what the Members Say 



Erosion Control 



! want to congratulate you on the fine 

 article (erosion control) in the last issue 

 of the RECORD. I liked the style in which 

 it was set up, making its pictures with 

 reading material snappy enough that people 

 will get the point and still enjoy it. 



I will appreciate it if you could send 

 me six copies of the RECORD because I 

 want to be sure they go into the Washing- 

 ton and Des Moines oflice. 



F. A. Fisher, 



Acting Assistant to the Conservator, 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



Urbana, Illinois. 



We wish to extend thanks for the fine 

 soil erosion control story in the last issue 

 of the lAA RECORD. The pictures turned 

 out well and we especially liked the manner 

 in which the story was written. 



H. R. Brunnemeyer, Adviser, 

 Winnebago County Farm Bureau. 



A True Picture 



1 wish to congratulate you for publishing, 

 for the benefit of milk producers, a true 

 picture of milk prices for fluid milk as 

 received by dairymen in various parts of 

 the country. On page 13 of the last issue 

 of the RECORD you have broken down the 

 various complicated milk prices on to one 

 basis so that anyone can understand. 



The RECORD has certainly taken the lead 

 in correcting propaganda that is destructive 

 to cooperative associations. 



Harold C. Vial 

 DuPage County, III. 



Joiin Bruch's Corn 



1 want to congratulate you on your cour- 

 age in publishing the article on page 10 of 

 your August RECORD about Mr. Bruch's 

 farm. 



A good many people around here who 

 have been cutting down on corn acreage 

 will change their plans after reading how 

 Mr. Uruch ignored the reduction program 

 and put 80% of his farm in corn. 

 J. C. Brook 

 Henderson County, 111. 



[No opponent of AAA is John Bruch of 

 Peru, LaSalle county. The item in Aug. 

 RECORD erred in not reporting 140 addi- 

 tional acres in Bruch farm. Thus his record 

 in 1937 was 256 A. of corn (yield about 

 25,000 bu.) on 460 A. farm. Says Mr. 

 Bruch: "I have always cooperated 100 per 

 cent in soil conservation programs except 

 1937 which was impossible for me as I lost 

 all my clover the drought year of 1936. I 

 am cooperating this year 100 per cent. My 

 corn base is 169 A. 1 have planted 168.6 

 Acres. My soil depleting base acreage is 

 278.6 and I have 266 A. in soil depleting 

 crops. I have 120 A. of legume crops." 



Champion corn growers as well as co- 

 operators are Mr. Bruch and his three sons. 

 He topped a corn performance test on 94 

 farms last year all of which used Pfister 

 hybrid. His yield per acre 144.25 bu. Next 

 highest was son Harold Bruch, Peru with 

 138.51 bu. Third was son Carl, fourth son 

 Roy. Mr. Bruch is president of the Co- 

 operative Grain and Supply Co. at Cedar 



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JOHN BRUCH 

 "I hove always cooperated 100 per cent." 



Point, president of the local telephone com- 

 pany, director in the local Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Co. (he writes 90% of it himself.) 



—Editor.] 



Local Control Best 



I note in your last issue a discussion of 

 relief legislation and that you consider local 

 control best. 



As Secretary of the Ottawa Chapter Amer- 

 ican Red Cross (now Chairman), I have 

 been interested in the control of relief funds 

 during the time when it was locally admin- 

 istered and later when it was administered 

 by the Illinois Emergency Relief Commis- 

 sion. 



My opinion is that when administered 

 locally, it was not only much more satisfac- 

 tory to the recipient of relief, but was also 

 much less expensive. 



The great difference was that under the 

 local system the salaries of the administra- 

 tors were probably one-third of that paid 

 by the Commission. 



We selected a balanced diet and all per- 

 sons on relief were adequately but not 

 extravagantly fed. One investigator was suf- 

 ficient for our purposes and this local man 

 did more effectual work than the high 

 priced social workers. We were able to 

 furnish many recipients with work, thus sav- 

 ing their self-respect. 



I hope you will continue in your efforts 

 to establish local control. 

 C. Griggs, 



Chairman Ottawa Chapter A. R. C. 

 LaSalle County, III. 



Born: Mary Charlotte, to Farm Ad- 

 viser and Mrs. C. E. Twigg, Clinton 

 county. She is a Country Life policy- 

 holder. The seven Twigg children form 

 the largest farm adviser's family in the 

 state. 



"Labor problems have hit the Illinois 



fruit country," reports Logan Colp, 

 secretary of the Illinois Fruit Growers 

 Exchange. "Most growers are hav- 

 ing difficulty in getting efficient labor 

 to harvest fruit crops. Older men and 

 women and young, inexperienced help 

 are about the only kinds available in 

 some localities." 



A Sacred Obligation 



"The obligation to get food products 

 to the consumer with the least possible 

 waste and at the least possible cost con- 

 sistent with fairness to all who handle 

 them is just as sacred as the obligation 

 to produce those crops in the first place. 

 There is no more reason that the farmer 

 should be expected to confine his efforts 

 solely to the production of his crops 

 than the manufacturer should be ex- 

 pected to confine his attention solely to 

 the mechanical processes of manufac- 

 turing his goods." Hon. Henry C. 

 Wallace, former Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Handy Limestone Loader 



The picture above shows E. S. Apple, 

 manager of the Alhambra Grain and 

 Feed company, Madison county, with a 

 limestone loading device that has prov- 

 en very satisfactory. Mr. Apple says 

 "Since August 1st we sold 5,475 tons 

 of limestone to farmers." The lime- 

 stone is shipped in hopper bottom coal 

 cars and set to drop onto the conveyor 

 belt of the electrically operated load- 

 er. Some hand shunting of the car is 

 necessary to empty both hoppers. The 

 device which is leased from the Colum- 

 bia Quarry Company, St. Louis, Mo. 

 costs little to operate. 



Limestone at this point costs $1.70 

 per ton less the 10c member discount. 

 This discount is carefully safeguarded 

 in that it is granted only by letter 

 authorization from the Madison County 

 Farm Bureau. (Elevator derives a small 

 revenue for handling the limestone) 

 Farm Adviser May estimates that Madi- 

 son county will use approximately 

 35,000 tons of limestone this year, — 

 a new high county record. 



Early-rising Farm Adviser A. R. 

 Kemp is heard on a farm broadcast 

 from WGIL, Galesburg, each week- 

 day morning at 6:10. . i 



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