'THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Seven 



STATE CHAMPION LIVESTOCK JUDGES 



Macon county's fat stock judging team above won first in the recent state contest held at the 

 University of Illinois for club members. Left to rig^ht are Farm Adviser K. H. Walworth, Dan 

 Shutter, Carroll Cassity, Lawrence Hockaday, and L. W. Shutter, coach. 



The lad in the circle is Albert Dozier of the Sanganton county team who won high individual honors. 



The group below is DeKalb county's crack dairy judging team showing Raymond C. Nelson, 

 assistant adviser and coach, Charles Lett, Ralph Nelson, and Thos. Robinson. 



Donald Dean of the Bureau county team is the boy in the oval. He is the state champion dairy 

 judge. These boys will represent Illinois at coming national contests. 



Government Crop 



, Forecasts Upheld 



(Continued from page 3) 



in the dark until the product has 

 passed out of his hands. The estimates 



five a valuable basis of judgment, 

 hose who operate on tl^e basis of this 

 information will on the average come 

 out far ahead of those who go it in 

 the dark. 



Protect Govt. Forecasting 



It is the duty of every farmer and 

 of every organized group of farmers 

 to do everything they can to protect 

 and not to destroy this invaluable 

 service without which the farmers 

 must work in the dark so far as their 

 own economic outlook is concerned. 

 The farmer's own eye will not reach. 

 It is necessary for the nation to pro- 

 vide an organization which will trans- 

 mit information to the farmer if he is 

 not to be left in ignorance while those 

 to whom he sells his products operate 

 in the light of privately collected in- 

 formation. Uncle Sam, through the 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics of 

 the United States Department of Ag- 

 riculture is striving to perform this 

 ifunction. 



_ How completely Uncle Sam can pro- 

 vide this service depends largely on 

 the extent to which he has the aid of 

 statesmen who wish to serve the na- 



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tion as a whole. The organized farm- 

 ers of America must be alert to pro- 

 tect this "eye of the farmer" and keep 

 its economic vision clear and strong in 

 order that the image it transmits may 

 be a true reflection of the facts that 

 concern them. While struggling to 

 develop this service Secretary Wallace 

 said, "Farmers must organize and fight 

 for their rights," and he prophesied 

 that unless they do so the Department 

 of Agriculture will not be able to con- 

 tinue freely to collect and give out 

 economic information essential to the 

 independence of the farmers: in other 

 words, without the support of orga- 

 nized agriculture the "eye of the 

 farmer" will not be able to function. 



The Jersey County Farm Bureau 



introduced : a novel feature at its re- 

 cent picnit; when communities rather 

 than individuals competed in the var- 

 ious contests. Each community was 

 asked to furnish entries, and points 

 made were credited to the community 

 from which the contestant was enter- 

 ed. Ten different neighbors were rep- 

 resented. Contests included horseshoe 

 pitching, a slow Ford race, rolling pin 

 throwing, hog calling, chicken calling, 

 and others. The Voorhees community 

 won the 17 points and received a lov- 

 ing cup 2% feet high made of tin. 



Working Together in 



lii / :! ' Richland County 



(Continued from page 6) 

 to individual shippers are figured here 

 and returns made to shippers. Rich- 

 land County geogrraphy lends itself to 

 this ■ arrangement. This is a fairly 

 small county and Olney, the county 

 seat, at which point the Farm Bureau 

 office is located, is almost the exact 

 center of the county. 



The outstanding features of the 

 Richland County Shipping Association 

 are: A 100 per cent Producer spirit 

 and the complete satisfaction of such 

 a policy, the intimate relationship be- 

 tween the Farm Bureau and the Ship- 

 ping Association, and. the diflPerential 

 between members and non-members of 

 the Association. Ailing Associations 

 in some sections might do well to re- 

 model their Associations after the 

 Richland plan<i 



What the Couinties Are Doing 



(Continued from page 6) 



OG. BARRETT, farm adriser in 

 • Cook county, returned recently 

 from a trip through the cornborer in- 

 fested area of the east. Cook county 

 raises in the neighborhood of $1,000,- 

 060 worth of sweet corn annually and 

 because the oncoming borer threatens 

 sweet corn Cook county farmers feel 

 that they are faced with a serious 

 problem. The Cook County Board of 

 Commissioners recently made a very 

 liberal appropriation to the Farm Bu- 

 reau, largely because of the menace of 

 this threatening pest. ' 



Barrett traveled through Michigan 

 and badly infected area of Canada, go- 

 ing over the sweet com area in the 

 vicinity of Boston, and back through 

 New York and Ohio. "We can be 

 mighty thankful that the borer started 

 its work in an area of light corn 

 acreage," said Barrett. He is urging 

 Cook county farmers to use raw rock 

 phosphate and limestone preparatory 

 to seeding more alfalfa and sweet 

 clover. 



Kewanee-Pekin High 



Line Investigated 



Farm Bureau and Commerce Commission 

 Officials Tour Over Proposed Route 



Farm Bureau officials from Stark 

 and Peoria counties accompanied by 

 Engineer White of the Illinois Com- 

 merce Commission recently drove by 

 auto over the proposed route of the 

 Super-Power Co.'s high line between 

 Kewanee an<^ Pekin. L. J. Quasey, 

 transportation director represented the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association. 



The object of the tour held Oct 7, 

 8 was to eliminate objectionable 

 features along the route so as to dam- 

 age a minimum of farm lands. 



A meeting of Farm Bureau and 

 public utility representatives was held 

 in Peoria on Saturday to discuss con- 

 troversial matters connected with the 

 proposed line. 



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