"^ ^ 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, anil alfalfa liay. Davic finds, 

 uive.s excellent results. 



^'oii don't get far on the Davie 

 larm before you learn that the boss 

 thinks as much, if not more, of his 

 (lock of 60 ewes, as anything on the 

 l^lacc. The sheep, mostly ot Oxford 

 breeding, were nearly a mile across 

 the field feeding on volunteer oats. 

 A few calls from their master, anil they 

 umie a running. 



I'rom these sheep you learn some- 

 thing about Dan Davie. He likes 

 livestock, makes pets of his four-footed 

 Iriends, 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 Iambs are fed to a 

 Weight of SO pounds or more before 

 being marketed. He figures on taking 

 an average of at least 10 pounds of 

 wool from the ewes each spring. ,ind 

 the wool plus the lamb crop adds 

 Si'^O to S^iOO 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 shee|i 

 killed by dogs only ome in 20 years. 

 That time the two guilty prowlers 

 were dispatched with a shotgun. 



Xc-n sows and .iround 1 00 m.irkct 

 hogs a year used to be the regul.ir 

 outj^ut from the Davie f.irm. But the 

 S.I hogs of 1V32-33 and the unfavor- 

 able corn-hog ratio of the 19Sl s*^ 

 period led him to tut down to four 



sows and increase the number ol ewes. 



.NUuh of the Davie farm would be 

 under w.iter were it not lor high levees 

 wlmh jvoteit the land from the neigh 

 boring .Mississippi During the heavy 

 floods of e.irly ]'-)2~. even the levees 

 t.uled to liuid back the rampaging 

 f.ithcr of V;'aters with the result that 

 .Mr and Mrs. Davies and their six 

 iliildren 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 row boat. To build 

 .ind m.iintain the levees has cost ap 

 proxim.itely S20 an acre lor the lanvl 

 in the district 



On a sSo .n n livestock (arm. there s 

 more outdoor work than one m,in or 

 e\cn two can do. The five boys in 

 the Da\ie family largely take i.ire of 

 this problem although .Mr. Da\ k has 

 had a dependable m.iii, Roy Urimm and 

 family, to lielp him during the past 

 12 years One son is married and 

 works with his Dad on the l,irni. an 

 other IS in Chicago attending a lech 

 nical college, three younger boys arc 

 going to grade ,ind high school, and 

 the daughter h,is a clerical position in 

 Ann,i 



.Mrs Davie is not only ,i charming 

 wite ,iiut mother. Inn a rc.il help male 

 who takes .1 keen interest in all the 

 farming ojxrations. besides taking can 

 111 .1 lionic, her f.imily. ,ind ,i fine tlock 



THEY KNOW THEIR MASTER S VOICE 

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



