AT THE LAMB CLUB SHOW. PEORIA 



More than 130 lambs were exhibited by 4-H Club members 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 oi 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 ai the end of the show for 50 cents 

 a pound. 



Former Baseball Player 

 an Outstanding Farmer 



BASKBAI.L player^ fre<|Ut'ntly niakf 

 Ko>'il farmt'i-s. If you don't believe 

 It look up Arthur Engel of Meta- 

 niora next time you are in Woodford 

 county. Art was catcher and manager of 

 the Woodford Cipuiity Farm Bureau 

 baseball team years apo. He has one of 

 the outstanding records in net farm in- 

 come in the Farm Bureau-Farm Man- 

 ajrement service for 1935. 



Knpel who operates his father's 200 

 acre farm, also SO of his own. trrossed 

 $.'1.').71 per acre incume in 1 '.';«.■) compared 

 with ?J'!.1T avt-niire for the -'IT'i farms 

 U-, Uu' project. Ilis expense jier acre was 

 $1.70 hieher than aviia'.ic. Hojrs ac- 

 counterl for T:i per cent of hi- income 

 over a ten year period. .\n averajre of 

 L'.'i lir'o'l sow< raisin;-- two litters a 

 year, and •">oO to 40i) shouts for mar- 

 ket are the cash producers. 



Here's how he crops his land: 41 per 

 cent in corti. 2.') per cent in soil-ViuildinL' 

 lejrumes (in 'sweet clovei. 7 alfalfa. 8 

 •■ed clover). 7 per cent canning peas. 



14 oats. 7 wheat. '> barley. 1 sweet for 

 seed. 



CanninK peas have been a nood crop 

 acconlintr to Kn>rel. They brinK- in 

 around $;!5 to §10 an acre in a jrood year. 

 He seeds 5 bu. to the acr>-. The seed 

 costs S;{ a bu. and the inoculation SI. 

 "We K" heavy on hotrs* because they re- 

 ouire less labor." he said. "We seed a 

 new patch of alfalfa every year, usually 

 in the spring with a nuis'.' crop." Ik- 

 cuts mammoth clover frei)uently for 

 seed (rettiny usually from 2 to 4 bu. per 

 acre. The Kiiut-1 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 beinjr better than averape 

 in nearl.\' all factors such as income, re- 

 turns per SI (Ml of feed fed. labor cost, 

 iier cent of hiuh profit <r<ips. machin- 

 er.v cost per acre fainied. and so on. 

 Fnirel us-s 4 hor-- an<l a tractor, does 

 much of til;- W' iK hini-^elf. 



With Our Farm 



Bureau Presidents 



(Continued from pa;;e 171 

 Three others are yearlings and U are 

 two .Vear olds. The horses and a tractor 

 owned co-operatively by two other 

 brothels take care of the farm work. 

 ("oles-I>oujrlas Service Company pro<lucts 

 ale used exclusively. Kriiest j;rows a lot 

 ot soy beans, so when he painted his 

 home and (rarape last year he used ."soy- 

 oil paint. -A professional painter from 

 (ireenup did the .job and KriiesI is pielly 

 proud of it. 



Mrs. Sedjrewick is thi- boss of the 

 chickens, .^he has l.'id Plymouth R(K-k 

 hens and ;17.t chicks. Mildr'd Sedgewick 

 came oripinaily from .Miami. Oklahoma. 

 .She and Kriiest have l«-en married 24 

 years. The three children are Wanneta. 

 2.'! who graduated this year from the 

 University of Illinois: CU-o. the boy. 20 

 years old who is on the farm and .Mar 

 jorie. l.l. who finishe<l t-iyhth trrade this 

 year ami is plaiininj; on cedlejre. We 

 didn't have a chance to set- any of the 

 children, but ajrain. we take Charlie 

 Tarble's word for it that "they'n- swell 

 kids." 



Ernest became president of the Cum- 

 berland county Farm Bur 'au in .lanuary 

 of this year. He had been a director for 

 three years. All toM, he has belonged to 

 the Farm Bureau 8 years. Was on the 

 allotment board of the Corn-Hojr pro- 

 irram and also ,io;ned the wheat program. 

 "I .ioined the Farm Bureau," Ernest 

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

 to give my help in the county as well as 

 help to get .just legislat'on for farmers. 

 1 believe in group action. That's the 

 only way farmers can get the strength 

 to get .iustice for themselves." Ernest 

 practices what he preaches. He's a co- 

 operator in everything he does. He 

 utilizes all the F'arm Bureau s<-rvices he 

 <an. His car is insured in the P'arm Bu- 

 reau company. His buildings are in- 

 jured in Farmers Mutual. He and his 

 wife ale insure<l in Country Life. We've 

 already mentioned the fact that he ships 

 his livestock an<l other farm i)roducts 

 I <i-o|)eratively. 



One of the things Ernest enjoys most 

 is the Cumberland County F'air. It's one 

 of the best in the State and Ernest has 

 been a director in the F:iir .As.sociation 

 for years. The Fair has always paid out. 

 paid all prizes, is kep» in fine shape, is 

 one of the oldest in Illinois and co-op- 

 erates very closely with the Farm Bu- 

 reau. 



We'll bei that if Cumberland county 

 l-ut on a cat show that Ernest would cop 

 all the prizes. He might even run the 

 thing. .All in a'l. thouirh. those jiussies 

 are very friendly ones and very well 

 behaved. 



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A. A. KK( OftI) 



