Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - One Hundred Million (Impact of UI) (1931) [PAGE 44]

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D a i n farmers and operators of daii plants I \>< n \ <n g simple, el live and inexpensive method sterilizii t 1 Is ult oi m in\« [ation of tl) u i ii< I r the past several years, studio hav< I cone] i n the

ufacture, medicinal value and nutritional lu ;lk It has IK n establish* I thai certain nutritional disturbance ion to infants can be eliminated by introducing small amot < idhilus milk into tin regular mill, fed to the bal . Pasteuri ition studies have reveal* I that with hut pt ns all non-spore-forming organisms ran be eliminated from i ilk I | steui it ion hut that spore- forming organisms arc nol eliminate I I his moans. The latter are, however, reduced in number. 1 teurizinj milk at L^O degrees for 30 minutes did not render it 1 \ lu >le for feeding purposes. Farm Organization and Management As an aid in helping the 214.871 farmers of the State ize and operate their farms with a high degree of economic ( a -late farm accounting project has been carried on since 1 More than 2.500 accounts were kept in 98 counties of the State durir 1930, Studies of the effect of such accounts on the net earnings of tl individual farm are reported in Illinois Bulletin 252 which p ints out < "Farm accounts kept by 19 Woodford county farmers led them to improve the organization and operation of their farms in many w that tdded approximately $650 to their average net inc mes the seventh ( utive year in which they kept accounts." Other studies hav< shown this to he a conservative valuation of the results. 'This work led to the farm bureau-farm management service which i now r< ognized as the outstanding development in farm manag nent

n h and extension work in this and other countries.

Detailed cost investigations which reveal a 100 p e r c e n t oi greater \ riation in costs of producing the same products in the same mmunity have greatly stimulated the farmer's interest in mak HI Midi- of his own operations to find out how he ma} reduce his « >er ting costs and lect those enterprises which will add most to his farm in< om< (>ther i os1 studies have revealed invaluable information on the i lativ< costs of harv< ting com by machine and hand, i its ot har tin;- mall grains with combines, costs of producing soybeans, > fruit and vegetable production and costs oi milk, f T w o standard forms of farm leases have keen prepared and fur j ;hed at the co i of printing, The demand foi about 1,000 oi ih< I ,i .,iid th< ia« t thai man) men who first used th< \VA I 16]