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"HERE COMES DADDYl' 

 Betty Lou lones, daughter oi 

 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond lones, 

 Knox county, is always ready 

 lor a romp with Daddy and 

 her doggie. Prize unposed 

 snapshot sent in by Betty 

 Lou's grandmother, Mrs. Oscar 

 Olson. 



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lAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 1937 

 Left to right around the table: Dwight Hart, 21st district: Otto Steliey, 14th; C. M. 

 Smith. 17th; H. W. Daniorth. 18th; M. Ray Ihrig. 15th; Eugene Curtis. 19lh; Chester McCord. 

 23rd; E. C. Secor, pres. Farm Advisers Association; A. O. Eckert. 22nd: K. T. Smith. 20th: 

 Talmage DeFrees, vice president. Bond county: Earl C. Smith, president. Pike county: 

 Paul E. Mathias. secretary; Ruth Benander. secretary to the president: E. E. Houghtby. 

 12th; E. Harris, 11th: A. G. Eggerding. 25th; L. M. Knox. 13th: Albert Hayes. 16th. 



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MOTHER'S HELPER 

 Donnie Leonard, aged 4 years, likes animals 

 and should be a good livestock man when he 

 gets a little older. He is the son o{ Mr. and 

 Mrs. R. W. Leonard of Winnebago county. His 

 grandfather is M. D. Watson. Prize picture by 

 Mrs. Leonard. 



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ONE SUNDAY IN AUGUST 

 lAA Director Chester McCord held open house on his farm lor Jasper 

 County Farm Bureau directors, farm adviser, office secretary and their 

 families. Fifteen big water melons and a five gallon can of ice cream 

 was the dessert writh Softball and horseshses in the afternoon. 



BEST IN THE U.S.A. 

 F. W. Tieken, Ford county or- 

 ganization director, with trophies. 

 T^le plaque and the cup are 

 American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion awards for the most perfect 

 community unit program in 1936 

 and '37. 



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TAX MAKER 

 Giant strip mining 

 shovels like this one are at 

 work in all parts of Illinois 

 gobbling up productive 

 farm lands, putting heavier 

 taxes on land they leave. 





HOME AT LASTl 

 It was a long day and the back seat of Dad's car was so 

 comfortable that Paul and Joe Burkey couldn't keep the sand 

 man away. They are sons of Lester Burkey, Jackson county. 

 Prize photo by Mrs. Silas Leach. 



