4-H ClUB C/HWP AT DIXOIVI SPRIIVGS 



By MARY E. TROVILUON 



\. ^V^HE last week in July witnessed 

 / the sixth annual 4-H Club en- 



y_J campment at Dixon Springs in 

 Pope County. The 14 southernmost 

 counties of Illinois were represented. 



Doubtless none of the seven similar 

 camps held in the State this year enjoyed 

 the rich historic and scenic setting af- 

 forded these young southern campers. 

 Here surrounded by mountain-like slopes 

 is a wooded amphitheatre, its shaded 

 arena abundantly watered by mineral 

 and fresh water springs. This cool Valley 

 which lies at an altitude of 900 feet 

 in the Ozark foothills was known and 

 frequented by various tribes of Red Men 

 long long years before white men set 

 foot on Illinois soil. Kitche Mus Ke 

 Nee Be they called it, and sometimes the 

 land of the Great Medicine Water. The 

 Algonquins knew it, so did the Sioux, 

 so did the warring Iroquis. 



Supposedly the valley was under the 

 protection of the Great Spirit, and in 

 consideration of this, tribes disputing for 

 its jxjssession, often by means of mortal 

 combat, were careful to do all their fight- 

 ing outside its sacred borders. Within 

 the valley the war dance and song were 

 prohibited, and here before the circling 

 campfires of the evening, the pipe of 

 peace was passed. 



Father Allonez, the Jesuit priest, suf- 

 fering an attack of swamp malaria found 

 his way through the wilderness to the 

 Great Medicine Waters, which he an- 

 alized as having an iron content of 5 

 grains to the gallon, and drinking freely 

 day after day, went away at last, loud 

 in their praise as a blood restorer. 



However, the two groups of 4-H 

 Clubbers who came to Dixon Springs 

 this year did not come primarily to study 

 history, being chiefly concerned with the 

 present ; neither did they come to have 

 health restored for they are all quite well 

 thank you! 



Under the supervision of J. A. Emb- 

 ser. Farm Adviser for Franklin-Hamilton 

 County Farm Bureau, this year's genial 

 camp director, with his efficient staff 

 composed chiefly of 4-H Club leaders 

 and fellow Farm Advisers, the young 

 people have had a busy and thoroughly 

 enjoyable week of it. 



Each morning that rising bugle 

 sounded at 6 o'clock, and did it ring 

 through the valley, and echo against the 

 hills! It was as if there were twenty 

 bugles, judging by the sound. 



Early morning hours were taken up 

 with hikes across the hills. Meals were 

 served in a dining hall, but dishwashing 

 was done in the open. 



A splendid educational program char- 

 aaerized each day, and such a place it 



was for archery, soft ball and kindred 

 sports! Boys' classes in manual train- 

 ing were held out under the trees, di- 

 rected by Chas. Zeigler of Logan, Ohio. 

 And who knows but under these same 

 oaks, many of them ages old, young 

 Indian arrow makers may have plied 

 their trade in a far off day? Indoors 

 the girls worked busily under the direc- 

 tion of Miss Mary Janice Osborne, Ad- 

 viser for the Saline County Home Bu- 

 reau and Miss Olevia Meyer, who holds 

 a like position with the Williamson- 

 Jackson-Johnson County Home Bureau. 

 They wove beads, made lovely colored 

 clips for dress necks and other articles 

 designed to show off their young charms. 



Health lessons were given daily by 

 Miss Al Freda Peterson, health specialist 

 from the University of Illinois. Stubbed 

 toes, cut fingers and ivy poison casualties 

 were cared for in a motherly way by Miss 

 Dora Brydon who maintained hospital 

 quarters at all times. 



A large airy pavilion afforded an audi- 

 torium for indoor programs. 



Various members of the Extension 

 Staff of the University of Illinois were 

 on hand to fill their own important 

 niches on the camp program. Miss 

 Anna Searl ; F. E. Longmire ; Eddie Pil- 

 chard; Miss Erma Cottingham and their 

 ilk. And what would 4-H Club Camp 

 be like without the atmosphere created 

 by the spontaneous wit of E. A. Bier- 

 baum; the modest and gracious smile of 

 Harold Gordon, the grave council of 



New Kind of Farm Problem 



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green brought 75c for a dozen bunches 

 and the Big White $1.20. The earliest 

 Big White brought up to $1.50 a doz. 

 They were marketing about 75 to 80 

 dozen a day. 



Mrs. Bertels and her mother, and an 

 additional helper, all work together in 

 the cellar where it's cool and com- 

 fortable, tieing up the asparagus, sort- 

 ing it according to grade and prepar- 

 ing it for market. 



In the St. Louis area, horse radish is 

 one of the most important truck crops. 

 The soil in this section of St. Clair and 

 Madison counties, is said to be ideal 

 for the production of this crop. These 

 two counties together with a small area 

 across the river produce, according to 

 local spokesmen, more than 75% of 

 the horse radish grown in the U. S. 



The Livingston county cooperative 



wool pool marketed 397 per cent of the 

 county's total wool to win first place 

 honors among all pools in the state. 

 Henderson was second with 30.6 per 

 cent and Champaign was third with 

 22.4 per cent. Total wool marketed in 

 each county was 22,485 pounds, 21,022 

 pounds and 22,266 pounds, respec- 

 tively. 



J. G. McCall and the wholesome hos- 

 pitality of Glenn C. Smith farm adviser 

 of Pope-Hardin County who each year 

 is on hand to welcome these groups to 

 beautiful Dixon Springs.' 



Upwards of 300 young people in two 

 separate shifts, enjoyed the camp this 

 year. 



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SILAGE PRODUCES HIGHEST SELLING CATTLE 

 More than 1,000 cattle feeders sow an up-set oi the theory that iottening 

 cattle should have limited roughage in the experiments on the U. of I. farms 

 during the recent 11th annual feeders' day. The cattle shown received an 

 average daily ration of 8 pounds of silage and 2 pounds of alfalfa in addi- 

 tion to their regular grain feed for the first 140 days of the test. They were 

 volued at SOc more per cwt. than a lot on similar rations but without silage 

 and with only 4 pounds of alfalfa hay. Appraisers were C. E. Hazard, 

 Armour & Co. ond Ray Walsh, Producers Commission Association, Chicago. 



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