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Broadening Horizons 



Thru Home Bureau 



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the county. Now, she is familiar with 

 not only her own but other counties and 

 is able to meet with ease "neighbors," as 

 she calls them, from other groups. 



"I am so happy to know my neigh- 

 bors," Mrs. Kalial said. "I didn't seem 

 to know any one before Home Bureau 

 came. I only wish it had been organized 

 sooner." 



Mrs. Kallal enthusiastically works 

 with and encourages the children in all 

 their activities whether it be raising of 

 stock, exhibiting, or foods. 



Julianne, the one daughter, now 19, 

 has been interested in the Home Beau- 

 tification project. Shady Lane Stock 

 farm, as their farm is known, has a long 

 lane of catalpa trees leading up from 

 the main road to a large comfortable 

 home. Near the entrance Julianne has 

 planned a rock garden, as her project. 

 For this garden, her father made two 

 trips to the foothills of the Ozarks and 

 brought back seven tons of rock! 



Julianne and all the boys have been or 

 are vitally interested in 4-H club work, 

 carrying both cattle and hog projects and 

 have carried off many honors at shows 

 and fairs. They have been interested 

 since the beginning of club work in Jer- 

 sey county and Mr. Kallal has led a club 

 continuously since that time. 



"The out of the home contacts are 

 good for all of us," Mrs. Kallal insists. 

 "I want the children to meet other young 

 people and broaden their interests. From 

 my own experience, my connection with 

 Home Bureau has made life fuller and 

 richer." 



Perhaps the family appreciates taking 

 part in such activities because they realize 

 that only under such a form of govern- 

 ment as we have had in the United States 

 is such co-operation and freedom pos- 

 sible. Mr. Kallal's father and mother 

 were born in Czechoslavakia. At the 

 time of their coming to this country, 

 Bohemia, as was its name then, was 

 terribly oppressed. Germany, Italy and 

 other countries pressed closely in on 

 them. Even legal papers were written 

 in German. In church affairs, they had 

 no voice. Because the Bohemians are a 

 progressive, peaceful people, and farmers 

 by heritage, they welcomed an oppor- 

 tunity to come to America and establish 

 homes. Mrs. Kallal's family came from 

 Germany when very young. The young 

 folk met in Jersey county, courted, and 

 were married there. 



Although the farm specialty is pure- 

 bred Angus, each year several carloads of 

 Herefords are shipped in for feeding. 



SHADY LANE STOCK FARM 

 Catalpa traas along the driva from the main road frame the large comfortable Kallal home. 



Some of these are shown in the picture. 

 The men folk give a great deal of atten- 

 tion to seed corn breeding too. At 

 present they are much interested in win- 

 ter barley. Three of the Kallal sons are 

 married but two work at home in caring 

 for the livestock and assisting with feed- 

 ing operations. Even though her own 

 sons are very grown up Mrs. Kallal still 

 retains her interest in little ones as there 

 are now 10 grandchildren bearing the 

 Kallal name. 



A happy co-operation exists between 

 the young and old in work and in play 

 in this family and it serves as an inspira- 

 tion to all. 



"Mrs. Kallal is a loyal, conscientious 

 Home Bureau member," says Miss Helen 

 Steers, Home Advisor of Jersey county. 

 "She and her husband have worked hard 

 and have been very successful." 



From the youngest to the oldest, the 

 children sing the praises of Home Bu- 

 reau. It has made Mom happier, they 

 say, and "we are so glad she picked 

 Home Bureau as some place to go!" 



Sales of pneumatic tractor tires dur- 

 ing the past 60 days have been greater 

 than for any 12 month period hereto- 

 fore. This is another gauge of farm 

 buying power, the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company believes. 



The House Agricultural Committee 



struck from the Farm Tenancy Bill the 

 section providing $50,000,000 a year 

 to finance farmers seeking to own farms 

 they now operate for others. 



Wont Prison Limestone 

 Continued at Menard 



A resolution urging that the lAA 

 intercede to secure continued produc- 

 tion of agricultural limestone at the 

 Illinois state prison, Menard, Randolph 

 county was unanimously adopted at an 

 lAA district conference in Effingham, 

 March 10 reports 

 lAA Director Ches- 

 ter McCord of Jasper 

 county. Each county 

 in the district was 

 represented at the 

 meeting. 



The resolution 

 contended that 

 southern Illinois 

 farmers are in dire 

 need of a conven- 

 Cheiter MeCord fent Supply of lime- 

 stone at reasonable rates and that the 

 cost of limestone shipped in from other 

 quarries in many sections is too high. 

 The resolution was referred to the 

 lAA Board of Directors who concurred 

 in the action and delegated officers 

 to confer with the proper state officials. 

 J. C. Spitler, state leader, who spoke 

 to the district leaders, talked about 

 the relationship between the lAA and 

 the Extension Service, and of the farm 

 advisers' responsibility in the soil con- 

 servation program. 



Other matters considered were ex- 

 emption of farm tractors from state 

 motor license fees, County Farm 

 Bureau projects, rural electrification, 

 flood relief and farm-to-market roads. 



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