THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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4-H CLUB CAMP A 4-H Club camp at the Y. M. C 



NEAR DECATUR A.'s Camp Seymour near Decatur is 



being planned by the Macon County 

 Farm Bureau on June 13, 14, 15, and 16. Adjoining 

 counties will probably send club members also. The Y. 

 M. C. A. athletic and swimming instructors will be there 

 to supervise the 4-H boys. 



WAYNE FORMS Two blocks of the Jersey Bull As- 



BULL CLUBS sociation were formed recently in 



Wayne county. Two more blocks will 

 soon be organized. "The four bulls were pledged at a 

 Rotary Club meeting recently by Fairfield business men," 

 writes Farm Adviser L. L. Corrie. "The business men 

 here believe'that boosting the farmer in every way is good 

 for the community and will help them as well.": 



COWS AVERAGE 

 271 LBS. FAT 



Cows on test in the Henry County 

 Dairy Improvement Association av- 

 eraged 271.73 pounds of fat per cow 

 in the year just closed according to Farm Adviser Whisen- 

 and. Dr. F. M. Reed and Sons placed high with an av- 

 erage for their Holsteins of 357 pounds. A Brown Swiss 

 herd owned by C. A. Dunbar & Son placed second with 

 349.3 pounds of fat per cow. A grade Guernsey owned 

 by L. L. Angevine of Osco scored highest with 516.8 

 pounds, while two Brown Swiss placed second and third. 



OGLE TO HAVE 

 SEED CORN PLOTS 



Twenty-three Ogle county mem- 

 bers will conduct seed com dem- 

 onstration plots this year. The 

 Farm Bureau germinator is being operated continuously 

 testing com in preparation for this work. Among 696 

 €ars already tested, 17 per cent graded No. 1 or practi- 

 cally disease free, 49 per cent No. "2 (infected but good 

 germination), and 34 per cent No. 3 or badly diseased. 



HORSE HITCHES 

 IN GREENE CO. 



Farmers who are striving to econ- 

 omize are using larger horse hitches 

 here instead of buying more power 

 machinery, writes Adviser Laible. H. L. Young of the 

 Horse Association of Aiherica assisted in 4;hree demonstra- 

 tions here showing the "tying-in and bucking-back" sys- 

 tem of hitches. A truck made from the front running 

 gears of an old wagon was used recently to make possible 

 the use of a three-bottom tractor plow with an eight-horse 

 hitch. 



KNOX WRITES Knox county wrote $244,000 



HAIL INSURANCE worth of hail insurance last year; 



$812.77 in losses were paid. Many 

 of these policies were written at the Farm Bureau office. 

 A saving of $8 to $13 per thousand was secured for these 

 men. "This year we expect to write double this amount 

 of insurance," states Adviser Marchant. "With five or 

 six sub-agents and one man in charge we hope to cover 

 the county." 



CLARK HOLDS 

 30 MEETINGS 



Thirty night meeting were held dur- 

 ing recent months by Adviser Merritt 

 of Clark county in cooperation with 

 the agricultural teachers at Martinsville, Casey, and West- 

 field. Soils and crops discussions featured the program. 



MORGAN STARTS 

 OIL COMPANY 



H. E. Kitner has been employed 

 to manage the newly launched Mor- 

 gan Farmers' Oil Company. The 

 distribution of petroleum products started with four 

 trucks from Jacksonville on April 16. A bulk station will 

 be established at Chapin soon. 



PULASKI COUNTY "Our main project of late has 

 FIGHTS FLOODS been hustling sand bags and getting 



othefs to do likewise," writes Ad- 

 viser Hughes. "The Mississippi and Ohio rivers lately be- 

 came high enough to unite above Mound City and we are 

 therefore pocketed with no means of transportation ex- 

 cept by boat. We hope to be back to normal soon." 



M-P DOUBLES Marshall-Putnam county hopes 



SOYBEAN ACREAGE toi double its soybean acreage 



this year according to Farm Ad- 

 viser Fuller. Two carload^ of seed are being shipped in. 

 Alfalfa, sweet clover, and more dairying are getting lots 



of attention. 



SCOTT AFTER 

 POULTRY TROUBLES 



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I'Farmers in this county are 

 |)egrinning to realize the im- 

 J)ortance of poultry sanita- 

 tion," says Farm Adviser "^atje. Two meetings were con- 

 ducted there last month byjMr. Alp, University of Illinois 

 Specialist. Girls' club wo^k ^ is a new project in Scott 

 county. 



LASALLE GETS 

 10% TAX CUT 



A 10 per cent reduction in assessed 

 valuations' of farm lands was an- 

 nounced at the recent assessors' school 

 in LaSalle county. This is [the second 10 per cent reduc- 

 tion for this county according to Farm Adviser McLaugh- 

 lin. Fourteen seed corn project leaders gathered at the 

 office recently to make final selections for their test plots 

 in which will be planted both good an|d poor seed from 

 their own supplies. 



PHOSPHATE TEST 

 IN HANCOCK 



Pfiofephate demonstration plots 

 will be established on the farms 

 of five project leaders in Hancock 

 County this year. Both raW rock and acid phosphate will 

 be used in these tests which will include applications of 

 from 200 to 500 lbs. of acid phosphate per acre and from 

 1000 to 3000 lbs. of raw rock phosphate per acre. Not- 

 withstanding the fact that the results on the Carthage Ex- 

 periment Field show that rock phosphate has not given 

 large returns, many practical farmers believe that their 

 results have been satisfactory, which is the leading reason 

 for the accurate tests' to be made by the cooperators in 

 this project. \ 



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PIKE BUYS 21 

 JERSEY CALVES 



R. H. Clanahan, agricultural teach- 

 er of Pittsfield, and Dean Sneeden, 

 president of the local shipping asso- 

 ciation, drove 250 miles to Crawford county and bought 

 21 Jersey calves for club menibers. The calves all come 

 from members of the Crawford County Farm Bureau. All 

 the calves are from purebred dams with records averag- 

 ing more than 400 pounds butterfat in a year. Farm Ad- 

 viser Frazier and E. E. Pifer located the club calves after 

 considerable driving and effort. These heifers will be 

 used as foundation stock for new Jersey herds in Pike 

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RANDOLPH AFTER "^e have been getting in some 



WILD GARLIC i.'lick^' jat wild onion and garlic 



during the past six or eight 

 months," writes Farm Adviser Secor. "Our plots, started 

 two years ago to demonstrate methods of eradication, 

 have shown conclusively that the pest can be killed. The 

 secretary of the Southern Illinois Millers Association 

 is aiding us in getting control i|vork started in other 

 counties." * 



