n 



ice 



The 



Dlkiois A^cuhural Assodatioii 



RECORD 



PublUbed inaitlilt bjr the niliiolt Agricultural Aitoctatioo ai 444 North Wetle7 An., Mount Morrli. 111. Entered ai tecond-ehit jnaltcr tt poet-aBlee tit Uount Monti. V\.. 

 Oct. 20. 1925. under the Act of Mar. 3. 1879. Accepttnce for mailing at ipeclal rate of potuge prorlded In Section 411. Act of Feb. 18. 1925. authoclred Oct. tt. 1»2S. 



Number 9 



SEPTEMBER, 1929 



Volume 7 



r» 



4\ 



a 

 il- 



lOt 



its 

 elt 



tl 



Three Teams fight 



For Baseball Honor 



' Taiewell Defends Title Against 

 Rivals For Illinois State 

 Championship 



THE elimination of Henry county by Mc- 

 Donough at Macomb on August 31 in the 

 third game of the hard-fought series narrowed 

 the race for the 1929 championship in the Illi- 

 nois Farm Bureau Baseball League to three 

 teams, McDonough, McLean, and Tazewell. 



The executive committee of the League in- 

 sists that Tazewell eliminate at least one of the 

 championship contenders before it be entitled 

 to play in the final series for the high honor. 

 This means that Tazewell 

 must play the loser of the 

 McDonough-McLean series. 

 If it can successfully de- 

 fend its title against one 

 of these two teams it may 

 play the other to decide 

 the annual contest. 



"Walter 

 horseshoe 



and £d Doubet won the doubles 

 tournament by narrow margins." 



Light and foiver 



front Corn Stalks 



DECOVERY of methane or marsh gas from 

 * *- cornstalks in sufficient qtuntities to light 

 and heat farm homes and even small cities, was 

 announced at the American Chemical Society's 

 7gth annual convention at Minneapolis by Dr. 

 A. M. Buswell, professor of sanitary chemistry 

 at the University of Illinois. 



From the waste of sewage and plain corn- 



Action Necessary 



This action was made 

 necessary because of the 

 uneven number of divis- 

 ional champions eligible 

 for semi-final competition. 

 By virtue of winning the 

 championship last year, 

 Tazewell was given the 

 preferred position in the 

 play-off. As a result it 



has scheduled no official games since it defeated 

 Marshall-Putnam for the divisional champion- 

 ship. McLean and McDonough were scheduled 

 to play the first game on September 10 at Mon- 

 mouth. It is hoped that the state contest will 

 be over well before the end of the month. 



The experiences of the season have been en- 

 couraging. Better sportsmanship and a spirit of 

 fair play have been apparent. In this respect 

 civilization has come a long ways since the 

 turn of the century. Old-time baseball was 

 frequently attended by savage and brutal gang 

 wars and fights between opposing teams and 

 their backers. There is little of this today, 

 although the desire to win and the fighting 

 spirit is none the less evident. High schools 

 have had a powerful influence in improving 

 sportsmanship. 



"Our Farm Bureau baseball team played Stark 

 county at our picnic last Saturday," writes J. 

 W. Whisenand, Peoria county farm adviser. 

 "The score was 21 to 7 in our favor. Our team 

 got 17 hits and Stark county 10. Peoria's 

 pitcher, Patton, struck out eight men and their 

 three pitchers. Sniff, W. Seger, and Best struck 

 out nine. 



FIGHT TO DEFEND STATE BASEBALL TITLE 

 Tazewell County's scrappy Farm Bureau nine must defeat the McDonough and 

 McLean County teams — both dangerous contenders — to retain the state championship. 



stalks, large quantities of the gas have been 

 developed at the university capable of use for 

 heating, operating automobiles in place of gaso- 

 line, and driving engines to produce electricity, 

 as well as to form the principal ingredients of 

 "dry ice." 



The apparatus used In the delivery of the 

 gas, according to the Professor, is so simple 

 that it can be installed by any farmer to de- 

 velop a private heating plant for his own use 

 from the effect of sewage on waste cornstalks. 



"After drying," Buswell states, "the stalks 

 are shredded with an ordinary shredding ma- 

 chine, boiled, soaked in water or in lime. The 

 apparatus is simply a small tank provided with 

 a cover to collect gasses." 



From a large commercial standpoint, he esti- 

 mated a circle eight miles in diameter of corn 

 land would produce enough stalks to supply 

 usual gas needs of a city of 80,000 population. 



John C. Watson, director of taxation, has 

 been appointed on a special investigational com- 

 mittee by William H. Malone, chairman of the 

 state tax commission. The committee will 

 study and report on the administration of the 

 personal property tax in Illinois. 



Policyholders Heed | 



Anti- Accident Drive 



First Weelf in September Shows 

 33 Per Cent Drop Compared <. 



With August 



AUTOMOBILE accidents among policyholders 

 '- of the Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insur- 

 ance Company dropped 33 per cent the first 

 week of September following the state-wide 

 campaign against auto accidents in which the 

 County Farm Bureaus and the I. A. A. are 

 co-operating. 



Thousands of policyholders have attached the 

 tags bearing the slogan "No Auto Accidents in 

 September" to the steering wheels of their cars. 

 Pamphlets carrying the 

 message of accident pre- 

 vention were mailed to all 

 the 16,000 odd members 

 of the company. The in- 

 fluence of the drive is al- 

 ready being felt, l 



Every 23 Mlnntes 



Every 23 minutes some- 

 one is killed in a motor 

 vehicle accident in the 

 United States. Last year 

 there were more than 

 27,500 fatalities as a re- 

 sult of auto accidents in 

 this country. 



Every auto accident, ac- 

 cording to V. Vaniman, 

 director of the safety 

 campaign, is due to ignorance or carelessness. 

 None is excusable. Many collisions and upsets 

 are due to inferior intelligence or slow reac- 

 tion to danger. Defective eyesight, poor mem- 

 ory and poor reasoning ability are other causes. 

 An intelligent driver senses danger at once. 

 He is continually on the alert, particularly at 

 intersections. He not only watches his own 

 driving but he thinks for the other driver, al- 

 ways alive to possible poor judgment and mis- 

 takes of the other fellow. I 



He Is No Dreamer 



The careful driver keeps his mind on his 

 work, especially when driving on the pavement. 

 He is no dreamer or sky gazer. He minds his 

 business, watches the road, not the landscape. 

 Accidents are often criminal and when the 

 courts take full cognizance of this truth and 

 punish those who are negligent by imprisonment 

 and deprivation of a driver's license there will 

 be some hope for reducing losses and fatalities 

 from motor collisions. 



How Accidents Occur 



A study of the losses reported to the Illinois 

 Agrictdtural Mutual since it began operating 

 reveals that i66 accidents occurred when mak- 



m,A 



