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By MARY E. TROVILLION 



'v ^^^Hl: List week in |ulv witnesseJ 

 / the MXtli annual iH ( I11I1 en- 

 y_y lampinent at Oixon Springs in 



and kinJred 

 manual I rain - 



Hope County. The ! 1 southernmost 

 counties of Illinois were represented. 



Doubtless none of the seven similar 

 tamps held in the State this year enjoyed 

 the rich liistoru and scenic setting af- 

 forded these youni; southern campers 

 Here surroundeil hy mountain-like slopes 

 is a wooded amphitheatre, its shaded 

 arena al-vunvlantiy watertii by mineral 

 and fresh water sprincs. This tool V'alley 

 which lies at an altitude of '^OO feet 

 in the Ozark foothills was known and 

 trei^uented by various tribes of Red Men 

 long lon^ years before white men set 

 foot on Illinois soil. Kitthe Mus Ke 

 Nee Be they called it, and sometimes the 

 land of the Great Medicine Water. 1 he 

 Aigoncjuins knew it. so did the Sioux, 

 so did the warring Irocjuis. 



Supposedly the valley was under the 

 protection of the Gre.it Spirit, and in 

 consideration ot this, tribes ilisputing for 

 its possession, otten by means of mortal 

 combat, were careful to do all their fiiiht 

 ing outside its sacred borders. Within 

 the valley the war dance and song were 

 prohibited, and here before the circling 

 v.imptires of the evening, the pipe of 

 l^u.Ki: was passed. 



I'ather Allonez. the Jesuit priest, suf- 

 fering an attack of swamp malaria t'ound 

 his way through the wilderness to the 

 Great .\tedicine Waters, which he an- 

 alized as having an iron lontent of ^ 

 grams to the gallon, and ilrinking freeK 

 day after day. went away at last, loud 

 in their praise as a blood restorer. 



However, the two groups of i-H 

 (lubbers 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 <.|uite well 

 thank you I 



Uniicr the supervision of ]. A. I;mb 

 ser. iarm Ailviser for I'ranklin-Hamilton 

 fiounty I-'arm Bureau, this years geni.il 

 camp director, with his efficient stall 

 composed chiefly of i-H Ckib leaders 

 and fellow I'arm Advisers, the young 

 people have had a busy and thoroughly 

 enjoyable week of it. 



R.ich morning that rising bugle 

 sounded at t> o'clock, anil did it ring 

 through the valley, and echo against the 

 hills! It was as if there were twenty 

 buf,'les. judging by the sound. 



Harly 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 ctlucational program char- 

 acterized each day, and such a place it 



was for archery, solt 

 sports! Hoys classes 

 ing were held out under the trees, di- 

 rected by (!h.is. Zeigler of Logan, Ohio. 

 And who knows but under these same 

 oaks, manv of them ages old. young 

 Indian arrow makers may have plieil 

 their trade in a far otT day? Indoors 

 the girls workeii busily under the ilirec- 

 tion of Miss Mary Janice Osborne. Ad- 

 viser lor the Saline County Home Hu- 

 reau and Miss Olevia Meyer, who hoKIs 

 a like position with the Williamson- 

 lackson- Johnson County Home Bureau. 

 They wo\e beails. made lovely colored 

 clips for ilress necks anii other articles 

 designed to show otT their youn^ charms. 



Health lessons were given daily by 

 Miss Al 1-reda Peterson, health specialist 

 from the University of Illinois. Stubbed 

 toes, cut fingers and ivv poison casualties 

 were cared fOr m a motherly way by .Miss 

 Dora Brydon who m.untained hospital 

 tjuarters at all times. 



A large airy pavilion afforded an audi- 

 torium for indoor programs. 



Various members of the Fxtension 

 Staff of the University of Illinois were 

 on hanil to hil their own important 

 niches on the camp program. Miss 

 .Anna Searl ; V. \:. I.ongmire; Iiddie Pil- 

 Jiard; Miss lirma Cottingham and their 

 ilk And what would -i-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 Ciorilon. the grave council ot 



New Kind of Farm Problem 



'( .,i:,';i:!iiJ liom p.ii;c Jl ) 



green brought ^^c for a dozen bunches 

 and the Big White SI. 20. The earliest 

 Big White brought up to Sl.'iO a doz. 

 1 hey were m.irketing about 75 to 80 

 dozen a day. 



Mrs. Bertels and her mother, and an 

 additional helper, all work together in 

 the cellar where its cool and com- 

 fortable, tieing up the aspar.igus. 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 T^^f of 

 the horse radish grown in the U. S. 



The Livingston county cooperative 



wool pool marketed 39.^ 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.i8'5 pounds. 21.022 

 pounds and 22.266 pounds, respec- 

 tively. 



I. Ci. Mifall 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. 



SILAGE PRODUCES HIGHEST SELLING CATTLE 

 More than 1. 000 cattle feeders saw an up-set oi the theory that fattening 

 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 

 valued at 50c more per cwt. than a lot on similar rations but without silage 

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

 Armour & Co. and Ray Walsh. Producers Commission Association. Chicago. 



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I. A. A. RECORD 



