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FRIDAY, AUG. 26, FARM BUREAU DAY AT STATE FAIR 



FARM BASEBALL 

 TITLE RACE ON 



Lawrence Wins In Southern Illi- 

 nois Division. Others In Doubt 



WHO will win the 1927 state farm 

 baseball title? That's the ques- 

 tion to be decided within the next 

 three to four weeks. It's anyone's 

 contest at this writing. Five or six 

 teams are running neck and neck while 

 a dark horse or two are ready to jump 

 in and upset the dope any minute. 



Lawrence county's leadership in the 

 Southern Illinois division is undis- 

 puted by virtue of her four successive 

 victories. What this team will do in 

 competition with the seasoned nines 

 from Central and Western Illinois is 

 a puzzle, however. 



Dopesters point to the fact that 

 other Southern Illinois teams, includ- 

 ing Jefferson, Bond, Wayne and Clay, 

 have piled up too many runs against 

 the Lawrence Farm Bureau team to 

 make it look like a state champion- 

 ship contender. 



Competition Keen 



As the time draws near for the 

 preliminary championship games, Mar- 

 shall-Putnam, Peoria, and Tazewell all 

 show leadership calibre. The latter re- 

 covered remarkably after a bad start 

 by defeating Peoria and Woodford in 

 the past two games. Peoria defeated 

 Marshall-Putnam decisively by a 11 

 to 4 score on July 2, while Tazewell 

 the same day was trouncing Woodford. 

 If Tazewell beats Marshall- Putnam and 

 Peoria wins from Woodford again, the 

 Peoria nine may enter the finals a fa- 

 vorite for state honors. On the other 

 hand, the strong Tazeweir players have 

 a good chance at the title if they win 

 their remaining games. 



Logan county is booked to win in 

 the McLean-DeWitt-Logan division. 

 DeWitt beat McLean in an early game 

 only to be defeated by Logan 8 to 3 at 

 Beason on July 4. 



Henderson and Warren were sched- 

 uled to play on July 9 with Henderson 

 county, a championship contender in 

 past seasons, conceded to be the most 

 likely winner. Cass and Morgan final- 

 ly have arranged a game to determine 

 which team shall represent the division 

 in the preliminary championship series. 

 Farm Work Interferes 



Adams, Brown and Schuyler are still 

 head over heels in corn plowing, hay- 

 ing, and harvesting. Prospects are 

 bright, however, for enough games to 

 select a divisional leader this week and 

 next. ■•■■.;. '.;• -"'-■>:'"'■;..■■.■•■,. 



The season has handicapped farm 

 baseball beyond measure. Only 12 of 

 the 20 county farm bureau teams had 

 played up to July 9. 



'To be eligible, each player must live 

 and work on the farm and be a farm 

 bureau member or come from a mem- 

 ber's family. 



HAIL STORM inf S 



WHITESIDE COUNTY 



THE most destructive hail storm in 

 30 years cut a path a mile wide 

 through Whiteside county in North- 

 western Illinois on July 6, beating 

 down corn, oats, wheat, and clover, 

 and doing much damage to fruit, gar- 

 dens, farm buildings and poultry. 



After cutting through Iowa in a 

 Northeasterly direction, the storm 

 swept across the Mississippi near Ful- 

 ton and continued its rampage across 

 Whiteside to the borders of Lee and 

 Ogle counties. r 



Hailstones Large 



Hailstones varying in size, with the 

 largest like hens' eggs, rained down 

 for an hour, stripping the corn and 

 hammering the standing grain into the 

 ground. West windows in houses and 

 barns were broken, shingles beaten 

 from roofs, trees blown down, and 

 farm buildingrs moved from founda- 

 tions. Hailstones were washed into 

 gullies to a depth of three feet. 



Oats and wheat in the storm's path 

 are a total loss. Corn is expected to 

 recover enough to make fodder or a 

 light crop. Fay Peugh, south of Co- 

 leta, reported the loss of 30 White 

 Leghorn pullets from hailstones. Even 

 rabbits were killed. The damage is 

 estimated at more than a half million 

 dollars. According to reports no one 

 in the storm's path was protected by 

 hail insurance. 



STATE OIL CO-OP 

 SELLS 170 CARS 



Twelve County Companies Now 

 Afflliated; More To Join 



ONE hundred and seventy carloads 

 of gasoline, kerosene and lubricat- 

 ing oils have already been handled by 

 the Illinois Farm Supply Co., the State 

 cooperative engaged in centralized 

 buying and selling for the county oil 

 and supply companies. This is the en- 

 couraging report made recently by 

 Manager Geo. R. Wicker. Additional 

 orders totaling three carloads of lubri- 

 cating oil will be filled shortly. This 

 record was made in three months. 



Favorable comments are coming in 

 from members over the state who re- 

 port that the fuel and motor oils are 

 measuring up to the best of the old 

 advertised brands. All fuel and motor 

 oils are being brought on specifications 

 subject to laboratory tests to insure 

 their high quality 



Twelve county cooperatives are now 

 affiliated with the state company, and 

 six more are in the process of organi- 

 zation. Attractive savings are being 

 made as a result of the large volume 

 of business. These will be returned, 

 after paying expenses, in patronage 

 dividends to the member companies. 



HEADQUARTERS TO I 

 BE ESTABLISHED 



Replies Peoria and Decatur Day 



In Recognition of Organized ; 



j I ] Agriculture 



I? RIDAY, August 26, will be known 

 officially as FARM BUREAU DAY 

 at thei Illinois State Fair, this year. 

 Official Confirmation of the arrange- 

 ment iame in a telegram to President 

 Smith from S. J. Stanard, State Di- 

 rector; of Agriculture, just before go- 

 ing to press. No extensive exhibits or 

 demonistrations have been planned but 

 it has bjeen definitely decided to set 

 up heidquarters and provide a check 

 room Vhere Farm Bureau and I. A. A. 

 members! may meet, rest, and exchange 

 greetings. An effort will be made to 

 bring put a large delegation of Farm 

 Bureaik members for this day. |. 



W. L. COPE AND SONS 



I ARE GOLF CHAMPS 



"Y\r U COPE, fruit grower from 

 ' »• Mai^on County and member of 

 the I. A. A. Executive Committee 

 from the 23rd district heads the great- 

 est aggregation of farm champions in 

 Southern Illinois. 



In the recent golf tournament at 

 Salem, Mr. Cope's two oldest sons, 

 Loren and Howard placed first and sec- 

 ond wlith scores of 74 and 76. The 

 former also won the President's cup, 

 the highest honor of the tournament. 

 Mr. Cope, himself, won the contest for 

 the b^st approach shot, one of the 

 boys Won the driving contest, and 

 a young son, Allen clinched the 

 family's supremacy by winning the 

 horseshoe pitching contest held the 

 same day. It was Cope's day. More 

 than 100 competed in the sports pro- 

 gram held at the Salem Country Club. 



Follbwing is the report of Don 

 Robisojn, state superintendent of ani- 

 mal industry on the status of T. B. ap- 

 propriation at the end of June, 1927: 



APPROPRIATION ....__™- $2,000,000.00 



Indemnity claims 



against the State 



paid iinCe July 1, 



1925 .i...... $1,101,215.87 



Amount' of Federal , 



claims paid by the 



State _ 231,675.37 



Expenses i n c u r r ed 



since July 1, 1925.. 166.972.59 

 Claims pending on 



2,403 reactors se- 

 cured since July 1, ^ ' 



1926, allowing $15 



per hea^. (State 



share) .4. 36,045.00 



Total claims and expenses paid 



and pending 



-$1,535,908.83 



* Free Balance of Appropriation.. 



464,091.17 



Henderson County's farm bureau 

 baseball team defeated Warren county 

 4 to on Saturday, July 9. The three 

 Pence's, E. Pence, H. Pence, and C. 

 Pence, who catch, pitch, and play left- 

 field respectively were prominent in 



