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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Get Ready for District Picnics 



Lr.fues oj Interest to Agriculture Will Be Discussed at 14 Great Outdoor Gatherings 



Bring 'em along 



/COMMITTEES in 14 congressional 

 ^-^ districts are meeting regularly 

 these days, each determined to outdo 

 the others in organizing' the test I. A. 

 A.-F a r ni Bureau 

 picnics in the state. 

 That these gath- 

 erings will com- 

 p a r e favorably 

 with former I. A. 

 A. state picnics is 

 assured according 

 to news and infor- 

 mation coming from various sections 

 of the state. Baseball games, horse- 

 shoe pitching, hog calling and chicken 

 calling contests, races for the kids, 

 and all the attractions heretofore as- 

 sociated with the annual state picnics 

 will feature the dis- 

 trict events. 



As one farm ad- 

 viser put it, "We ex- 

 pect to have just as 

 large a crowd and as 

 much fun at our dis- 

 trict picnic with the 

 further advantage 

 that the members can 

 make the drive much 

 more easily and be 

 home in time to do 

 chores." 



Want Baseball Teams 



The districts al- 

 ready are vieing with 

 each other to get the 

 leading teams in the 

 Illinois Farm Bureau 

 Baseball League to 

 play off their regular 

 semi-final and final 

 games at their re- 

 spective picnics. 

 League leaders are 

 co-operating in this 

 move. The semi-finals 

 are expected to begin 

 about the third week 

 in August. 



A movement is un- 

 derway to arrange 

 for a state horseshoe tournament where 

 the winners at the district picnics will 

 meet to decide the state championship. 

 Whether this tournament will be held 

 in connection with the last picnic of the 

 season on Labor Day at Jacksonville 

 has not been definitely decided. But 

 this picnic in the 20th district is being 

 favorably considered because of the ad- 

 vantages in time and location af- 

 forded. 



"Fighting Bill" Settle 



Speakers already have been definitely 



scheduled for all except three of the 

 14 picnics. These include congressmen 

 and leaders who have been prominent 

 in the cause of equality for agriculture 

 during the past six years. Wm. H. 

 Settje, known as "Fighting Bill" in the 

 Hoosier state where he is president of 

 the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, 

 will be a popular attraction at Taylor- 

 ville on August 8, Highland Aug. 9, 

 and at Sullivan on Aug. 10. 



Mr. Settle is a director in the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau Federation and acts 

 as manager of the Central States Soft 

 Wheat Growers Association. 



Smith to Speak 



The last picnic to be scheduled will 

 be held first, namely, the 11th district 



Tune up Lizzie 



THE FAMOUS ED TORBERT AND JOE HESKITT TEAM 



The late Ed Torbert, who succumbed to a fatal attack of pneumonia recently and Joe 



Heskitt, his partner, did much to raise the standard of horseshoe pitching in Illinois. 



They won the state championship three years in succession. 



picnic booked for Herrick Lake near 

 Wheaton in Dupage county on Wednes- 

 day, July 25. Earl C. Smith will be 

 speaker. 



Congressman Charles Adkins of De- 

 catur will speak at Marion Aug. 17, 

 and at Macomb on Aug. 21. Mr. Ad- 

 kins is well known to Illinois farmers. 

 For many years he was active in the 

 grain business, and later served as 

 state director of agriculture. He was 

 especially prominent in the McNary- 

 Haugen debates in the 70th congress. 



Congressman Charles Brand of Ur- 

 bana, Ohio, one of the most able spokes- 

 men for agriculture in congress, will 

 appear at Olney on Aug. 30, Blooming- 

 ton Aug. 31, Free- i « 

 port, Sept. 1, and 

 Jacksonville, Sept. 

 3. 



Some of the best 

 picnic sites in Illi- 

 nois have been 

 chosen. Estimates 

 of the expected 



crowds vary from 6,000 to 10,000 to 

 as high as 20,000 people. Knox 

 county heretofore has had unusually 

 large crowds at the annual Farm Bu- 

 reau picnics. With the aid of other 

 counties in the district this year, the 

 picnic at Galesburg 

 on Aug. 15 promises 

 to surpass those held 

 in previous years. 

 Peach Crop Harvest 

 For the most part 

 the dates have been 

 chosen to avoid con- 

 flicts with harvest. 

 Whether or not the 

 peach crop will be out 

 of the way around 

 Mapion by Aug. 17 is 

 problematical, but 

 local leaders are in 

 hopes that most of 

 the peaches will have 

 been disposed of by 

 that time. 



Some of the old 

 familiar faces will be 

 missing at the picnics 

 this year. Such 

 prominent figures as 

 Ed Torbert and his 

 son Walter of Dewitt 

 county, always the 

 center of attraction 

 where the horseshoes 

 were flying at former 

 I. A. A. state picnics, 

 will not be there. 

 Father and son passed 

 away recently from a short but fatal 

 attack of pneumonia. Harry alone is 

 left of this most famous trio of barn- 

 yard golf experts in Illinois history. 



The poster part of which is repro- 

 duced on the cover page will advertise 

 the picnics in every congressional dis- 

 trict. Local committees will provide 

 their own windshield stickers and ar- 

 rows to mark the roads to the picnics. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of 

 the I. A. A. will be held at Danville, 

 Jan. 30-31, 1929. 





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