October 11, 1924 



The nKnoU AgricnltnwJ A»»ocIation Record 



Pf 3 



BOYS FROM BUREAU 

 REPRESENT ILLINOIS 

 IN JUDGING CONTEST 



Iowa Team Wins; 250 Boys 



and Girk Attend Club Camp 



at National Dairy 



Show 



The national junior cattle Judg- 

 ing team, which goes to London, 

 England, next June to duplicate 

 the stunt that "Dad" Wise and 

 his Whiteside county boys put 

 over last summer, will not be 

 made up of Illinois boys. Instead 

 that team will be composed of 

 three Iowa boys, Harlan Leonard, 

 Lester Olsen and Raymond Mona- 

 han, winners of the championship 

 junior dairy judging title of Amer- 

 ica. 



These three Iowa lads won the 

 right to represent the United 

 States by defeating teams from 

 19 other states at the boys' and 

 girls' club judging contest held in 

 conjunction with the National 

 Dairy Exposition in Milwaukee 

 last week. 



Illinois state was represented in 

 the contest by three boys from 

 Bureau county, Orville Plum, Wal- 

 nut; Virgil Hurst, Manilus; and 

 Wendell Keener, Princeton, who 

 were coached by C. M. Hatland, 

 teacher of vocational agriculture 

 at Walnut, and J. B. Haberkorn, 

 assistant farm adviser in Bureau 

 county. 



Nebraska Was Second 



The boys from Bureau county 

 landed in Milwaukee the forenoon 

 of Sept. 28, after a frosty 185 mile 

 drive, with high hopes of repeat- 

 ing the feat of "Dad" Wise and 

 his boys at the big show in Syra- 

 cuse a year ago. But, somehow, 

 when the smoke had cleared away 

 after the battle, the Iowa team 

 walked away with the honors with 

 Nebfaska mighty close upon their 

 heels. 



Regardless of their winnings the 

 Illinois boys got a real taste of 

 what boys' and girls' club work 

 means during their stay at the 

 boys' and girls' club camp at the 

 National Dairy Show. 



When they landed at the camp 

 they were met by Wakelin Mc- 

 Neel, camp director, a jovial fel- 

 low who loves boys and girls and 

 their club work. He made them 

 at home and helped them get 

 "thawed out." They couldn't have 

 been there long without making 

 friends with "Mack." He made a 

 hit with every boy and girl in the 

 club camp as this clipping, from 

 the 4-H Dairyland S'news, the 

 daily camp paper, shows: 



"Every club member on the 

 grounds knows and likes Wakelin 

 McNeel, assistant state club leader 

 of Wisconsin, who is working day 

 and night to make them comfort- 

 able and happy. Three hundred 

 new friends are his reward for 

 sinking himself in service." 



The Illinois boys hadn't been at 

 the camp grounds long until they 

 learned that the "publicity man" 

 was on the Job. He got the ac- 

 companying picture of them in 

 "stock judging clothes" and 

 pumped them all he could. 

 Tjpes of Club Work 



After that they began to learn 

 more about how the camp was 

 managed. 



The boys' and girls' club work 

 at the National Dairy Exposition 

 embraces four types of activity: 

 The dairy cattle Judging contest. 



Member Writes His 

 Approval of T.B.Worfc 



ProphetHtown, 111. 



Srpt. 30, 1924. 

 I. A. A. BECORD, 

 Gentlement 



M'Uh reference to yonr ar- 

 ticle recardlngr the chanee In 

 the handllns of renctora. I 

 compliment our Mr. Peteraen 

 for putting: thla over 1 called 

 hia attention to thla matter 

 acme time ago an 1 have had 

 chance of T. B. work in my 

 township and we are better 

 than 98 per cent teated and 

 aa I aaw all of the retarna 

 from the aale of reactora I 

 thiulc there waa a plain cane 

 of atenl. I am aatiafled If we 

 had handled it thla war at 

 the atart the farmera would 

 have received thouaanda of 

 dollara that went into the 

 povliela of Stockyard para- 

 altea. 



All the other departmenta 

 of the 1. A. A. that I have 

 worked with are renderinr a 

 real aervice. 



Reapectfully yonra, 



(SIcned) W. H. Lamont. 



^l^ 



^il>^ 



I The 4-H embleniy 

 ' official flag that 

 I floats above all 



boys* and girls* 



club camps. 



the dairy demonstration team con- 

 test, club cattle exhibit and the 

 boys' and girls' club camp. 



These four branches of the 

 work are combined to give the 

 boys and girls an opportunity to 

 learn more about dairy cattle, to 

 see the many educational exhibits 

 and demonstrations which are a 

 part of the National Dairy Show 

 and to improve and help develop 

 the dairy industry of the country. 



Any boy or girl under 21 who 

 is a bona fide member of a club 

 project in breeding or growing 

 dairy stock is eligible to enter 

 any of the several contests. 



The camp headquarters, dormi- 

 tory, kitchen and dining room 

 were all under the big race track 

 stadium at Milwaukee. On the 

 ground floor of the building were 

 150 calves — Holsteins, Ayrshires, 

 Jerseys, Guernseys, and Brown 

 Swiss — on exhibition in the Na- 

 tional Boys' and Girls' Calf Club 

 contest. 



Alarm Clocks Unnecessary- 

 Sleeping quarters for the boys 

 were directly above these 150 

 calves, a situation which made 

 alarm clocks altogether unnec- 

 essary when the hungry, home- 

 sick, calves began bawling about 

 three o'clock each morning. The 

 girls' dormitory was in another 

 building. 



Feeding the boys and girls 

 three good squares a day was no 

 small task. With some 75 boys 

 and girls and their coaches at- 

 tending the camp for the dairy 

 cattle Judging contest, an equal 

 number there for the demonstra- 

 tions and enough more caring for 

 the 150 calves to bring the total 

 to more than 250, the camp cook, 

 Mrs. George Mason, had a real 

 sizable family for which to pro- 

 vide. 



"We serve 'em breakfast at 

 7:30, dinner at 12:00 and sup- 

 per at 5:30," said Mrs. Mason 

 who apparently is as fond of boys 

 and girls as is "Mack" McNeel 

 and the meals she dishes out are 

 evidence enough of this fact. 



Her "grocery list" for one meal 

 included 50 gallons of milk, 50 

 dozen eggs, nine bushels of Irish 

 potatoes, 50 pounds of rice for 

 pudding and 60 loaves of bread 

 to say nothing of correspondingly 

 large orders of butter, cheese, 

 meat and ice cream. 



LotK of Entertainment 



During their stay at the camp 

 the boys and girls got a lot of 

 free entertainment outside of the 

 fair grounds. On Sunday after- 

 noon they took a trip to the 

 Washington Park Zoo under the 

 guidance of T. L. Bewick, state 

 club leader In Wisconsin. A lot 

 of them had gone to church that 

 morning, too. At night they had 

 their own church at club head- 

 quarters. 



On Monday night Mr. Bewick 

 took more than 150 of them to 

 the Rialto theater where they saw 

 the "Covered Wagon" as the 

 guests of the Milwaukee Kiwan- 

 ians. The next night the Rotar- 

 ians of Milwaukee "theatered" 

 them at the Palace. 



Have Health Contests 



In other contests beside the 

 dairy judging contest which the 

 Iowa boys won, the demonstra- 

 tion contest title went to Ray- 

 mond Nixon and Olin Brown of 

 Nebraska while a Minnesota girl 

 and a Pennsylvania boy copped 

 the prizes for being the healthi- 

 est individuals. 



When the camp broke up at 

 the close of the National Dairy 

 Show the 250 boys and girls who 

 had come from 20 states were 

 more or less glad to go home — 

 back to their school lessons and 

 work — but not a one of them 

 would have traded his trip for 

 anything. It was an event in 

 each of their lives long to be re- 

 membered — the fine cattle, the 

 splendid government exhibits, the 

 display of dairy machinery and 

 equipment and best of all a bet- 

 ter understanding of their 4-H 

 emblem, which stands for train- 

 ing and development of their 

 head, heart, hands and health. 



FARM BUREAUS IN 

 18TH DISTRICT OKEY 

 I. A. A. GRAIN PROBE 



Express ApprovaJ of Stand 



Taken By Association Offi- 



ciak; Watson Helps Discuss 



Tax Problems 



The Bureau county junior dairy judging team and coaches. These 

 boys represented Illinois in the contest at the \ational dairy show. 

 Left to right — Orville Plunv. U alnut: J. B. Haberkorn, coach tu%d as- 

 sociate adviser Bureau county; Vir^ Hurst, Manilus; C M. Hatland, 

 vocational agriculture teacher at H'alnut, coach; and Wendell Keen- 

 er, Princeton. 



TWENTY COUNTIES 



IN ESSAY CONTEST 



(Cinitinued from pas*^ 1) 



been set for the length of articles. 

 The length of essays will depend 

 upon the individuals writing them. 

 Those who can express a lot in a 

 tew words should do so. Those 

 who need a lot of space to ex- 

 plain their ideas have the privi- 

 lege of using it. 



There have been no specifica- 

 tions as to what kind of paper 

 should be used or how it shall be 

 written. The contest director 

 suggests that standard 8^x11 pa- 

 per, with the essay written either 

 with typewriter or pen and ink is 

 desirable. 



The subject of the essays, 

 "Why Dad is a Farm Bureau 

 Member" and "Why Dad Should 

 Join the Farm Bureau" makes 

 the contest open to all school 

 children up to and including the 

 first two years in high school 

 whether they live in the country 

 or city. The suggestion has been 

 made that individual counties 

 might in some cases bar essays 

 written by city school children. 



Illinois counties now in the 

 contest are: Clark, Whiteside, 

 Vermilion, Ogle, Johnson, Henry. 

 Lee, Cass, DeWitt, McDonough, 

 Macon, Grundy, Livingston, Pope, 

 Carroll, Kendall. Henderson, Mc- 

 Lean, Bond and Jo Daviess. 



the keynote address of the St. 

 Paul farm conference. The other 

 was given by Geo. N. Peek, presi- 

 dent of the Council, at the Iowa 

 State Fair. These point out what 

 the Council believes must be done 

 before .\merican Agriculture can 

 stand upon a souad foundation. 



Two maps are used in the leaf- 

 let with very graphic effect. One 

 shows how members of the House 

 of Representatives voted on the 

 .McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, 

 while the other shows the vote 

 on the tariff bill of 1922. On the 

 latter, agriculture is shown to 

 have stood by the Industrial east, 

 but the east failed to stand by 

 agriculture on the farm relief 

 measure. ! 



Copies of the leaflet can be se- 

 cured from secretaries of all farm 

 organizations or direct from the 

 Council headquarters at 4>08 S. 

 Dearborn Street, Chicago. 



Inequality Shown 



In CouncU's Book 



The American Council of Agri- 

 culture, created at a conference 

 of national and state agricultural 

 organizations last July at St. Paul, 

 has prepared a leaflet pointing out 

 the inequality that has been im- 

 posed on American agriculture 

 through legislative enactments 

 favoring other lines, and is call- 

 ing upon farmers and their friends 

 to help remedy it. 



The principal undertaking of 

 the Council is that of continaing 

 the campaign which was waged 

 before the last session of Congress 

 to secure for agriculture the same 

 benefits of the American principle 

 of protection that have been ex- 

 tended to American industry and 

 labor. 



Candidates for election to Con- 

 gress are being asked to pledge 

 themselves to "vote for and ac- 

 tively support legislation equality 

 with American industry and la- 

 bor." The circular being dis- 

 tributed by the Council urges that 

 "Men and women alike should 

 actively support candidates, re- 

 gardless of their party affiliation, 

 who do so commit themselves and 

 should defeat those who do not." 



The leaflet contains the princi- 

 pal points of two addresses on 

 the agricultural situation. One, 

 by F. W. Murphy, lawyer and 

 farmer of Wheaton, Minn., was 



25,705,063 Did Not 

 Cast Vote In 1920. 

 How About You? 



Thf executive couimittee of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion at its September meeting in 

 Chitago adopted strong resolu- 

 tions calling upon all qualified 

 voters of the nation to vote at 

 tlie coming election. 



The population of the United 

 States in 1920, twenty-one years 

 of ape and over, was 60.886,520. 

 Of this number 26.713.832 persons 

 voted for president, and 8.467,625 

 tvere disqualified from voting. The 

 stay-at-home and absentee voters, 

 therefore, numbered 25.705,063. 



John C. Watson, director of 

 taxation and statistics for the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association, has 

 furnished, similar figures for this 

 state. 



In Illinois the total population 

 in 1920 was 6.485.280. Of this 

 number 3,944,197 were 21 years 

 of age or over. Out of these 

 3.944.197 people eligible to vote 

 for president that year, 2,094,714 

 went to the polls. The number of 

 disqualified voters was 478,482 

 The stay-at-home and absentee 

 voters for the state therefore, 

 numbered 1,371,001. 



^^ermilion To Clean Up 



It plans for tuberculosis eradi- 

 cation, laid at a general meet- 

 ini; in Danville, Oct. 7, are fol- 

 lowed out. Vermilion county will 

 soon be in the modlfied-accredited 

 tuberculosis free list. 



Arrangements have l>een made 

 by M. H. Petersen, director of 

 the I. A. A. tuberculosis eradica- 

 tion project. Dr. J. S. Crabtree. 

 government veterinarian, and Dr. 

 J. J. Lintner, in tharge of govern- 

 ment testing in Illinois, to make 

 a clean-up campaign. 



Plans are to get a dozen gov- 

 ernment veterinarians to dean 

 up the work in one week's time. 



Farm Bureau representatives 

 from Clark. Iroquois and Vermil- 

 ion counties, meetiag in district 

 conference at Danville. Sept. 29. 

 were unanimoas in approving the 

 I. A. A. investigation into the 

 Grain Marketing Company and 

 praised President Thompson and 

 other officials of the association 

 for the stand they have taken in 

 demanding more complete infor- 

 mation l)efore voting either for or 

 against the grain merging plan. 



The important e\-ents in the 

 grain marketing industry, during 

 the last two years, were reviewed 

 briefiy by R. A. Cowles. treasurer 

 of the I. A. A., after which he 

 went into a thorough discussion 

 of the whole Grain Marketing 

 Company proposition since its 

 formal inception last spring. 

 Cowles Kaixed QueKtions 



He expressed his personal opin- 

 ion that big financial interests are 

 back of the merging companies. 

 "The Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion has assumed responsibility 

 of passing upon the* grain merger 

 for our County Farm Bureaus," he 

 said, "but we are not going to 

 pass on it uatil all questions — 

 legal, economic and personnel — 

 can be settled. We want to know 

 whom the control is vested. 

 Whether the farmers or someone 

 else will control it. 



•Are the properties of the Grain 

 Marketing Company located right, 

 is the volume of storage in ex- 

 cess of usefulness and are we 

 going to back a company that 

 will try to boy grain as cheaply 

 as it can — which will be reflected 

 in the price the farmers get?" 

 These questions were included 

 among others raised by Mr. Cowles 

 and which the investigation made 

 by the I. A. A. has answered. 



Following Mr. Cowles' talk the 

 resolution endorsing the I. A. A. 

 investigation was submitted and 

 passed. It jead: 



\%'e, the repreaeatatlvea of the 

 t'onnty Farm Bnre««a of the 18th 

 CoBKreaaloaai diatrlct, a a a f fcled 

 la a meetins called hy the dlree^or 

 of aaid diatriet la Danville. 111., do 

 commend and appro^-r the p€>altloa 

 taken by the ofllcera and director* 

 of the IlUnola .\icrlcnltural Aaao- 

 elation la reqalrlnK before appro\- 

 Ina or dlaappro%ins the tiraia Mar- 

 ketlBK Company, aach inter^atioa 

 aa ordinary bnalneaa pmdenee 

 woBld re^alre. 

 Sisaedi 



r. R. Plndley, CkainwB. , 

 J. «. SHdeker, 

 G. 'M*. Lenhart. 



ReaolatloHa C«HBiltt««. 

 John C. WatsoD, director of 

 taxation and statistics for the I. 

 A. A., talked briefly of the »100,- 

 000,000 boAd issue for hard roads, 

 which will be voted on at the 

 coming November election. 



Mr. Watson stated that it was 

 not his purpose to argue either for 

 or against the t>ond issue but 

 rather to furnish facts and figures 

 on both sides of the question so 

 that voters might cast their ballot 

 with a more thorough understand- 

 ing. 



He raised and answered ques- 

 tions regarding the gasoline tax. 

 the sums involved in the hard 

 roads bond issue, methods of pay- 

 ment and others regarding taxa- 

 tion matters which farmers want 

 to know. 



tti attendance at the meetinK 

 were: W. W. Merrltt. farm adviser. 

 Elder Lee. J. Q Snedeker and J. H 

 Mauer. Clark county; R. F. Karr. 

 18th district executive commitlee- 

 man. L. W. Wise, farm adviser. H 

 C. renderfcraBs. F. W. Schroeder and 

 A. J. Gilflllan. Iroquois county: and 

 J. C. Jones. G. w. Lenhart. Otip 

 Kercher, farm ad\-i8er. C. R. Ftnley 

 and Charles Juvenall. Vermilion 

 county. 



In Whiteskle county, over SO 

 enthusiastic dairymen and their 

 families recently went on a trip 

 of inspection to a leading dairv 

 farm. Judging demonstrations, n 

 study of the milk plant and a 

 picnic were the principal feature* 

 of the oc<»sion. 



In Iroqnois coonty, 16,500 cat- 

 tle have been tested for tuliercu- 

 losis during the 12-montb period 

 just ended. County veterinarian 

 Herron has begun retestlng. 



A hen at Purdue University has 



laid 1,341 eggs. 



II 



