DB-Uncast«r Farming Saturday, May 10,1906 DICKEY-john celebrates 20th birthday AUBURN, IL - DICKEY-john Corporation, Auburn, Illinois, introduced its first product twenty years ago. The company was formed to build and market the first successful planter monitor, invented by a farmer, Bob Dickey and his brother-in-law, Jack Lit tlejohn. (Hence the spelling of the company name with the john always in “little” letters and the DICKEY in all caps.) The first planter monitor has been followed, over the years, by many other firsts: the first digital readout battery-operated portable hand-held moisture tester for grain; the first universal area based grain loss monitor for combines; the first electronic control system for agricultural sprayers; the first radar ground speed sensor for true measurements of ground speed for farm tractors - and many others. In all, the company’s innovative and aggressive research and development programs have earned over seventy patents. Today, DICKEY-john is the world leader in agrionlcs® - agricultural electronics combined into a term coined and registered by the company. In addition to marketing a full line of products under its own name, DICKEY-john is also the leading supplier of in strumentation to the major farm equipment manufacturers. DICKEY-john is also involved in designing and manufacturing instrumentation for grain elevators, flour mills, oil seed processors, food processors, the meat and dairy industries, public works departments, and the medical field. DICKEY-john products are marketed world-wide with offices in Canada and Europe. Corporate headquarters are located in Auburn, Illinois, a farming community fifteen miles south of the Illinois capital, Springfield. All-Plant LIQUID PLANT FOOD 9-18-9 PLUS OTHERS! • Contains 100% white ortho phosphoric acid. Made in USA. • Non-corrosive. Won’t settle. • Top quality. Excellent service. • Newest equipment. • Financially sound... and growing! 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Schillinger has rendered in valuable service to agriculture, as noted by his peers, with the development of superior soybean cultivars during portions of his career at the University of Maryland and with the Asgrow Seed Company. These soybean cultivars are currently grown on more than six million acres in the United States (10 percent of the soybean acreage) and in over 10 percent of the soybean acreage in Argentina. Schillinger’s talents at leader ship have been apparent throughout his career, but most especially at Asgrow Seed Com pany, where he rose from Soybean Research Project Leader to Director of Worldwide Agronomic Research in just eight years. In the process, he received the coveted Upjohn Award, The Upjohn Company’s highest recognition for The Kubota L 4150. It’s more than a match for any job you want done, and done well! 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Read on about this dynamic performer before you put it to the test 1 Between the years 1965 until 1967, he held a joint appointment as research entomologist with the USDA and Michigan State University. During that time, he conducted research in host plant resistance to the Cereal Leaf Beetle and instructed graduate level students. A native of Severn, Maryland, Schillinger was raised on a vegetable and tobacco farm. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agronomy from the University of Maryland in 1960 and 1962, respectively, and earned a doctorate degree in Crop Science from Michigan State University in 1965. R 7 Lebanon, Pa 17042 Rt 4191 mile West ot Schaetterstown, Buffalo Springs Lebanon County 717-949*6501 * >
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