THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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BASEBALL 

 DOPE 



Eligibility Question 



Baseball Commissioner, 



Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League. 



"During our recent membership drive 

 we sig:ned up many new members for 

 the new three-year period which be- 

 gins on October 1, 1928. (Jur Execu- 

 tive Committee voted to give these new 

 members Farm Bureau service imme- 

 diately, that is, during the summer 

 months. For example, they may avail 

 themselves of the opportunity to buy 

 serum and virus even though a non- 

 member is not granted this privilege. 



"Now then, can we say to any of 

 these men interested in baseball that 

 they are eligible to play on our base- 

 ball team, although their membership 

 period does not begin until October 1? 

 We would like very much to be able to 

 grant them this privilege along with 

 our other privileges. We have one or 

 two good prospects." 



HARRISON FAHRNKOPF, 

 Farm Adviser, McLean County." 

 Answer: — 



If the Farm BOreau chooses to give 

 a man full and regular standing as a 

 Farm Bureau member after signing, 

 there is no reason why he or a mem- 

 ber of his family should be barred from 

 playing Farm Bureau baseball. When 

 the Farm Bureau serves such people on 

 the same basis as it does old members, 

 in effect it says that such men are 

 members in good and regular standing. 

 Therefore they should be allowed to 

 play. 



Champaign Beats DeWitt 



CHAMPAIGN county defeated De- 

 Witt in a one-sided game played 

 at the 19th district I. A. A. picnic at 

 Sullivan on Aug. 10. The score was 

 17 to 2. Champaign made 11 hits to 

 DeWitt's 5. At least part of the large 

 number of runs made by Champaign 

 were due to DeWitt county's five er- 

 rors. Champaign made three. 



The game was played before a large 

 picnic crowd following the speaking 

 program. Batteries for DeWitt were 

 W. Bell and B. Mills, pitchers, and L. 

 Bell, catcher. Buddemeier and Parker 

 acted for Champaign. The same two 

 teams were scheduled to cross bats 

 again at the Atlanta Fair, on Aug. 14. 

 McLean and Logan counties are lead- 

 ing in this division. 



THE REMOVAL OF RUBBISH 

 and unnecessary accumulation of com- 

 bustible materials is important in les- 

 sening the number of farm fires, says 

 the National Fire Protection Associa- 

 tion. Rubbish accumulated during the 

 winter should be burned now. 



O'NEAL IS LAUDED 



Ed A. O'Neal 



Senator Key Pittman of Nevada 

 paid the following tribute recently to 

 Ed A. O'Neal, who speaks at the I. 

 A. A. Farm Bureau district picnics to 

 be held at Bloomington, Aug. 31, 

 Freeport, Sept. 1, and Jacksonville, 

 Sept. 3, for his good work in present- 

 ing the need for an adequate farm 

 plank at the Democratic National Con- 

 vention, Houston : 



"It was due to the clear and patient 

 arguments made by you, George N. 

 Peek, and others that resulted in the 

 adoption of the farm plank in the 

 party platform." 



OFFICIAL STANDING OF TEAMS IN THE 



ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU BASEBALL LEAGUE 



FOR WEEK ENDING AUGUST II, 1921 



DIvUiM I W. L. Pet. Divlsian 



W. L. Pet. 



750 

 250 



Henry 4 1000 McDonoush ...3 1 



Whiteside 2 000 Ilenderson 1 S 



Stark _ 2 000 



Division III W. L. Pet. OlvisiM IV W. U Pet. 



1 833 Loean ...._ 4 1000 



3 500 McLran 3 2 



Champaign ....3 3 

 500 DeWitt 5 



Tazewell 5 



Woodford 3 



Marshall- 

 Putnam 3 



Peoria 1 



Division V W. L. 



Cass 5 1 



Morsan 3 1 



Slason 3 



Scott 3 



166 



Pet. Division VII W. L. 



833 Jefferson 4 



750 Washington ....1 2 



000 Clay 3 



000 



600 

 500 

 000 



Pet. 



1000 

 333 

 000 



Division VIII W. L. Pet. 



Lawrence 2 1000 



Wayne 2 000 



Results Games 



AUGUST 4, 1928 (At Arenzville) 



Cass 11 11 hits — 2 errors 



Morgan 6 11 hits — 4 errors 



AUGUST 6 



Henderson 10 McDonough 2 



(No other details reported) 



AUGUST 10 (At Sullivan) 



Champaign 17 5 hits — 3 errors 



DeWitt 2 5 hits — 5 errors 



RADIO 



NEWS 



New Radio Features 



NEW radio features, recently an- 

 nounced by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture for the 

 coming fall, will include the U. S. Ra- 

 dio Farm Forum, Outdoors with the 

 Scientist, Farm Science Snapshots, and 

 the Agricultural Situation. 



The Farm Forum will be broadcast 

 exclusively on the I. A. A. program 

 from WJJD, Mooseheart, in this terri- 

 tory beginning October 1. The Farm 

 Forum will be a daily discussion of 

 farm problems. Much of it will be de- 

 voted to useful economic information. 



The Agricultural Situation will be 

 broadcast the first Monday of each 

 month. This will be a fifteen-minute 

 summary of farm conditions in the 

 corn belt. 



Morse Salisbury, director of radio for 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 visited the I. A. A. radio studio recently 

 when he outlined the department's pro- 

 gram for the coming fall and winter. 



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Hancock Demonstrates 



Grape Spray Schedule 



COMPLETE spraying sche(Jule for 

 grapes is being demonstrated in 

 the old Nauvoo vine-yard section of 

 Hancock county under the auspices cf 

 the Hancock County Farm Bureau and 

 the University of Illinois. 



An effort is being made to show 

 what can be done toward producing 

 clean fruit free from the berry moth 

 and brown rot, and to prevent damage 

 to vines by grape root worms, leaf 

 hoppers, and other insects. 



Check plots have been left in the 

 vineyards on the George Marzolf and 

 Richard Baxter farms. Other experi- 

 ments are being conducted to show the 

 use of fertilizers and to learn which 

 method of pruning is most successful. 



Grape growing is an important in- 

 dustry in the Nauvoo territory. 



Co-operation Pays in ' 



Minnesota, Prices Show 



"TAURING the week ending April 22, 

 ■•--' dairymen in one section of Min- 

 nesota received 51 cents per pound 

 butterfat for sour No. 1 cream, accord- 

 ing to a statement made by a prom- 

 inent Chicago commission merchant. 

 Sweet cream brought 54 cents per 

 pound butterfat. 



During the same week, states Frank 

 Gougler, director of produce market- 

 ing for the L A. A., the Illinois cream 

 stations paid on the average only 42 

 to 43 cents, a discount of eight to nine 

 cents from the Minnesota prices. 



