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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1956
Page
5
Government officials at the National Agricultural Outlook Conference forecast a modest rise in farm income in 1957 after a 1956 upturn. Consumer demand remains strong, with Americans spending about a quarter of income on food. Milk, corn, pork, beef, and dairy trends show mixed projections, with price supports and export policies shaping the market.
Pinckneyville Future Farmers of America Parliamentary Procedure team won the contest held Thursday in Sesser High School. Murphysboro High placed second and Carbondale University High School took third. Other teams included Allin, Tamaroa, Dongola, Sesser and Anna.
Illinois has over 300 irrigators with many more considering irrigation to beat drought. The article sums planning steps for dam or reservoir projects, including assessing downstream uses, calculating needs, consulting engineers, obtaining consent from lower and upper landowners, and checking with the State Division of Waterways for permits to avoid legal action.
Dr. R E Bradley of the University of Illinois Veterinary College warns that changing weather can trigger swine influenza in hogs and humans. He advises clean well bedded housing and pasture rotation to reduce parasites that may spread the virus. The influenza virus in swine is linked to the swine lungworm egg.
Planning tips for farmers cover income tax planning with good farm management. Use 1956 and 1957 receipts to estimate income, subtract uses and depreciation, and adjust figures. For low 1956 income act before year end by selling more produce, delaying expenses, collecting debts, and seeking CCC loans. For high income, stock up supplies, buy tools, pay dues, conserve soil and water, repair buildings, and advance charitable deductions. Also consider income splitting with children and gifting, noting gift taxes and estate planning benefits.
The 1957 custom spray operators school at the University of Illinois January 24-25 will cover insect outlooks, control methods, and new agricultural chemicals. Sessions in the Kini Union feature audience questions with experts from the College of Agriculture and Illinois Natural History Survey plus guest speakers. The program opens with the corn borer situation and fall overwintering survey results, timing of insecticide applications, and farmer-researcher experiences.
H. B. Petty, University of Illinois entomologist, reports area corn fields show 19 borers per 100 stalks, well below the 1 per stalk level considered problematic, suggesting lighter damage next year.
The report notes progress with pre-emergence weed chemicals and soil insecticides, ten years of commercial brush control, and new herbicides. It highlights 1956 results in controlling giant foxtail and weeds in soybeans and discusses chemical residues and continued soil insecticide work.
The 1957 Illinois Canners' School will be held January 9 10 and 11 at the Urbana Lincoln Hotel Urbana. Attendees include field men plant operators canners growers and others in canning crops. Topics cover cannery waste legal aspects disposal and disease weed and water concerns with researchers from the University of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Public Health Natural History Survey and State Water Survey.
Dr Julius Paul assistant professor of government at Southern Illinois University writes in The Journal of Legal Education about Jerome Frank's ideas on how legal education relates to the judicial process. The quarterly journal is published by the Association of American Law Schools.
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