the community, and we have learned to 

 do things at home. 



"For instance, I had been cooking meat 

 for 12 years. After the lesson on meat 

 cookery I cook it differently and oh, so 

 much better. And vegetables! I used to 

 cook cauliflower or onions occasionally. 

 The odor would distress us all as well as 

 our neighbors. Now you can stand right 

 beside the cooking pan and you would 

 not know if it were onions or sweet 

 potatoes cooking. Of course, I might 

 have learned some of these things any- 

 way, but in Home Bureau, the facts Were 

 all assembled for me." 



// 



Co-op. Electric Co.'s 



Push Line Building 



The co-operative electric company in 

 Pike, Scott, and Green counties has com- 

 pleted building about 125 miles of line 

 announces Col. C. W. Sass of the lAA 

 staff. The company expects to energize 

 sometime this winter. 



The Eastern Illinois Power Co-opera- 

 tive is ready to ask for bids on construc- 

 tion of its lines in Iroquois and Livings- 

 ton counties. 



The Wayne- White Electric Co-op. has 

 decided to get its power from the Central 

 Illinois Public Service Co. rather than 

 from the municipal plant at Fairfield. 

 The co-op. has more than 100 miles of 

 lines built. It expects to energize within 

 the next few weeks. 



Coles county farmers are making prog- 

 ress in signing up prospective customers 

 for a proposed co-ojjerative rural electric 

 line. Approximately 600 had signed at 

 time of going to press. 



Additional grants from the REA ap- 

 proximating $5,000,000 could be used 

 in Illinois, according to Col. Sass for 

 proposed projects in Edgar, Champaign, 

 White-Gallatin, Coles counties, and for 

 additions to existing co-operative lines 

 into Mason, Logan, Morgan, Hamilton, 

 and Jefferson counties. 



Testers of 59 Illinois Dairy Herd 



Improvement Associations are putting 

 ear tags on all cows under test in order 

 to identify them for a nation-wide pro- 

 duction recording system, according to 

 J. G. Cash, University of Illinois. 



If you're ever driving a car that in- 

 jures some one your first duty is to 

 help the injured. It's the only human 

 thing to do — and besides, it's the 

 law of the land to stop and help in 

 any way you can. 



Approximately 13,000,000 trees will be 

 planted this fall and next spring to control 

 erosion on 6,000 acres of steep or badly 

 eroded sloping lands in Illinois, reports F. 

 A. Fisher, state" coordinator of Soil Conser- 

 vation Service. 



It Wouldn^t Raise Soup Beans^' 



Limestone and Rock Phosphate Paid on This Form 



L. N. BAKER 

 "Com went from 40 to 70 bu." 



J:7 If 



, OU get a kick out of farming 

 when you see the crop yields 

 _ improve," said L. N. Baker 

 of Logan County. 



Twenty-one years ago, Baker told 

 his landlord O. M. Kiest he would sign 

 a contract to build up his 320 acre farm. 

 That he has done this, is evident from 



the yields of com which were increased 

 from 40 bushels to 70 bushels following 

 the limestone, alfalfa and rock phosphate 

 program. And when he went on the 

 farm, neighbors said, "It wouldn't raise 

 soup beans." 



All of the 320 acre farm except 38 

 acres in bluegrass pasture and lots, has 

 been limed at the average rate of 21/2 

 tons per acre. In the past 21 years, 12 

 carloads of limestone and 4 carloads of 

 rock phosphate have been spread. Baker 

 applies from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds of 

 phosphate per acre. He says, "I believe 

 phosphorus will help clover and alfalfa 

 carry better through a drouth." Mr. Baker 

 finds that his small grain fills and tests 

 better following the use of rock phos- 

 phate. 



One year he tried 200 lbs. per acre of 

 commercial fertilizer but he didn't get 

 satisfactory results. Sixteen years ago he 

 applied 2I/2 tons of limestone on one 

 40 acre field. Before seeding wheat last 

 fall, he tested the forty by the "Rich-or- 

 p>oor" method. Baker said it "didn't 

 show any sourness, and sweet clover is 

 knee high there now." Mr. Baker is 

 Supervisor of Prairie Creek Township and 

 was long a member of the board of 

 directors of the Logan County Farm Bu- 

 reau. 



SOYOIL eOES TO CHURCH 

 Altar of St. Paul's Church, Havana, Mason County, paintad with Soyoil glott and flat 

 wall paints. The woodwork was finished with a four-hour varnish. Joe Stone made the 

 free-hand paintings on the walls. He was assisted by Ed. Goshert and Tudor Fry. TIm 

 paint was supplied by the Logan-Mason Service Company. 



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