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MR. AND MRS. LEE LINGENFELTER 

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THE LINGENFELTER HOME 

 Home made electricity lights it. 



THE FAMILY PETS 

 In a peaceable mood. 



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>yF IT li.uln t Ixcn lor Bob Hndi- 



yl lOtt, Lcc I.in^unfclttr, prcsi- 

 \J_J il(.nt of the Pulaski (;ounty 

 l\irm Bureau mi^ht still be a resilient 

 i)t Wabash tounty, Illinois, where he 

 was born ^"i years a,i>o. But when Bob 

 and Lee were young tellers" together, 

 short course students, at the Illinois 

 College of Agriculture in 1 S99, Bab 

 persuailed Lee to look into the agricul- 

 tural opportunities in Pulaski county 

 before he settled down to carve fame 

 .ind fortune out of the soil. 



It was in 190i. Mr. Lingenfelter 

 s.iid, that he offered a man $12^ an acre 

 tor lO acres ol bare Wabash county 

 land. "The owner wouldn't take it so 

 I began looking around for another buv. 

 I made six trips to Pulaski county be- 

 tore I bought here. It just looked to 

 me like you could get more for vour 

 money in Pulaski county than in 

 Wabash, although 1 hated to leave my 

 home anil friends up there." 



But Lee didn't ipiite leave ail his 

 friends back in Wabash. In fact he 

 took the best part of them along to the' 

 new abode NLiry Anna Wood had 

 lived on a farm two miles down the 

 road from the I.ingenfelters. She 

 taught country school. "Lee used to 

 come on horseback to see me. " she 

 smiled, "when he couldn't get there 

 any other \\.i\.' Lee's il(.\i)tion was 

 rewarded for Mary Wood agreed to 

 accompany him to Pulaski coimty as 

 Mrs. Lingenfelter wiiere thev'h.ive re- 

 sided since. 



Today Mr .md .Mrs. Lmgenfelter 

 have 2S)(> acres of excellent hrst and 

 Second bottom land, a fine home and 

 .1 well arranged set of buildings near 

 the village of Ullin. ('orn. wheat, 

 alfalfa, red clover, truck and straw- 

 berries are the principal crops on the 

 Lingenfelter farm. But livestock is a 



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And Mostly About Lee Lingenfelter 

 And The Pulaski County Farm Bureau 



chief source ol income, too. 1 he cream 

 from 10 Jersey cows goes to the Pro- 

 ducers Creamery of (^arbondale which 

 Mr. Lingenfelter serves on the board 

 of directors. In the j-iast he has fed 

 cattle and hogs. He hopes to get back 

 into cattle feeding again. 



The I.ingenfelters 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 Roi ks. 

 Lee goes in for raising mules toci He 

 h.is an old mare that produced nine 

 mule colts, five of which along witJi 

 a small tractor, .ire used in operating 

 the farm. 



L. L. Lingenfelter has been a Ic.iJer 

 in the I'arm Bureau movement in 

 southern Illinois for \> vears. I-ie 

 served for eight ye.irs as president of 

 the Pulaski County harm Bureau He 

 is a charter member and the onlv m.iii 

 in the county v\ ho has served constant Iv 

 on the I'arm Bureau board since it was 

 organized in V)ll Robt. B Lndicolt 

 of. Villa Ridge. lAA direitor from 

 the Jsth distriit was the first president. 

 AL D. Brelsford the second and Linden 

 felter the third. 



I have enjoyed my work for the 

 I'arm Burciu. " said Lee. "It has cost 

 me money but I have been lompensated 

 in other ways. The ex|Krience you 

 get. the friends yoLi make, the oppor 

 tunities to do constructive work for the 

 welfare of all farmers means more to 

 me than money. 



We have never hail .mv Irution in 



this county. Ninety five per cent of 

 the charter members who are living are 

 still members of the I'arm Bureau. 



In lysO the name of the county or 

 ganization was changed to Pulaski 

 Alexander. The two counties togetlier 

 ,i.re sm.dler in area than most Illinois 

 counties .Alexander, which lies west 

 of Pulaski, IS made up lirgely of hot 

 torn 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, anil through 

 the leiituries have built up broad, flat 

 river jMains of rich alhivial soil that is 

 well adaj-ited for growing corn, cotton, 

 alf.ilf.i. and winter wheat. This bottom 

 I.ind i> drained by open ditches. Levees 

 proteit it from iiigli water. 



At one lime there was as muih as 

 1.(1(10 acres of lotton in tlie two coun- 

 ties. That was about ten years ago. 

 .Suue then the lotton .k reage lias 

 dvvmdlcd until today it is hardly 

 enough Id keep the two lOtlon gins 

 busy at Mc( lure and Olive Brancii 



.\f.in\ ol the ileliiious strawberries 

 (liuago .ind other northern lilies get 

 e.irly in the season come from Pulaski 

 louiity where peaches, early apples and 

 sm.ill fruits have developed into a thriv 

 ing business. The census reports IJOi) 

 farms in Pul.iski and 900 in Alex.mder. 

 iiut this iiu hides f.irms from, a tew 

 acres up. There are not more th.in 

 1.000 to l.:oo farms of so acres or 

 more in both counties .iciording to 

 I'arm Adviser I. L. (olvis 



In ivis Lincenfeller .md Indiiott 



JANUARY, 1937 



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