''Lime The Farm 

 Or Sell It?" 





John Sidney Webb and his brother, 

 Grover C, Franklin county in southern 

 Illinois, credit limestone as a most im- 

 portant factor in their farm success. 

 Twenty-five years ago, realizing that their 

 farm was rapidly going down hill, John 

 said to his father, "We've either got to 

 hme the land or sell this farm!" 



In 1912 a representative of the Charles 

 Stone Company at Whitehill asked John 

 to help him sell limestone. After a few 

 days work in the community they got 

 orders for 22 carloads. At that time 

 limestone cost 40c per ton plus 27c 

 freight, or a total of 67c laid down at 

 Whittington on the C. & E.I. Railroad. 



"I kept track of those we sold lime to 

 — they have continued liming, and to- 

 day are all successful farmers," Webb 

 observed. 



The Webb land is yellow gray silt 

 loam on tight clay (hard pan). Grover 

 farms 440 acres and John handles 530 

 acres across the road. And their farm 

 buildings and equipment attest their suc- 

 cessful methods. 



Adjoining land, untreated, produces 

 about 12 bushels of corn per acre and 

 eight to nine bushels of wheat in a good 

 year. John and Grover's land now pro- 

 duces 50 to 60 bushels of corn and 25 

 to 30 bushels of wheat per acre. 



Before soil building was started on 

 John's south 80 it took all of the corn to 

 fill their 155-ton silo. After the lime- 

 stone, legumes and rock phosphate pro- 

 gram had been used for several years, 

 corn from 20 acres of the 80 filled two 

 silos each holding 155 tons of ensilage. 



From six to eight carloads of lime- 

 stone are used annually. Some land is 

 now getting the second application and 

 some the third treatment. Rock phos- 

 phate pays big on every crop. 



One of the secrets of the Webb broth- 

 ers success is that on the 530-acre farm 

 only 150 to 200 acres, about one-third, 

 are cropped each year while the other 

 two-thirds rests in a pasture mixture of 

 sweet clover, lespedeza, red top, and blue 

 grass. Hogs and Polled Hereford cat- 

 tle profitably market the forage. 



The south 80 was terraced by the 

 C.C.C. in 1935 as a demonstration for 

 the neighborhood. The elder Mr. Webb, 

 however, did not believe in these "new 

 fangled" ideas. He told John, "they're 

 ruining your land. I'd stop them!" 



His son replied, "The land has been 

 washing away for fifty years and you 

 don't realize it yet." 



Jerome Embser, Franklin-Hamilton 

 county's genial farm adviser says most 

 land in his county needs from four to 



THIS HEAVY nELD OF WHEAT 

 on A. S. and Howard McDonald's farm Trivoli, Peoria county shows the effects of 

 limestone, phosphate, sweet clover and manure, reports J. W. Whisenond, farm 

 adviser. The shocks are almost as tall as a man. There is an excellent stand of 

 red clover in the stubble. 



six tons of limestone per acre and re- 

 sponds splendidly to rock phosphate. 

 Soil improvement is one of the major 

 projects in his active Farm Bureau pro- 

 gram. 



LIVESTOCK NEWS 



September reports of county live- 

 stock marketing events show 44 fall 

 feeders outlook meetings with a total 

 attendance of 2,835; 13 feedlot tours 

 attended by 760 feeders; and 12 mar- 

 ket tours conducted in cooperation 

 with Chicago, St. Louis and Peoria 

 Producers on which 413 were present. 



In Gallatin County stockmen believe in 



cooperative livestock marketing. For the 

 last six years, they have marketed an aver- 

 age of 46 per cent of their livestock co- 

 operatively at St. Louis, Evansville and 

 Cincinnati. Never falling under 39 per cent 

 and in 1932 reaching 52 per cent. This 

 county has led the state three times, stood 

 second twice, third once and tied for fourth 

 one time. 



Records like Gallatin's don't just happen. 



Individual feeders, truckmen and even stock 

 buyers have helped to swell the volume. 

 While stockmen of this county are believers 

 in the cooperative system, much credit for 

 this record must go to such truckmen as 

 Walter Oldham, D. M. Wood, Fred Drone, 

 Frank Elliott, Lee Anderson and others en- 

 gaged in transporting livestock to market. 



The influence of the Farm Bureau and 4-H 

 Club work led by Farm Advisers C. W. 

 Simpson, J. G. McCall, Harry Neville and 

 now Ray Roll have been the backbone of 

 the educational and informational process 

 which has brought Gallatin county into 

 the foreground in marketing livestock, their 

 largest income producer. 



NOTICE 



njJNOIS AGIUCin.TXn<AL 



ASSOCIATION 



ELECTION OF DELEGATES 



Notice is hereby given that in con- 

 nection with the onnual meetings 

 of all County Form Bureaus to be 

 held during the months of November 

 and December, 1938, at the hour and 

 place to be determined by the Board 

 of Directors of each respective Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau, the members in 

 good standing of such County Farm 

 Bureau, and who are also qualified 

 voting members of Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, shall elect a dele- 

 gate or delegates to represent such 

 members of Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation and vote on all matters 

 before the next annual meeting or 

 any special meeting of the associa- 

 tion, including the election of officers 

 and directors as provided for in the 

 By-Laws of the Association. 



During November, annual meet- 

 ings will be held in BOND. BROWN. 

 CLAY, GALLATIN, JASPER, LAW- 

 RENCE, LOGAN, MACOUPIN, MADI- 

 SON, MARION, SCHUYLER, SHEL- 

 BY, ST. CLAIR and WQJJAMSON 

 Counties. 



During December, annual meet- 

 ings will be held in BUREAU. 

 CLARK, CLINTON, COLES, COOK, 

 CRAWFORD, DUPAGE, EDWARDS. 

 EFFINGHAM, FRANKLIN-H A M I L- 

 TON, GRUNDY, HENRY, IROQUOIS. 

 JACKSON-PERRY, JERSEY, JOHN- 

 SON, KANE, KANKAKEE, KENDALL. 

 LA SALLE, LEE, LIVINGSTON. MC- 

 LEAN, MASSAC, MORGAN, MOUL- 

 TRIE, PIATT. POPE-HARDIN. RAN- 

 DOLPH. RICHLAND, SALINE. STEPH- 

 ENSON. TAZEWELL. UNION. VER- 

 MDJON and WABASH Counties. 

 Oct 20, 1938 



(Sgd.) Paul E. Mathios. 

 Corporate Secretary 



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