THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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Knox County Wins 



Publicity Trophy 



LaSalle, Marshall-Putnam Close Sec- 

 ond and Third. Iroquois and 

 Monroe Get Honorable Mention 



KNOX county was awarded first place 

 for the third consecutive year in the 

 county Farm Bureau publicity contest con- 

 ducted by the publicity department of the 

 I. A. A. LaSalle county placed second, and 

 Marshall-Putnam third. Knox county will 

 retain the cup permanently as a result of 

 its third victory. The trophy was donated 

 by Sam Thompson, former president of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, over four 

 years ago. Marshall-Putnam won it the 

 first year, and Knox county the three years 

 following. 



Follow Score Card 

 Following the score card which gave 40 

 points for the official organ, 40 for news in 

 papers of county, 10 for state news, and 

 10 for special publicity features, the com- 

 mittee of judges gave Knox a score of 88, 

 LaSalle 84, and Marshall-Putnam 83. 



Each farm adviser was asked to designate 

 the five best issues of the Farm Bureau 

 paper, the five beft stories published by a 

 newspaper or farm paper, and the five best 

 pictures illustrating Farm Bureau projects. 

 The Farm Bureaus in Iroquois and Monroe 

 counties received honorable mention for 

 their good publicity work and co-operation 

 with the local newspapers. C. A. Hughes 

 of Monroe county was complimented for his 

 success in making his mimeographed o£5cial 

 publication interesting and readable. Hughes 

 has been co-operating with radio station 

 KMOX in broadcasting a farm program. 

 C. E. Johnson, Iroquois county farm ad- 

 viser, has made fine progress during the 

 past year in developing Farm Bureau pub- 

 licity. 



The farm advisers in the three counties 

 standing highest are A. R. Kemp, Knox 

 county; C. E. Gates, LaSalle county; and 

 R. J. Laible, Marshall-Putnam county. 



The contest revealed that the counties 

 having the most effective publicity projects 

 and where the farm advisers co-operate 

 with the local newspapers, have the largest 

 memberships. 



"We feel it is a real honor to win a 

 trophy of this kind," writes A. R. Kemp, 

 Knox county farm adviser. "I feel that we 

 are indeed fortunate in view of the fact 

 that there are so many fine Farm Bureau 

 publications in the state, while many of our 

 farm advisers have had special training in 

 newspaper work. 



Use Every Means 

 "The publicity service of the Knox 

 County Farm Bureau has been developed 

 with the idea of using every available means 

 of reaching the farmer and the public at 

 large, in telling the Farm Bureau story 

 News releases have been given to the daily 

 and weekly newspapers, and to farm papers 

 (Continued on page 8) 



point, it being the most fundamental thing 

 in baseball," says C. C. Burns, farm adviser. 



/. A. A, Trophies 



THE three watches shown above were 

 presented by the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association in the boys* and girls' essay con- 

 test on the subject,. "Why Club Members 

 Should Market Their Livestock Co-opera- 

 tively." The $J0 watch shown at the top 

 was awarded Gaillard Wagner of Livingston 

 county in the northern Illinois district, who 

 won the state sweepstakes prize. 



The lower watch was awarded Alice 

 Mast of Adams county, winner in the cen- 

 tral section, and the middle watch to Louis 

 Bierman of Effingham county, winner in the 

 southern district. 



Second prizes of $10 each were awarded 

 to Robert Bear of Macon county, Arthur 

 Noe of Woodford county, and Ruth Fitz- 

 gerrel of Pulaski county. Winning essays 

 were submitted from twenty counties. 

 Much interest in this contest was evidenced 

 by 4-H club members throughout the state. 



The judges of the contest were J. D. 

 Harper, editor of the National Livestock 

 Producer and George Thiem, Director of 

 Information for the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. 



"Watch Ball," Says G. Huff 



A BASEBALL meeting was held in the 

 Champaign County Farm Bureau of- 

 fice on Friday, March 28, at which G. Huff, 

 Director of Athletics at the University of 

 Illinois, told the boys to "watch the ball." 

 "He made his whole talk upon this one 



Meet At Freeport 



FARM advisers and Farm Bureau repre- 

 sentatives from counties in the 13 th 

 congressional district met at Freeport on 

 Apr. J and organized a baseball division of 

 four teams to compete in the Illinois Farm 

 Bureau Baseball League. 



Secretary George Thiem of the State 

 League attended the meeting to explain the 

 rules and regulations governing membership 

 and play. 



Farm Bureau nines from Stephenson, 

 Lee, Carroll and Jo Daviess counties will 

 enter the competition. Whiteside and Ogle 

 counties it is hoped will come in later. 



Games Scheduled 



A tentative schedule of games was drawn 

 up to begin an Saturday, May 24th. A 

 trophy will be awarded the division cham- 

 pions at the close of the season. Additional 

 games will be arranged at the completion 

 of the tentative schedule. 



.•\mong the farm advisers who attended 

 the meeting were, V. J. Banter of Free- 

 port, H. R. Brunnemeyer of Elizabeth, and 

 M. P. Roske of Mt. Carroll. Kelsye Baylor 

 of .^mboy represented Lee county. Among 

 the team managers present were, Frank 

 Bonjour of Jo Daviess and Martin Kramer 

 and Ray Folgate of Stephenson county. 



The tentative schedule is as follows: 



Saturday, May 24 

 Lee at Carroll — (Lanark). 

 Jo Daviess at Stephenson — (Freeport). 



Friday, May 30 — Decoration Day 

 Stephenson at Lee — (Amboy). 

 Carroll at Jo Daviess (Woodbine). 



Saturday, June 7 

 Lee at Jo Daviess — (Woodbine). 

 Carroll at Stephenson — (Freeport). 



Saturday, June 14 

 Carroll at Lee — (Amboy). 

 Stephenson at Jo Daviess — (Woodbine). 



Saturday, June 28 

 Lee at Stephenson — (Freeport). 

 Jo Daviess at Carroll — (Shannon). 



Friday, July 4 

 Jo Daviess at Lee — (.\mboy). 

 Stephenson at Carroll — (Lanark). 



The Fulton County Farm Bureau applied 

 for membership in the State Farm Bureau 

 League on April 7 and was accepted. 



Fulton will probably be placed in di- 

 vision II with Henry, Stark, and Knox 

 counties. This will make necessary further 

 changes in other divisions. 



