Scgis Ormsby, sire of the worlds 

 champion cow, Carnation Ormsby But- 

 ter King. The six farmers paid $1,000 

 for Inka and sold him as a seven-year- 

 old to Carnation Farms for $1,200 at 

 the National Holstein Sale, Lake coun- 

 ty, June 3, 1937. 



Hancock county cow testing association 

 records show that Inka's two-year-old 

 daughters produce from 50 to 60 

 pounds of milk daily on two milkings. 

 Three and four-year-old daughters are 

 milking from 60 to more than 70 

 pounds daily. 



"By next spring I may be forced to 

 start milking three times a day to pre- 

 vent injury to some of my cow's udders. 

 But that'll mean bigger cream checks 

 and that's what we started for in the 

 beginning," Ed predicts. 



Roll Ash, who helped start the 

 Adrian Holstein Company, sold his 

 herd in 1934 to become a field service 

 man for the Producers Creamery of 

 Mt. Sterling. The remaining five breed- 

 ers are going it alone but it's easier 

 now because their herds are paying well 

 and they have reached the point where 

 bulls of their own breeding are as good 

 as any they can buy. 



The company's sixth sire. Bonanza, 

 is from a daughter of the University 

 of Illinois bull. His dam is giving 

 more than 700 pounds of butterfat a 

 year on two milkings a day. Bonanza 

 is sired by Inka. 



The seventh sire for the five herds 

 will be Carnation Combination. He 

 will be a year old August 24. His 

 dam is Carnation Princess Piebe and 

 his sire is Inka The Great. Combina- 

 tion carries a double cross of Sir Inka 

 May breeding. Sir Inka May has 

 thirty 1000-pound fat producing daugh- 

 ters. 



Here are six men who have done 

 what any other six corn farmers can 

 do. They have skim milk for their pigs 

 and chickens, have cashed thousands of 

 extra cream dollars and have a group 

 of purebred Holstein-Friesian females 

 as good as any other in the corn belt. 

 Wonder if Mussolini ran do as well? 



Believes in Orgcmization 



I have repeatedly said that I would not 

 farm without belonging to the Farm Bureau. 

 Why? I know that some belong in order 

 to receive personally something of pecuniary 

 value. Possibly some might join just to 

 please a friend or for popularity. I have 

 belonged for 20 years with only one aim 

 m mind — I believe in ORGANIZATION. 



Organization is the only thine that can 

 Keep the industry of agriculture from being 

 reduced to peasantry. It is the only hope 

 for our posterity if they are to be farmers. 

 Then still further, if peasantry should over- 

 take our agriculture, what about other forms 

 of business? We fear for them also. 



To uphold the highest type of farm or- 

 ganization is no more nor less than patriotic. 

 Let us do it freely, unselfishly and with- 

 out expecting immediate compensation. 



R. S. Foster, Henderson county. 111. 



Cooperate and the Old Cows : 



Will Be Easier To IWills 



To The Editor: 



I have just finished the May issue of 

 lAA RECORD. Cooperatives, the new 

 AAA Plan, Tenancy and Landlord prob- 

 lems. Poor Relief Administration, Fam- 

 ilies on the Farm, and m;ny other 

 fascinating topics kept me going from 

 the front cover to "I Pay Taxes With 

 Dollars," on the back page. And what 

 a thrill! What a business, this farm life 

 is becoming! Men must realize that 

 Rural America is still the greatest 

 pioneering field in our country. More 

 real devejopments are going on in the 

 open country than in the city. The soil 

 is still here. Men are still here. The need 

 is for men to care for their soil, know 

 each other, and band together in rural 

 enterprises that will help to remake their 

 own life and this large part of American 

 life. 



Rural whiskers are gone. Electric 

 razors keep farmers faces slick. I saw one 

 in operation the other day. The hired 

 hands were getting a great kick out of 

 the gadget. Good cooks fill stomachs 

 with menus of quality-balanced food. 

 Children are receiving better education. 

 New scientific methods of crop and ero- 

 sion control are making the farmers better 

 fitted to balance their budgets and create 

 bank accounts. Red, green, silver, yellow, 

 and blue tractors snort all over the coun- 

 try and believe me they snort. I hear 

 them from my bedroom window every 

 morning long before I get out into the 

 cold breezes. 



I've found that the contented farmer 

 is the man who loves his job, does the 

 right thing at the right time in the right 

 way. He cooperates to the fullest with his 

 family, animals, fields, machines, and 

 neighbors and makes himself an asset in 

 honest, clean living in all of his associa- 

 tions. - 



At the present time there appears toi 

 be considerable unrest among all groups- 

 of farmers. Change brings that. Change 

 in methods will also bring advantages, 

 power and happiness. The farmer whO' 

 will finally win out is the one whO' 

 doesn't become a "Yes," "Yes," man. 

 The winner will be scientific in think- 

 ing and planning, a hard worker, and be 

 willing to test his ideas and findings ancf 

 decisions with the best minds in facing 

 present farm problems. 



He is willing to compare, analyze 

 and act for the best. No single plan is 

 final or perfect. But rather a plan than 

 no blue print. Rather a harness than^ 

 merely a bridle. Yesterday any man 

 could — or thought he could — - harness 

 a horse and plow corn and expect a 

 fair price for his crop. Today we need 

 farmers who can harness the plow Plus. 

 That Plus is in terms of US. Not Me 

 and My House! The impact of the mass 

 in planned planting, planned selling is 

 necessary in the face of facts in the May 

 issue of the lAA RECORD. Give these 

 facts a try. Read and use the best judg- 

 ment — Smile and cry, "I'm For It." 

 Stand together with your leaders on 

 reasonable plans. Cooperate and the old 

 cows will be easier to milk tomorrow- 

 morning. 



Wilder Towle, Minister 



The First Congregational Church, 



Shabbona, III. 



Like It Best 



Am a member of the Madison County 

 Farm Bureau, Edwardsville, Illinois. Have 

 received the RECORD since 1956. Like it 

 best of the farm publications sent out to 

 landowners. Will send the May number, on 

 account of articles on corn acreage to one 

 of my tenants, for like many others they do 

 not fully understand. Therefore kindly send 

 me the price per copy for May number. 



Mary I. Hoxsey 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



Copr 1«J7. Kin( FrMurn ^ititcMU. Inc . WorM n^hi. mci^-cd. 



~Ai<i> w* lucky Ifcol Jo* w«an a d*rby tMUr* 



The Jersey County Farm Bureau recently 



celebrated its 20th anniversary with a 

 meeting in the Jerseyville High School. 

 J. R. 'Uncle Joe" Fulkerson, first president 

 of the organization gave credit to C. E. 

 Lock of Dow as the "father" of the Farm 

 Bureau. Lock addressed a letter to Fulker- 

 son on Dec. 3, 1915, five years before the 

 Farm Bureau was organized soliciting help 

 in setting up a county organization and 

 hiring a farm adviser. Lock later assisted 

 in organizing the I.A.A. and became a field 

 solicitor. The four farm advisers who ser- 

 ved the county are C. E. Wheelock, R. L. 

 Eyman, F. H. Shuman, and C. T. Kibler, the 

 present adviser. 



JUNE. 1938 



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