

they rotted out years ago and had to 

 be replaced. We have tried to maintain 

 it just as it was originally except that 

 seven years ago we modernized the in- 

 terior." The site is about half way be- 

 tween Chicago and Galena. The house 

 was to have been used as a tavern but 

 when they changed the main highway 

 that idea was abandoned. 



Gittle and hogs. That's how we paid 

 for our land, TuUock tells you. "We fed 

 l40 head last year including 50 calves. 

 Doubled our money but of course they 

 got a lot of feed, too." 



Out in the pasture up to their knees 

 in blue grass we saw some heavy white- 

 faced feeders shipped in 10 days before 

 from Kansas City by the Producers. They 

 will be crowded for the January market. 

 These cattle, 32 head, weighed 888 lbs. 

 and cost $7.40 at the market. Another 

 bunch of 44 Angus steers, good quality 

 stuff from Montana bought in June, cost 

 from $7 to |7.35 at weights around 600 

 lbs. These cattle are getting pasture and 

 cut corn. Later they will be put in the 

 feed lot and fed shell corn and a protein 

 concentrate. More than 100 head will be 

 marketed in the coming season. 



The TuUock farm was one of the first 

 if not the first in the county to grow 

 alfalfa. "Father had some alfalfa here 

 in 1878," Mr. Tullock announced. "He 

 was progressive. He was a charter mem- 

 ber of the first Grange in this community. 

 It was called Whig Hill. The Whig 

 party* was strong around here in those 

 days." 



• The Whig Party was short lived. Its principal 

 achievement was election of William Henry Har* 

 rison. famed Indian fighter, and John Tyler in the 

 campaign of 1840. ("Tippecanoe and Tyler too.") 

 It advocated a high protective tariff to encourage 

 American industry, a singlf term for the Presidency, 

 reform of executive usurpations (aimed against 

 Andrew Jackson, a strong-willed, iron-fisted Presi- 

 dent noted for getting things done.) The Whigs 

 finally split over the slavery question, Nortiiern 

 Whigs were against slavery, southern Whi^s for it. 

 The latter went over to the Democratic Party and 



George Tullock has been farming on 

 his own since he was 17. With all his 

 service and leadership in organized agri- 

 culture, which we shall come to later, he 

 is a top notch farmer. All his land is 

 limed and much of it is covered with 

 ground rock phosphate. Dr. Cyril G. 

 Hopkins of the University of Illinois 

 established a 1 3 acre soil experiment field 

 on the Tullock farm 25 years ago. "I've 

 always tried to keep informed," he said. 

 "I haven't always practiced all I know." 



A large acreage of alfalfa was grown at 

 one time but in recent years part of this has 

 been replaced by red clover which fits bet- 

 ter into the rotation. Com-corn-oats 

 (barley or winter wheat) and clover is 

 the standard rotation. Corn averages 

 about 60 bushels an acre in normal years. 

 The soil is brown silt loam mostly with 

 a yellow silt subsoil. Land reclaimed 

 from timber — 60 acres were grubbed 

 out not so long ago — is less fertile 

 than the prarie soil but resf)onds readily 

 to limestone, alfalfa, and clover treat- 

 ment. This year there are 100 acres of 

 field corn, 10 A. popcorn, 50 oats, 10 

 soybeans, 18 alfalfa, 40 clover and tim- 

 othy, and the balance in lots and blue 

 grass pastiue. 



Out in a field back of the house Mr. 

 Tullock showed us a heavy field of Hy- 

 brid corn. Thick, upstanding stalks with 

 long, heavy, well filled yellow ears. "I 

 think it'll make 65 bushels," he said. 

 "Hybrid corn is a great discovery. Time's 

 coming when that's all we'll grow." 



Back in the wooded pasture WPA 

 workers were quarrying limestone rock 

 and crushing it for use in building farm- 

 to-market roads. Winnebago, like many 

 another northern Illinois county, has in- 

 Northern Whigs were absorbed by the Republican 

 Party. In the election of 1852, when they breathed 

 their last, the Whigs carried only four states. The 

 party "died of an attempt to swallow the Fugitive 

 Slave Law." 



exhaustible supplies of yellow dolomitic 

 limestone. It dissolves and neutralizes 

 soil acidity more slowly than the grey 

 stone, but it tests high and is used almost 

 exclusively in this territory for soil build- 

 ing. The stone likewise makes a good 

 roadbed although too soft to give the 

 long wear of the harder lime rock com- 

 mon in the Chicago and Mississippi river 

 areas. 



Mrs. Tullock is a kindly hospitable 

 woman, an excellent housekeeper, help- 

 mate, and mother — the type you in- 

 variably find on a successful farm. No 

 occupation is so much a family enter- 

 prise as farming. And in few businesses 

 does the wife and mother have an op- 

 portunity to contribute so much toward 

 its success. 



The three Tullock children are Emma 

 Lou who is married and lives in Okla- 

 homa City, George Wilfrid who recently 

 moved with his pretty bride, Vivian, into 

 a new modern home across the road, and 

 Margery, fair-haired pretty, blue-eyed 

 and a junior in Rockford College. George 

 W. a solid, intelligent, dependable young 

 man is taking over the active operation 

 of the farm much to the delight of his 

 parents. And what finer, happier oc- 

 cupation and outlook could there be for 

 any young man than the management of 

 a fertile, well equipped 500 acre stock 

 farm .' 



George F. Tullock is and has been 

 more than a good farmer. He is a farm 

 leader, a staunch advocate of organiza- 

 tion and co-operative marketing. The 

 list of offices he has held and still holds 

 reads like a page from Who's Who. 



When the Illinois Farmers Institute 

 was the leading educational body for 

 farmers 20 to 25 years ago, Mr. Tullock 

 was a director and president. He was a 

 leader in the Grange in days gone b^. 



"ITS HYBRID — 60 BUSHELS AND MORE AN ACRE" 

 Mr. Tullock, lefl, and Farm Adviser Chas. H. Keltner in heavy field 

 of corn on land once used at experimental plots. 



A PARADISE FOR HEREFORDS AND DODDIES 

 is the Tullock wooded bluegrass pasture where a cold, sprinq-f*^ 

 stream flows along limestone bluffs. 



NOVEMBER, 1936 



