Farm Bureau Neurs 

 In Pictures 



A| g PAID FOR PRIZE PICTURES. Send original, 

 ^C I closeup snapshots — must be new, clear, in- 

 ^ P teresting. Send names and complete details 

 of each one submitted to PRIZE PICTURE EDITOR, 

 Room 1200, 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago. 



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TALL TALKERS, THEY 

 Kendall county's discussion team won the prize at Farm and Home Week. 

 Left to right: Abner Thomas, Earl Prjce, F. C. Thomas and Clifford Naden. 



DYNAMITE, CABLES, BUCKETS AND ALL 

 The tipple and one of the buckets used to hoist 

 dirt from the new Deer Creek coal mine in Logan 

 county. The main shaft will be more than 300 feet 

 deep when finished. Photo by Ruth V. Bloes. 



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CORN KING 

 From rolling Jo Daviess county came C. J. 

 Simmons with a 10 ear sample of corn he had 

 raised. It was better than any other said the 

 judges at Farm and Home Week. Simmons re- 

 captured the crown he won in I93S. 



CHOPPING CHAMP 

 Earl Sanders' axe ate through 

 an eight inch black oak log in 

 45-4/S seconds to make him the 

 state wood chopping champion. 

 He's a bachelor, girls, and he 

 h«il$ from Adams county. 



WON BY THE lAA 

 The American Farm Bureau 

 Federation cup for the most ideal 

 state membership plan. Awarded 

 at Pasadena in December. 



DAD WAS FOUR YEARS OLD — 



— when he wore this cap, coat, and 

 vest, but John Ellis McCauley, Wood- 

 ford county, is only 21 months of age 

 and he fills them pretty well. 



HI THERE! 

 Baree, Ruth Bloes' 

 curly pal enjoys his 

 first winter in Logan 

 county. 



A MERE YOUTH 

 Edward Sommers, Henry county, 

 is 90. A veteran of the Civil 

 War, he drives his cutter every 

 winter. 



