

Proving, That There 

 Is More Than Broom 

 Corn and Coon Dawgs 

 in Cumberland County 



THE SEDGEWICK HOME AND BUILDINGS 

 — hera life it real for Ernest. 



With Our Farm 



Bureau Presidents 



This Month It's Ernest Sedgewick 

 of Cumberland County 



GREENUP township may mean 

 nothing to you but Cumberland 

 county should. According to 

 Charlie Tarble, the eminent Farm Ad- 

 viser of those parts, "Folks up North 

 seem to think we don't raise anything 

 but broom corn and coon dawgs down 



MRS. MILDRED SEDGEWICK— 

 Busy with ehicb and children. 



here in Cumberland county. Fact is, we 

 raise some mighty nice folks down here 

 and occasionally a little ruckus." 



Charlie has a way about him when it 

 comes to describing things. He told no 

 stories when he said that Ernest Sedge- 

 wick is the "salt of the earth." Ernest 

 is Cumberland county's Farm Bureau 

 president. He's the proprietor of 289 

 acres of good Cumberland county land, 

 which is quite a farm; the husband of 

 Mrs. Mildred Sedgewick, which makes 

 him lucky as blazes; the father of 3 chil- 

 dren who keep him busy keeping up with 

 their g^rowth. And wonder of alf, Ernest 

 is the owner of 8 lively cats. 



When you drive up to the Sedgewick 

 place, you run smack into a fine, com- 

 fortable house, an excellent set of build- 

 ings that are well kept up. Then you 

 meet Ernest himself. He's an enthusias- 

 tic man, in a quiet way. He wouldn't 

 let on for the world that he's proud of 

 what he has, but first thing you know, 

 you're following him from one part of 

 the farm to another while he tells you 

 all about it. He's interesting. He knows 

 his business and he's successful at it. 



The land itself is planted to 20 acres 

 of wheat, 43 of corn, 60 soy beans, 20 

 broom corn, 15 blue grass pasture, 40 

 sweet clover, 8 alfalfa, 15 oats, 25 tim- 

 othy and the rest in pasture and lots. 



ERNEST SEDGEWICK— IN PERSON 

 Ha llkas to 90 to county fairs. 



He has 39 head of registered Holstein* 

 and Guernseys all T. B. and Bang's 

 tested. Twelve are milking and ther« 

 are 9 young calves. He ships about a ton 

 of milk a week through Sanitary Milk 

 Producers of St. Louis. Ernest also has 

 around 60 hogs. They are Reds, Hamp- 

 shires and Chester Whites. His livestock 

 goes to Terre Haute and Indianapolis 

 Producers. There are 4 work horses. 

 (Continued on page 22) 



Farm Bureau Day at 



State Fair, August 21 



A blended mixture of 1500 harmonized 

 voices will ring across the State Fair 

 grounds, Friday, August 21, as Farm 

 and Home Bureau members climax Farm 

 Bureau Day at the Fair. The group will 

 sing in front of the grandstand at 7:00 

 P. M. 



Thousands of Farm Bureau members, 

 club leaders and 4-H Club boys and 

 girls, nearly- all of whom are from Farm 

 Bureau member families, are expected 

 to attend the Fair which opens Satur- 

 day, August 15. A large headquarters 

 tent will be maintained by the lAA for 

 its 63,000 members with drinking water, 

 lunch tables, chairs, band music and free 

 checking facilities readily available. 



Exhibits illustrating services of the 



lAA and associated companies will be 

 displayed. Representatives of the board 

 of directors, officers and staff of the As- 

 sociation will be there during the week, 

 particularly on Farm Bureau Day, to 

 meet and serve members who attend 

 the Fair. 



"We invite farmers generally to visit 

 the lAA tent and use its facilities for 

 rest and comfort. The State Fair and its 

 many fine exhibits offers many attrac- 

 tive educational and entertainment ad- 

 vantages," Earl C. Smith, president of 

 lAA, says in a recent statement. 



Location of the lAA tent will be ap- 

 proximately the same as in past years, 

 directly south of the south end of the 

 race track. 



AUGUST, 19M 



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