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requirements and meal planning may be 

 secured through the Home Economics 

 Extension department as well as through 

 the Home Bureau office. Energy require- 

 ments differ, as it is only reasonable, says 

 Mrs. Knox, that the boy playing basket- 

 ball needs more energy building food 

 than the invalid in the wheel chair, yet 

 both need proper nourishment. 



"Speaking of basketball," Mrs. Knox 

 commented, "why is it that only candy 

 bars are offered to hungry boys and girls 

 between halves? Why wouldn't apples 

 be just as easy to sell and better.' Or 

 why couldn't the parent-teachers associa- 

 tions think of some way to provide 

 baskets of wrapped sandwiches.'" 



The Knox household has a first aid 

 kit ready for emergencies. The boys have 

 learned to come to the house for treat- 

 ment of scratches, cuts or bufns. This 

 covered glass jar contains several pack- 

 ages of assorted bandages, adhesive tape, 

 mercurochrome and iodine, a healing 

 salve for minor cuts, etc. 



Another particular time when Mrs. 

 Knox appreciated her Home Bureau 

 health lessons was when her husband 

 severely burned his arm with steam from 

 the tractor. She used as suggested Bute- 

 sin ointment which brought relief. 



"Ordinarily a burn should be left un- 

 covered," Mrs. Knox said. "To keep out 

 dust and dirt we did have to keep this 

 covered during the day, as Russell in- 

 sisted on keeping on plowing. We re- 

 moved the bandage at night however, 

 and the bum healed rapidly.^' 



Quiet and unassuming, but not retir- 

 ing, Mrs. Knox listens attentively to any 

 lecture on health. Months later, when a 

 question arises, she surprises her friends 

 by quoting exactly what has been said in 

 such a lesson at a Home Bureau meeting. 



"Home Bureau has provided for me 

 the material I so wanted and needed to 

 raise my family," she commented. "Few 

 women escape meeting a nursing emer- 

 gency at one time or another. Those 

 lessons given by Miss Fannie Brooks and 

 the ones on feeding my family have been 

 inyaluable to me. I cannot express what 

 they have meant to me and my family." 



A clean whisk broom dipped in a pan of 



water is an effective way to sprinkle clothes. 



Before boiling an egg that has been pre- 

 served in water glass, prick a small hole 

 through the large end of the shell. This 

 prevents i bursting of the shell from the 

 expanding air inside. 



Plans Brewing For 



1938 Sports Festival 



EBB HARRIS 

 "We're ready for another big year.' 



Pure Milk Meeting 



(Continued from page 25) 



by Edward F. Cooke, publicity director. 



The luncheon was followed by a style 

 show and tea at the Auditorium Hotel. 



Miss Hearing, stylist of the Simplicity 

 League of Amateur Designers, New 

 York, conducted a style clinic in which 

 she said a woman can bring out her 

 personality — her real inner self by the 

 manner of her dress, and it need not 

 be with expensive materials. In her clinic 

 she explained how with tricks of illusion 

 any figure, tall, medium or short — thin, 

 medium or stout — may be dressed be- 

 comingly, all defects being hidden and. 

 good points emphasized. 



Illinois produced 14 of the nation's 

 broom corn in 1937. 41,000 acres were 

 planted to this specialty crop and the 

 average yield per acre was 600 pounds. 



More than two-thirds of die present 



timbered area of Illinois is subject to 

 grazing which is contributing more 

 than anything else to the present forest 

 depletion in the state, it is pointed out 

 by J. E. Davis, extension forester. 



Apples, either baked or as applesauce, 

 have a better flavor when cooked in a cov- 

 ered rather than an uncovered container. 



"Attending a sale is a luxury for 



those who cannot resist 'bargains' they 

 don't need," was one of the many 

 shopping guides which Mrs. Julia 

 Cameron, research assistant, left with 

 homemaker visitors to Farm and Home 

 Week. 



Plans are brewing for a greater Illi- 

 nois Farm Bureau SfKjrts Festival on the 

 University of Illinois campus, September 

 2 and 3, says Chairman Ebb Harris of 

 Grayslake. 



When a representative group of nearly 

 100 gathered at Springfield, March 9, 

 recommendations were made for the ad- 

 dition of an amateur talent festival with 

 competition between counties for all- 

 around excellence in playing musical in- 

 struments, singing, folk games, tap dan- 

 cing and similar talents. 



Other new contests suggested were 

 wrestlitig and boxing exhibitions and 

 skeet shoooting. Mrs. Clifton, president 

 of the state Home Bureau Federation, 

 recommended that bowling, quoits, shuf- 

 fleboard, paddle tennis and clock golf 

 be added to the list of events for women. 

 All divisions in Farm Bureau baseball 

 and Softball and other leading sports 

 were retained in the tentative list of 

 events adopted by the conference. 



Mr. Harris and Paul E. Mathias, lAA 

 secretary, reported that the Association 

 has again authorized financial support 

 and backing for the project because of 

 the widespread interest manifested dur- 

 ing the past two years. Attendance of 

 30,000 persons both in '36 and '37, in- 

 cluding some 3,000 contestants who took 

 part last year, attracted nation-wide at- 

 tention. 



Dave Thompson, associate editor iif 

 Prairie Farmer, D. E. Lindstrom, of the " 

 University of Illinois, College of Agri- 

 culture and Mrs. Clifton of the Home 

 Bureau Federation, all expressed the in- 

 terest and pledged the support of their 

 respective organizations toward making 

 the 1938 festival another outstanding 

 event. 



A state festival committee will be ap- 

 pointed in the near future. The first 

 meeting of the state committee is slated 

 for late April, and will probably be held 

 April 29. ... .^^ 



Self-feeding of sows in winter has proved 

 satisfactory for Lyman Ross, Henderson 

 county. His mixture includes half alfalfa 

 and half grain with about 3 per cent of 

 tankage added. Self-fed sows should get 

 more alfalfa if they are getting too fat and 

 less alfalfa if they are getting too thin. 



Increasing the land value, returning an 



ample supply of fruit for home use and 

 adding to the attractiveness of the farmstead 

 are factors favoring the establishment and 

 maintenance of a home orchard, says V. W. 

 Kelley, specialist in horticulture, University 

 of Illinois. .1 



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