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 sec 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 tiiis 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 ot his own home-raised reg- 



"Fafher Told me to Stick to the Angus 

 Cattle." 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 tind and only short acijuaintance 

 impresses you that in his character burns 

 an idealism .ind philosophy that have had 

 everything to do with his success in 

 breeding good cattle. 



Mr. Mobley, like his blue-blooded 

 doddies, has had the cjualities 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 Moblev s father was the onlv son 

 among nine children. The impairment 

 of his father's health early in lite left 

 him as a young lad with the heavy re 

 sponsibilitv of handling the tarm and 



helping rear the lamily. This responsi- 

 bility. Dean says, produced in liim an 

 ability to succeed. 



"Father was a wonderful nun in whose 

 ludgmcnt I always had every conlidence. 

 He never allowed popular opinions to 

 sw.iy his convKtions. He foretold the 

 depression that follossed the >X'orld "^X'ar 

 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- 

 |xned 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 tlie disf)ersal of the Mob- 

 ley herd on May 20. 1920 is a classic- 

 It was my father's idea, " Dean said 

 •imiply. lather iK-lieved that the war 

 prices were unreal. He predicted the 

 depression. So we got ready lor it in 

 I'^lv. W'c cashed everything keeping 

 b.ick onlv I ■! head of foundation cows 



