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Farm and Home Hour 



RADIO: NBC will broadcast latest 

 findings on painting farm buildings on 

 the Farm and Home hour, May 6. A 

 dramatic sketch of the life of J. Sterling 

 Morton, originator of Arbor Day and 

 secretary of agriculture in President 

 Qeveland's cabinet, will also be heard. 

 One of the beauty spots in DuPage coun- 

 ty is Morton's Arboretum composed of 

 trees and shrubs from all parts of the 

 world planted by Mr. Morton. 



May 7, the Farm and Home hour will 

 be devoted to 4-H Club music played by 

 the U. S. Marine Band. 



May 9, the Future Farmers of America 

 program will be broadcast on Farm and 

 Home hour. 



New York State Farm Bureau activities 

 will be broadcast on the NBC Farm and 



M. P. Oil Co. 



(Continued from page 9) 

 the Illinois Farm Supply Company was 

 organized and began operations April 

 1, 1927, 11 months after the Marshall- 

 Putnam Oil Company opened. 



A. M. "Archie" Ault, the third man- 

 ager of the M-P Oil Company, replaced 

 Smith, October, 1935. Sales rose from 

 $120,000 in 1933 to $171,000 in 1936 

 and to $208,000 in 1937. 



On October 22, 1937 the Marshall- 

 Putnam Oil Company declared a patron- 

 age refund totaling $27,125, the largest 

 refund that has been paid in any one 

 year. 



Success came to the company, in the 

 earlier years, through shrewd leadership 

 that kept it united closely with the Farm 

 Bureau. At least two of its directors 

 must be members of the Marshall-Putnam 

 Farm Bureau board and the Farm Bureau 

 president, according to by-laws, must also 

 serve in that capacity on the oil company 

 board. 



Success in later years has been traced to 

 leadership plus sound management prac- 

 tises. 



When Archie Ault resigned, April 1, 

 to become a field representative for Illi- 

 nois Farm Supply Company, L. B. Cullen 

 succeeded him. 



Cullen believes that a cooperative has 

 no place unless it can supply goods that 

 are superior to those available elsewhere. 

 Also, he says, a co-op. must give the 

 friendly service that its members have 

 a right to expect. 



Judged by Cullen's yardstick the Mar- 

 shall-Putnam Oil Company, with a state 

 cooperative to protect the quality of prod- 

 ucts it distributes and four of eight sales- 

 men who have given patrons 12 years 

 of friendly service, is successful. The 

 $175,000 returned to patrons in 12 years, 

 then, marks it as a co-op that has been 

 super successful. 



Home hour. May 14. This is the third 

 of a series of programs about State Farm 

 Bureaus. The initial program was pre- 

 sented by four members of the staflF of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



Fruit growers, like corn farmers, are 

 giving greater attention to soil build- 

 ing and conservation. They are using 

 more limestone and rock phosphate 

 and are growing more legumes to be 

 turned under, says Fruit & Vegetable 

 Marketing Director Harry W. Day. 



Cheese Committee 



A committee of Jo Daviess county 

 dairymen including Homer Curtis, 

 Louis Dittman, Allen Finkenbinder, 

 Otto Nagle, and R. R. Thompson were 

 in the lAA offices April 11. They are 

 working with J. B. Countiss of the lAA 

 staff on a plan for improving quality 

 and standardizing the output of 11 co- 

 operative cheese factories in Jo Daviess 

 county. 



The Executive Committee of tbe 



Illinois Milk Producers Association met 

 Friday, April 22nd in the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural offices. This was the first meet- 

 ing of this committee which is com- 

 Eosed of Ryland Capron, Glen Tom- 

 augh. Bliss Ley, Marion Stubblefield, 

 Albert Heckle, G. H. Eckhoff, Edw. 

 Gum. 



CLIFF -XOVES" TO TEST SOIL 

 Form Adviser C. S. Love haa a aoil 

 testing laboratory in the basement of the 

 Christian County Farm Biueau building. 

 Soil testing can be done in minimum time 

 due to a handy arrangement oi testing 

 iluid placed above the worlc table. During 

 the last 60 days, Clifi has done a "land 

 oHice business" for farmers seeking to 

 avoid the loss of $25 clover seed because 

 of sour land. Lost year 6,000 tons oi lime- 

 stone and 400 tons oi rock phosphate 

 were used on Christian county soils. 



lAA-Couiitry life 



On Radio 



An experimental broadcast at 12:10 

 PM standard time Monday, Wednesday, 

 and Friday over station WDZ, Tuscola 

 was initiated by the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association Monday, April 18. . Cap 

 Mast, field service director gave the open- 

 ing talk followed by John Spencer on 

 April 20. Dialogues featuring Farm Bu- 

 reau members and Farm Bureau leaders 

 in Douglas, Champaign, Vermilion, Ed- 

 gar, Coles, Moultrie, Piatt, and other 

 counties in that area will be broadcast 

 during the next six months. 



Country Life Insurance Co. has been 

 broadcasting a short program "Rural Od- 

 dities," three times a week over station 

 WMBD Peoria. This program comes 

 on the air Tuesdays, Thursdays, and 

 Saturdays at 12:10 PM central standard 

 time. 



Cliampaign County 



Has 26 Units 



Rural electrification and disease pre- 

 vention were topics of discussion at the 

 regular monthly meeting of the Sydney 

 Unit of the Champaign County Farm 

 Bureau, April 11. This community unit 

 is one of 26 that are active in the county, 

 reports Assistant Farm Adviser Harold 

 Templeton. 



Vernon Green, superintendent of the 

 mini Electric Cooperative, was the first 

 discussion leader. Dr. G. Howard Gowen 

 and Harry L. Webster, Champaign-Ur- 

 bana Health District, handled the subject 

 of disease prevention. 



Young folks supplied entertainment 

 and refreshments and everyone joined in 

 recreational stunts, dances and games. 

 More than 200 persons attended. 



When the Hensley Unit entertained 

 the Philo, Somer and Mahomet units, 

 Feb. 22, more than 350 persons attended. 

 After talking over plans for 1938, they 

 heard songs, readings, old time orchestra 

 music and a dialogue. After refresh- 

 ments, the group enjoyed some old fash- 

 ioned dances. 



The continued success of the Cham- 

 paign county units is traceable to their 

 well-balanced programs in which each 

 person has a part. 



R. W. Blackburn, secretary of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation, will 

 be the principal speaker at the annual 

 meeting of the Illinois Fruit Growers 

 Exchange, Carbondale, May 12. , 



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