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RECORD 



Volume 13 November, 1935 Number II 



A Farm Bureau Family 



About A. D. Fulton, His Boys, Dwight and Ernest, Their 

 Families and the Brown-Eyed Jerseys 



"O 



iF COURSE she and her com- 

 panions wouldn't mind having 

 their pictures taken." "Where 

 did the photographer want them to 

 stand?" "Do you think the profile 

 would be better or would you like us 

 just straight ahead and looking at the 

 camera?" "You've already taken it?" 

 "What do you think of that, girls?" 



It was evident that these gentle, 

 brown-eyed creatures liked having 

 their pictures taken. While the pho- 

 tographer adjusted his camera for an- 

 other shot, they crowded up close to 

 see how things were done. The young- 

 sters were full of good spirits and a bit 

 rambunctious. There were some rather 

 silly young maidens among them and a 

 dour lad or two standing around. But 

 all in all you couldn't have asked for a 

 better looking or more hospitable and 

 obliging group. When the photographer 

 left, they followed him quietly to the 

 fence and there bade him good-bye in 

 true farm folk fashion with an obvious 

 invitation to "come back soon when 

 you have more time to spare." 



When you go out to the Fulton place, 

 a few miles from Sparta in Randolph 

 county, you'U give yourself a treat by 

 looking over these well-mannered la- 

 dies — 35 head of about the finest Jersey 

 cattle in Southern Illinois. As the 



elderly Mr. A. D. Fulton, charter Farm 

 Bureau member, said as he gave his 

 shepherd dog a bit of swell scratching 

 behind the ear, "They're like pets, 

 those Jerseys. I expect they'd walk 

 right in the house and think nothing of 

 it. They're not afraid of a human 

 whether they know him or not. They've 

 always had good treatment and so they 

 expect the same from everyone else." 



With his two sons, Ernest and 

 Dwight, A. D. Fulton runs a 400 acre 

 dairy and grain farm. Following the 

 rotation of corn-oats or soy beans- 

 wheat and s^veet clover or alfalfa, the 

 gray silt loam farm this year was 

 planted: 45 acres of corn, 70 acres of 

 wheat, 40 acres of soy beans, 30 of 

 oats, 14 of alfalfa, 70 of sweet clover 

 and the rest, about 130 acres, is in good 

 pasture. All fields were limed several 

 years ago. 



There are five horses, some chickens 

 and no hogs. Dwight lives with his 

 wife and family in a neat frame home 

 about a quarter mile down the road 

 from the old home. Ernest and his 

 family and "A. D." hold forth in the 

 old homestead. It is a big brick and 

 frame house and sits on a knoll beneath 

 towering trees — one of those roomy, 

 farm homes, substantial and comfort- 

 able. Nearby is the big dairy bam 



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THESE WELL-MANNERED LADIES WANT YOU TO "COME UP AND SEE THEM SOMETIME." 



THE "A. D." OF A. D. FULTON i SONS IN 



RANDOLPH COUNTY 



"Our Jerseys Are Like Pets." 



and tile silo. Other well kept buildings 

 are grouped about handily. 



The Fultons (and you have to refef 

 to them as a group rather than any 

 single one) have been members of the 

 Dairy Herd Improvement Association 

 for exactly seven years. The average 

 of the herd has been boosted 80 pounds 

 of butterfat per cow in a year. Ernest 

 has been on the board of the directors 

 of the Association for two years, and 

 Dwight was on it for one year. The 

 rich Jersey milk is sent daily to the 

 Sanitary Milk Producers in St. Louia, 

 which Ejnest helped organize, whil« 

 any cream will be sent to Producera 

 Creamery of Carbondale, where Ernest 

 is Treasurer, when the routes are final- 

 ly perfected. 



On this day, Ernest, who has his own 

 membership in the Farm Bureau, was 

 busily disking a forty acre tract with 

 his Farmall. Dwight and the one hired 

 hand was over near Sparta helping to 

 fix up a new water reservoir. Said 

 Ernest, "I guess I can speak for the 

 rest of us Fultons, but you better see 

 Dwight too and my father. But I can 

 say this truthfully, that we are 100 per 

 cent cooperators. I'm using Service 

 company products in this tractor. Nev- 

 er have used anything else and won't 

 either. We use the products in our 

 automobiles, too, and insure them in 

 the Farm Bureau auto insurance com- 

 pany. We ship our milk co-operatively 

 and our cream, what there is, will go 

 over to Carbondale. Anything we can 

 sell or buy co-operatively we do. We 



