the community, and we have IcarneJ to 

 do tilings at home. 



"l"or instatue, I had been cookint; meal 

 for IJ 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 ail as well as 

 our neiuhbors. Now you tan stand ri^lit 

 beside the cookini; pan and you would 

 not know if it were onions or sweet 

 potatoes cooking. Of course, I mi/;ht 

 have learned some of these thini;s any- 

 way, but in Home bureau, the facts were 

 all assembled for me." 



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Co-op. Electric Co.'s 



Push Line Building 



1 he to-operative electric company in 

 Pike, vScott, and (ireen counties has com- 

 pleted buildint; about 125 miles of line 

 annoimtes 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 Irotjuois and Livings- 

 ton counties. 



The \V.iyne- White Electric Clo-op. has 

 decided to get its power from the Cx-ntral 

 Illinois Public Service Co. rather than 

 from the municipal plant at Fairfield. 

 The to op. has more than 100 miles of 

 lines built. It expects to energize wiihin 

 the next few weeks. 



Coles county farmers are making prog- 

 ress in signing up prospective customers 

 for a proposed co-operative rural electric 

 line. Approximately 600 had signed at 

 time of going to press. 



Additional grants from the RF.A ap 

 proximating 55,000,000 could be useii 

 in Illinois, according to Col. Sass for 

 proposeil projects in l:dgar. 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 arc 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 1.^,000,000 trees will be 

 planted tfiis f.ii! ami next spring to control 

 erosion on 6 (lOO .icrts of steep or" badly 

 eroded sloping lands in Illinois, reports F. 

 A. Fislur. stale coordinator of Soil Conser- 

 vation .*>fr\ ice. 



It Wouldn't Raise Soup Beans 



Limestone and Rock Phosphate Paid on This Farm 



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L. N. BAKER 

 "Corn went from 40 to 70 bu." 



»»y I t^^^ ^^'^ •' ^'^^ 0"f o' farming 

 ^^^JL./ when you see the crop yicKK 

 J~y improve," said L N. Maker 

 of Logan County. 



Twenty-one years ago. Baker told 

 his landlord (). NL Kicst he would sign 

 a contract to build up his i.^O acre farm 

 That he has done this, is evident from 



the yieliis of torn which were intreased 

 from 10 bushels to "O bushels lollowmg 

 the limestone, alfalfa and rock phosphate 

 program. And w hen he \\ cnt on the 

 farm, neighbors said. 'It woiddn t raise 

 soup beans. " 



All of the i2i.) acre farm except .S8 

 acres in bluegrass pasture and lots, has 

 been limed at the average rate of ^'t 

 tons per aire. In the past 21 years. \2 

 carloads of limestone and 1 carloads of 

 rock phosphate have Ix-en spread. Haker 

 applies from 1 .000 to 1,200 pounds of 

 phosphate per .ure. He says, 'I believe 

 phosphorus will help clo\cr and alfalfa 

 carry better through a drouth. Nfr. Maker 

 finds that his small grain fills and tests 

 better following the use of rcxk phos- 

 phate. 



One )ear he tried 200 lbs. [xr acre of 

 commercial fertilizer but he didn t get 

 satisfactory results. Sixteen years ago he 

 applied 2' , tons of limestone on one 

 10 acre field Hefore seeding wheat last 

 tall, he teslt-d the forty by the "Rich or- 

 poor" method. Baker said it didn t 

 show am 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 

 dirtiiors of the Logan C'ounty I'arm Bu- 

 rt.ui. 



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SOYOIL GOES TO CHURCH 

 Altar of Sf. Paul's Church. Havana, Mason County, painted with Soyoil gloss 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. The 

 paint was supplied by the Logan-Mason Service Company. 



OCTOBER. 1937 



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