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Members are invited to express their 

 opinions and to offer comments for publi- 

 cation in this column. Address Editor, 

 I.A.A. RECORD, 608 So. Dearborn St., 

 Chicago. 



From Mr. Ihrig 



I have just finished reading with more 

 than ordinary interest your editorials en- 

 titled "Minority Control" and "Who Started 

 This Thing, Anyway.'", in the December 

 RECORD. 



Thru the years that I have followed your 

 editorials, to me you have never come as 

 close to incorporating an entire speech on 

 one page as you have in the current issue. 



I frankly believe that every Farm Bureau 

 in the state should print in full the above 

 mentioned articles to reimprcss the member- 

 ship with the fact that a simple and short 

 explanation of the reason for fair farm legis- 

 lation is more effective in defending the 

 agrarian attitude than a detailed discussion 

 of all that is involved. 



M. Ray Ihrig 



Golden, Adams County, III. 



Another Ringer 



Editor of The lAA Record: 



Your Dec. number of the Record calls 

 for another ringer to be chalked up on your 

 score card. 



It contains several articles, any one of 

 which is well worth the "cost and carriage" 

 of your splendid publication. 



The splendid cooperation and team work 

 shown in the article relating to the Ston- 

 ington elevator "coop" shows that the road 

 signs of the organization point to "success." 

 Good judgment and square dealing shows 

 a solid foundation as well as solid con- 

 struction of this organization. 



The RECORD of lAA grows better and 

 better every day in every way. May it ever 

 be thus, is the closing 1937 wish of yours 

 truly, C. F. S. an appreciative reader and 

 booster. 



C. F. Spicer, Clinton, 

 Dewitt County, III. 



Of special interest to me was your Dec. 

 1937 issue of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation RECORD. On page 27 is the picture 

 of a cattle truck accident on route 66 near 

 Chicago, Nov. 1, 1937, for I happened to 

 be the owner of the cattle and also a pas- 

 senger in the truck. I consider myself 

 rather fortunate for coming out of the 

 wreckage with only a broken leg and shoul- 

 der and minor bruises. I was taken to the 

 Evangelical Hospital, but am home now 

 getting along fine. I would like to secure 

 a few pictures of the accident. Do you 



know who took the picture or where I 

 could secure the negative? Would you 

 please send me a few extra copies of the 

 December number of the RECORD? 



Thanking you for any services rendered, 

 I am your Farm Bureau member, 



Dave Sander, 



Roanoke, Woodford County, 111. 



Fertilizer Plots 



I notice your pictures and write-up of 

 our plots on the W. A. Hunter farm in the 

 Dec. RECORD, and have been receiving 

 some inquiries about this. I am afraid I did 

 not explain enough in detail to you the 

 background of this fertilizer plot. 



Some of the people who have been asking 

 me about the fertilizer on this plot have 

 misinterpreted what is back of the demon- 

 stration. This fertilizer was not applied on 

 our regular untreated soils, but on the 

 Hopkins Poorland farm which had received 

 about five tons of limestone and approxi- 

 mately two and one-half tons of rock phos- 

 phate since 1905, and had grown three or 

 four heavy crops of sweet clover. We do 

 not find an increase for potash alone on 

 fields that have not been limed and grown 

 sweet clover, and I doubt if we will find 

 an increase for potash very high without 

 some phosphate. 



Following are the exact results of this 

 experiment, I just received these this week 

 from Mr. Garrard. I now have them ready 

 and can give them to anyone who wants 

 them, and if you care to publish them it 

 will be all right. We have some just as 

 striking results on a farm of R. L. Murray 

 near Centralia, but as yet I don't have the 

 exact adjusted bushel yields figured out. 



Soil Conservation 



In reply to your article published in the 

 November issue of the Record on the soil 

 conservation work on the Welch & Grieve 

 farms. 



We appreciate very much your interest in 

 this work and all of the articles you are pub- 

 lishing on soil conservation. 



We have had several inquiries and consider- 

 able favorable comment from readers of the 

 one article. 



Realizing that our work is mainly of an edu- 

 cational nature, we keenly appreciate the fine 

 cooperation the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion is giving. 



Burton E. King 

 Acting Superintendent 

 Camp SCS-3, Galva, III. 



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Cowpoth 



The Chicago Charter Jubilee Cotnmit- 

 tee atid Mayor Kelly unveiled a tablet at 

 Clark and Monroe streets during Live- 

 stock Show week commemorating Chi- 

 cago's million-dollar cowpath. The path, 

 10 by 177 feet, was provided for in the 

 will of Willard Jones in 1844 when he 

 sold portions of the surrounding prop- 

 erty. A 21 -story building has been built 

 over part of the path but according to 

 Jones' deed, it is still spacious enough to 

 permit a load of hay to be driven 

 through. 



Fertilizer Treatment 



Bus. 

 Per Acre 



10.98 



3.75 



14.55 



3.19 

 1.62 

 2.67 



125 lbs. 0-8-24 in hill 54.80 



No fertilizer 22.14 



125 lbs. 0-20-20 50.69 



125 lbs. 0-20-0 33.09 



125 lbs. 00-50 „ 54.72 



No fertilizer 22.92 



Check plot Hopkins farm — no 

 treatment, no lime or sw. clover.... 23.81 



The number of stalks injured from root worm and chinch bugs might be interesting. The 

 following table was made by Prof. Bigger of the University of Illinois, as of Oct. 11th. 



Number of Down Stalks 



Net Value 



Above 



Fertilizer 



Costs 



$24.43 

 10.13 

 21.30 

 14.25 

 24.24 

 10.88 



11.40 



Net 



Increase 



Due To 



Fertilizer 



$14.30 



Cost of 

 Fertilizer 

 Per Acre 



$2.47 



Treatment 



From "Root- 

 Worm Injury" 



From "Chinch 

 Bug Damage" 



98 



< 



9 

 108 



Toul 



231 

 20 

 » 



197 



No fertilizer 133 



0-8-24 12 



0-20-20 26 



0-20-0 66 



0-0-50 - 20 



No fertilizer 89 



It must be kept in mind in all of these plots, including the no fertilizer, mentioned 

 above, this ground was sweet, and has grown good crops of sweet clover and has had 2Vi 

 tons of rock phosphate per acre. 



Yours very truly, 



FRED J. BLACKBURN, 



Farm Adviser, Marion County 



See Her Soar 



Remember how out at Pasadena at the 

 A.F.B.F. convention last December, the Iowa 

 delegation drowned out all the other states 

 with their I-O-W-A, I-O-W-A. Well, I 

 didn't enjoy it a bit, and hope this Illinois 

 verse of mine will take. 



On a Farm Bureau excursion to Alaska last 

 August, the Iowa people would get the 



I-O-W-A off at dinner and I would get up 

 and send Illinois way down the long row of 

 tables. Here it is: 



"Illinois, grand and high, i 



Reaches farthest to the sky. 

 Seventy-two thousand and more 

 ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU SEE-HERSOAR." 



Lloyd Z. Jones 



Galva, Henry county, Illinois 





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