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the foot of the peninsula, is the world- 

 renowned Golden Gate — about a mile 

 wide. 



An overnight journey of about 400 

 miles on the Southern Pacific will take 

 the party through Los Angeles to its 

 suburb Pasadena. Mild weather is the 

 boast of Los Angeles. Its year round tem- 

 perature averages 62 degrees and 300 

 days of the 365 are generally clear. The 

 city is situated on a plain extending from 

 the Sierra Madre range to the ocean. Its 

 water supply is carried 240 miles from 

 the mountains through the great Los 

 Angeles aqueduct leading from the 

 Owens River in the Sierra Nevada 

 Range. 



Pasadena, the Farm Bureau convention 

 city, is famous for its palm-bordered 

 avenues and lovely homes. It has beauti- 

 ful semi-tropic trees and flowers. 



Pasadena will be preparing for its 

 annual Tournament of Roses which it 

 holds New Year's Day. Thousands of 

 blossoms are gathered for that event 

 and used in decorations for the lavish 

 parade of flowered floats. 



Illinois dairy farmers who are mem- 

 bers of the party are likely to have 

 opportunity to swap experiences with 

 California Dairymen. Dairying is an 

 important part of California agriculture. 



Visitors will encounter many strange 

 and new crops in California. They will 

 hear talk of citrus fruits — lemons, 

 limes, grapefruits and oranges. They will 

 hear of olives, prunes, English walnuts, 

 loquats, melons of various kinds, and an 

 astonishing variety of vegetables. 



Two return routes are available to 

 those taking the tour. Return route "A" 

 will lead from Pasadena by way of 

 Boulder Dam, Great Salt Lake, Royal 

 Gorge, and Colorado Rockies. Return 

 route "B" will traverse the South. This 

 will include Grand Canyon, New Mex- 

 ico, Houston and Galveston, Texas, and 

 New Orleans. From that point north- 

 ward to Chicago you come up the Missis- 

 sippi Valley via Illinois Central. 



Tour "A" wjll leave Pasadena by 

 Union Pacific at 7:29 P. M. on Saturday, 

 December 12. Tour "B", on the other 

 hand, will not leave Pasadena until Sun- 



COACH 



All-expense for the going 

 trip only with round 



trip rail ticket $ 86.70 



Round trip with re- 

 turn trip "A" ail- 

 expense except while 



in Pas.-idena 103.20 



Round trip with re- 

 turn trip "B" all- 

 expense except while 

 in Pasadena 125.70 



Soil Conservation Talked 

 at 15th District Conference 



"Fundamentals of Soil Conservation," 

 was the subject of a talk by State Leader 

 J. C. Spitler at the 15th district lAA 

 conference in Gales- 

 burg September 9- 



Between 60 and 

 70 delegates repre- 

 senting all counties 

 in the district at- 

 tended the meeting 

 which was presided 

 over by Ray Ihrig, 

 lAA director from 

 Adams county. 



Harry Gehring of 

 Ray Ihrig Knox county dis- 



cussed cream marketing, and S. F. Rus- 

 sell, Adams county, told about the Farm 

 Bureau's wild life conservation project. 

 Four protected areas will be established 

 in Adams county for quail and other 

 insect-eating birds. 



day, December 13. Members will have 

 a longer time to visit the convention 

 city, Los Angeles, and California beaches. 

 Leaving time of Tour "B" will be 12:45 

 noon, on the 13th, via the Santa Fe. 



On December 13, Tour "A" travelers 

 will visit Boulder Dam. On the I4th 

 they will view Salt Lake City. The next 

 day they will be in the Colorado Rockies, 

 Glenwood Springs and Denver, arriv- 

 ing in Chicago at 7:00 A. M. December 

 17. 



Tour "B" travelers will see the Grand 

 Canyon December 14, will visit a ranch 

 near Clovis, New Mexico on the 15th. 

 On the l6th, they will be at Houston, 

 Texas, and will make an automobile side- 

 trip to Galveston, 50 miles distant. The 

 17th will be spent in New Orleans. 

 Arrival at Chicago will be at 9:30 P. M. 

 December 18. Exact schedules are now 

 being worked out to assure the most 

 convenient hours for arrival, sightseeing 

 and departure at all points. Definite 

 cost of the complete round trip via the 

 two return routes is quoted below. In 

 the price of each ticket is included all 

 necessary expenses en route. Individual 

 souvenirs, etc., and the stay in Pasadena, 

 of course, are not included. 



VOICE 



.//4 MEMBERS 



J105.80 $ 99.95 $109.95 $134.50 1122.50 $129.70 



131.80 120.80 127.40 



155.05 143.70 150.50 



168.25 147.65 160.00 



192.50 171.05 183.90 



Editor, t •■ ■ " ■ 



I.A.A. RECORD: 



Everything 1 have heard regarding the Il- 

 linois Farm Sports Festival since my return to 

 Chicago has been most flattering. It seems 

 to be generally agreed that it was a whale of 

 a fine idea — carried out with practically 100 

 percent success. 



I'll confess that when the preliminary plans 

 for the physical handling of the two days' 

 schedule were being perfected in June and 

 July, I could not see how the program could 

 go off very smoothly during this first attempt. 

 When the two-day Festival was concluded — 

 and it ended almost on time — and without a 

 single "hitch," I certainly felt that you and 

 your Committee had done a wonderful job — 

 PRAIRIE FARMER-WLS was very happy to 

 have had the opportunity of cooperating in 

 such a splendid undertaking that no doubt 

 means the starting of a new epoch among the 

 farm youth of Illinois and their parents as 

 well. Those farm boys and girls and older 

 people as well — to the extent of over 2,300 

 from 67 counties — will always remember the 

 first Illinois Farm Sports Festival as a high- 

 light in their lives. The idea is bound to 

 grow and become a tremendous thing, not 

 only in Illinois, but in other agricultural states 

 as well. 



Congratulations to all of you for putting 

 over a big job. 



George C. Biggar 

 Promotional Director, 

 Radio Station WLS 



Congratulations on the fine way in which 

 the Farm Sports Festival came off. You may 

 count on my helping in any way I can an- 

 other year, for I enjoyed very much working 

 with the committee this year. 

 D. E. Lindstrom, 



Rural Sociology, - 



University of Illinois. 



Our sports program at the County Farm 

 Bureau picnic in preparation for the Farm 

 Sports Festival aroused more interest and re- 

 sulted in more favorable talk about the Farm 

 Bureau than anything that has happened in 

 a long time. | 



I. E. Parett, I • 



Vermilion county. 



The Farm Sports Festival is one of the 

 finest things the lAA and the County Farm 

 Bureaus ever sponsored. 



Herman W. Danforth, 

 Iroquois county. 



I am writing this letter to tell how much 

 Logan county enjoyed the recent Sports Fes- 

 tival. I think it can easily be made an out- 

 standing event in the year's work. It reaches 

 a group of people who heretofore have not 

 had direct contact with Farm Bureau activities. 

 N. H. Anderson, 

 Logan county. 



I assure you it was our pleasure to work 

 with the committee and the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association in promoting the Sports 

 Festival. The Association is certainly to be 

 congratulated on this fine move and I am 

 in hopes that it will be an annual affair from 

 now on. 



Edgar L. Bill, 

 7' Station WMBD, Peoria 



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L A. A. RECORD 



