ic That's What Dan Davie, Union 

 County Livestock Producer, Says of 

 the Farm Bureau. 



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WHERE THE DAVIES LIVED BEFORE .... 

 THEY MOVED UP ON THE HIGHWAY. 



MRS. DAN DAVIE 

 (Left) 

 "A Western Ne- 

 braska Girl She." 



daily, and alfalfa hay, Davie finds, 

 gives excellent results. 



You don't get far on the Davie 

 farm before you learn that the boss 

 thinks as much, if not more, of his 

 flock of 60 ewes, as anything on the 

 place. The sheep, mostly of Oxford 

 breeding, were nearly a mile across 

 the field feeding on volunteer oats. 

 A few calls from their master, and they 

 came a running. 



From these sheep you learn some- 

 thing about Dan Davie. He likes 

 livestock, makes pets of his four-footed 

 friends, and they like him. It's a com- 

 bination you often find on successful 

 livestock farms. 



Dan tells you that a flock of sheep 

 on a farm is just another source of 

 income. Much of the feed they eat 

 would go to waste anyway. Sheep 

 are easy to winter in Southern Illinois. 



DAN DAVIE AND 



ONE OF THE PETS 



( Extreme Left ) 



"He Likes Them 



and They Like Him." 



They're outdoors most of the time. 

 The lamb crop, which he has come in 

 March, usually runs a little better than 

 100 percent. The lambs are fed to a 

 weight of 80 pounds or more before 

 being marketed. He figures on taking 

 an average of at least 10 pounds of 

 wool from the ewes each spring, and 

 the wool plus the lamb crop adds 

 $450 to $500 a year to the farm in- 

 come. Last year the clip brought 22 

 cents a pound. This year it looks even 

 better. The Davies have had sheep 

 killed by dogs only once in 20 years. 

 That time the two guilty prowlers 

 were dispatched with a shotgun. 



Ten sows and around 100 market 

 hogs a year used to be the regular 

 output from the Davie farm. But the 

 $3 hogs of 1932-33 and the unfavor- 

 able corn-hog ratio of the 1934-35 

 period led him to cut down to four 



sows and increase the number of ewes. 



Much of the Davie farm would be 

 under water were it not for high levees 

 which protect the land from the neigh- 

 boring Mississippi. During the heavy 

 floods of early 1927, even the levees 

 failed to hold back the rampaging 

 Father of Waters with the result that 

 Mr. and Mrs. Davies and their six 

 children moved temporarily to Jones- 

 boro, the other side of the bluffs. The 

 men folks went to and from the farm, 

 at least part way, in a rowboat. To build 

 and maintain the levees has cost ap- 

 proximately $20 an acre for the land 

 in the district. 



On a 350 acre livestock farm, there's 

 more outdoor work than one man or 

 even two can do. The five boys in 

 the Davie family largely take care of 

 this problem although Mr. Davie has 

 had a dependable man, Roy Brimm and 

 family, to help him during the past 

 12 years. One son is married and 

 works with his Dad on the farm, an- 

 other is in Chicago attending a tech- 

 nical college, three younger boys are 

 going to grade and high school, and 

 the daughter has a clerical position in 

 Anna. 



Mrs. Davie is not only a charming 

 wife and mother, but a real help mate 

 who takes a keen interest in all the 

 farming operations, besides taking care 

 of a home, her family, and a fine flock 



IN THE DAVIE FEED YARD 

 "Some Home Grown, Others From the Market." 



THEY KNOW THEIR MASTERS VOICE 

 "A Flock of Sheep is Just Another Source of Income.' 



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