the stalk fields. They are hardier than 

 native stock and zero weather doesn't 

 seem to aflfect them. Twenty-five head 

 averaged 555 pounds and 31 others 

 weighed 720 pounds at the stock yards. 



Beef making requires plenty of feed 

 and Hueber has paid particular attention 

 to crop improvement in order to have an 

 ample feed supply at all times. After 

 his attempt to sell his farm by the 

 bushel during the depression years, Huber 

 turned back to a simple corn, corn, oats 

 and red clover rotation. 



This year spring wheat, barley, sugar 

 beets, sweet clover, alfalfa, and soy beans 

 were successfully worked into the crop- 

 ping system. The wheat, beets, and soy 

 beans were cash crops. The sweet clover 

 made forage; the barley was fed and the 

 alfalfa, nursed by the spring wheat, is 

 still in the seeding stage. 



As soon as possible the red clover in 

 the major rotation will be replaced by 

 alfalfa. This will be done to increase 

 the soil building qualities of the system 

 and will, in addition, produce more of 

 better quality hay. 



A plot- for testing the comparative 

 merits of new hybrid com varieties was 

 planted on Hueber's farm this year under 

 the supervision of the DeKalb County 

 Agricultural Association. It was estimated 

 at planting time that only one of the 

 284 crosses grown would develop favor- 

 ably. Two yielded enough to warrant 

 their continuance. The yields varied from 

 78 to 84 bushels on the average, but one 

 outstanding kind produced at the rate 

 of 1 1 2 bushels per acre. 



Next year all of the corn planted will 

 be hybrid. The seed, 31 bushels has 

 already been purchased. Samples of the 

 1936 crop were compared to show the 

 greater uniformity of the hybrid over the 

 open pollenated kinds. 



Neither feed nor fertility is lost in 

 Hueber's feed lots. They are paved and 

 the manure is spread on the fields as 

 fast as it accumulates. There are plenty 



of pigs around the cattle to make pork 

 of feed that might otherwise be wasted. 

 These pigs, Duroc-Jerseys, are produced 

 from the herd of 35 to 40 sows. 



Hueber's buildings are compactly ar- 

 ranged in such a way as to reduce labor 

 to a minimum. Water for the livestock 

 is pumped by electric power. The bams 

 and barnyard are also electrically lighted. 



Gottlieb Hueber was born in 1870, on 

 a farm which lies less than half a mile 

 north of his present home. It was on 

 this farm that he grew to manhood and 

 started to farm. He and his brother began 

 as partners in 1896. 



Five years later Gottlieb married and 

 moved to the 80 where he now lives. 

 The only improvements there then were 

 the well, a windmill, and a tiny house, 

 14 by 18 feet. Other buildings were 

 built that year, 1901. 



Hueber's 80 became a quarter section 

 when 80 aaes from his father's estate 

 were added. In 1915, another quarter 

 was added to the original land. Then, 

 in 1919, Hueber obtained 150 acres fur- 

 ther north in the county. The following 

 year, he added another 100 acre tract - 

 to his home 320. 



The Hueber dan is composed of four 

 sons, three daughters, and eight grand- 

 children. The twins, Clyde and Claude, 

 and Elroy are farmers. Clyde and Elroy 

 work the home farm, and Claude lives 

 on the 150 acres. The other son is an 

 engineer and lives in Virginia. The 

 daughters attended Northern Illinois 

 State Teachers College in DeKalb and 

 one by one they taught the near-by 

 school. Clara and Gertrude are now mar- 

 ried. Eleanor, the youngest, still teaches. 



Mr. Hueber is the manager of the 

 farms; his sons work for him. They all 

 have comfortable homes and are proud 

 of their work. The two houses on the 

 home farm arc equipped with electricity. 

 The thjee families have all the conven- 

 iences of the city and by the first of 



March, the high line will be extended 

 to the north. 150. 



Hard maples line the road in front of 

 the Hueber home. They are almost per- 

 fect s{>ecimens. Mr. Hueber is justly 

 proud of them. All the trees were planted 

 after the house was built. The landscap- 

 ing shows that it was carefully and judici- 

 ously planned. 



Every thing on this modem farm re- 

 flects the personality of the owner. It 

 is the material expression of one man's 

 ideas and ideals — a composition, the 

 completion of which required 40 years 

 of continual thought and effort. 



A continued favorable price for the 



1936 Illinois soybean crop is expected. 

 Short hog production has reduced sup- 

 plies of lard, thereby increasing de- 

 mands for soybean oil which now sells 

 around 8c a lb. One bushel of beans 

 makes 8 lbs. of oil. 



Earl C. Smith, president of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association, and vice- 

 president elect of the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation acted as chairman of 

 the resolutions committee at the recent 

 annual convention of the AFBF in 

 Pasadena, Calif. 



Larry Williams, manager of Country 

 Life Insurance Company, spoke before 

 seven annual meetings of County Farm 

 Bureaus in Illinois between November 

 1 and December 21. 



Gross farm income from the produc- 

 tion of 1936 will probably reach $9,- 

 200,000,000, as compared with $8,508,- 

 000,000 from production in 1935 and 

 $5,337,000,000 in 1932 says the annual 

 report of Secretary of Agriculture 

 Henry A. Wallace. ' 



More than 715 miles of terraces, pro- 

 tecting approximately 10,700 acres of 

 sloping land against erosion, have been 

 constructed in 37 counties during^ the 

 past two years by Illinois farmers. 



These "heavy" cattle came to the farm a year ago. They're ready for the market. 



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Part of the 69 head that weighed 373 pounds each 14 months ago. 



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