GEORGE LEWIS, PULASKI COUNTY 



"The wafer came to here. ' 



furniture out the day \\e stopped. t;etting 

 ready to take the house down and re- 

 build it on high ground. 



In the flood area there is a well 

 grounded fear that high water will re- 

 turn another year. They arc already get- 

 ting ready for the next flood. You see 

 new boats under construction in the 

 river towns. Meetings are being held 

 in the interest of flood control. In some 

 cases plans are being made to build 

 levees higher. 



Mound City, Brookport and Shawnee- 

 town were hardest hit. Many of their 

 buildings were wrecked, some went down 

 the River. While reconstruction is under 

 way, enthusiasm for rebuilding is not 

 running high in these towns. They are 

 looking into the future. They are re- 

 luctant to invest much money because 

 of the fear that another flood may come 

 and sweep it away. 



Hundreds of letters were written by 

 farmers who received allotments to 

 County Farm Bureaus, and in many cases, 

 to individuals who had enclosed their 

 names in the sacks in which much of the 

 feed was received. 



Tlie Pulaski-Alexander Farm Bureau 

 delivered feed and seed from Ullin, 

 Mounds, Miller City, America, Grand 

 Chain and Villa Ridge. The donations 

 it received came mostly from McLean, 

 Jackson, Perry and Madison counties. 



"More than 2 16 of our farmers shared 

 in the contributions," said L. L. Colvis, 

 farm adviser. "We still have 600 bushels 

 of grain and around four tons of hay and 

 straw undistribiited. The committee feels 

 that we got our share. We took care of 

 both members and non-members - mo:e 

 of the latter than the former." 



The State Committee shipped more 

 than 6,000 bushels of seed oats into the 

 area in addition to that contributed di- 

 rectly in the County Farm Bureau drives. 

 This was purchased out of cash con- 

 tributions. 



Henry F. Ritter farms 2^2 acres in the 

 Cache River Valley, east of Ullin. Pulaski 

 county. He had nine feet of water in 

 his barn for three weeks, two feet in 

 the house. His stock swam out to high 

 ground. All but five acres of his farm 

 W.1S covered. The water rose 21 2 feet 

 in 2 i hours. His losses \\crc approxi- 

 mately SI. 000. including 600 bushels of 

 corn. It's bushels of wheat, 100 bushels 

 of o.its, I ' '-, tons of hay, lour hogs, 66 

 stands of bees, one calf anil some chick- 

 ens. He was allotted a c]uantity of mixed 

 feed, 20 bushels of corn and 2"} bushels 

 of oats. 



"No one will know what it means to 

 be in such a flood until they are forced 

 out with their stock," said Ritter. "We 

 saved most of our stock by swimming 

 them out to high ground. Then we had 

 to break through the ice with a row- 

 boat to feed them. I estimate we lost 

 SI, 000. So thanks a lot for the feed." 



"Ihank you again for your generosity 

 and your promptness in meeting the real 

 need in flood-stricken Massac county," 

 said Mrs. Harriet K. Huffman in a letter 

 to the Champaign County Farm Bureau. 

 "I had not realized what a worthy organ- 

 ization the Farm Bureau was until after 

 my father's death when I had to take 

 over his affairs. The farm adviser and 

 Bureau friends have aided me greatly 

 with advice. And now comes this very 

 evident and material Farm Bureau inter- 

 est from neighboring counties." 



In Massac county. Adviser Strubinger 

 reported that the large quantities of feed 

 received from Champaign, LaSalle, 

 Stephenson, and other counties went to 

 213 needy farmers. Only 35 of these 

 were members of the I'arm Bureau. 

 Farmers were especially grateful for the 

 fine seed oats purchased for the State 

 Committee by Advisers C. A. Hughes of 

 Monroe and T. W. May of Madison 

 county. Mrs. J. B. Reed of Brookport 



HENRY E. RIHER 

 "Thanks a lot for the feed." 



told us that during the flood, she stayed 

 four weeks at the High School in Car- 

 bondale. Their home had nearly five 

 feet of water in it. It was moved off 

 the foundation. About 40 farmers around 

 Brookport shared in the feed. "It was 

 mighty good feed and we're thankful 

 to the Farm Bureaus in the other coun- 

 ties, " said Sylvester C. Metcalf, member 

 of the Massac County Farm Bureau who 

 handled the distribution there. 



On the way to Golconda next morning 

 we passed the Clanahan farm in Pope 

 county where three boys drowned while 

 taking out livestock. We saw farm build- 

 ings along the paved highway where the 

 water had dumped them when it went 

 down. Just south of Renshaw water 

 reached a depth of 20 ft. in the Cache 

 River bottoms. 



In the Farm Bureau office at Golconda, 

 C. R. Cossey and Farm Adviser Smith's 

 pretty daughter Jane totaled up the feed 

 received and distributed there; from 

 Champaign county 1600 bu. corn, 1306 

 bales straw, 284 bales hay, 576 bu. oats 



C. R. COSSEY 

 "3V2 feet in the Farm Bureau 



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I. A. A. RECORD 



MAY. 



