Most of the farm is limed for alfalfa 

 and sweet clover. Sweet clover is used 

 both for pasture and soil improvement 

 and the legumes are rotated with corn, 

 winter wheat and oats. 



Everett Leigh is winning distinction as 

 a topnotch Jersey breeder and farm oper- 

 ator. Yet he has time for other things. 

 He is a special agent for the Knox 

 County Farm Bureau Insurance Depart- 

 ment under General Agent A. N. Skin- 

 ner. He is chairman of the Soil Con- 

 servation Committee in Chestnut Town- 

 ship. And in his spare moments he is a 

 stamp collector. Proudly he laid out on 

 the dining room table some rare speci- 

 mens from his growing collection. 

 "There's a group ihey call Farley's folly," 

 he said. The stamp collectors of the 

 country made it so hot for the Postmaster 

 General when only a small printing was 

 made that the presses were started up 

 again to appease their wrath. 



All the cream produced on the Everett 

 Leigh farm goes to the Galesburg Pro- 

 ducers Creamery. In 1935 this small 

 herd produced more than 1 1,200 worth 

 of milk and cream. With higher prices 

 last year, the farm account book now at 

 the State University for analysis, will 

 show greater returns. Other cash crops 

 are hogs and wheat. In 1935 the hog 

 department cashed in about $3,000, in- 

 cluding the benefit payment. Last year 

 it ran about $2,500. 



Two horses and a general-purpose row- 

 crop tractor furnish most of the power 

 on the Leigh farm. The old 15-30 trac- 

 tor wouldn't bring much in trade so it 

 was decided to keep it. The 15-30 can 

 still knock out a lot of work. It is 

 pressed into service in rush seasons. 



After graduating from Hedding Col- 

 lege at Abingdon, Everett decided that 

 he wanted some technical knowledge and 



MILK SCALES 

 "We Mill Twice A Day and 



SOME OF THE JERSEYS 

 "Now There's Boma — She's A 500 Pound Cow." ' 



training in agriculture. He thought of 

 the State University at Urbana, but the 

 semesters weren't arranged to suit his 

 convenience. Over in Ohio they have 

 the quarter system so to Ohio State Uni- 

 versity at Columbus he went, taking the 

 fall and winter quarters until he earned 

 his degree. 



Among other things Leigh keeps his 

 eyes open for new ideas. Sometime ago 

 he installed an electric fence consisting 

 of charged barbed wire. "It's a great 

 idea, " said Everett. "It works fine. You 

 leave the current turned on for about 

 three weeks and then you can turn it 

 off. The stock won't go near the wire. 

 It costs only about 10 cents a month and 

 saves a lot of fence building." 



Bonnie, 10 and Barbara, 8, the wide- 

 awake Leigh daughters, are pupils at the 

 Goose Neck school just down the road. 

 They and their mother are interested in 

 everything that is going on, and do their 

 part to make the farm yield a satisfactory 

 return on the investment. 



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Feed A Home-Grown Ration." 



OBSERVAnONS (Cont'd) 



C.I.O. is settling grievances which were 

 formerly ignored. More power to the 

 C.I.O. It is freeing the steel slaves." 



So I am not so sure about calling 

 out the federal troops to stop the picket- 

 ers any more than I favor acts to prevent 

 organized milk producers from enforc- 

 ing the right of collective bargaining. 

 In the heat of a strike you may expect 

 both sides to go to excesses. And a 

 mob is always dangerous. The mob 

 spirit frequently makes murderers out of 

 persons who normally are decent enough 

 citizens, particularly where there have 

 been unfair tactics and oppression. 



There must be excessive profits in the 

 steel business at times to pay Eugene 

 Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel, more 

 than a million dollars in salary and 

 bonuses in one year. And scores of other 

 steel executives got from $100,000 up 

 to $500,000 in salaries and bonuses. 

 Maybe they earned that much money. 

 I don't know but I have my doubts. 

 At any rate, when the fellow stripped to 

 the waist and facing terrific heat in a 

 steel mill every day, says he isn't getting 

 a fair break on the company's profits, 

 we should be willing to listen. 



In Chicago you sec many examples of 

 racketeering, some under the guise of 

 labor unions. And I am convinced that 

 labor groups frequently work against 

 their best interests by demanding too 

 high an hourly wage scale, a condition 

 that's responsible for much unemploy- 

 ment. But the point of this story is that 

 there are two sides to a question. And 

 it's still good advice to question even 

 the news items in many newspapers. 

 Are the papers giving us an unbiased 

 view of the issues and the facts? Labor 

 no doubt has as much difficulty as the 

 farmer in getting a fair picture of its 

 problems before the public. 



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