The Farm's The Best 



JKnd Farm and Hume Kureaus 

 Help Make It Hetter^ Sais 

 This Shelbj^ Count.v Cnuple 



VJ^V HH chap who said that the cities 

 r^ have for generations skimmed 



^^ our farms of the cream of 

 rural youth didn't know Marion and 

 Geneva Fry of Shelby county. City life 

 has nevef appealed to them and it never 

 will. In the II years since they were 

 married they have achieved a comfortable 

 standard of living that can't be equaled 

 in town. 



Like thousands of other young Illinois 

 farmers, Marion Fry rents the land he 

 farms, 130 acres, from his father. All 

 the comforts iMarion and his wife and 

 their sons, Eugene, aged 8, and Donald, 

 aged 7, enjoy, they have earned. 



Their home is a small white two-story 

 frame house on an SO-acrc tarm. L n- 

 |iretentious though it is, it offers op- 

 portunities for a heap of living. 



Since March 19.^'', the Frys ha\e had 

 electric power. It pumps the water, 

 washes clothes, lights the house and barn, 

 runs the radio and, in the summer, it 

 cooks meals. Marion says that without 

 the cooperation of a neighbor who bore a 

 fair share of the expense of building the 

 extension from the high line, they 

 couldn't have had these things. 



Marion is a cooperator from w.iy b.ick. 



He sold his cream to the f'roducers 

 Creamery of Champaign every week since 

 it started. He likes the twice-a-week 

 pick-up service and finds that the two 

 small checks, each week come in handv. 

 And he knows that the weights and 

 tests are honest. 



He believes in organization 

 Every other industry is organized tor 

 its own good and farmers must be, too. 

 The Farm Bureau gives the fellows wlu) 

 didn't study scientific farming all the 

 information through the farm ad\iser ' 



Marion uses all tlie Farm Hiireau ser- 

 vices. His car is insured in the Illinoi-. 

 Agricultural Mutual Insurance C ompanv. 

 He is a C^ountry Life policyholder and 

 buys his fuels an*d lubricants from the 

 Shelby-Effingham Service (^omp.any. All 

 buildings are painted with Soyoii. 



Farming is easier now than it was 1 1 

 years ago, Marion declares. Farm ma- 

 chinery, such as the general purpose trac- 

 tor and the combine, has helped change 

 it. He farms the SO on which he lives 

 plus M) acres on the home pLue and _() 

 acres south of Shelbyville. 



Soil conservation and improved seed 

 have made the Fry farms more produc- 



GENEVA FRY 

 Wants her sons to farm. 



live. Some of the hybrid corn vielded 

 '.'() bushels l.isi f.ill. a rcxord for the 

 farm. 



Marion is an ardent lonscr^altonist 

 ha\mg ser\ed on the Ridge township 

 Lonservation lomniillee since the begin- 

 ning. He believes tliat the proper way 

 to get a stand of alfalfa is to sow it in 

 the late summer without a nurse crop and 

 would follow that prailKe il he were 

 farming for himself. 



.Mrs. I'rv. a Home Bureau member, 

 thinks that farming is just as honorable 

 a profession as medicine or law and that 

 farmers can no longer be accurately 

 (.ailed links. She hopes that Buddie and 

 Donald will he farmers when they grow 

 up - - and they probably will. 



If all voung farm families looked at 

 farming as the Frys ilo the cities would 

 not be as large which might be a good 

 thint;. 



A'- 



THE FRY HOME 

 "An opportunity for a full liie on the farm.' 



MARION FRY 

 An 100 per cent Farm Bureau Cooperator. 



JUNE, 1938 



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