THE MOFFETT HOME 

 Back from the road with plenty of shade. 



THE POND 

 "Grandfather built it 7S year* ago.' 



returns for the operation to that point. 

 He also observes that there seems to be 

 more profit in the manufacturing and 

 processing end of agriculture if you can 

 do it, than in producing the raw mate- 

 rials. With electricity and refrigeration 

 coming closer to the farm, who knows, 

 maybe the next step will be small com- 

 munity processing plants out in the coun- 

 try thus enabling the producer to take up 

 some of the slack in cost of distribution. 



Practice Cooperation 



Warren Moffett is chairman of the 

 Macoupin County Farm Bureau livestock 

 marketing committee. He is one of the 

 reasons why Macoupin has a splendid rec- 

 ord for the percentage of its livestock 

 marketed through cooperative channels. 

 At the farm entrance along the state 

 highway is a livestock chute with a sign 

 "Ship to the Producers." More recently, 

 he says, hogs produced in the north end 

 of the county have been marketed at 

 Springfield, but elsewhere the bulk still 

 goes to E. St. Louis. Direct shipments 

 to E. St. Louis and Alton, also livestock 

 auctions at Woodson, Murrayville, Car- 

 roUton, and Auburn account for sub- 

 stantial numbers of Macoupin county cat- 

 tle and hogs. Dairy cows, calves, and 

 mostly unfinished cattle, Mr. Moffett says, 

 predominate at the livestock auctions. 

 He, like many other good stockmen, feel 

 that these auctions are spreading livestock 

 diseases and disorganizing the producers' 

 marketing system. 



How will the Agricultural Adjustment 



program affect the livestock fanner? 

 There is a good deal of quiet wonder- 

 ment about this question. Warren Mof- 

 fett thinks that it will result in more 

 livestock, that the administration of the 

 AAA needs to be improved so as to wipe 

 out inequities, and abolish what he be- 

 lieves is discrimination against farm op- 

 erators who have been carrying on a soil 

 conserving crop rotation system leaving 

 substantial acreages in grass and meadow. 

 The major rotation on this farm is 

 corn-corn-oats-sweet clover. This rotation 

 is followed on four 20 acre fields. One 

 field is covered with manure each year. 

 All the land has been limed and most of 

 it rock phosphated. Heavy yields are the 

 rule. A minor rotation followed on 

 smaller fields is corn-oats-and two years 

 of a mixture of alsike and alfalfa. A 

 series of five five-acre fields has alfalfa 

 for hay and pasture in four of them each 

 year and corn in the fifth. The alfalfa 

 in these fields is allowed to stay down 

 four years. 



More Than 50% 



Mrs. Moffett is more than 50 per cent 

 of the firm, her husband confessed with 

 a twinkle in his eye as he told about his 

 wife's success with poultry. A Home 

 Bureau member, Mrs. Moffett has made 

 poultry one of her chief interests. Last 

 year her poultry accounts revealed an in- 

 come of $500 for every $100 of invest- 

 ment, a record that is approximately twice 

 the county average for account keepers. 

 Eggs from the flock of 125 layers are 

 sold to a hatchery. 



Mrs. Moffett has an unusually fine 

 collection of antique furniture most of 

 which she has assembled and re-condi- 

 tioned herself. Set off with beautiful 

 home-made braided rugs, her home is a 

 chief attraction to visitors. 



If you had to select a farm that seems 

 to express in the beauty and utility of 

 all its many parts the results of three 

 quarters of a century of good farming, 

 clear thinking and right living, the Mof- 

 fett homestead in Macoupin county ought 

 to have your serious consideration. — Edi- 

 tor. 



For Beautihil Homes 



July B, 1958 



I have just read with much pleasure, your 

 article "From Kitchen to Iris to Peonies" which 

 appeared in the Record for June. 



I am enclosing herewith a short article (a 

 story of the beautiful garden on the Walter 

 Capp farm in Whiteside count)') which the 

 undersigned wrote and which was published 

 in the Sterling Daily Gazette and the Milledge- 

 ville Free Press recently. 



I hope articles of this type will create in 

 others a desire to beautify their homes. 



Such gardens are not only a source of 

 delight to the owners but to all who pass by. 

 It will lift them out of the drab drudgery of 

 their every-day life, and bring into their lives 

 the beauty of growing and blossoming things, 

 and will touch their hearts with a new and 

 evergrowing sense of the beautiful in nature. 



Keep up the good work until farmyards and 

 grounds surrounding them will be considered 

 a disgrace and all will vie with one another 

 to adorn and beautify the farm place. 

 Fred C. Ris, 

 Milledgeville Free Press, 

 Carroll county, 111. 



JIMMY MOFFETT, AGE 8 

 He helps by wielding the lawnmower. 



BOBBIE MOFFETT, 10 

 Who doesn't lilce to go 

 barefoot in cool mud. 



A SMALL BOY'S PARADISE 

 Natural Shower is this Water Fall at one end of the pond. 



