



MR. AND MRS. LEE LINGENFELTER 

 He want horseback to lee the tchoolma'am. 



THE LINGENFELTER HOME 

 Home made electricity lights it. 



THE FAMILY PETS 

 In a peaceable mood. 



With Our Farm 



y7V IT hadn't been for Bob Endi- 



Cl/ cott, Lee Lingenfelter, presi- 

 \jy dent of the Pulaski County 

 Farm Bureau might still be a resident 

 of Wabash county, Illinois, where he 

 was born 55 years ago. But when Bob 

 and Lee were young "fellers" together, 

 short course students, at the Illinois 

 College of Agriculture in 1899, Bob 

 persuaded Lee to look into the agricul- 

 tural opportunities in Pulaski county 

 before he settled down to carve fame 

 and fortune out of the soil. 



It was in 1904, Mr. Lingenfelter 

 said, that he offered a man $125 an acre 

 for 40 acres of bare Wabash county 

 land. "The owner wouldn't take it so 

 I began looking around for another buy. 

 I made six trips to Pulaski county be- 

 fore I bought here. It just looked to 

 me like you could get more for your 

 money in Pulaski county than in 

 Wabash, although I hated to leave my 

 home and friends up there." 



But Lee didn't quite leave all his 

 friends back in Wabash. In fact he 

 took the best part of them along to the 

 new abode. Mary Anna Wood had 

 lived on a farm two miles down the 

 road from the Lingenfelters. She 

 taught country school. "Lee used to 

 come on horseback to see me," she 

 smiled, "when he couldn't get there 

 any other way." Lee's devotion was 

 rewarded for Mary Wood agreed to 

 accompany him to Pulaski county as 

 Mrs. Lingenfelter where they have re- 

 sided since. 



Today Mr. and Mrs. Lingenfelter 

 have 296 acres of excellent first and 

 second bottom land, a fine home and 

 a well arranged set of buildings near 

 the village of UUin. Corn, wheat, 

 alfalfa, red clover, truck and straw- 

 berries are the principal crops on the 

 Lingenfelter farm. But livestock is a 



JANUARY, 1937 



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Bureau Presidents 



And Mostly About Lee Lingenfelter ^H 



And The Pulaski Coiinty Farm Bureau "^F 



chief source of income, too. The cream 

 from 10 Jersey cows goes to the Pro- 

 ducers Creamery of Carbondale which 

 Mr. Lingenfelter serves on the board 

 of directors. In the past he has fed 

 cattle and hogs. He hopes to get back 

 into cattle feeding again. 



The Lingenfelters haven't over- 

 looked the opportunities in poultry. 

 They have a modern poultry house and 

 a high producing flock of White Leg- 

 horns and White Plymouth Rocks. 

 Lee goes in for raising mules too. He 

 has an old mare that produced nine 

 mule colts, five of which along with 

 a small tractor, are used in operating 

 the farm. 



L. E. Lingenfelter has been a leader 

 in the Farm Bureau movement in 

 southern Illinois for 15 years. He 

 served for eight years as president of 

 the Pulaski County Farm Bureau. He 

 is a charter member and the only man 

 in the county who has served constantly 

 on the Farm Bureau board since it was 

 organized in 1922. Robt. B. Endicott 

 of Villa Ridge, lAA director from 

 the 25th district was the first president, 

 M. D. Brelsford the second and Lingen- 

 felter the third. 



"I have enjoyed my work for the 

 Farm Bureau, " said Lee. "It has cost 

 me money but I have been compensated 

 in other ways. The experience you 

 get, the friends you make, the oppor- 

 tunities to do constructive work for the 

 welfare of all farmers means more to 

 me than money. 



"We have never had any friction in 



this county. Ninety-five per cent of 

 the charter members who are living are 

 still members of the Farm Bureau." 



In 1930 the name of the county or- 

 ganization was changed to Pulaski - 

 Alexander. The two counties together 

 are smaller in area than most Illinois 

 counties. Alexander, which lies west 

 of Pulaski, is made up largely of bot- 

 tom land. The Mississippi river forms 

 the west border of Alexander, and the 

 Ohio borders Pulaski county on the 

 south and east. These two streams are 

 mighty rivers at this point, and through 

 the centuries have built up broad, flat 

 river plains of rich alluvial soil that is 

 well adapted for growing corn, cotton, 

 alfalfa, and winter wheat. This bottom 

 land is drained by open ditches. Levees 

 protect it from high water. 



At one time there was as much as 

 4,000 acres of cotton in the two coun- 

 ties. That was about ten years ago. 

 Since then the cotton acreage has 

 dwindled^tmtil today it is hardly 

 enough to keep the two cotton gins 

 busy at McClure and Olive Branch. 



Many of the delicious strawberries 

 Chicago and other northern cities get' 

 early in the season come from Pulaski 

 county where peaches, early apples and 

 small fruits have developed into a thriv- 

 ing business. The census reports 1200 

 farms in Pulaski and 900 in Alexander, 

 but this includes farms from a few 

 acres up. There are not more than 

 1,000 to 1,200 farms of 80 acres or 

 more in both counties according to 

 Farm Adviser L. L. Colvis. 



In 1913 Lingenfelter and Endicott 



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