Hey There You 

 Athletes! 



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 or more teams or contestants in the va- 

 rious teams. Many counties have 4-H 

 Club soft ball teams. This will be one 

 of the popular divisions." 



Another outsanding event will be the 

 rural band contest. It is planned to bring 

 together at least eight rural bands. Sev- 

 eral counties already have indicated their 

 desire to send a band to the festival. 



Prairie Farmer and radio station WLS, 

 as well as G. Huff, well known athletic 

 director, Dean Mumford and other Uni- 

 versity authorities, have promised their 

 whole-hearted cooperation in staging 

 the affair. The University, the Cham- 

 paign County Farm Bureau and other 

 County Farm Bureaus in the 19th con- 

 gressional district will be hosts. 



There will be no admission charge to 

 any of the events. The two-day program 

 will be open to all farm people, includ- 

 ing the evening show the night of Sep- 

 tember 4. 



An effort is being made to get at least 

 one entry in one or more events from 

 every county in the state. A number 

 of counties will be represented with 

 soft ball and baseball teams, as well as 

 in the other contests. 



The idea of the state-wide sports fes- 

 tival grew out of a meeting of Illinois 

 Farm Bureau Baseball League officials 

 with C. V. Gregory, editor of Prairie 

 Farmer, and George C. Biggar, program 

 director of radio station WLS. The idea 

 was approved at the annual meeting of 

 the League in April, and a committee ap- 

 pointed to outline a program and to re- 

 port to the lAA Board. At its June meet- 

 ing the Board approved the project and 

 a budget for financing it. A committee 

 was appointed composed of George E. 

 Metzger, Paul E. Mathias, and George 

 Thiem of the lAA staff to organize the 

 progfram and take the necessary steps 

 to carry it out in cooperation with Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau committees to be ap- 

 pointed. 



Denmark's Hogs 



A sounder economic basis than exists 

 in any other important hog-producing 

 country in Europe has been established 

 in Denmark due to a reduction of more 

 than 47 percent in hog numbers by Jan- 

 uary 1, 1935, and maintenance of pro- 

 duction in line with actual market re- 

 quirements since that time, Agricultural 

 Commissioner H. E. Reed in Berlin 

 claims. These developments are the re- 

 sult of measures adopted by the Danish 

 Government early in 1933 to meet a 

 situation which made a reduction in Dan- 

 ish hog numbers imperative. 



COOL OFF AT THE SPORTS FESTIVAL, URBANA, SEPT. 4-5 

 But don't forget to bring your rubber cap. It's a requirement before you can get in. If 

 you're a good swimmer, see your Farm Bureau about entering the 100 yard and 50 yard swim- 

 ming events for both men and woman. Picture shows pool in New Men's GYM. 



Plenty of Pecans in 

 Illinois 



It's hard to believe that Illinois is go- 

 ing in for pecan growing in a big way. 

 Down in New Haven township, Gallatin 

 county, in the lower Wabash River bot- 

 toms, they hauled out 300,000 pounds last 

 year. Among the growers Bert Goforth 

 is really going into the business serious- 

 ly. His pecans won 1st place in the New 

 Haven pecan show of 1935. In 1934, his 



pecans won 1st place in the National Nut 

 Show in Washington, D. C. Last year he 

 sold 9000 pounds of pecans at prices 

 ranging from 5 to 15 cents a pound. At 

 present he has 165 budded trees and 

 around 2000 trees all told. Budding is a 

 tricky operation but improves the qual- 

 ity and size of the nut when the tree 

 begins to bear. 



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BERT ©OFORTH, NEW HAVEN TOWNSHIP, GALLATIN COUNTY 

 Above, left, shows how the bud is grafted onto the young tree. Above, right, Bert Goforth 

 shows how a budded pecan tree has grown from where he holds his hand in only two yeare. 

 The land behind the tree was in corn nine years ago. Other pecan growers in the region are 

 setting out small budded groves and also thinning out older ones. , 



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