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THE MOFFETT HOME 

 Back from the road with plenty oi shade. 



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THE POND 

 "Grandiather built it 75 years ago.' 



returns for tlic operation to th.it 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 Motfctt 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, Murraj-ville, Car- 

 rollton, 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 arc spreading livestock 

 diseases and disorganizing the producers' 

 marketing system. 



How will the Agricultural Adjustment 



program affect the livestock farmer ^ 

 There is a good deal of quiet wonder- 

 ment about this (|uestion. Warren Mof- 

 fett thinks tliat 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 e.ich 

 year and corn in the fifth. The alfalfa 

 in these fields is allowed to stay down 

 four years. 



More Than 50^^ 



Mrs. Motfett 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 SI 00 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 Motfett has an unusuallv fine 

 (.ollection of antique furniture most of 

 which she has as>cmblcd anil re coniii 

 tioncd herself. Set off with beautiful 

 home-made braided rugs her home is a 

 chief attraction to visitors. 



If you had to select a farm th.it setms 

 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 Beautiful Homes 



July I^. l'ri>< 



I h.ivc- JLKt re.id with nniLh pk.i'-iHr. \..ur 

 .iitick- ' 1-ioni Kitchen tn Ins to Picjiihn" wliiili 

 .ippcarcd in the- Record tor Junt 



I am inclfsinj; htrcwitli a shoit .irticle (» 

 stnrv- of the bc.uitilul ujrdi-n on the W'.illii 

 C'.ipp t.uni in Whiteside conntv ) wliich tlic 

 undersicned wrote .ind which was pnhhslitd 

 in the Steihnu D.iily Ci.i?elte .ind the MilleJf;e- 

 ville Free Piess lectnliy. 



I hope articles of this type will create in 

 others J desire to beautify their homes. 



Such c.iidens uc not onh .i source of 

 deliyht to the owners but to all who pass by. 

 It will lift them out of the drab drudf;en of 

 their evtry-d.iy lite, and biin^ into their livis 

 the be.iuty of jjrowing and bloss..,nijnj; thinj;s. 

 .ind will touch their hearts with a new and 

 e\eri;iow inu sense of the beautiful in nature 



Keep up the uood work until fainiy.irds .in.l 

 i;rounds surioundini; thein will be consivli-red 

 a disijrace and all will vie with one another 

 to adorn and beautifv tlie faini plate. 

 Fred C Ris, 



Mlllcdceville Free I'less, 

 Carioll Lountv. 111. 



BOBBIE MOFFETT, 10 

 JIMMY MOFFETT, AGE 8 Who doesn't like to go 



He helps by wielding the lawnmower. barefoot in cool mud. 



A SMALL BOY'S PARADISE 

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





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