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, ' By W. H. Timmni Much enthusiasm is being displayed by folks around the office •boot moving to our new location July 1. The house formerly the home of A. W. Mathieon. Jr., Is lending itself rery nicely to <mr gjJans. ™ After years of climbing the stairs, the Farm Bureau office will at last be on the main floor. It will be on one side of the lobby and .the I.A_A. insurance office will be od the other. Offices of the McHenry County Service company and the Home Bureau will be on the second floor. The soil testing laboratory and the Northern Illinois Breeding Cowill be in the basement. The wool market is crazy nowdays. The price of wool has fallen as a much in the last couple of welts as farmers got for wool last year. A couple of weeks ago it was $1.30 per pound and now its 80 cents. According to Dale Rouse, manager of the Illinois Wool Marketing association at Paris, 111., the cause is that the government rfuit buying recently because they »un out of money. He says, however, the government does not have near enough wool and will be back tn the market again July 1 when the new appropriations are made by Congress. This will probably bring the price up again. ' The gag around retailers Is that if the shortages keep up they will have to build more warehouses to keep the stuff in. In -connection with the drop, in wool Trices, one manufacturer reports $400,000 worth of men's suits on hand he should have sold, some time ago. He finds it necessary to ask determent on payment for the wool he put in the suits for sixty days. The Austrailian market has also been effected by a 30 per cent drop in price since Easter. They furnish most of the world's woo' Hftupply. That our military will stabilize the market again July 1 is tine concensus of opinion. Again we have completed a survey of our soil testing. Last year we tested 20,209 a«res on 203 farms. We found that 80.4 per cent of the soil tested did not need the • addition of limestone for maximum * production, 6.8 per cent of the samples tested were low in phosphate and 30 per cent of the soil \*aeeded addition of potash for max! mum production. Is your local school teacher conservation minded? Does she know what clay is? Again this year Richard Tazewell, Norm 8pecht and I have been instrumental in * making available to McHenry county school teachers Prof. Loren T. Caldwell of Northern Illinois State Teachers college for a two jaireeks' conservation course. This course was given as a one week course two years ago fend was taken by about eighteen teach- ^ errs if my memory is correct. At that time we found to our surprise that most teachers thought clay was any poor worn out light colored soil. They didn't know that our richest level soils were rich because they have clay in them. Clay is the name of a classification soil according to size of particle --^and has nothing to do with fertility level. The course will be given this year at the Woodstock Community high school Aug. 6 to 17 and will give two semester hours of senior college credit. Cost is $14 registration. The mornings will be lecture and visual aids and afternoons will be field trips. There is still room for a few, so encourage your teacher to take advantage of this interesting and valuable course. Hickory. Creek Farms had sec ond, fourth, sixth and tenth place cows in the Illinois 500-pound butterfat cow club for 1950. Their production was 949.6 pounds, 854.1 pounds, 840.1 pounds and 787.2 pounds respectively. Clanyard Farm had seventh place cow with 820.5 pounds. Hickory Creek had six more cows to produce over 700 pounds butterfat and eleven produce over 600 pounds. Glen Truax had one c6w produce 706.9 pounds of butterfat, one produce 668.8 pounds and one 637.9 pounds; James Fyfe had one produce 681.8 pounds. James Cornue had one produce 647.6 pounds and one produce 600,1 pounds. Wm. Warner had one produce 604.2 pounds. Many more were listed over 500 pounds but these listed above are in the outstanding class. Watch the bargain alfalfa seed offered for sale. Good pure strain alfalfa is scarce and high priced. There are no bargains in good seed. There are no bargains in low priced seed either. The "mixers" will over-price what you get just as quick as they will mix in some California weedl ' SKILLED FARk LABOR SHORTAGE REPORTED IN RECENT SUJIVEY Illinois farmers face of skilled labor as spring work swings to results by the Illinois Agricultural asso- ective service boards. A bare roaciation. The survey indicates that jority though the boards were dowhere farm labor shortages now good job of granting defer exist, livestock and dairy produc- j ments for farm labor in The ftin'ety-day extension of fed- _ _ _ c a s e s i e r a l r e n t l a w w o u l d n o t b r i n g u n - tion is being cut and a reduction of where needed. Some, however, re^jder control any rental housing now cultivated acreage is being planned, j ported the only grounds for defer-| exeniPt from rent ceilings, but it Each of the ninety-nine county!ring farm labor was illness or]does continue control for all Farm Bureaus in the state was ! physical disability. Many said, "No; dwellings that now have it, the STUDENT HELP High school students attending the Woodstock high school will not be issued work permits in the future that would keep them working after 9 p.m. on any night preceding a school night. The board of tl(? high school adopted a resolution last week that prohibits he superintendents of schools to issue work permits to sutden£s • 6 and over for such work hours, "^his action was in line with rectfate labor department and is de Igned to safeguard the health of he students. Complete line of Bee be livestock remedies at Wattles Drug Store* McHenry. 8tf wfll be forced to sell their farm and I poor management and bad operaretire. Ition which are the true causes. Many farmers will reduce their i Somie farmers who are not doing well use the labor situation as an excuse.' dairy herds. A few farmers will sell out and go, into defense work, shortage.! either through necessity or choice. * f~ The counties reporting Were FEDERAL CONTR „ into high gear, Ijccording about equally divided as to the TJpWT PnNTTWTTPC TM ts of a survey announced kind of iob being done bv the sel- _ Vv ' A d ° 3 0 g a ne Dy COUiplT TO JUNE 30 tOL OF asked to survey the farm labor situation in its county, and then file .a report to the IAA, the statewide Farm Bureau organization wtth more that 181,000 farm families as members. Most of the counties reporting feel there will be. a "dangerous shortage" of manpower by next year. And a large percentage of the counties feel there is a farm man, power shortage now. , . Meat production will be hard hit, a number of counties reported. Other counties reported anticipated cuts in the fall pig crop. The draining of manpower to defense plants was successful -in luring farm labor away from the farm, the supply was hard-hit. The survey shows that out of every seven men taken from the farm by either the draft or defense work, four were taken by the defense plants and three by selective^seryice, enlistments or reserve dunes. Southern Illinois counties particularly reported the effect of war plants, So did the counties surrounding the big industrial areas of St. Louis, Rockford, Rock Island and to a lesser extent, Peoria and Chicago. We can't compete with the ridiculously high wages being paid in war work," one county report stated. "It is going to be next td' impossible for farmers to get help," another county survey said. According to the survey, besides a cut in meat production and a shift in crop acreage to«;pasture or legume crops, the farm labor shortage will hav^these direct results in the next twelve to eighteen months: Longer working hours will be required for those remaining on the farm. Some farmers will come deferments for farm labor are considered." * < „ The1** county reports agreed the Waukegan branch rent office has announced. This means that under this e*'- old custom of neighboring, or (tension federal rent control in helpihg one another out, would be j.Lako and McHenry counties will practiced to take up the slack, remain in effect until June 30 "It's never died out in our coun- unless de-control, action is taken, ties." many said. One county re-i N»>w. housing built Since Feb. 1, port suggested the peak load would, 1947. is not affeted bye the extencome all at once, hence each farm- sion. It remains free of rent celler would be so busy doing his own lings, as do hotels, motor courts, work, he would not have time to :trailers and traitor parking spaces help his neighbor. ' (and i:i fact, all rental units not However, it appears the "formers inow subject to rent control. Nor will help one another out when! does the extension permit the needed. "They might be forced to," housing expediter to re-control any wrote one county. "We expect they [ area whete he does not how have will in season work such as haying i that power. „ and harvesting small grain," said I - Provisions for re-control and for another report. "We'll have it to i controlling certain classes of hoifssome extent in our county," said a ing now exempt from control will SOMEONE'S BIRTHDAY I TEST YOUR I. Q.t 1. How many Institutions |ft higher education are tn the U. S£. 2. What Is considered to M Standard atmospheric pmiUwt S. How old would Hitter M| today? third, "but will not greatly relieve the situation here." Following are comments from McHenry county: "There is a shortage threatening next season because to many farmers all over the state fail to pay enough attention to working conditions, living quarters, hours and other similar cases where undoubtedly be a part of a new price, wage and rent bill expected to toe introduced in Congress soon. Rent control now is giverned by legislation of its own, but administration plans are to make it a part of the price and wage authority contained in the Defense Production Act of 1950. This act, fa6tors. In many like rent control, expires June 30. lanor shortage is Hearings for its renewal may be Surprise your birthday celebrator with a big homemade layer cake topped with fluffy chocolate frosting. Marsh mallows dipped in eoriit syrup, then rolled in tinted shredded coconut make these clevefc candle holders. Consignment Sale I EVERY WEDNESDAY NIGHT blamed for selling out, it may be scheduled shortly. HlUTCH'S 24 Hour Towing Service 'V h,/V IT'S SPRING TUNE-UP TIME! Conserve on gas and oil also save money, by having your car tuned-np for spring aad summer driving. We Do Complete Motor Overhauling. 309 W. Elm Street McHenry, 111. Phone 811 ^ Residence 91-R \ I ft I i • • i • jl i 7:30 P. M. Yoar Shipper Cows Weigh More When Sold Hei% .11*.% - Yoar Calves Bring More Here. Yoar Dairy * and Breeding Cattle can he tested at Oar Modern Sales Barn. ||J Your Cattle and Hogs «aa he sold by the Dollar ar Ij the Poand. Come and See Yoar Stork Sold. We are here to serve yon. WE PAY CONSIGNOR DAY AFTER THE SALE. WE ARE BONDED 1 Woodstock Comm. Sales Co* Inc. I Phone .572 or 499 -- Woodstock. 111. M Need a cab? Just call our number any hour of the day or night and one of our modern cabs, driven by a careful driver, will appear promptly at your door. Service is city-wide--rates are low--and you have no parking problem. McHENRY Vil *4 RIVERSIDE HOTEL SATURDAY" NIGHT April 21,1951 FOR YOUB ENTERTAINMENT DON STADFELD ft HIS BAND GEORGE FREUND -- Trump*! and Vacaftj-. BEN FISH -- But ™ JIMMY BLEDSOE -- Sa* . DON STADFELD Piaao DINING ROOM OPEN ^FISH FRIES SERVED EVERY FRIDAY . COME ONE! i COME ALL! • r. '-zJ . * \ Htm Car details as shown art subject to change without notice uoitib wisn lor PACKARD. 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