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TOUR TO A.F.B.F. COKVEIMTION, NEW ORLEANS, 

 UEfEJUBER 12-13-14-lS \ 



PfflATE'S ALLEY IN 

 French Quarter. New Orleans 



OLD ABSINTHE HOUSE 

 a relic of the early French settlement 



V/^^^HE official tour of the Illinois 

 ^*~Y^ Agricultural Association to the 



%^ coming convention of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation will 

 leave Chicago, December 10, at 1 p.m. 

 via the Illinois Central System. Stops 

 will be made at Champaign, Mattoon, 

 Effingham, Centralia and Cairo. Mem- 

 bers may join the train at any convenient 

 stop. The Special will visit several cities 

 , of the Old South. 



The first will be Vicksburg, Missis- 

 sippi, a city of Civil War days, situated 

 . high up on the bluffs of the Mississippi 

 River. Here is located one of the 

 largest military cemeteries and national 

 parks. A complete tour of the parks 

 will be made — time to visit the na- 

 tional memorials and the battle fields 

 of the Civil War. 



Leaving Vicksburg, you travel 

 through fertile fields of the Mississippi 

 Valley where hundreds of thousands of 

 acres are devoted to the growing of 

 cotton and sugar cane. You pass 

 through but do not stop at Baton 

 Rouge, the capital of Louisana, and 

 arrive at New Orleans shortly after 

 supper. 



New Orleans — the Paris of Amer- 

 ica — the old French Quarter — the 

 modern, up-to-the-minute new business 

 section — is the one city in the United 

 States where you can view buildings 

 dating back to the beginning of United 

 States history and almost alongside 

 view a modern skyscraper. New Or- 

 leans is the second port in the United 

 States. During the winter season mil- 

 lions of bushels of northern grown 



grain are shipped through the port to 

 all countries of the world. You will 

 have time, in addition to attending the 

 business meeting, to visit or better still 

 take a boat trip about the water front. 

 Old Man River is certainly mighty at 

 New Orleans - — great ocean freighters 

 from all countries of the world are 

 taking on or discharging cargoes. You 

 may see a battleship of our own fleet 

 or some other foreign power or see a 

 sleek passenger steamer bound for the 

 Panama Canal or South America . . 

 Bananas are unloaded at the Banana 

 Docks by the steamer load - — a big 

 freight train of bananas carried in one 

 shipment. Visit the old French Quart- 

 er — a bit of old France where history 

 was made. 



East of New Orleans, about 90 miles, 

 situated on the Gulf of Mexico, is the 

 Riviera of America — Gulfport — 

 Pass Cristian — Biloxi — the play- 

 ground of the South. Gulfport is one 

 of the chief ports of the South and 

 much foreign commerce is handled 

 through this city. 



After the close of the convention you 

 leave by special train for Chattanooga, 

 Tennessee, where we arrive the fol- 



lowing morning. Motor cars will take 

 you for a trip through the city, includ- 

 ing Lookout Mountain, the battle fields 

 and other spots of Civil War days. 



Leaving Chattanooga, you travel to 

 Sheffield, Alabama, where the Wilson 

 Dam is located. This marvel of modern 

 engineering is a portion of the TVA 

 and one of the first dams to be built 

 in the Tennessee valley. Motor cars 

 will transport you from the train to 

 the dam and return. Departure will be 

 out of Sheffield in the early evening 

 — supper on the train. All meals en- 

 route will be served in the dining car. 



Again you are enroute through Ten- 

 nessee, Kentucky, crossing the Ohio 

 river at Cairo back into Illinois. 



The cost of the all expense round 

 trip tour from Chicago including lower 

 berth, meals and bus trips enroute, but 

 not meals and hotel in New Orleans, is 

 $73.00 a person. The cost will be 

 somewhat less from downstate points. 

 An optional return trip is being 

 planned also by way of Florida at ad- 

 ditional expense. Write to Paul E. 

 Mathias, Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion. 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 

 for further information about the tour. 



IMotes from the Field 



War in Europe is a poor way to raise 



farm prices. In spite of its faults, the AAA 

 will work out better in the long run, says 

 Fred A. Carter of Morgan county. 



Regardless of farm prices, American youth 



has more to look forward to than serving 

 as cannon fodder. Four-H Club work is 

 one example. The Livingston county club, 

 the largest in the state, has 63} members. 

 Glenn Martin, their leader, reports 73 colt 

 projects, 99 beef, 45 dairy, 111 pig, 69 

 sheep, 110 poultry, 142 corn, 65 garden, 

 66 home bcautification, 37 potato and 27 

 legume projects. 



These boys and girls are learning the 



rather useful art of producing food. At 

 the same time they are living full, happy 

 lives on the farm. Let's hope that the 

 insane delirium or martial music and brass 

 buttons will never grip them. 



In Livingston county, too, more farm fam- 

 ilies on the less productive soil are using 

 electric power than folks who farm the 

 better soils. The reason, according to one 

 farmer, is that "we have little to spend so 

 we spend it on living. We have to stay 

 at home." 



He shouldn't feel too unhappy abaut stay- 

 ing at home. With electric lights to bright- 

 en it and power to help with the work, 

 a home on a corn belt farm should be most 

 pleasant. And many of them are. 



The Logan County Farm Bureau is or- 

 ganizing a cooperative cold storage locker 

 plant. When they get it patrons will have 

 more fresh meats on their tables. That 

 means another step up in living standards. 

 The step from canned meats to fresh meats 

 is just as high as the one from salt meats 

 to canned meats was several years ago. The 

 new standard will cost them little if any 

 more. 



Thousands of Illinois boys are enrolled in 



CCC work. One boy sent part of his pay 

 home to his widowed mother and younger 

 brothers and sisters. They bought a couple 

 of sows this spring and will have plenty 

 of fresh pork all winter. Now he is sav- 

 ing to buy them a cow. While his pay is 

 little more than a dollar a day it's enough, 

 with sound planning, to keep a spark of 

 family pride aglow by keeping them off 

 relief. 



Illinois apple growers are happy about 

 the prices they are getting for their crop. 

 Jonathans brought $1.25 to $1.40 a bu.. 

 Grimes 90c to $1.15, Red Delicious $1.25 

 to $1.50. The only reason they aren't 

 jubliant is that they have only 20 per cent 

 of a normal crop to sell. But that's not 

 unusual. Corn and wheat farmers, until the 

 AAA, always faced that situation. When 

 they had nothing to sell prices were good. 

 The AAA was set up to maintain an even 

 level, good year or bad. — L.A.P. 



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