Sc^is Ormsby, sire of the world s 

 champion cow, C.irnation Ormsby But- 

 ter King. The six farmers paid Si, 000 

 for Inka and sold him as a seven-year- 

 old to Carnation Farms for Si, 200 at 

 the National Holstein Sale, Lake coun- 

 ty, June 3, 1937. 



Hancotk county cow testinc association 

 records show that Inka s two-year-old 

 daughters produce from 50 to 60 

 pounds of milk daily on two miikings. 

 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." I:d predicts. 



Roll Ash. who helped start the 

 Adrian Holstein Company, sold his 

 herd in 193i to become a field service 

 man for the Producers Creamery of 

 Mt. Sterling. The remaining five breed- 

 ers arc 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 

 ol Illinois bull. His dam is giving 

 more than 700 pounds of butterfat a 

 yc.ir on two milkings a day. Bonanza 

 IS sired by Inka. 



The seventh sire for the five herds 

 will be Carnation Combination. He 

 will Ix a year old August 2 I. His 

 dam is f a'nation 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 liave done 

 wli.it 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 Miisso'-ni r.in do as well.^ 



Believes in Organization 



I li.ivi- rtpe.itiiily s.iij that I viiuiUI nut 

 f.irm without bcli>iii;in,4; tii the Farm Bureau. 

 ^'Iiy 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 miiul — I believe in ORGANIZATION'. 



Organization is the only thing that can 

 keep the industry of agriculture from being 

 reiluceil to peasantry. It is the only hope 

 for our posterity if they are to be farmers. 

 1 Ihii still further, if peasantry should over- 

 take our agriculture, what about other forms 

 of business.' We fear for tliem also. 



To uphold the highest type of farm or- 

 ganization is no more nor less than patriotic. 

 ■■It us do it freely, unselfishly and with- 

 out expecting immediate compensation. 



R S. Foster, Henderson county, 111. 



JUNE, 1938 



Cooperate and the Old Tons 



Will Ke Easier To \lilk 



To The rditor: 



I have just finished the May issue of 

 lAA RECORD. Cooperatives, the new 

 AAA Plan, Tenancy and Landlord prob- 

 lems. Poor Relief Administration, I'am- 

 ilies on the I'arm, 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 I 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 developments 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 

 e.ich other, and band together in rural 

 enterprises that will help to remake their 

 own life anil this large part of American 

 life. 



Rural whiskers are gone Llectric 

 razors keep farmers faces slick. I saw one 

 in operation the other day. The hired 

 hands were getting a gre.U kick out of 

 the gadget. Good cooks fill stomachs 

 with menus of c]uality-balanccd food, 

 fdiildren 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 tr.ictors snort all over the coun- 

 try and believe me they snort. I hear 

 them from mv bedroom window everv 

 morning long before I get out into the 

 cold breezes. 



I've found that the contented farmer 

 is the man who loves his job, docs 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 to- 

 be considerable unrest among all groups 

 of farmers, f^hangc brings that. Change 

 in methods will also bring advantages, 

 power ancl happiness. The farmer who 

 will finally win out is the one who 

 doesn t become a ' "\'cs. " '"^'es." man. 

 The winner will be scientitic in think- 

 ing and planning, a hard worker, and be 

 willing to test his ideas and findings and 

 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. '\'esterday any man 

 could - or thought he could harness 

 a horse and plow corn and expect a 

 lair 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 

 necessarv in the lace ot t.iits in the May 

 issue of the lAA RI.CORD Give these 

 facts a trv Read and use the best judg- 

 ment Smile and cry, I'm I'or It." 

 Stand together with vour leaders on 

 reasonable plans. C ooperalc and the old 

 cows will be easier lo milk tomorrow 

 morning 



Wilder Tow le. Minister 



The lirst Congregational Church. 



Shabhona. III. 



Lilce It Best 



Am a number ot the Madison Counlv 

 Farm Bureau. I dwjrdsc ille, Illinois Have 

 received the RICORO sine I';s6. Like it 

 best of the farm publications sent out to 

 landowners \X'ill send the May number, on 

 account of articles on corn acrea.ce lo one 

 of my tenants, for like many others they do 

 not fully understand Therefore kindly send 

 me the price per copy for Mav number 



Mary I. Hoxsev 

 St I.ouis. Mo. 



■Copr l»n Kjnj r„i„„, Snid,..i 



"Ain'l we lucky Ihol Joe wears o derby hot?" 



The Jersey C.\»unty l''arm Riircau rectnilv 



celebiated its Jo;h amiiccrsary with a 

 meeting in the Jeiseyville High School. 

 J R Lncle Jcie Hidkerson. first presidenr 

 of the organization gave credit to ( . F. 

 Lock of Dow as the fatiier ' of the Farm 

 Bureau Lock ad^lresse*.! a letter to Fulker- 

 son on Dec. i. 191 s, live years before the 

 Farm Bureau was organized soliciting help 

 in setting up a county organi/,ition and 

 hiring a farm adviser. Liick later .is^tvted 

 in <irgaiiizing the I. A. A. and bet.tiiu .i Held 

 solicitor. The four farm advisers who ser- 

 ved tile County arc (. F VCheclock. R L. 

 Fymaii, F H. Shuman, and (. T. Kiblcr. the 

 present adviser. 



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