what the Members Say 



Ernsioii riiiilrol 



I w.int to ton^r.ituLile you on iIk Iuk- 

 arlkli (erosion control) in the last issut- 

 of till- RI-COKD. I liki.l till- style in wliicli 

 it was set up. makini; its pictures with 

 reaJinc material snappy enoui;!) that people 

 will i;et the point ami still enjoy it 



I will appreciate it if you coulil senil 

 nie SIX copies of the RICORD because I 

 want to |ie sure they uo into the \Xasliinj; 

 ton aiul Des Moines office. 



F A l-'isher. 



Actinj; Assistant to the ( (inservator. 



U. S Department of A>;iicultuie, 



L'rhana, Illinois. 



Vie wish (o cxteiul thanks lor the fine 

 soil erosion control stoiv in the last issue 

 of the lAA RliCORD the pictures turned 

 out well and we especially likeJ the manner 

 in winch the story was written. 



H. R. Hrunneineyer. AJviscr, 

 Winncbapo County I-'arm Bureau. 



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A Trui' I'iiiurr 



wish to coni;ratulate you fiu puhlishin^. 

 the benefit of milk proilucirs. a true 

 ure of milk prices for fluid milk as 

 ived by dairymen in various parts of 

 country On pa>;e 1 < of the last issue 

 he RI:CC)RD you have broken down the 

 ous complicated milk prices on to ime 

 s so that anyone can undei stand 

 he RbCORD has certainly l.iken the lead 

 riectini; propa.tanda that is destructive 

 iipeiati\e assoi lations. 



Harold C Vial 

 DuPa.ue (ounty. Ill 



Jiiliii Itriirirs rnrii 



1 want to cont:ratul.itt \ou on your ciiur- 

 aL:e in publishim; the article on y.^j::.t.- 10 of 

 youi August Rl-CORD about Mr. Ikuch s 

 farm 



A .i;o(»vl nianv pet>ple around htit who 

 ha\e been cuttini: down on corn acreane 

 will chani^e their plans after reailini; bow- 

 Mr hruch mnored the reduction pioi^ram 

 aiikl pu' St)r> of his farm in torn. 

 J. C Brook 

 Henderson County, 111 



■\ii opponent of AAA is John Hiuch of 

 Pt III, i.,iSalle county. The item in Aui; 

 RICORD ened in not reportini; 110 acldi 

 tion,il acies in Kruch f.irm. Thus his record 

 in ]'•)>" was iSCt A of corn (yield about 

 2'i,iiO() bu.) on )(•>() A. f,irin. .S.iys M. 

 Biuch: 1 ha\e always cooper. ited 11)0 per 

 cent in soil coiisercation proi;r.inis except 

 IV^"" which was impossible for me as I lost 

 all my clover the drouuht vear of l<;i6. I 

 am cooper.itini; this ye.u 11)0 per cent Mv 

 corn base is 16'.> A. I have planted 16,s/i 

 Acres My soil depleting; base acreaj;e is 

 2~SYi and 1 hive 266 A. in soil depletinu 

 crops. 1 have 120 A. of letume crops " 



C,fiampK>n corn growers as well .is co- 

 operators are Mr. Bruch and his three sons 

 He topped a corn performance test on 01 

 fainis last year all of which used Pfister 

 hybrid. His yield per acre 1 i i :•> bu. Next 

 hij;hest was son Harold Biuch, Peru with 

 IsS.'SI bu Third was son (ail; fourth son 

 Roy, Mr Bruch is president of the (ai 

 operative Gram and Supply Cai at (eilar 



lOHN BRUCH 

 "I have always cooperated 100 per cent." 



Point, piesiileiit ol the local telephone com- 

 pany, ihrecloi 111 the local Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Ca). (Ik writes '«)'; of it himself.) 



- rditor J 



Lfirsil roiilrnl Itest 



I note in yt>ui I,ist issir- ,i iliscussion of 

 ulief le>;islation and t!i,il you consider lineal 

 control best 



As Seciet,iiy of rhu ()rt,iw,i Chapter Amer- 

 ican Red Cioss (now Cdiairin,in ), 1 h,ive 

 been inteiesfeLl in the control ot relief funils 

 duriiii; the time when it w,is locally .idmin- 

 isteied .ind later when it w.is adinitiisti. red 

 bv the Illinois liner;;eniv Relief (.ommis- 

 sion. 



Alv opiiiion IS fh.it when .tdrnmtsfi l e».l 

 I'ic.illy, It w.is not onl\ ninth inori.- s.iiist,u- 

 torv f" the itiipient ot nlief, bui u is .iKo 

 itUKh less txpensne 



The ,i;reat iliffc rente w,is tli.it iiiuU r the 

 loc.il system the sahiiics ot the adininistr,!- 

 tors weri prob.ibly onelhiid of lli.it p,iid 

 by the Caniimissimi 



We seletttd .i b.ilaiKcd diet .iiul all per- 

 sons on rilief were .idequately but not 

 extravayantlv led One investiLMtor was suf 

 titieiit for our puiposcs .md this loc.il in. in 

 did more ittLttu.il wiiik tli.in the liii;h 

 pricitl soii.il woikeis We were .ible h> 

 furnish m.iiiy rmpients witli woik. thus sav- 

 iiii; their selt-iesp.tt 



I hope you will loiitinue ill M'ur elTorts 

 to (.st.iblisli lot.il (.onti.d 

 (. Ciiiuus, 



Ch.iirman Ott.iw.i Cdi.ipttr .\ R. C. 

 I.aSalle Countv. Ill 



Born : Mary Charlotte, to Farm Ad- 

 viser antl Mrs. C. H. Twi^g, Clinton 

 toonty. Site is a Country Lite policy- 

 iioliler. The seven Twigg iliilJrcn form 

 the largest farm aiKiser's f.iiiiily in the 

 st.itt. 



"Labor problems have hit the Illinois 



fruit country." reports Lo^an Cloip. 

 secretary of the Illinois l-'ruit Growers 

 IJxchantjc. "Most growers arc hav- 

 ing dilFiculty in getting efficient labor 

 to harvest fruit crops. Older men and 

 women and young, mexjieriencetl help 

 are about the only kinds available in 

 some lotahties," 



\ Siirri'd niilifiiitinii 



"The obligation to get food protlucts 

 to the consumer with the least possible 

 waste and at the least possible cost con- 

 sistent with fairness to all who handle 

 them is )ust 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 

 tliari the manufacturer should be ex- 

 |iected to confine his attention solely to 

 the mechanical processes of manufac- 

 turing his goods," Hon, Henry C. 

 Wallace, former Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Hiiiiili Limi'Kloiir Loiiiirr 



10 





T he picture above sliows E. S. Apple, 

 manager of the Alhambra Grain and 

 I'eed company. .Madison county, with a 

 limestone loading device that has prov- 

 en very satisfactory. Mr. Apple says 

 Since August 1st we sold ^.175 tons 

 of limestone to farmers." The lime- 

 stone is shipped in hojiper bottom coal 

 cars and set to drop onto. the conveyor 

 bell 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 C^ompany, St. Louis. Mo. 

 costs little to operate. 



Limestone at this point costs SI. 70 

 per ton less the 10c member discount. 

 This di,scount is carefully safeguarded 

 in that it is granted only by letter 

 authorization from the Madison County 

 I'arm Bureau (Llevator derives a small 

 revenue for handling the limestone) 

 farm Adviser May estimates that Madi- 

 son county will use approximately 

 1^, ()()() tons of limestone this year, — 

 ,1 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. 



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