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Farm Bureau baseball got its start 

 in Illinois back in the early '20's when 

 farmers were looking around for rec- 

 reation and entertainment for after- 

 harvest Farm Bureau picnics. Official 

 baseball had its origin at a joint picnic 

 of Cass and Menard County Farm 

 Bureaus when the Cass Farm Bureau 

 board challenged Menard County's 

 board to a game. After the first and 

 second innings the board members, 

 mostly older men, ran in substitutes. 

 Next year both counties developed 

 Farm Bureau teams. 



By 1924 interest had developed to 

 such a point that a State League was 

 organized. Membership grew year by 

 year until at one time — 1931 — 33 

 teams were entered. Interest waned 

 through the depression when softball 

 came to the front then two years ago 

 started upward again. 



On May 6 a new division, the sixth 

 of the Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball 

 League was set up in the Farm Bureau 

 office at Decatur to include McLean, 

 Macon, Moultrie and Sangamon, and 

 as many other adjoining counties that 

 may enter by June 1. Other new 

 counties to join this year arc Winne- 

 bago and Cook. The latter may pos- 

 sibly enter two teams so that the line- 

 up will be as follows: 



DIVISION I — JoDaviess, Carroll, 

 Ogle and Winnebago; 



DIVISION II — DeKalb, McHenry, 

 Boone, Lake, Cook (North) ; 



DIVISION III — Will, Livingston, 

 LaSallc, Cook (South) ; 



DIVISION IV — Henry, Peoria, 

 Marshal-Putnam, Woodford; 



DIVISION V — Bond, Fayette, 

 Montgomery, Macoupin ; 



DIVISION VI — McLean, Macon, 

 Moultrie, Sangamon. 



At meetings held May 9 district 

 chairmen were selected and scheduled 

 of games drawn up to begin the latter 

 part of May and early in June. 



Eligible players must be Farm Bureau 

 members in good standing or depen- 

 dent members of their families. Play- 

 ers may not be paid. Official games 

 are played Saturday afternoons and 

 holidays. 



Elected officers of the State League 

 are Ebb Harris, Grays Lake, president; 

 and Albert Hayes, Chillicothe, vice- 

 president. 



This year the League is considering 

 scheduling games between divisional 

 winners before the Sports Festival so 

 as to reduce the number of teams elig- 



NEW BASEBALL DIVISION ORGAIOZES IN MACON COUNTY 

 FABM BUBEAU OFHCE, DECATUR 

 Left to right around tabl*: L. E. B*oi, Macon; Dwight Hart. 

 Chriatian; W. W. B«*t«r, Moullria; I. C. Quiaanbarry, Sangamon; 

 Lloyd Graham. McLaon. 



iblc to enter the tournament at Urbana, 

 September 2 and 3 to four teams. 



District chairmen who will settle all dis- 

 putes within their districts include Leo M. 

 Knox, northwestern Illinois (Div'n. 1); Ebb 

 Harris, northeastern Illinois (Div'n. II); 

 Divn. in (Will, Cook, LaSaUe, Livingston) 

 none selected; Albert Hayes, Div'n IV) 

 western central Illinois (Peoria, M-P., Henry, 

 Woodford); Gus Sammans, Div'n 5, south 

 central Illinois (Montgomery, Macoupin, 

 Bond, Fayette) ; Dwight Hart, Div'n. 6, 

 east central Illinois (Macon, Moultrie, San- 

 gamon, McLean). 



Macoupin and Montgomery counties 

 played the first official Farm Bureau base- 

 ball of the season at Hillsboro on May 20. 

 The score was Macoupin 4, Montgomery 2. 

 Lester Miller umpired, E. G. Young, scorer. 

 Macoupin got 7 hits made 2 errors, Mont- 

 gomery 10 hits 3 errors. 



The new division. No. 6 will swing into 



action May 28 with games scheduled be- 

 tween McLean and Sangamon at Blooming- 

 ton, and Macon and Moultrie at Sullivan. 

 Games have been scheduled in all six dis- 

 tricts to begin either the last week in May 

 or the first Saturday in June. 



Warning is issued by the Food and 



Drug Administration of the USDA that 

 it will bring legal action against inter- 

 state shipments of filled milk. The 

 federal filled milk act in 1923, was re- 

 cently upheld by the U. S. Supreme 

 Court. 



W. S. Brock, vice-president and secre- 

 tary of the Production Credit Corpora- 

 tion of St. Louis, was elected president 

 of that institution, effective May 15, 

 to succeed F. W. Niemeyer. Mr. Brock 

 for several years was a member of the 

 agricultural college and extension staff 

 at the University of Illinois, before be- 

 coming identified with the Farm Credit 

 Administration five years ago. 



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VIEWS 



Egg prices are on the way up and 



should go above the 27-cent 1937 top 

 in the last half of 1938, says the USDA. 



Best prices for diickens were reached 

 in April. There will be a summer slump 

 with better prices in the early fall, pre- 

 dicts the USDA. 



Wool prices will stay at present 

 levels until late in the year. Biggest 

 factor in keeping the price to growers 

 steady is the loan program of the Gov- 

 ernment, according to the USDA. 

 Loans on wool in Illinois are being 

 handled through county wool pools 

 organized by county Farm Bureaus. 



Twelve Ford county boys and girls 

 who have been carrying fat lamb projects 

 in 4-H or vocational agriculture work 

 will show lambs at Gibson City June 

 22 and at Peoria June 23. Lambs, 

 placed according to market grades, will 

 be sold through the Peoria Producers. 



Discard sows that farrowed less than 



eight and more than 14 pigs, that needed 

 assistance in farrowing and that were 

 late in breeding. Keep sows that are 

 the early, large, quick-maturing gilts 

 from large litters actually raised with- 

 out special care, says the U. of I. Ag. 

 College. 



Uncle Ab says that the hardest work 



that is done usually comes from work 

 that is left undone. 



JUNE, 1938 



