■I 



Pi«e4 



TIm nSnoM Afrieaharal Anodatiaii Raeord 



ik: 



July 16, 1S23 



t4 



Without Confidence, There Can Be No Peace, No Prosperity, and 



FARM FOLKS MAKE 

 THE I. A. A. PICNIC 

 SENUINE SUCCESS 



Lu^e Crowd Hears Speakers 



and Sees Barnyard Golf 



Tournament at Urbana 



The Fifth Annual I. A. A. 

 .Farm Bureau State Picnic, at 

 Crystal Lake Park, Urbana, 

 Jane 29, was voted, Jiy aH who 

 atteoded as an overwhelming 

 8ncc«BS. A crowd estimated by 

 Champaign and Urbana news- 

 papers at from 7,000 to 10,000 

 filled the grounds all day and 

 made it a ^int to inspect the 

 iJniversity larm before going 

 home. 



The speaking, by the Hon. Syd- 

 ney Anderson, U. S. Congressman 

 from Minnesota, and Mrs. A. E. 

 Brlgden, president of the New 

 YttrkSsgtate Federation of Home 

 Bureaus, the" horseshoe pitching 

 tournament and the University 

 Open House events held the in- 

 terest ot the crowd during the 

 day. 



' Congressman Anderson si^ng- 

 ly advised the formation of^co-op- 

 erative associations, - emphasizing 

 the value of good management. 



Lands Ck>-operatlopi' 



"It the farmers {prtn thelj- ot- 

 •" Kanizations and plaCe g^fm men 

 at the head ol them, ^y»«^ will smr- 

 c^d." he said. "In Wllforoi^co- 

 ji»eratiofi has bega'a succ^».-^Be- 

 fore it ca,me/the fru*f^%Tpwer8 

 were raising more than flfty vari- 

 eties of oranges and losing^^oney. 

 Now they gpoW only three or four 

 kinds and are prospering. 



"After you have organized do 

 ' not withdraw from your associ- 

 ' Mion.'tBeeause you can momentar- 

 ily get a better price for your 

 products elsewhere. Stick- .to your 

 association and it will prosper." 



Speaks on Home 



Mrg. Brigden spoke for the "^^VrT^TDtbert basXtrain- 



home and happy farm families. 



"There never was a civiUiatiocr -Jjmjrtng. *!*fty.^e cool 



that became decadent that had 

 prosperous agricultuf^iajitl happjU-ency. 



homes'," she said. 



In summarizing~^1tni^' Brigd.en 



gave as her creed; "To laake th"« 



home and com'munity .the ^^Vt wa 



._ can, «e cannot pitt>pttr oinl^l^tp 



"^^"^^"^ tt«r use." -^..^^ '"-^; -><^ "^ 7 



De\f itt WUyi -"X^ 



-'- — .;^^.]t^h|i|goe j)it5b'lng contest 



waswbn by^'RlU^^ bft>»bers, ' the 



DeWi^t County PSrm^ Bureau 



Team,' after-, attracting a large 



croti^ nearly! all th><4ay. 



^>5R>ti .JOan^gBment of the picnic 



was''TWlootir i»n<i efficient. " The 



grounds^^*«^»i5d "fexery possible 



, sort of accomnlodatioB: re^ tents, 



^ play gffeunds-<*r .children, \Iunch 



Btands.^hijatingS^d shade, all of 



whic*S?er&«pjoyeifll by .the crowd. 



Kearly evwyfibdy, madb>^a trip 



to the-Universttyvfarpi sqme time 



or ojtlftn. during the day. y'' 



.This ' year's" trop will 't>e worth 

 ' ov«r $I,eOO,000,000 more than iW 

 ]*7gear's On tli« bitsis of farm prices 

 on Jf^lr 1, ■ 1923, compared with 

 ■riws -a 7ear a^o, according to a 

 . Tectat^l^ecast of the U. S. De- 

 ^ pailtment of Agricultare. 



WINNERS OF TOURNAMENT 



Walter and Harry Torbert 



Brothers, IS and 17, Win 

 orseshoe Cup for DeWitt 



Walter and Harry Torbert, 

 15 and 17 years old, are the 

 farm but^e«)i "barnyard golf" 

 champipns of Illinois as the re- 

 sult of defeating every team 

 ^ 'pitted against them and emerg- 

 ing as the only 100 per cent 

 victors' among nineteen county 

 farm bureau entries-at ,the I. 

 A. A. Farm Bureau State Pic-, 

 nic, Urbana, June. 29. 



The youthful champions rep-' 

 resent the DeWlJt County FarSj 

 Bureau a,n'd were presented a 

 handsome cup as Ih^tr^t^ophy of 

 victory, engraved with the r^^rd 

 of their conquest.. This i? *the 

 fourth successive <, year that the 

 honors have gone to|^ De'wkt 

 Cotinty. . tije ."present chankpionV 

 fatii^ BM foibert. «^d/ Joe Hes^ 

 kett having compoXe^- a tearij 



farmers" and real farm bureau 

 boosters. 



In the finals Logan de^feated 

 McLean 30 to 2$ and DeWitt 

 trimmed Rock Island 80 to 17. 

 Tfren McLean downed Rock Is- 

 land 30 to 24 .while DeWitt beat 

 Logan 32 to 15. 



In the next round DeWitt took 

 the long end^of a "30 to 16 score 

 with McLe'ah while Logan de- 

 : feil^ ^ock Island 32 to 24. 

 --.This left LogWn and DeWitt 

 for {^e last game, the litter 

 witiniiig SI to 18, The last four 

 ^oe» pitched were ringers. 



Whlci w*n''at all tjifee previous* \ Thomas Watkinsi 96, Chand 



state Nplenks, 





tW8' \»oys •toi^ a) yean for tB 



and at^tn.r'^'^al to any emerg- 



Both boys are regular "dirt 



* 'Shipping Fever * * 

 May be Prevented 

 . By Vaccination 



The Bureau »f Animal Indus- 

 try of the United; States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture has made ar- 

 rangement's to treat all cattle by 

 the vaccination method for 

 hemorrhagic septicemia (some- 

 times erroneously ' called * "ship- 

 ping fever") that will be shipped 

 from the Chicago Stock Yards 

 for Stocked and feeder purposes. 



Tbis treatment is optional with 

 the purchasers ot cattle and the 

 vaccine will be furnished at 

 cost, which will be appro.ximately 

 10 cents per head. An addi- 

 tional charge will be made by 

 the Stock Yards Company for 

 handling stock to and from vac- 

 cinating pens. 



While the vaccination method Is 

 still fn the experimental stage, the 

 Department believes it has consid- 

 erable virtue and advocates it for 

 all stocber and feeder cattle. 



Nineteen Counties 

 in I. A. A. **Bamyard 

 Golf" Competition 



The following horseshoe pitch- 

 ing teams represented the 19 

 county farm bureaus who com- 

 peted for tbef state championship 

 at the I. A. A. Picnic at Urbana, 

 which was won by the D6Witt 

 county team with Logan county 

 as runners up: 



Bureau, Butts and Walters: Casi^ 

 Sfhneppep' and Opper: Cumberland. 

 Easton Bt-other«; DeWitt. Torbert 

 Brothers: Ford, Gee and Carr; Hen- 

 ry. Papenfhien and Peterson; Iro- 

 quois. SeiJrBrebrnch Brothers; Kane. 

 Warner and Peece; lObndall, Ptjce 

 and M^tT»ck; . Lak^r' Fenlon and 

 Brazke; Ixtean, *UeutchJer and Wad. 

 dell: CilYlnKston, Mertes and Nor- 

 Kaard; McLean.^ Humphries and 

 Kruse; Varshalv.' J'^tcrso^ and 

 Buck; Richli»«r^^limi and Bunn: 

 Rock Island. Wirtis Brothers; San- 

 gamon, Fry and Christopher;, 

 Stark, Screeton and Reece: White- 

 side, Irion and Nice. 



^Mn 



Pleat Formation 

 of Centralize^ > 

 at Mt. Vernon 



The Jefferson County Cret^m 

 Producers Association, composed 

 of member locals of that ebnnty, 

 pasled a resolution to lay plans 

 ^t /once for the f oAnation of a 

 farmer-owned ';and, controlled oen- 

 trallaer at Ml. 'Vermon to be put 

 in opeiatlon \ when the product 

 from aKleast S.OOO cows is', put 

 under d^vtact. • 



'i'bts ' \qrsanization has been 

 functioning as a bargaining < 

 sociation tfr.sell the cream of its 

 members to private centraliiers 

 after competitive bidding. Re- 

 fusal of the centrallzers to bid 

 on the product controlled by the 

 association, led up to the action 

 to form a co-operative central- 

 izer. 



"ROUGHER THEY MIE, 

 THE BETTER!" PLIA 

 FOR BOYSOFSUIMS 



More Than 250 Requests For 

 City Children Come To 

 I. A. A. ,. ;■ ( 



I 



The boys do get their inning 

 sometimes in the farm bureau 

 outings for slums children of 

 Chicago. 



"I'd like two boys about seven 

 or eight," requested Mrs. C. F. 

 Welty, of Amboy.'.on a recent 

 call to the offices of the Illinots 

 Agricultural Asoclation. "And 

 the more rough and frolic^me 

 they are, the better we will like 

 to have them for a two-week 

 outing." 



The Outing Secretary of tHfl 

 I. A. A., got In touch with the 

 United Charities, there was a. 

 hurry-up call into the slums ot 

 Chicago's West Side and within 

 a few hours twa happy and aur- 

 prise4 youngsters, all slicked up, 

 were on the ' Lincoln Highway 

 witb Mr. and Mn Welty in the 

 car, bound for an unexpected 

 outing. 



More than 250 children have 

 BO far been applied for by farm 

 bureau folks of a score of coun- 

 ties and the requests are coming 

 in every day. 



The children are already be- 

 ginning to go out niKut their '''^ 

 cations, i'^-'l-, .'S;.!' "■; I ' - 



Farm Bureau is Praised I 

 by Oldest Member, 96 



*«rvllle. 111., of the Cass County 

 Farm Bureau, is the oldest farm 

 buVeMi. member in Illinois. In 

 ^^oSniti&B^ ef this he has been 

 presented a «old medal by the 

 executive Committee of his coun- 

 ty erganizal^on. 



Mr. Watklns owns and lives on 

 t 240 acre farm in Richmond 

 Precinct, Cass County. He has 

 lived in the same precinct for 

 more than seventy years. 



When John Lucas, the farm 

 bureau solicitor, asked Mr. Ws^t- 



Thomas Watklna 

 kins to become a farm bureau 

 member, bis signature was im- 

 mediate. 



"It is probable that I am too 

 old to get all of the direct bene- 



fits of the farm bureau^" said 

 Mr.' WatklM, "but I h^ve lived 

 just long enough and seen 

 enj^ugh phases of American agri- 

 culture to realize the value of 

 real farmer organization. I will 

 consider my membership well 

 worth while if it helps to make a 

 good organization and benefits 

 to some ^xtent the agriculture of 

 the county." ■ 



Mr. 'Watklns wa^ bom in Ken- 

 tucky *nd camd to Illinois with 

 his parents at two years of age. 

 He ha^ voted at seventy-^x gen- 

 eral elections, all but one in his 

 home precinct. 



"I have voted for only two 

 Republicans,"- said Mr., Watklns, 

 laughing, "and <»ne turned .out to 

 be a drunkard, the- other a 

 forger." i 



± 



Growers *' Co-op** 

 Resumes Business; 

 Outlook Promising 



Prospects are very bright for a 

 successful season for the Alfalfa ' 

 an^ Truck Growers Association 

 of Union and Alexander Coun- 

 ties, accordtng to L. M. Mathews, 

 manager of the organization, Mc- 

 Clure, III. 



"Our first year, 1921, was vot- 

 ed a success apd the members 

 were well pleased with results," 

 states "Mr. Mathews. "pi the 

 spring of 1922, aii overflow of the - 

 Mississippi ' River destroyed the 

 main crop, alfalfa, and the activ- 

 ity of the association was dis- 

 continued for the year. 



"This year we find that the al- 

 falfa has been re-seeded and the 

 harvest Is very good, in fact, bet- 

 ter than du;iring previous normal 

 years. Wheat has had in-uausu- 

 ally favorable spring and it has 

 been predicted that there will be 

 more No. 2 wheat here than ever 

 before. Corn is doing fine ar i 

 tjie prospects point to a big 

 yield." 



BSi 



t! 



f:' 



ECONOMY or ^»VICE 



Money Saved For You ' 



The Operating Ejipanses of the I. A. A. 

 for the First Six Months of 1923 Were $26.- 

 748.7i Less Than in the Same Period of 1921 , 

 While Every Effort Has Been Put Forth to 

 Maintain Quality and Extent of Service. 



''k 



W' 



£• 



il th 



I le 



)i tb 



h 



