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AT THE LAMB CLUB SHOW. PEORIA 



Mora than 130 lambs ware aihibitad by 4-H Club memben in counties surrounding Peoria 

 at the first annual show held at Peoria Union Stock Yards, July 2. Frank Wright, Jr., Helen 

 Basting and Wayne Basting, all ot McLean County, won first, second and third respectively 

 in single exhibits. 



Helen Basting copped first place in class for pen of three lambs with John Manoch, Peoria 

 County, second and Earl Toepke, McLean, third. McLean County won first in the county groups, 

 with Peoria second, Fulton third and Marshall-Putnam fourth. 



The winning lamb, belonging to Frank Wright, sold at the and of the show for 50 cents 

 a pound. 



Former Baseball Player 

 an Outstanding Farmer 



BASEBALL players frequently make 

 good farmers. If you don't believe 

 it look up Arthur Engel of Meta- 

 mora next time you are in Woodford 

 county. Art was catcher and manager of 

 the Woodford County Farm Bureau 

 baseball team years ago. He has one of 

 the outstanding records in net farm in- 

 come in the Farm Bureau-Farm Man- 

 agement service for 1935. 



Engel who operates his father's 200 

 acre farm, also 80 of his own, grossed 

 $35.71 per acre income in 1935 compared 

 with $23.17 average for the 375 farms 

 in the project. His expense per acre was 

 $1.70 higher than average. Hogs ac- 

 counted for 73 per cent of his income 

 over a ten year period. An average of 

 25 brood sows raisine two litters a 

 year, and 350 to 400 shoat.'; for mar- 

 ket are the cash producers. 



Here's how he crops his land: 41 per 

 cent in corn. 25 per cent in soil-building 

 legumes (10 sweet clover. 7 alfalfa. 8 

 red clover), 7 per cent canning peas. 



14 oats, 7 wheat, 5 barley, 1 sweet for 

 .^eed. 



Canning peas have been a good crop 

 according to Engel. They bring in 

 around $35 to $40 an acre in a good year. 

 He seeds 5 bu. to the acre. The seed 

 costs $3 a bu. and the inoculation $1. 

 "We go heavy on hogs because they re- 

 quire less labor," he said. "We seed a 

 new patch of alfalfa every year, usually 

 in the spring with a nurse crop." He 

 cuts mammoth clover frequently for 

 seed getting usually from 2 to 4 bu. per 

 acre. The Engel farm also derives some 

 income from dairy cows, beef cattle, 

 poultry, sheep. Only 1 per cent of cash 

 income is from the sale of grain. In 

 the Farm Management service, the farm 

 is noted for being better than average 

 in nearly all factor? such as income, re- 

 turns per $100 of feed fed. labor cost, 

 per cent of high profit crops, machin- 

 ery cost per acre farmed, and so on. 

 Engel uses 4 horses and a tractor, does 

 much of the work himself. 



With Our Farm 



Bureau Presidents 



(Continued from page 17) 

 Three others are yearlings and 2 are 

 two year olds. The horses and a tractor 

 owned co-operatively by two other 

 brothers take care of the farm work. 

 Coles-Douglas Service Company products 

 are used exclusively. Ernest grows a lot 

 of soy beans, so when he painted his 

 home and garage last year he used Soy- 

 oil paint. A professional painter from 

 Greenup did the job and Ernest is pretty 

 proud of it. 



Mrs. Sedgewick is the boss of the 

 chickens. She has 150 Plymouth Rock 

 hens and 375 chicks. M!ldr?d Sedgewick 

 came originally from Miami, Oklahoma. 

 She and Ernest have been married 24 

 years. The three children are Wanneta, 

 23 who graduated this year from the 

 University of Illinois; Cleo, the boy, 20 

 years old who is on the farm and Mar- 

 jorie, 13, who finished eighth grade this 

 year and is planning on college. We 

 didn't have a chance to see any of the 

 children, but again, we take Charlie 

 Tarble's word for it that "they're swell 

 kids." 



Ernest became president of the Cum- 

 berland county Farm Bureau in January 

 of this year. He had been a director for 

 three years. All told, he has belonged to 

 the Farm Bureau 8 years. Was on the 

 allotment board of the Corn-Hog pro- 

 gram and also jofned the wheat program. 

 "I joined the Farm Bureau," Ernest 

 says, "to help out agricu'ture. I wanted 

 to give my help in the county as well as 

 help to get just legislation for farmers. 

 I believe in group action. That's the 

 only way farmers can get the strength 

 to get justice for themselves." Ernest 

 practices what he preaches. He's a co- 

 operator in everything he does. He 

 utilizes all the Farm Bureau services he 

 can. His car is insured in the Farm Bu- 

 reau company. His buildings are in- 

 sured in Farmers Mutual. He and his 

 wife are insured in Country Life. We've 

 already mentioned the fact that he ships 

 his livestock and other farm products 

 co-operatively. 



One of the things Ernest enjoys most 

 is the Cumberland County Fair. It's one 

 of the best in the State and Ernest has 

 been a director in the Fair Association 

 for years. The Fair has always paid out. 

 paid all prizes, is kept in fine shape, is 

 one of the oldest in Illinois and co-op- 

 erates very closely with the Farm Bu- 

 reau. 



We'll bet that if Cumberland county 

 put on a cat show that Ernest would cop 

 all the prizes. He might even run the 

 thing. All in a'l. though, those pussies 

 are very friendly ones and very well 

 behaved. | ' ' 



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