This Herd Pays Its Way 



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UST in case anyone gets the idea 

 /^ that a Farm Bureau leader who 

 ^^ talks and practices organization 

 for farmers has no time for the finer 

 points of his profession, we invite you 

 to look in some day on W. Dean Mobley 

 and his Meadow View Stock Farms in 

 Brown county. 



When you see Dean Mobley around an 

 lAA convention, farmers elevator meet- 

 ing, or at the Farm Bureau office you 

 can't help but be impressed by his retir- 

 ing modesty and warmth of personality. 

 But you may not realize that this soft 

 spoken, kindly-eyed man who instinc- 

 tively draws you to him, is one of Amer- 

 ica's outstanding purebred Aberdeen- 

 Angus breeders. 



In the course of our travels during the 

 past 1 5 to 20 years, we have visited many 

 a rich man's farm and seen his blooded 

 stock assembled from far and near with 

 money made in the city. More rarely 

 has it been our lot to find an important 

 purebred breeder who actually makes a 

 living — and a good one too — from 

 the sale of his own home-raised reg- 



"Father Told me to Stick to the Angus 

 Caftle." Scene on Mobley Farm. 



The Farm Bureau Has Many An Outstanding Purebred 

 Breeder In Its Membership — For Instance Dean Mobley 

 of Brown County. 



istered stock. Dean Mobley is such a 

 rare find and only short acquaintance 

 impresses you that in his character bums 

 an idealism and philosophy that have had 

 everything to do with his success in 

 breeding good cattle. 



Mr. Mobley, like his blue-blooded 

 doddies, has had the qualities necessary 

 to a successful livestock man bred in 

 him. His grandfather, as did Abraham 

 Lincoln's parents, came to Illinois from 

 Kentucky via prairie schooner in 1832, 

 Grandfather Mobley's sire was a tailor. 

 He had three sons. Of the three, one 

 followed in his father's footsteps, an- 

 other became a circuit riding preacher, 

 and the third took to the land as a one- 

 mule farmer whose thrift soon added 

 other mules and chattels. 



Dean Mobley's father was the only son 

 among nine children. The impairment 

 of his father's health early in life left 

 him as a young lad with the heavy re- 

 sponsibility of handling the farm and 



helping rear the family. This responsi- 

 bility, Dean says, produced in him an 

 ability to succeed. 



"Father was a wonderful man in whose 

 judgment I always had every confidence. 

 He never allowed popular opinions to 

 sway his convictions. He foretold the 

 depression that followed the World War 

 and helped me to organize our financial 

 affairs and cash in on all our personal 

 holdings just before that crash came. He 

 also foretold the bank failures that hap- 

 pened in our country in 1929 just fol- 

 lowing his death, and we were not caught 

 thus. I never expect to be what he 

 developed out as a man." 



The story of the dispersal of the Mob- 

 ley herd on May 20, 1920 is a classic 

 "It was my father's idea," Dean said 

 simply. "Father believed that the war 

 prices were unreal. He predicted the 

 depression. So we got ready for it in 

 1919. We cashed everything keeping 

 back only 15 head of foundation cows 



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