sweet clover, said, "I've been using lime- 

 stone about 18 years. All of my 360 

 acre farm is limed at approximately three 

 tons per acre. When I went on the farm 

 wheat yielded around eight bushels per 

 acre. It now averages 20 bushels, my 

 highest yield being 34 bushels. I tested 

 out complete fertilizer but didn't get 

 much result. We have 210 crop acres 

 on his farm. Every crop acre had or now 

 has clover or alfalfa in 1938." 



Charles E. Lock, a pioneer Farm Bu- 

 reau organizer was on the county ad- 

 viser's list of earliest alfalfa growers 20 

 years ago. He said, "I had to lime to get 

 alfalfa started. Lime cost almost noth- 

 ing in those days. I've never had a year 

 since, that I've been without alfalfa. 

 I've limed the entire farm." Mr. Lock 

 was one of the first four lAA organiza- 

 tion solicitors in the state. He worked 

 successfully in starting Farm Bureaus in 

 many counties. His parting advice was, 

 "quit pasturing alfalfa if you want to 

 save it." 



Jersey County has set a mark in soil 

 improvement for others to shoot at. 

 Farm Adviser Kibler has aggressively 

 promoted the use of limestone through- 

 out his nine year tenure in the county. 

 Last year, with a series of pasture im- 

 provement letters, film strip talks, soils 

 meetings, publicity and a special coopera- 

 tive limestone purchase plan, approxi- 

 mately 50,000 tons of limestone were 

 used, the highest of any county in Illi- 

 nois. — So hats off to Jersey County! 



BEFORE AIMD AFTER W McLEAIV COUNTY 



m THE SPRING OF 1920, HOME ADVISER CLARA BRIAN OF MC LEAN COUNTY 

 was returning from Bellilower with her Dodge roadster when she dropped into the mud 

 hole shown above when within two miles oi Bloomington. The cor was left stuck in the 

 mud all night. A shovel and team were used next morning to get out. 



T. KIBLER 

 limestone. 



Home Rureau A 



Practiral Help 



Isl Prize teller on subject, "V^HAT Home 

 Bureau Has Meant to Me." 



SOME one has said that a University edu- 

 cation proves to be 90 percent cultural 

 and 10 percent practical. From the ex- 

 perience of a ten year membership, 1 be- 

 lieve that Home Bureau offers that practi- 

 cal 10 percent and much more. 



I should be happy indeed, to know the 

 exact location of Timbuctoo, or the meaning 

 of a Latin word, but how much more im- 

 portant it has been to me to know that 

 tomato juice contains the same vitimins as 

 orange juice! 



What to do when Richard, age 15, is 

 taking cold, how to make for Kathryn 

 Grace, 3, a sun suit from the good part of 

 one of my husband's shirt tails ; even if I 

 had studied those things in college they 

 wouldn't have meant much. Studying them 

 now, they have a definite purpose and 

 meaning. 



To be sure, not every one finds it neces- 

 sary to make a sunsuit out of a shirt tail. 

 But, almost every one enjoys exercising 

 their creative ability and mine happened to 

 be in making a sunsuit rather than, perhaps, 

 painting a picture, or composing a bar of 

 music. Had my interest been more in such 

 matters, I am sure I could have found help- 

 ful suggestions in Home Bureau. As it was 

 I have looked more carefully for the practi- 

 cal helps. 



But, Home Bureau isn't all work. For all 

 work and no play, so they say, won't make 



HERE IS THE SAME ROAD AND THE SAME HOME ADVISERS CAR (THE EIGHTH 

 Dodge) 18 years later. Improved roads is one of the noteworthy developments in Illi- 

 nois during the post 20 years which the Farm Bureau supported by the Home Bureau 

 had a part in bringing about 



Mother a good homemaker. Recreation, 

 games, contests, visiting, neighborly con- 

 tacts, keep the busy housewife out of the 

 proverbial rut. When 1 played the part of 

 The Bull in the "Toreador" play at one of 

 the county meetings, I felt decidedly un- 



housewifely. The afternoon transition from 

 my ordinarily practical self was definitely 

 invigorating. The community fun served to 

 re-create, rebuild, to refresh. Everyday life 

 was made easier because of it. 



Modern educators are protesting that our 



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