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Cass County Farm Bureau will cele- 

 brate its 20th anniversary, Virginia, 

 August 9, in connection with its an- 

 nual picnic. Earl C. Smith, president 

 of the lAA will be the principal speak- 



er. 



Wayne County Farm Bureau mem- 

 bership is up. A membership drive, 

 June 29, filled the yearly quota, the 

 first time the Wayne county quota has 

 been filled in half a year. 



$1 a Month 



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 with black, ivory, and preen, pleased me im- 

 mensely. I then studied my color wheel, 

 which I had cut from a magazine. It tells 

 you just how to put together the correct colors, 

 how to contrast them effectively. 



"The rich shades in the Mexican pitcher, I 

 decided, would be the color scheme for mv 

 kitchen; the accent, a touch of green. The 

 warm colors — red — brown, orange and tan 

 shades — just right for the cold northern ex- 

 posure. 



"My first purchase was enamel — tiny ten 

 cent cans of green, ivory, dark red-brown, 

 black and a larger thirty-five cent can of tan. 

 Seventy-five cents ! Twenty-five to go. 



"I gave the linoleum rug a coat of tan. 

 On the following morning, I took small pieces 

 of sponge and splotched the solid background 

 of tan with black, ivory, brown, and green. 

 Ivory and black set off the colors amazingly. 

 Then the wooden curtain poles over the 

 double windows were enameled red-brown ; 

 the rings, green. The kitchen stool and gar- 

 bage pail received a coat of brown with black 

 and ivory trims. The corner cupboard re- 

 sponded to a narrow trim of brown and black. 

 The rack that hangs by the kitchen stove, and 

 takes care of all lids, was touched up with 

 green. 



The remaining twenty-five cents went for 

 oil cloth. Five cents bought one yard of 

 green oil cloth shelving, six inches wide, 

 which covered the small shelf over the sink. 

 A left over scrap transformed the unsightly 

 cleansing powder can. 



"Twenty cents bought almost a yard of oil 

 cloth (46" wide) in the new color combina- 

 tions of brown and orange on cream. From 

 this I made chair pads, holders for pot lifters, 

 and tie backs for my crisp, cream colored cur- 

 tains. I used these figured designs as my walls 

 are solid colors. 



"All of this for one dollar! My family 

 hardly knew the kitchen. And did they love 

 it! I saw a million other possibilities and it 

 was hard to leave the kitchen once I was 

 started. But I stuck to my program and 

 moved on to the living room. But that's an- 

 other story. 



"I fudged on the dollar only twice. Once 

 when I took a small corner of the sponge 

 which is used to clean the automobile. I 

 needed this to splotch the linoleum. My hus- 

 band never missed. Again when I sneaked the 

 tiniest bit of turpentine when 1 was on the 

 homeward stretch, trying to make every drop 

 of enamel count. The paint brushes, of 

 course, didn't count. They were all salvaged 

 from a discarded lot. I cleaned and soaked 

 them for two days. 



GRIND UP OLD LIMESTONE HOUSE 

 Workmen grinding up a lOO-year old limestone house on fctnn oi Richard A. Souring, 

 Ogle county. Baileyville. Illinois, preparatory to spreading it back on the soil. The new 

 modem home is also shown. 



Lauterbach Is \ew Pure 



Milk Manager 



Arthur H. Lauterbach of Philadel- 

 phia has been appointed general man- 

 ager of the Pure Milk Association, 

 Chicago. He succeeds ^ohn F. Case 

 who will devote all his time to the 

 operation of his dairy and livestock 

 farm in DuPage county. 111. 



Mr. Lauterbach has been manager 

 for the past three years of the Inter- 

 State Milk Producers' Association, the 

 dairy farmers' coperative in the Phila- 

 delphia market. 



Prior to his affiliation with the Inter- 

 State Milk Producers' Association, Lau- 

 terbach was Chief of the Dairy Section 

 of the Agricultural Adjustment Ad- 

 ministration, and before that was gen- 

 eral manager of the National Cheese 

 Producers' Federation with headquart- 

 ers at Plymouth, Wisconsin. 



Mr. Lauterbach was born and reared 

 on a farm near LaCrosse, Wisconsin. 

 His education included the Wisconsin 

 Business University, night classes of the 

 University of Minnesota Division and 

 special courses at the Y.M.C.A. From 

 1910 to 1918 he was accountant and 

 office manager of the Soo Railway at 

 Minneapolis. From 1918 to 1927 he 

 operated his own farm at Monticeilo, 

 Minnesota, and participated in the or- 

 ganization of local cooperative cream- 

 eries, cooperative elevators and farmers' 

 livestock shipping association. He also 

 assisted in the organization of Land 

 O' Lakes Creameries, and in 1927 was 

 appointed manager of the poultry and 

 egg division. 



Big Corn Yields Follow 



Farm Soil Treatment 



John Bruch, Cedar Point, Illinois, 

 who had the honor of entertaining the 

 LaSalle County Corn Husking Contest, 

 last fall on his excellent 320 acre farm, 

 believes in making good land better. 

 The top record that day of 41.492 

 bushels of corn by the county champion 

 Donley Martin, was due in part to the 

 wonderful field of corn on this farm. 



The Bruch farm has been completely 

 limed and the contest field was man- 

 ured and rock phosphated at the cus- 

 tomary rate of 1,000 pounds per acre. 

 The corn ripened exceptionally well 

 and had a beautiful lustre for which 

 Mr. Bruch gives credit to the phos- 

 phate. 



That soil treatment pays is proven 

 again on this farm by the yield on a 

 10-acre plot in the state corn yield con- 

 test. Planted to hybrid, it officially 

 shucked out 1,236 bushels of No. 2 

 corn. This field has been in clover, 

 was manured and phosphated and 

 planted 3' 4" check. 



Mr. Bruch harvested close to 25,000 

 bushels of corn from 256 acres last 

 year. He has a medium sized dairy 

 herd and markets whole milk. 



The McHenry County Farm Bureau, 



McHenry County Home Bureau, Lo- 

 tus Production Credit Association, 

 Woodstock National Farm Loan Asso- 

 ciation and McHenry County Agricul- 

 tural Conseravtion Association, all ten- 

 ants of the Woodstock Odd Fellows 

 building since June 1, held open house, 

 July 11. 



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