illinois College of Agriculture stock pavilion on February 25 offers about 100 purebred calves from Holsteins Guernseys Brown Swiss Jerseys and Ayrshires. Sponsored by the Illinois Purebred Dairy Cattle Breeders Association the event aims to help 4 H and FFA members bid on foundation animals with bids limited to regularly enrolled youths.
The report notes that paralysis in fowl most commonly occurs during the early maturity stage, suggesting timing as a key factor in the condition's onset.
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