besides the seed oats. From LaSalle 

 county 51,324 lbs. ear corn, 38,477 lbs. 

 oats, 47 bales of hay and so on. Two 

 cirloads of hay were on track that day 

 dipped down from Michigan, purchased 

 with cash contributed in County Farm 

 Bureau drives. In Pope-Hardin, 105 

 farmers were still on the list as needy. 

 About 200 in all got some feed. Cossey 

 said, "You've been mighty generous with 

 us. We don't want to impose on the 

 other counties. We need it but don't 

 want to be selfish." 



In Pope-Hardin the best farms were 

 hardest hit. The surplus feed was down 

 in the bottoms, Cossey said. "That hurt 

 the fellows on the uplands. They de- 

 pended on the feed supplies down be- 

 low. We need corn for work stock. 

 We're not including cattle and hogs at 

 all in our estimates of needs." 



About 30 teams were waiting for the 

 car of hay to be opened at the track. 

 R. W. Burklow had driven his team in 1 5 

 miles to get a few bales of hay. He had 

 previously got some hay, corn, oats, and 

 straw. "I don't know what we would 

 have done if it hadn't been for the 

 Farm Bureau," he said. "We had to swim 

 our stock about a half mile to high 

 ground. We saved 4 head of work stock, 

 4 cattle, and 3 hogs. 



Claude Trovillion who lives near 

 Brownfield had 15 to 20 ft. of water on 

 his land. He came 12 miles with a 

 team to get hay. His 12 acres of Lespe- 

 deza, he said, looks fine after the flood. 



Farther north in Saline county. Adviser 

 Harry Neville totaled up the feed and 

 seed that came in from Macon, Carroll, 

 Piatt, Monroe, Menard, Grundy, Jersey, 

 Edgar, and other counties. Practically 

 all of it arrived by truck, one carload 

 from St. Clair county. Neville said that 

 nearly 300 farmers received help there. 

 About half of them were Farm Bureau 

 members from the richer bottom lands 



HAY ON TRACK 

 Sc*n* at Golconda on feed day. 



in the county. The Kiwanis Clubs do- 

 nated 62 bushels of fine western alfalfa 

 seed which will be sown this spring. 

 There will be an Alfalfa Day in the fall 

 in Harrisburg when each farmer will 

 bring in a bale of alfalfa to be auctioned 

 off for the Kiwanis Crippled Children 

 Fund. Most of the alfalfa fields in the 

 county came through the flood in good 

 shape. The Red Cross there is doing a 

 good job of aiding the hardest hit farmers 

 in rebuilding their homes and getting 

 them started again to producing a new 

 crop. About 45 farm homes in this 

 county were wrecked or floated away. 

 About 85% of the wheat that was under 

 water survived. 



We stopped at Shawneetown on the 

 way to Ridgway, in Gallatin county. 

 Just west of the town 600 men, women 

 and children are still camping in the 

 Red Cross' tented city. Shawneetown 

 looks like a tornado struck it. Buildings, 

 boards, and debris are scattered every- 

 where. Rehabilitation is under way but 



only half-heartedly. There is hesitation. 

 When will the next flood come? That's 

 the question in everyone's mind. Dan 

 Scherrer of Wabash Valley Service Co. 

 was painting the pipies running from the 

 pump to the company's big storage tank 

 which is none the worse for the flood. 

 The gasoline didn't get any water in it, 

 Scherrer says. 



Ray Roll, adviser at Ridgway reports 

 91 truck loads of feed came in from 

 the counties to the north and west; 34 

 from Champaign, 12 from Sangamon, 

 a lot from Ford, Iroquois, Scott, Marshall- 

 Putnam, and other counties. "It was all 

 good feed, too," he said. "I don't know 

 what some of our fellows would have 

 done without it. It was a big help." 



A total of 497 farmers in Gallatin 

 county shared in the distribution. About 

 50 of these were Farm Bureau members. 

 About 150 to 200 were still coming for 

 feed. 



In White county, Truman Wright, 

 farm adviser said, "this job of distribut- 



TRUMAN WRIGHT. A. R. WRIGHT. J. E. STINE 

 "It was a problem in organization." 



CATTLE ON LEWIS FARM 



Pulaslii County 



niiay twam out to high ground.' 



MAY. 1937 





