Boy Plowing Champs 

 who won at Wheatland 



ARENT THESE NICE CUPS" 



Rollln Boughton and Raymond Patterson, 



"THAT'S A GOOD ONE!" 



Farm Adviser Braham, 

 Knock-Knock to R. G. 

 Plowing Match. 



left, of Will County, tells a new 

 Boughton, president, Wheatland 



Pick a New Plowing s 

 Champion at Wheatland 



Will County's 59 Year Old Contest Brings Out f 

 E3cpert Plowmen 



(yTn RVIS SCHROYER of Lily Lake, 

 1^ J with a score of 92, took the 

 \^_y title of champion plower away 

 from Carl Shoger who had held it for 

 the last six years at the 59th annual 

 Wheatland Plowing Match in Will 

 County, held Oct. 3. Schroyer used a 

 McCormick-Deering tractor in winning 

 the event open only to those who have 

 won first in the men's class in past 

 years. 



The weatherman finally smiled on 

 the annual event after three postpone- 

 ments. The day was one of the finest 

 the competition has ever seen accord- 

 ing to old timers. Dust, frequently a 

 hazard, was almost absent. Little or no 

 wind stirred up the freshly turned 

 earth which had profited by recent 

 rains. It was just right for plowing. 



Paul Stiefboldt, Naperville, took sec- 

 ond place with his Case tractor when 

 he scored 90 in the prizewinners' di- 

 vision. Otto Mueller, second place win- 

 ner last year, gave his home town of 

 Naperville a little more prestige by 

 taking third with a score of 8914. 



Scoring was based on opening fur- 

 rows, 25 points, conformation of fur- 

 rows, 25 points, straightness of fur- 

 rows, 25 points, evenness of furrows, 

 15 points, and neatness of plowing, 10 

 points. Judges in the prizewinners' 

 class were Healy Alexander of Lock- 



port, Walbo Thomas of Big Rock and 

 Mungo Patterson of Wheatland. 



Twelve year old Raymond Patterson, 

 Plainfield, took first money in the boys 

 under 15 division. Clarence Shoger, 

 Wheatland, took second, RoUin Bough- 

 ton, 17, of Plainfield, took home the 

 cup in the boys 15-19 class. Boughton 

 drove an AUis-Chalmers. Donald Mor- 

 ris of Big Rock, Deering outfit, came 



CAN HE REPEAT? 



Irving Bauman, '35 State Husking Champ, 



Woodford County, will defend his title at State 



Meet on Jake Berkes Farm near Maple Park 



in OeKalb County, Nov. 4. ■;. - , ,■ ..;■.--■'• -• 



home with second money. Both win- 

 ners had steel wheels on their tractors. 



Milton Fouser, Plainfield, won first 

 in the men's division riding a John 

 Deere tractor. Second place went to 

 Ralph Minto of Wheatland. 



Other champions at the match in- 

 cluded T. J. King of Wheatland and 

 John Day of Marley who hold a two- 

 way tie for first place in attendance. 

 Neither has missed a match in the 59 

 years of its history. 



"They can't plow today as they did 

 in the first match," said King when 

 asked how plowing today and 59 years 

 ago compared. "At that time there 

 were no riding plows — today there 

 isn't a horse among the 37 entries. You 

 had to plow two ridges and finish in a 

 dead furrow in those days. When the 

 plowing was over, the field looked as 

 though the ridges had been patted 

 down by hand. This can't be done 

 with a tractor today." 



General opinion among farmers the 

 day of the match leaned toward med- 

 ium to deep plowing. They agreed 

 that too shallow plowing didn't do the 

 work, while too deep plowing spoiled 

 the ground in places. 



A crowd estimated at 5,000 and up- 

 wards witnessed the plowing classic. 

 Not all interest centered in the soft 

 loamy fields where farmers with prac- 

 ticed eyes exchanged opinions as to the 

 points made by individual plowmen. 

 Equally busy and important were the 

 women's departments in tents where 

 pickles, pies, light cakes, fine needle- 

 work, home-wrought art and school 

 exhibits commanded attention. The 

 chicken dinner cooked and served by 

 nearly 100 women was one of the big 

 drawing cards. ; .-:.v -..-.., , 



NOVEMBER. 1936 



