they rotted out years a^o and had to 

 be replaced. We have tried to maintain 

 it just as it was originally except that 

 seven years a^o we modernized the in- 

 terior." The site is about half way be- 

 tween C^hicapo and Galena. The house 

 was to have been used as a tavern but 

 when they changed the main highway 

 that idea was abandoned. 



( attle and ho^'s. That's how we paid 

 tor our land, Tullock tells you. ' VCc fed 

 I lO head last year including "iO calves. 

 Doubled our money but of course they 

 :;ot a lot of feed, too." 



Out in the pasture up to their knees 

 in blue grass we saw some heavy white- 

 taced feeders shipped in 10 days before 

 from Kansas C;ity by the Producers. They 

 will be crowded for the January market. 

 Ihese cattle, .^2 head, weighed 8HS lbs. 

 ind cost $7.-40 at the market. Another 

 Ininch of 44 Angus steers, good quality 

 ^tuff from Montana bought in June, cost 

 irom $7 to $7.35 at weights around 600 

 lbs. These cattle are getting pasture and 

 ait corn. Later they will be put in the 

 teed lot and fed shell corn and a protein 

 ' oncentrate. More than 100 head will be 

 marketed in the coming season. 



The Tullock farm was one of the first 

 if not the first in the county to grow 

 .dtalfa. "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 

 |iarty* was strong around here in those 

 days." 



' The \i'hi^ Party was short lived. Its prtn^ ipal 

 .1, Iiit-vcment \sas clcttiijn o( Wrlliam Henry Har- 

 •ison. tatTicd Indian fighter, and .Itjlin fykr in the 

 ■ .impai,i:n of I840. ( "Tippeianoe and Tyler toi».""l 

 It adsotatett a hi^h proteUivc tarilf to encourage 

 AmetKan industry, a single term lot the P-esideney. 

 ielorrn of exeiutixe usurpitmns I aimed acainst 

 .\ndrew Jaikson. a strong-willed, iron hsted Presi- 

 .lent noted lor >:etting things done. I The >X'hi,i:s 

 finally split oser the slavery question. Northern 

 \\'hi^*s were acainst slavery, southvrn \\"hi':s tor it 

 I he latter went oser to the Demo, r.ilii Partv 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. "Ive 

 always tried to keep informed." he said. 

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



A large .icre.age of alfalfa was grown at 

 one time but in recent years part of this has 

 been rephiced by red clover which fits bet- 

 ter into the rotation. C orn-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 reclaimeil 

 froin timber - - 6() .teres were grubbed 

 out not so long ago is less fertile 



than the prarie soil but responds 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, lO clover and tim- 

 othy, and the balance in lots and blue 

 grass pasture. 



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 inake 65 bushels," he said. 

 "Hybrid corn is a great discovery. Time's 

 coming when that s all we II grow. " 



Back in the wooded pasture NX'PA 

 workers were quarrying limestone rock 

 and crushing it for use in building farin- 

 to-market roads. Winneb.igo, like manv 

 another northern Illinois county, has in- 



Xorthern Whigs were ahs.)rbed by the Repuhlivan 

 Party. In the cL-tti.m ot IS''.', wtien they hreatlied 

 llreir last, tiie Wtiics larried onlv tour states. The 

 F^artv "died ot an attempt t.» sssallow the Fuijitne 

 Slave I.a»." 



exhaustible supplies of yellow dolomitic 

 limestone. It dissolves and neutralizes 

 soil acidity more slowly than the grey 

 stone, but it tests high and is useil 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 hariler lime rock com- 

 mon in the Chic.igo and Mississippi river 

 areas. 



.Mrs. TulUxk is a kindly hospitable 

 wxitiian. 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 .IS farming. And in few businesses 

 does the wile and mother have an op- 

 portunity to contribute so much toward 

 Its success. 



Ihe three 1 iillock children are Lmma 

 Lou who is m.irried and lives in Okla- 

 hoiTia Cjty, George Wilfrid who recently 

 moved with his pretty bride, Vivian, into 

 a new modern home across the road, and 

 NLirgery, fair-haired pretty, blue-eyed 

 and a junior in Rockford College. George 

 W. a solid, intelligent, depenilable 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 '•OO acre stcKk 

 farm ' 



George I'. 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 otTices he has held and still holds 

 reads like a p.ige from Who s \X'ho. 



When the Illinois Farmers Institute 

 was the leading educational body for 

 farmers 20 to 25 years .igo, Mr. Tullock 

 was a tlirector and president. He was a 

 leatler in the (irange in days gone by. 



■IT'S HYBRID — 60 BUSHELS AND MORE AN ACRE" A PARADISE FOR HEREFORDS AND DODDIES 



Mr. Tullock. left, and Farnn Adviser Chas. H. Keltner In heavy field is fhe Tullock wooded bijegrass pastu'e where a ccid spring-fed 

 of corn on land once used as eiperimental plofs. stream flows along limestone bluffs. 



NOVEMBER, 1936 



