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SPORTS FESTIVAL 



(ConttHHed from page 13) 



Girls' Events 



(2 classes for each event. 



Girls 15 and under. Girls 16 and older). 



1. 100 Yard Dash 



2. High Jump 



3. Broad Jump 

 HORSESHOES 



1. Men. (Singles and doubles divisions, 

 player may enter only one division.) 



2. Women. (Rules same as for men except 

 30 foot distance.) 



TUG O'WAR TOURNAMENT 



1. Eight (8) men on each team. 



HORSE-PULLING CONTEST 



1. Two (2) divisions — teams over 3000 



lbs., teams under 3000 lbs. 

 TRAP SHOOTING 

 1. Official Rules of the Amateur Trap- 



Shooting Association will be used. 



Open to any member of shooters. 

 RIFLE SHOOTING 



Separate division for men and women. 

 WOMEN'S EVENTS 



1. Women's Rifle Shooting. 



2. Checkers Tournament. 



3. Horseshoe Tournament. 



4. Rolling Pin Throwing Contest. 



5. Husband Calling Contest. 



6. Darts Throwing Contest. 



Hit bulls-eye with 5 darts, T'/j" size, at 

 12 feet. 



7. Tenni-Quoit or Deck Tennis Contest. 

 SPECIAL EVENTS 



1. Experiment Station Tour 



2. Hog Calling. 



3. Swimming. 



(Events for both Boys and Girls). 



4. Checkers. 



(Separate divisions for men and women). 



5. Prize Drawing Pony 



(For youngsters 4 to 14 years inclusive). 



6. Largest Farm Bureau Family. 



7. Oldest Farm Bureau Member. 



8. Biggest Farm Bureau Smile. 



MUSIC AND FOLK DANCE CONTESTS 

 All preliminaries at 10:00 A.M., Friday, 

 Sept. 3. 



1. Family Singing Contest. 

 (Not less than 3 Members). 



Notice 



Illinois Agricultural Association 

 Election of Delegates 



Notice is hereby given that in con- 

 nection with the annual meetings of all 

 County Farm Bureaus to be held during 

 the month of September, 1937, at the 

 hour and place to be determined by the 

 Board qf Directors of each respective 

 County Farm Bureau, the members in 

 good standing of such County Farm 

 Bureau, and who are also qualified vot- 

 ing members of Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, shall elect a delegate or 

 delegates to represent such members of 

 Illinois Agricultural Association and 

 vote on all matters before the next an- 

 nual meeting or any special meeting of 

 the Association, including the election 

 of officers and directors as provided for 

 in the By-Laws of the Association. 



During September, annual meetings 

 will be held in Christian, Macon and 

 Jefferson counties. 



(Signed) Paul E. Mathias, 

 July 21, 1937 Corporate Secretary 



2. Square Dance Contest. j 

 (4 Couples, 8, or 9 with caller). , 



3. Folk Dance tontest * 

 (4 or 8 Couples, 16 in all). 



4. Novelty Dance Band Contest. 

 (3 to 6 Members). 



5. Square Dance Band Contest. 

 (3 to 6 Members). 



FARM BUREAU BANDS 



Farm Bureau Bands from Boone, Sanga- 

 mon and Logan counties will be assigned 

 places on the two days Sports program. 

 MUSIC AND DANCE FESTIVAL 

 PAGEANT — "Organized Farmers March- 

 ing On." 



25 Years of Agricultural Extension and 

 Farm Bureau Work in Illinois. 



lohn Spencer 



It's "Soil Improvement" 



To avoid confusion the newest lAA 

 department will be known as Soil Im- 

 provement rather than Soil Conserva- 

 tion. John R. Spencer began work 

 July 1, as director. 

 This department 

 was established in 

 reponse to Farm 

 Bureau members 

 for assistance in 

 assembling infor- 

 mation about lime- 

 stone and phos- 

 phate, prices, 

 sources and quality. 

 "I feel that this 

 department will be 

 of tremendous 

 value to farmers in the important work 

 of conserving and in building up the 

 soil on their farms," Spencer says. 



Mr. Spencer was born April 10, 1896, 

 in Henry county. He worked on Bureau 

 and Henry county livestock farms until 

 he graduated from high school in 1914. 

 Before he received his degree in agricul- 

 ture at the University of Illinois in 1920, 

 John served 16 months in the United 

 States Army. 



From 1920 until 1925, Spencer was 

 engaged in agricultural extension work 

 at the University of Kentucky. He re- 

 turned to his home state as Wabash 

 county farm adviser in 1925. Three years 

 later he became farm adviser in Rock 

 Island county.- 



The nine years that Spencer remained 

 in Rock Island county were the most 

 strenuous in Farm Bureau history. Dur- 

 ing those years the Quality Milk Asso- 

 ciation, Rock Island, and the Producers 

 Creamery, Moline, were organized in the 

 face of bitter opposition. It was in this 

 battle that Spencer won his spurs and the 

 first Illinois Producers Creamery was 

 established. 



He was instrumental, too, in develop- 

 ing the Roclc Island Service Company, 

 one of the fastest growing farm supply 

 cooperatives in western Illinois. The 

 Rock Island Farm Bureau has a splendid 

 morale, is well financed and has a mem- 

 bership of 675. 



'^/IDepe 



Believe it or not, 19 County Farm Bu- 

 reau baseball nines are cavorting around 

 the diamonds these days having a lot of 

 fun and furnishing some high class en- 

 .tertainment for the fans. At going to 

 press time, it looks like anybody's race 

 for the state title with Peoria, Lake, De- 

 Kalb, Fayette, Bond, Will, and Carroll 

 more or less in the lead. At any rate 

 these teams seem to have the edge. At 

 least four can look ahead to playing in 

 fast company when they run head on into 

 each other on Illinois Field during the 

 Second Annual Farm Sports Festival 

 Sept. 3-4. 



Here's the lineup based on reports re- 

 ceived up to and including July 23: 



16 



Peoria county is an example of the 

 worm that turned. After being kicked 

 about like the Chicago White Sox for so 

 many years, Peoria got tired of the per- 

 formance. And thus far it has tromped 

 all over each adversary much to the de- 

 light of the patient Peoria county fans. 

 Woodford, of course, is up there disput- 

 ing each step of the way, but it looks 

 like a new state champ in '37 for Henry 

 county, the '36 winner, is down the list 

 and may never emerge from the district 

 competition. 



Here are some of the recent scores: 

 July 10 

 DeKalb (at Sycamore) 6 



Boone 1 



July 17 

 Lake (at Harvard) '■ '". 9 



McHenry : 6 



Will (at Ottawa) 8 



LaSalle .0 



Fayette (at Carlinville) ■ . 11 



Macoupin 2 



DeKalb (at Belvidere) . < 2 



Boone 1 



Woodford (at Eureka) 14 



McLean ■ ^ 7 



Ogle (at Stockton) 11 



Jo Daviess 6 



. L A. A. RECORD 



