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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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What the Counties J 

 - Are Doings '- 



Henderson county beat Warren at 



the Warren County Farm Bureau pic- 

 nic at Monmouth on Aug. 26. The 

 ; score was 2 to although it was any- 

 body's game until the last man was 

 out, says Farm Adviser E. D. Walker. 

 ' Pence, who pitched for the winners, 

 struck out nin« men and gave three 

 hits, while Turner, the opposing pitch- 

 er, struck out 12 men but was touched 

 for six hits, four of which came in 

 ■ pairs. _, .; , :^ ■+• .^ - 



"Crawford county boys and girls won 



two state championships at the Illinois 

 State Fair, and the Crawford County 



> Jersey breeders who exhibited won 

 one-tenth of the prizes in the Jersey 

 classes given there," writes J. Z. 

 Frazier, farm adviser. This is the 

 first time the county was represented 

 in club work at Springfield. One 



:• championship was won by a club team 

 demonstrating poultry culling, and the 

 other was awarded Margaret Barber 

 of Hutsonville for the state champion 

 showman in all dairy classes. Mem- 



. bers of the winning team are Leaf el 

 Norton, Glen Wilson, and Ernest Cor- 

 rell. Mary Trimble won first and 

 Louise Trimble second over all Jersey 

 calves exhibited. i 1 : j ^ v : /.; 



: ■' The Henry County Farm Bureau is 



cooperating with Prairie Farmer in the 

 formation of a Henry Coi*ity Protec- 

 tive Association to stop farm stealing. 

 R. S. Saunders of the Illinois Bankers' 

 Association who outlined his ideas for 

 a county protective system in a re- 



: cent radio talk on the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association program from 



' station WJJD, presented his plan 



: again at a meeting held at Cambridge 

 on Aug. 19. "Aroused public senti- 



-■ ment and cooperation of farmers will 

 stop chicken stealing and farm thiev- 

 ery," said Mr. Saunders. 



Farm Advisers Allison and Hopkins 



■ of Livingston county are concentrating 

 on farm visits, making soil tests, out- 

 lining crop rotations, and making de- 

 - finite recommendations toward re- 

 : establishing fields of alfalfa that were 

 killed by wet weather. "We expect to 

 continue our activity in recommend- 

 ing proper care and feeding of live 

 " stock to adults as well as to the junior 

 club members," says Allison. 



"On August 22, we unloaded our 



seventh tramload of limestone be- 



. tween Effingham and Dieterich on the 



I. C. R. R.," says Farm Adviser 



Wascker. "The stone is loaded in side 



dump cars and our farmers meet the 



train at desigrnated points to help 



dump. The stone is hauled away at the 



: convenience of the men who buy it. 



: This system saved our men an average 



' of three miles each of hauling. The 



seven loads were delivered during the 



The FARM BUREAU HEADQUARTERS tent was a popular meetiM place for 

 members from nearly every county in Illinois during State Fair Week. This picture 

 shows the tent crowded during mid-day by visitors Mrho are resting and cooUng off 

 in the shade. 



past five years and represent 183 cars 

 or about 8,500 tons of stone bought by 

 40 farmers." 



Ford county started on its third co- 

 operative cream station on July 29. 

 So far the station has handled more 

 than half the town's business, and 

 there are four old line stations in 

 town. J. T. Arens, an experienced 

 cream and butter man, is the manager. 

 "The L A. C. A. audit of our Seed Corn 

 Ass'n. shows 385,657 ears of seed corn 

 stored and tested at a cost of $6,086.27 

 or $.0158 per ear," writes Farm Ad- 

 viser Swaim. '/v' ■'^■- ■■■■• .■.■•■;>;'•:.■■:: ::\ 



Madison county recently completed 



plans for bringing in a trainload of 

 29 cars of limestone. Sixteen of the 

 cars will be set out at stations, and 

 13 will be dumped along the right-of- 

 way, 30 inches from the rails. "The 

 cost of dumping will be about 10 or 

 12 cents a ton," says Adviser Raut. 

 "We feel that after we have succeeded 

 in getting this train, more will fol- 

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"We have sold 1,390,785 e. c. of 



serum and virus already this year, 

 335,785 c.c. of which was delivered in 

 August," says Adviser A. A. Olsen of 

 Warren county. "Fifteen thousand at- 

 tended the Warren-Henderson Farm 

 Bureau picnic held in Monmouth Park 

 on Friday, Aug. 26 when Congress- 

 man Dickinson spoke." 



Congressman Brand made a very 



favorable impression at the Lawrence 

 County Farm Bureau picnic according 

 to H. C. Wheeler, farm adviser. Law- 

 rence county's speedy Farm Bureau 

 baseball team licked the champs from 

 Knox county, Ind., 8 to 7. 



"We may increase our acreage of al- 

 falfa this year more than in previous 

 year," says Farm Adviser Issacs of 

 Mason county. "Limestone orders 

 are not up to previous years although 

 we are shipping a lot of it into the 

 county." 



C. W. Simpson of White county ad- ; 



vises that work has already started on v 

 a cooperative cream pool at Norris - 

 City. This is the outgrowth of a • 

 dairy association which has been meet- \ 

 ing more than a year. Two red top ■>■ 

 growers, the first from this county, re- 

 cently signed up with the Egyptian /^ 

 Seed Growers Exchange. 



All business houses olosed at noon 



when Rushville merchants joined 

 Schuyler county farmers in the annual -. 

 Farm Bureau picnic on Sept. 1. The 

 Farm Bureau baseball team beat the 

 business men 12 to 10. President Earl 

 C. Smith was the speaker. . j ,. ..... 



Marshall-Putnam county will supply \- 



free tattoo outfits for marking poultry 

 to members of the new county-wide 

 protective association now being or- 

 ganized. A reward of $100 is to be . '; 

 posted on each Farm Bureau mem- 

 ber's farm for the capture and convic- 

 tion of any thief. Seven thousand peo- ' 

 pie attended the annual Farm Bureau 

 picnic at the John Swaney school T 

 g^rounds on Aug. 30 when Congress- .'.; 

 man Dickinson addressed the grather- -; 

 ing. •.■■:;:. 



- Ralph Allen Dies 



Ralph Allen, former president of the 

 Illinois Farmers' Institute and leader , ' 

 in the Illinois Farmers* Grain Dealers' " 

 Association passed away suddenly at ^ 

 his home near Delavan on Sept. 3. He -. 

 was stricken with a heart attack and .\ 

 died three hours later. 



Mr. Allen was born at Seekonk,^ ■'■■. 

 Mass., in 1854 and moved to Delavan 

 in Tazewell county at the age of 15. :; 

 He organized the Tazewell County f; 

 Farmers' Institute and acted as presi- .\. 

 dent of the Illinois Farmers' Institute ', 

 from 1922 to 1926. He was a gradu- 

 ate of the University of Illinois, class ' 

 of 1876, and for many years was a '; . 

 membe^^)f the soils investigation com- 

 mittee of that institution. 



Each of the seven surviving sons 

 and daughters of Mr. A'.en are uni- v 

 versity gfraduates. 





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