What the Counties 

 Are Doing 



TWENTY-ONE cars of limestone 

 all in one train shipped over the 

 I. C. R. R. were unloaded in Mont 

 gomery county on June 29-30. Farn 

 adviser Alden Snyder and the agricu 

 tural department of the I. C. coop- 

 erated in putting on the project. 



As the train pulled in to its destina- 

 tion near Litchfield, farmers were wait- 

 ing to lend a hand to the train crews 

 in getting the stone out of the cars 



The stone came in large coal car^ 

 fitted with tight self-dumping bottom 

 that let the stone slide out beside thfe 

 track. Dumping places 40 feet lonjf 

 and 2V^ feet away from the rails wer; 

 skinned and made ready. Twenty to 

 30 minutes were required to dump each 

 car. The limestone will be haule< 

 away at leisure. Most of it will b; 

 spread on wheat and plowed ground 

 this fall. 



The limestone was shipped by th4 

 Dolese and Shepard Co., from their 

 quarries in Northeastern Illinois. Moro 

 than 12,000 tons were unloaded. 



Williamson Picnic Aug. 25 



Williamson county merchants wil 

 join with the farmers in a huge picnic 

 to be held on August 25. Pres. Ear 

 C. Smith of the I. A. A. will be th<i 

 speaker of the day. Farm Advisei 

 Dee Small believes in spreading the 

 gospel of limestone and legumes 

 through community meetings. "Wt 

 are just starting a two-weeks campaigr 

 to drive home the value of crop rota- 

 tions," he says. 



Jersey Banner Township 



Adviser Frank Shuman of Jersej 

 county rises to present the name oi 

 Jersey Township as the greatest ir 

 Farm Bureau membership in the State, 

 "This township has 138 members," he 

 says. "Let's see someone show us a 

 better record." 



Scott GroMring 



Scott county has the fastest growing 

 little farm bureau in Illinois. Five 

 hundred and six farmers out of 700 

 in the county now belong to the Scott 

 County Farm Bureau. 



How Knox Did ilt 



A 25 per cent cut in quadrennial 

 farm land valuations in Knox County 

 was declared at the April meeting of 

 the Board of Review. This was accom 

 plished through the efforts of the Farm 

 '' Bureau tax committee working with 

 its chairman, George Charles of Knox 

 ville. Mr. Charles is treasurer of the 



County Farm Bureau, and a member 

 of the Board of Review. The assessors 

 have made most of the necessary re- 

 ductions. 



T. B. TESTING 



MAKES HEADWAY 



W/HILE more than 1,000,000 dairy 

 »» cattle out of 30,000,000 head 

 tested for tuberculosis have been de- 

 stroyed, the industry is in better con- 

 dition today than it was ten years ago 

 when the campaign against the disease 

 was inaugurated. This was the opinion 

 of Dr. John R. Mohler, chief of the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. de- 

 partment of Agriculture, at the re- 

 cent Eastern States Tuberculosis Con- 

 ference. He also stated that the an- 

 nual consumption of milk in the United 

 States has increased more than 49 

 quarts per capita since 1918. During 

 1926 the public consumed 56 billion 

 pounds of milk and cream, an increase 

 of two billion pounds over the quantity 

 consumed in 1925. 



To date 874 cities have tuberculin- 

 testing ordinances and 375 provide an 

 option between the tuberculin test and 

 pasteurization. 



POOR WIRING STARTS 



MANY FARM FIRES 



A CONDITION that exists to a greater 

 or less extent in practically every 

 rural community was revealed during 

 the recent inspection of farm proper- 

 ties in Sun Prairie Township, near 

 Madison, Wis. In a number of in- 

 stances, electric wiring of dwellings 

 was found in very poor condition, espe- 

 cially on farms where the wiring had 

 not been up to the proper standard 

 originally, or the insulation had worn 

 off from one cause or another. In 

 other cases, it was found that while 

 the original wiring had been properly 

 installed, extensions had been made by 

 inexperienced persons, who did not re- 

 alize the necessity of proper insula- 

 tion when running the wires through 

 partitions, or along the ceiling or floor 

 of the building. 



Another defect discovered by the fire 

 preventionists, and one that not in- 

 frequently causes fire, was the over- 

 loading of the circuit. Originally in- 

 stalled for lighting purposes only, ex- 

 tensions to electric irons, washing ma- 

 chines, or other devices had been made 

 from time to time, with the result that 

 the system was taxed far beyond the 

 limit of safety. 



Attention is called to the fact that 

 the most important part of an electri- 

 cal equipment and the one least under- 

 stood, as a rule, is the fuse plug, which 

 is the safety valve of the system. An 

 overloaded electric wire becomes heated 

 and the greater the quantity of the cur- 

 rent the higher the temperature. The 

 rubber insulation on the wire vul- 

 canizes when subjected to high tem- 

 perature and loses its insulating value. 

 To care for this contingency, the fuse 

 is placed in the electrical circuit. 



HOW THE SEAWAY 

 WILL AID FARMER 



Eight reasons for building the Great 

 Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway to benefit 

 the farmer, according to the St. Law- 

 rence Tidewater Association, are as 

 follows : 



First — It will cheapen the cost of 

 carrying to market the food stuffs he 

 exports. 



Second — It will establish a new and 

 higher level of prices for food stuffs 

 he sells at home. 



Third — It will give him a wider 

 range of markets, and enable him to 

 select a wider variety of crops adapted 

 to such markets. 



Fourth— It will give to all lines of 

 regional excess production a wider 

 marketing field, and will help to pre- 

 vent local market gluts within this 

 country — gluts that work havoc with 

 producer prices throughout the area of 

 surplus production, and that bring loss 

 and farming instability to farmers 

 within the regions of food supply 

 shortage. 



Fifth — It will extend to the farmer 

 the benefits of lower transportation 

 costs on imports consumed on the farm. 



Sixth — The St. Lawrence Seaway 

 will promote the growth of industries 

 and of consumer population closer to 

 the central area of farm production, 

 thereby moving the factory closer to 

 the farm and the consumer closer to 

 the producer. 



Seventh— It will benefit the farm- 

 ers of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific 

 coasts by placing their products with- 

 in reach of the interior by direct, low- 

 cost water transportation. 



Eighth— It will help to stabilize 

 American agriculture as a whole by 

 stimulating a better distributed, more 

 orderly, more efficient, and a steadily 

 expanding home market. It will help 

 to stabilize American agriculture as a 

 whole by providing the best possible 

 means for direct trade connection and 

 low cost transportation to all surplus- 

 consuming markets throughout the 

 world. I i if 



GAS TAX GOES INTO 

 FORCE ON AUGUST 1 



■pNFORCEMENT of the gas tax on 

 ■L^ Aug. 1 is predicted in spite of 

 attempted injunctions by organized 

 motorists to hold it up. 



Forms for keeping records of all 

 gasoline used in stationary engines, 

 and tractors are being drawn up at 

 this writing and should be ready for 

 distribution by the end of the week, 

 or by July 16. I. A. A. members are 

 advised to write to the Department of 

 Finance, State House, Springfield, 111., 

 for a supply in case the local oil dis- 

 tributor or filling station does not offer 

 them. 



All applications for rebates on gaso- 

 line not used in motor cars must be 

 made within six months of time of pur- 

 chase. 



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