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P(i<7r Eleven 



the picnickers. Threshing was out 

 of the way in most sections of Peoria 

 and Tazewell counties, and as a result 

 the turnout from these counties was 

 large. 



M. S. Winder, secretary of the A. F. 

 B. F., was the speaker of the day. O. 

 L. Hatch, president of the Stark Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau, opened the afternoon 

 program and presided. He first intro- 

 duced Executive Committeeman A. R. 

 Wright of Varna, then the other Farm 

 Bureau presidents in the district. Con- 

 gressman Hull of Peoria, and later 

 the speaker. Tazewell defeated Henry 

 county in the second game of their 

 series in the State Farm Bureau Base- 

 ball League elimination contest. Mar- 

 shall-Putnam won the horseshoe tour- 

 nament. 



Bloomington, Aug. 31. — Beautiful 

 Miller Park, Bloomington's show place, 

 was the scene here today of the 

 I. A. A. -Farm Bureau picnic for mem- 

 bers of the organization in the 17th 

 Congressional district. A crowd esti- 

 mated by Charlie Hill, park superin- 

 tendent, at between 12,000 and 15,000 

 filled the spacious grounds by early 

 afternoon. 



Two hotly contested baseball games 

 held in the morning drew an immense 

 audience. Woodford county defeated 

 McLean's fast team in the first game 

 3 to 2 while Logan administered its 

 second beating to the McDonough 

 County Farm Bureau nine in the sec- 

 ond game. The first contest was un- 

 official, and the second was an official 

 game in the semi-finals toward select- 

 ing the champions of the Illinois Farm 

 Bureau Baseball League. 



Logan Barber, who weighs 32.5 

 pounds and measures 58 inches around 

 the belt, won the first prize for the 

 man with the biggest bay window. Gus 

 Gilard, a professional clown from Chi- 

 cago, entertained young and old 

 throughout the day. President Earl 

 C. Smith of the L A. A. introduced 

 Ed. A. O'Neal of Alabama, speaker of 

 the day. George Stoll of Chestnut 

 presided. Sam Smith of Anchor and 

 Ed Kruse of Colfax, McLean county's 

 entry, won the horseshoe tournament. 

 Hog calling, chicken calling, and other 

 stunts were held following the 

 speeches. 



Olney, Aug. 30. — The largest crowd 

 ever assembled at a Southern Illinois 

 F'arm Bureau picnic gathered here to- 

 day for the 23rd district I. A. A.- 

 Farm Bureau picnic. The gathering 

 was estimated at between 8,000 and 

 10,000 people. It was held on the 

 Richland County Fair Grounds. Threat- 

 ening clouds cleared away late in the 

 morning and before noon the grounds 

 were packed with Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers, their guests and friends from 

 over the district. 



Lawrence county defeated Jefferson 

 county's Farm Bureau nine in the 

 second game of the Southern Illinois 

 Championship series. It was a one- 

 sided contest with the fast Lawrence 

 county boys getting the long end of a 

 20 to 1 score. 



The Cover 



MORE than 30 years ago, 

 President Draper of the 

 University of Illinois said that 

 "the wealth of Illinois lies in her 

 soil and her future in its devel- 

 opment." This statement which 

 adorns the entrance to the old 

 agricultural building at Urbana 

 is more than half true even to- 

 day. Thirty or fifty yeai's ago 

 it was a more accurate state- 

 ment. 



Today it is apparent that the 

 future of agriculture lies in the 

 hands of the farm men and 

 women of tomorrow. These are 

 the farm boys and girls of today. 

 The Four H clubs whose repre- 

 sentatives are featured on the 

 cover page are doing their bit 

 toward giving farm boys and 

 girls a vision of what is best in 

 agriculture. 



W. L. Cope, of Salem, I. A. A. ex- 

 ecutive committeeman from the 23rd 

 (iistrict, presided and introduced the 

 speakers. Congressman Henry T. 

 Rainey of Carrollton discussed the 

 national agricultural situation. Pres. 

 Earl C. Smith spoke briefly before 

 presenting the Congressman who has 

 represented Mr. Smith's home district, 

 the 20th, for more than 20 years. 



Marion, Aug. Ifi. — A light rain 

 which fell here early this morning 

 coupled with the fact that the peach 

 harvest was in full swing in several 

 sections of the 24th and 25th districts, 

 held the crowd down to approximately 

 3.000 to 5,000 people. The occasion 

 was the joint I. A. A.-P"arm Bureau 

 l)icnic of the two districts. 



The picnic site was the beautiful 

 grounds of the Williamson County 

 P'air at the edge of town. 



The address of Congressman Charles 

 .Adkins of Decatur, speaker of the day. 

 was presented in the September issue 

 of the Bureau Farmer. 



Wins at Fairbury ' 



Fairbury, Sept. 3. — Gaylord Peter- 

 son, a 19-year-old Toluca lad, won the 

 tirst prize' in the annual horseshoe 

 pitching tournament at the Fairbury 

 Fair here today. The tournament, open 

 to everyone, was sponsored by the Il- 

 linois State Horseshoe Pitchers' Asso- 

 ciation. Peterson won a medal and 

 !?50 in cash. The champion tossed 

 272 ringers in the seven games played. 

 .Joe Bennett of Congerville placed sec- 

 ond. Walter Torbert, deceased, of 

 Clinton, was the 1927 champion. Har- 

 ry Torbert, Walter's brother, entered 

 the contest this year but failed to 

 place. 



Sam G. Smith. Farm Bureau mem- 

 ber from .Anchor, won first plact^ in 

 riass B. 



Illinois Woman Hangs Up 

 New Horseshoe Record 



Rochester, N. Y.,. Sept. 5. — Three 

 world's records were broken in the 

 opening elimination trials of the 

 Women's National Horseshoe Pitching 

 tournament here Monday, held in con- 

 nection with the annual Rochester ex- 

 position and horse show. The world 

 records were established by Mrs. C. A. 

 Lanhan, Bloomington, I!!., former 

 woild champion, and Miss Doris Per- 

 kins, Springfield, Ma.-;s., high school 

 girl, pitching in her first national 

 tournament. 



Both tossed 54 ringers each, estab- 

 lishing a new record for number of 

 ringers pitched in a 50-point game. 

 The women broke another record by 

 putting four ringers on the pegs four 

 consecutive times and Miss Perkins 

 established the third record with 18 

 double ringers, the largest number 

 over made in a 50-point game. Mr.s. 

 Lanhan, .Miss Perkins. Mrs. E. E. Cole, 

 Ann .Arbor, Mich., and Mrs. Edith 

 Hough, Willard, Ohio, emerged vic- 

 torious in the trials. 



The four winning women will com- 

 pete in further trials this week for 

 the title of world champion now held 

 by Mrs. .Mayme Francisco, St. Peters- 

 burg. F'ia.. who is not <iefending her 

 laurels. 



$700,000 Saved Farmers 



By Freight Reduction 



\T least STOO.UOO a year has been 

 -i *■ lopped off the freight bill Farm 

 Bureau folks in Ohio, Indiana. Michi- 

 gan and Illinois have been i)aying for 

 the commercial fertilizer they need on 

 their farms. Through the combined 

 etforts of the Farm Bureaus in these 

 states, and with the co-o])eration of 

 the American ?"arni Bureau Federa- 

 tion, a four-year fight for reduction 

 of the fertilizer freight rates was won 

 when on July 1 1 the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission -ordered a reduc- 

 tion, effective at an early date. 



The decrease varies in amount from 

 SO cents to $1.60 a ton according to 

 distance from point of origin of the 

 shipments, but the average reduction 

 for the entire territory is $1 per ton. 

 An estimate made during the course 

 of the hearing placed the quantity used 

 in this region as 700.000 tons. 



This means a saving of S300.000 an- 

 nually to Ohio farmers; 8250,000 to 

 Indiana farmers and about $100,000 

 to Michigan farmers. If you are one 

 of the farmers to be benefited, get 

 out the comptometer and figure up 

 how much you will clear from this one 

 deal over and above the cost of your 

 membership in the Farm Bureau. 



Frank Barton of Cornell, vice president of 

 Illinois Aericullural Association, was the 

 >peakor at a Peoria county community meet- 

 injr at the Dave Wyktiflf fnrm -i-ar I.,n"ir». 

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