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FARM BUREAU 



NEWS IN PICTURES 

 $1.00 Paid for 



Better Pictures 



Sand only dear, clo>«-up, nat- 

 ural, unuiual photoa. NO 

 OTHERS ACCEPTED. Action 

 picturos that t«ll a atorf pro- 

 iorrod. Endoao stamps ior r«- 



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A HEAVY MONEY MAKER 

 Matt Shibles, Newburg, Maine, collects 5c a person lor a glimpse ol his 1600 

 pound porker. He has collected more than $800. Goliath, 10 leet long, requires 

 20 quarts ol milk and five dosen eggs daily. 



BOZOS LAST BATH 

 Day alter Dean and Ruth Pauls- 

 meyer, Clinton county, washed their 

 pet he was sold by the Producers. 

 E. St. Louis, ior 12'/2C per potind. 



EXPERT HORSEMAN 

 ia Merle Brown, Peoria county. He keeps his teams slick, iat and well 

 trimmed. Eight horses easily pull tandem disk and harrow. 



NIGHT SIGN 

 on Adolph Krug's bam. The words 

 "COUNTRY LIFE INS.", studded with re- 

 flector buttons, are visible at night to 

 possersby on Route U.S. 20. 



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HOMEMADE POWER 

 Mark Heaton, Schuyler county, took used parts ol 

 a tractor, a truck ond two cars to make this tractor. 

 Transmission designed by Heaton. Prise picture by 

 Wallace Davis. 



PEORIA COUNTY FARM BUREAU PRESIDENTS 

 Seated leh to right: Henry Gordon, 1915-16: Z. M. Holmes, 1917-23: C. 

 R. Ford. 1924-28; Standing leh to right: Albert Hayes, 1929-36: Chas. Haller, 

 1937: F. A. lones. first president 1912. Others were Robert Clarke, 1913 

 and the late Wm. Taylor. 1914. 



