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THE HONNALD HOME 

 "Th* ahruba and border Mrs. Honnald designed herseli." 



THE YARD A BEAUTIFUL OUTDOOR ROOM 

 "Rosea are the flowers I like best for the house." 



nald says. A rabbit hops and nibbles 

 unafraidly in and out from the bushes. 



"But I do other things," Mrs. Hon- 

 nald insists. "My hook rugs have been 

 used as demonstrations at the Home Bu- 

 reau meetings. They are my pleasure in 

 the winter time." 



One rug, made of her daughters old 

 dresses, was a flower pattern. The border 

 Mrs. Honnald designed herself. If she 

 isn't designing plans for the flowers she 

 is making designs in rugs! 



Mrs. Honnald does all the edging, dig- 

 ging, weeding and planting herself. Mr. 

 Honnald declares she won't even allow 

 him to set a plant lest he put it in the 

 ground up side down. 



For suggestions to a beginner in flower 

 raising, she offers only one. 



"You have to love them. Then your 

 back won't ache. They will repay all 

 that you give them." 



I carried the fragrance of those flowers 

 eighty miles home, and the memory will 

 remain of a pleasant afternoon and a 

 gracious personality all the rest of my 

 life. No wonder Home Bureau members 

 plan to have their meetings at Mrs. Hon- 

 nald's home in the summer time. 



NOTICE 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION 



ELECTION OF DELEGATES 



Notice is hereby given in connection 

 with the annual tneeting of the Ogle 

 County Farm Bureau, to be held dur- 

 ing the month of June, 1938, at the 

 hour and place to be determined by 

 the Board of Directors of said County 

 Farm Bureau, the members in good 

 standing of such County Farm Bureau 

 and who are also qualified voting 

 members of Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation shall elect a delegate or 

 delegates to represent such mem- 

 bers of Illinois Agricultural Associ- 

 ation and vote on all matters be- 

 fore the next annual meeting or any 

 special meeting of the association, in- 

 cluding the election of officers and 

 directors as provided for in the By- 

 Laws of the Association. 



(Sgd) Paul E. Mathias, 

 Corporate Secretary. 

 Dated May 16, 1958 



^IniQitonQ and. J^ho5phate J^au -f/ete 



LD. ARMSTRONG, who iarms 325 acres in Warren county, bought a carload oi 

 • limestone, the first in that part oi the country, IS years ago. While other folks 

 derided him about graveling his farm and mixing soil and stone to make concrete, Arm- 

 strong went ahead with his soil improvement plan using limestone, rock phosphate and 

 legumes. Idle chatter ceased when his com yield rose 15 to 20 bushels per acre to near 

 the present average oi 70 bushels. 



"Every crop acre has been limed and nearly all oi my land has been rock phos- 

 phated at the rate of 500 to 1000 pounds per acre. For aliaUa and sweet clover I would 

 rather have rock phosphate than limestone," he says. 



Recently he drilled 300 pounds of rock phosphate with alfalfa seed with complete 

 success. The alfalfa made an excellent stand with a nurse crop of oats which yielded 

 60 bushels. Some oi Armstrong's land is now receiving the second limestone applica- 

 tion. He spread 180 tons in 1937. 



A substantial part of the crops are marketed through 100 to ISO beei cattle that he 

 feeds each year. They help in the soil building program. 



L D. ARMSTRONG OF WARREN COUNTY j 



"The beef cattle help in the soil improvement program." ' 



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Members of 



tion, effective 

 approximately 

 milk testing 

 country plants 

 $2.05 for cwt. 

 new base price 

 price. Surplus 

 densery. 



the Pure Milk Associa- 



May 6, are to receive 

 $1.74 per 100 lbs. for 

 3.5% butterfat F.O.B. 

 This compares with 

 for milk in April. The 

 is 53c over condensery 

 will be 10c under con- 



Rural Youth Day at the Producers' Cream- 

 ery of Champaign was held Wednesday, 

 May 18, 1938. Piatt County was represented 

 by a group of sixteen, Shelby County five. 



The program for the day began with a 

 tour of the creamery. The young people 

 witnessed receiving the cream, testing, pas- 

 teurizing, churning, cooling, refrigeration, 

 and putting up Prairie Farms butter in the 

 print room ready for the consumer. , 



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