

ACRES or DIAMONDS 



Sonthem Illinois Soft Winter Wheat Hour Is 

 Famed The World Over ; 



V I OU have all heard the story of 

 VJy the Brazilian Shepherds who 



J^ sold off their lands and went 

 to the gold fields to seek their fortune. 

 Returning penniless years later they 

 found that the purchasers of their land 

 had become wealthy through the dis- 

 covery of diamonds on the land that they 

 had considered worthless. The moral 

 is — don't forget that distant pastures 

 look the greenest but the best grass may 

 grow around your own barn. 



The farmers of Illinois grow the finest 

 wheat in the world, namely, soft winter 

 wheat and Illinois has many millers 

 grinding this wheat especially in the 

 southern part of the state. That soft 

 wheat flour such as that produced from 

 wheat grown on Illinois farms is the 

 finest all-purpose family flour is no idle 

 boast but a proven fact demonstrated by 

 human experience extending over a hun- 

 dred years. 



Hot Biscuits Too 



The incomparable bread made by our 

 Illinois grandmothers and great grand- 

 mothers, which all have tried to imitate 

 but none has equalled, was made from 

 Illinois soft wheat flour. The delicious 

 rolls and hot biscuits, which were chiefly 

 responsible for the richly deserved rep- 

 utation of our old south for good food, 

 were made from "soft wheat flour." The 

 bread, rolls and pastries of France which 

 have an international reputation for un- 

 equalled flavor and quality are all made 

 from soft wheat flour. Yet, despite these 

 indisputable facts, a large proportion of 

 our Illinois farmers who grow this wheat 

 buy flour at a higher price which is made 

 from wheat grown hundreds of miles 

 from our own borders. 



No matter how fine a product or a 

 machine, it must be used correctly for 

 satisfactory results. It requires less labor 

 and less expensive ingredients to prepare 

 any baked product from Soft Wheat 

 Flour but there is a right and wrong way 

 to use it. During the two or three Soft 

 Wheat crop failures that have taken place 

 during the past half century many Il- 

 linois housewives have become accus- 

 tomed to the longer and more tedious 



methods employed in preparing and bak- 

 ing a stronger type of flour which are 

 not satisfactory for Soft Wheat Flour 

 such as is produced in Illinois. 



Write for Cook Book 

 Through the cooperation of the South- 

 ern Illinois Millers Assn. and the Na- 

 tional Soft Wheat Millers Ass'n. the 

 methods and recipes employed by our 

 grandmothers as well as new recipes have 

 been developed, carefully studied and 

 adapted to modern kitchen equipment. 

 These recipes have been published in an 

 attractive cookbook entitled, "101 Soft 

 Wheat Flour Recipes," which may be 

 had by sending 6 cents in stamps or coin 

 to the Southern Illinois Millers Ass'n., 



//■pvURING the lost iew montha 

 I J organized labor has re- 

 peatedly invited farmers' 

 associations to meet in conference, 

 and labor papers are trying hard to 

 make it appear that our agricultural 

 organizations are backing the de- 

 mands of organized labor. 



"Now the facts are that there is 

 nothing in common between farmers 

 and organized labor except the ob- 

 ligations of a common citizenship 

 and their duty to serve society, not 

 to throttle or exploit it. Some of the 

 labor people tau frank enough to 

 admit that day by day and month 

 by month the two interests are 

 dearly opposed to each other, and 

 yet «rhen labor organizations have 

 nearly reached the limit of public 

 tolerance they invite the farmers to 

 help them out. Have these labor 

 people forgotten, or do they think 

 the farmers forget that it is organ- 

 ized labor that has defeated a state 

 constabulary law wherever it has 

 been defeated? And yet such a 

 constabulary affords the only pro- 

 tection possible to the farmer and 

 his family. Under circumstances 

 such as these could any invitation 

 to cooperate be more graceless or 

 more offensive? 



'These two organized interests 

 must go their separate ways. Each 

 has its legitimate work to do alone, 

 in and for itself, and each belongs 

 in conference; but when that time 

 comes the subject of the conference 

 must be public service and welfare, 

 not class advantage, and represent- 

 atives of all interests must be pres- 

 ent." — Eugene Davenport at lAA 

 Annual Meeting, Jon. 14, 1920. 



Sparta, 111. By securing and using this 

 cookbook the housewives of Illinois can- 

 not only help to build a needed market 

 for an important product of their own 

 state but secure more delectable food at 

 less cost. 



Learn the lustre of the diamonds from 

 your own acres and find out for yourself 

 that the green wheat fields, that add so 

 much to the beauty of rural Illinois, after 

 the golden harvest produces a product 

 that few equal and none excels. 



O'Neal and Taber At 



Farm and Home Week 



Edward A. O'Neal, president of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation, and 

 Louis J. Taber, nuster of the National 

 Grange, have accepted invitations to 

 speak before the several thousand farm- 

 ers, homemakers, rural leaders and others 

 who will attend Farm and Home Week 

 at the University of Illinois, G)llege of 

 Agriculture, January 10 to 14. 



In general the program has been keyed 

 to the fact that the outlook for Illinois 

 agriculture and farm family living dur- 

 ing the coming year is one which places 

 a premium on increasing the efficiency 

 and lowering the costs of production. 



General session speakers in the order 

 of their appearance are Dr. Nathan Sinai, 

 division of hygiene and public health. 

 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 

 Albert H. Lybyer, professor of history 

 at the University of Illinois ; J. B. Kincer, 

 chief, division of climate and crop weath- 

 er, U. S. Weather Bureau, Washington, 

 D. C. ; O. R. Johnson, chairman of the 

 department of agricultural economics. 

 University of Missouri, Columbia. Frank 

 O. Kreager, prominent psychologist and 

 educator who until recently was on the 

 staff of Louisiana State 'University, Baton 

 Rouge; Edward O'Neal, president of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation, Chi- 

 cago; Mrs. Florence Fifer Bohrer, Bloom- 

 ington, and Louis J. Taber, master of 

 the national Grange, Columbus, O. 



A bit of onion juice does a lot for 



cottage cheese. 



Before butchering season arrives, in- 

 vestigate the freezer lockers facilities 

 in your home town. Lockers are avail- 

 able in many communities now and 

 meat, so stored, can be kept fresh for 

 months. 



If the locker has been in use for 

 some time, a visit with the manager 

 may save costly mistakes and waste 

 since experience has shown that renters 

 are prone to overload lockers. 



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