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That's What Harvey Cobb Says About His Farm Bureau 



Membership 



IT ISN'T how much you farm, it's 

 how you farm that counts. And it 

 . isn't how much you know, but how 

 mudi of your knowledge you put into 

 ''iperalion, that often makes the differ- 

 ence between success and faihne. 



Harvey Cobb of Ustick township, 

 Whiteside county, an active Farm Bu- 

 reau member, is demonstrating how 

 you can farm intensively and succeed 

 on 80 acres when you pj'ac'.ice the best 

 methods advocated l)y the Farm Bu- 

 reau. 



Like many others. Harvey and Mrs. 

 Cobb started farming in 1919 on high- 

 pritcd land, paying about twice what 

 the farm would liring today and going 

 heavily in debt. But in spite of that 

 iiandicap, the Cobbs have improved 

 their farm, kept up their interest pay- 

 ments, whittled the mortgage down 

 half, have two fine children, Corliss 14 

 :ind Clavton .5, and l<ist vear with the 



aid of the AAA program and better 

 prices, turned what might have been 

 defeat into victory. 



And Harvey will smile and tell you 

 that the help he got from the Farm Bu- 

 reau, plus the united efforts of organ- 

 ized farmers in raising farm prices, re- 

 ducing takes, and easing the credit 

 problem had a lot to do with his suc- 

 cess. 



Harvey joined the Farm Bureau soon 

 after he began farming on his own. 

 About the first thins he did was to find 

 out why his .sod' wouldn't grow clover. 

 He took a soil .sample to the Farm Bu- 

 reau office and liad it tested. It was 

 acid. 



"I hauled my first carload of lime- 

 stone eight miles up the old Carroll 

 road from Morrison in 1919." he .said. 

 "That's before it was. paved. Cost me 

 S2.19 a ton. SomC- of my neighbors 

 thought I was crazy." 



That initial starft l.i years ago was 

 followed up until every field toda.\ 

 has grown sweet clover and alfalfa. 

 ■This is the rea.son why Harvey pro- 

 duced 80 bu. of corn to the acie 

 two year.s ago and why he can feed 

 an unbelieveable number of farm 

 animals on 80 acres. 



Hogs, poultry, ccrs. milk and cat- 



MRS. COBB FEEDING HER FLOCK OF 1100 



SPRING FRYS OUT OK NEW ALFALFA 



PASTURE 



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HARVEY COBB ABOUT TO REPLENISH THE 

 HOG OILER. 



lie are the inortgag(.> lifters on the Ciil)b 

 farm. These. log<'ther with a gixid 

 yiiung orchard, a productive garden, 

 and occasional salt's of hay. fet-d and 

 soybeans all contribute to making the 

 farm pay. 



The first thing you notice about the 

 spring shoats is that they're out on 

 clean ground in alfalfa pasture, and 

 well grown evtn for February pigs. 

 "There are .50 h<'re from six sows." 

 Harvey said. "They're Hampshire and 

 Duroc crossbreds. All vaccinated when 

 lhe\' were three to four weeks old with 

 Farm Bureau .serum. I do the work 

 myself, .save my, membershiii dues on 

 this service alone. They'll be ready for 

 market aljout the middle Df Septem- 

 ber. The Chicago Producers has been 

 selling my hogs for years and gettinJ; 

 me a good price. Co-operative- market- 

 ing is the only way farmers ever will 

 have anything to say about the price.'' 



The fall pigs are farrowed about the 

 20th of .August tf) go on the market 

 at from six to seven months of at;e the 

 following March. There are two mov-' 

 able hog houses each of which can be 

 partitioned to make six farrowing pens. 

 (Continued on page fi) 



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