MRS. GUY HALCOTT, FORMER TEACHER. TOPNOTCH COOK 

 Says Guy: "The electric stove is but a convenience. The cooking could not be 

 improved with o dozen." . ..,. . 



Guy and Bill put it down during slack 

 periods. They did a good job for the 

 floor is as good as new. It has long 

 since returned its first cost. 



Year in and year out the feeding pro- 

 gram remains about the same. They 

 buy plain cattle in the fall and pasture 

 them as long as the weather is not too 

 severe. They feed them all the silage 

 and alfalfa or clover hay and cattle will 

 eat until late in the winter. Then they 

 switch to oats and later to corn and 

 cottonseed meal. The hay and silage 

 consumption is reduced as corn is in- 

 troduced into the ration. In the spring 

 the cattle are pastured while on full 

 feed. The cattle are finished oflF and 

 sold just before hot weather sets in. 



This year the Halcotts are feeding 

 108 head of cattle and nearly 200 head 

 of hogs. They bought the pigs about 

 the same time as the steers. 



Each year they manure 30 crop acres 

 and most of the 70 acres of permanent 

 pasture. 



Last year the farm grew 77 acres of 

 corn, 57 acres of oats, 18 acres of al- 

 falfa and about 73 acres of pasture. 



Limestone has been applied to part 

 of the farm but Guy says they plan to 

 lime 40 acres this year. They also aim 

 to apply rock phosphate on 40 acres of 

 cornstalks which will be planted to soy- 

 beans to be plowed under. 



Guy plans to cooperate with the gov- 

 ernment in the new crop control law. 

 While he believes that some of the 

 features of the act might be changed, 

 he likes the principles of it. His 

 father, a daily reader of the Chicago 

 Tribune, doesn't share Guy's views. 



Guy married the teacher of the dis- 

 trict school 22 years ago. They have 

 three children, Bob, a senior in the 



college of agriculture, University of 

 Illinois, Tom, aged 16, a student at 

 Streator high school and a rnember of 

 the Future Farmers, and Sue, 10, who 

 rides her pony to the school her mother 

 formerly taught. 



Bob plans to return to the farm in 

 June and enter a partnership with his 

 father and uncle. His grandfather 

 says that education is necessary for suc- 

 cess in these days. And Bob will have 

 received a broad training in agricul- 

 ture that started with 4-H Club work. 



Bob will find use for all his training 

 if he lives up to marks set by his grand- 

 father, father and uncle. They have 

 always believed that a good farmer 

 leaves his farm better than he found 

 it. Their record is a challenge to Bob 

 and Tom, the fifth generation. 



Although the Halcott home is un- 



pretentious it reflects the character of 

 the business that made it possible. The 

 house it equipped with electric lights, 

 stove and refrigerator. It has a fur- 

 nace, running water and a bathroom. 



Some of the most h.mdsome pieces of 

 furniture in this up-to-date farm home 

 are chairs and chests of drawers of 

 sohd walnut that belonged to Halcotts 

 of the first and second generations. 

 Thus, even the furniture indicates the 

 permanancy of a family enterprise that 

 will soon \x 100 years old. 



The farm buildings are sturdily con- : 

 structed, well-kept and Soyoil painted, 

 but similar buildings can be found on 

 nearly any cattle feeder's place. 



Members of the Halcott family have 

 found that they can live better and be 

 happiest by working together. Their 

 record of family progress is a challange 

 to many another Illinois farm family that 

 would throw to the winds its stake in 

 the soil in a gamble for better living 

 elsewhere. 



GUY HALCOTT. FEEDER 

 "Know what you want . . . gel 



TWENTY-FIVE YEAR-OLD CONCRETE FEEDLOT 

 It plays a leading part in building soil fertility. 



MAY. 1938 



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