FLORENCE AND HANDIWORK 

 Hasn't forgotten an old art. 



Average test was 4.84 per cent. Average 

 pounds of fat, 388.50. Cost per pound 

 of fat was 19.3 cents. Clo.st per 100 

 [■•ounds of milk was 84 cents. Loch isn't 

 worried about it though. He says he 

 knows how to step up the average again. 

 He points to the 10 year average with 

 pardonable pride. The average number 

 of cows in the herd has been 1-i. Aver- 

 age pounds of fat per cow has been 

 319.4 and the average test 4.9 per cent. 

 ^X'hich isn't bad going no matter how 

 you look at it. 



Feed is an important factor Loch 

 says. But he doesn't go in for fanc7 

 stuff. It's not practical he .says. For in- 

 stance, one of the cows in his herd, 

 \Lirigold, when she established a record 

 as a 4 year old in the Illinois "">00 

 Pound Club." of "5:8.3 pounds of fat 

 and a 5.6 average she was fed the .same 

 as the rest of the herd. She was given 

 corn, oats and cottonseed meal for the 

 grain ration and corn silage and alfalfa 

 hay for roughage. She producetl fat at 

 1 2.7 cents a pound as against the hcrit 

 average of 15.2 cents a pound. The bulls 

 get the same grain ration but not so much 

 silage. They get loggy. Loch says. 



Loch is looking for great things from 

 Woodward Dale Jimmie. the voung bull. 

 Old Ajax may be kept on a little longer 

 but Loch seems to feel that he has a 

 better bet in fimmie. He is conducting 

 an experiment in line breeding Jimmie 

 with his half sister. The idea is to con- 

 centrate the blood of old Josephine in 

 the herd without any disastrous results. 

 Loch isn't tjuite sure how it's going to 

 turn out but the first calf shows promise. 



But don't think that Loch is just a 

 Guern.sey man. There are 1 40 acres of ex- 



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cellent land in crops. Ten acres are in 

 permanent pasture, I8 in corn, 20 in 

 oats seeded to alfalfa. "lO in sweet clover 

 and alfalfa and the balance in farm.stead, 

 roads and woodlots. 



From 1920 to 1928 about 70 acres 

 were limed. Loch put on 2 tons to 

 the acre. The other lO acres will be 

 limed the next 2 years, then he will 

 probably re-lime the ^0 again. One of 

 the interesting things at Angevine's is the 

 corn. One tield of 2l 2 acres was put in 

 by the government. It contains 70 dif- 

 ferent varieties, 10 hills each. 'Vou can 

 tell right otT which is the hybrid and 

 which isn t. Loch also grows seed corn 

 for Morgan Bros, of Cialva. Last year. 

 Loch had a tield of hybrid that aver.iged 

 9^ bushel.s to the acre. Right next to it 

 was a field of open pollinated Yellow 

 Dent that aver.iged 62 bushels. The lat- 

 ter went down pretty bad while the hy- 

 brid stood up. 



Mrs. Angc\ine has 225 Butf Orping- 

 ton chicks and '"< hens. She sells the 

 eggs in town. When the Producers 

 Creamery of Galesburg starts picking up 

 eggs they II go there along with the 

 cream. L'sually Loch keeps around 160 

 cross bred Poland and Hampshire hogs. 

 They go through the Producers at Chi- 

 cago. There are 2 horses for the odd 

 jobs around the farm. The heavy work 

 is done with the Farmall 10-20. Loch 

 uses Service Company gasoline and Pcnn 

 Bond oil. He changes oil every 30 

 hours. His auto and truck are both in- 

 sured in the Farm Bureau company and 

 the 2 boys, are insured in Country Life. 

 This Fall. Loch plans to do some paint- 

 ing. He has the contract let and it calls 

 for Soyoil paint. 



And now about Martin, 18, and Lyall, 

 1 ^. the Angevine "heirs." 



Martin has just finished high school 

 and is planning on going right into farm- 

 ing and Guernsey raising. He has shown 

 calves in the 4-H club for a good many 

 years and has an enviable array of "firsts " 

 and "seconds" to show for his eflforts. 

 Lyall, is .still in high school and says he 

 wants to be an aviator. He has been 

 showing in the l-H calf club shows and 

 says "my .xmbition right now is to get out 

 of being the fourth prize winner." '\'ou 

 have to take Lyall with a grain of salt. 

 For instance, he had the Junior Cham- 

 pion cow in the open class in one show 

 and the Grand Champion and 1 st pl.ice 

 in a i-H show. 



When Mrs. Angevine was Florence 

 Hornecker there was a young fellow in 

 the Cambridge high school with her that 

 she paid no attention to. "I finished and 

 went on to Knox where I studied music. 

 After that this young fellow, I only knew 

 that his name was Loch Angevine, came 

 back from Iowa State College and started 

 singing in the church choir. We 

 both got interested in our music and 

 Loch used to call at my house and we'd 

 sing together. Loch's father had some 

 grand black horses so Loch would come 

 out on date nights with a bl.ick horse, a 

 black rig with red running gear and we'd 

 go driving on Wednesday evening and 

 Sunday afternoon. After about a year 

 and a half we married. That was the fall 

 of 1913. We .still enjoy mu,sic together. 

 When we go to Chicago we go to the 

 symphony, grand opera and the ballet." 



"About the black horse," said Loch 

 with a mischievous grin, "By golly you 

 had to drive that horse or he'd run away 

 with you. After we were married, I kept 

 him out here on the farm until he died. 

 He meant a lot to us. " 



LOCH AND THE EXPERIMENTAL CORN FIELD 

 Seventy varieties, 10 hillt each, in a 2'/2 acre field. 



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