Ford County Farm Bureau rcctntlv 

 moved into hrst floor orfuxs. 



On April 29, S39,5()() of new Coun- 

 try Life Insurance \v .is .written in I'ord 

 county. 



May seeding of alfalfa has proved 



successful in Men.ird county. 



Orders for hybrid seed corn for the 

 1938 crop have already come into the 

 Menard county Farm Bure.iu office. 



LaSalle county farmers received 

 $250,000 for participation in the 1936 

 Soil Conservation program. 



Crime in Marshall and Putnam coun- 

 ties will be fought by the newly 

 formed farmers protective a.ssociation 

 which has arranged to have deputy 

 sheriffs appointed in every township 

 in the two counties. 



When the Livingston County Farm 



Bureau building is remodeled it will 

 have more offices, a lowered ceiling, 

 two entrances to the basement meeting 

 room and a kitchen. 



An Ogle county committee is push- 

 ing arrangements for the opening of 

 the new Ogle County Service Company. 



Lawrence County Farm Bureau re- 

 ports 60 new members and a full quota. 



Serious damage by clo^•er leaf wee- 

 vils has been reported in Tazewell coun- 



And Now A Farm Bureau romance! 

 The date of Miss Willa Lower s mar- 

 riage to William Gray was announced 

 recently in the Hancock (bounty Farm 

 Bureau Bulletin. She was employed in 

 the I'arm Bure.iu otfict. he is county con- 

 servation chairman. 



J. R. Bent of LaSalle county, former- 

 ly of the I. A. A. Phosphate-Limestone 

 Department, recently accepted a job 

 in the Sales Department of Dolese and 

 Shepherd, manufacturers of agricultur- 

 al limestone. 



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A one day drive in W hite county 



netted 5 » new members. The success 

 of the drive is attributed to the fact 

 that it was unusually wcllplanncd. 

 Eighty new members have been signed 

 since January 1 . 



W. H. Coultas of Champaign form- 

 erly employed by the Soybean Market- 

 ing Association, is now a member of 

 the Sales Promotion Departtnent of 

 Allied Mills. 



Champaign and McLean counties re- 

 port progress in setting up their cold 

 storage locker co-operatives. White- 

 side, Knox and many other counties 

 are studying the project. 



Paul M. Krows, formerly agricultur- 

 al teacher in the Atwood High School, 

 is the new larm adviser in Moultrie 

 countv. 



that l')J new members have been signed 

 since January 1. 



Growing interest in cold storage 



locker plants in Kendall county re- 

 sulted in the appointment of a com- 

 mittee by the Farm Bureau to organize 

 a company which will build a plant 

 in ^'orkvijle. 



A series of county-wide meetings 



featuring movies which showed the ad- 

 vance of modern homemaking ecjuip- 

 ment was sponsored by the Monroe 

 County Farm Bureau last month. 



To six Randolph county dairymen, 

 la.st month, went the U. of I. certifi- 

 cates of award for herds that averaged 

 more than 300 pounds of butterfat in 

 1936. 



"The membership of the Knox 



County Farm Bureau now stands at 

 1,411. a new high for the county," 

 Harold Roberts, chairman of the mem- 

 bership committee, reports. He says 



Effingham county farmers spread 



18.1 "^ 1 tons of limestone in 1936. Farm 

 Adviser Fvans says there is need for 

 750,000 additional tons. 



Lloyd D. Graham, Lovington Ag 



teacher, is McLean county's new as- 

 sistant farm adviser. 



MOKENA DAIRY HERD IMPROVERS, WILL COUNTY 

 Seated — left to right: A. C. Guether, sec'y-treas.; Conrad Bormet, president; John 

 Schilling, vice-president; Marion Owen, director. Standing — left to right: J. G. Cash, U. 

 of I,; L, W. Braharn, farm adviser; Donald Swinford, tester; Chas, Erickson, director. Most of 

 the menfibers come from a single community. 



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