Big Leagues After 



Farm Bureau Players 



Bob Seely, manager of the Will 

 County Farm Bureau baseball team re- 

 ports that Meyer LaVerne, shortstop, 

 and Thos. Bergera, pitcher and catcher 

 for the Will county team last year have 

 signed up with the Pittsburgh Pirates 

 and will report to their baseball farm 

 at Hutchinson, Kansas, in March. The 

 Pirates have seven minor league teams. 

 Robert Schwiesow, another Will coun- 

 ty pitcher has received offers from both 

 the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleve- 

 land Indians but as yet has not decided 

 to go into professional baseball. Seely, 

 an old professional baseball player who 

 caught at one time for both Milwaukee 

 and Columbus in the American Asso- 

 ciation, says that he recognized base- 

 ball scouts from the St. Louis Cardinals, 

 the Cincinnati Reds, the Pittsburgh Pi- 

 rates, and the Cleveland Indians at the 

 Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League 

 tournament during the Sports Festival 

 at Urbana last year. 



EIVTEBS PUULTBY 



ESSAY COIVTEST 



Harvey Schweitzer, Jr., 19-year-old 

 Dekalb county farm boy, was the first 

 Illinois youth to enter an essay contest 

 sponsored by the Illinois Poultry In- 

 dustry Council for the Seventh 

 World's Poultry Congress, Cleveland, 

 July 28 to August 7. 



First prize is a $200 scholarship in 

 the College of Agriculture, University 

 of Illinois, and second prize is a $100 

 scholarship. Harvey 

 will write on the 

 subject "The Impor- 

 tance of Top Grade 

 Market Poultry to 

 Illinois Farm In- 

 come." Contestants 

 may also choose 

 another subject, 

 "The Economy and 

 Health Value of 



„ , . Eggs in the Diet." 

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be made to non-college winners. All 

 entries must be in the hands of the lo- 

 cal county contest award committees on 

 or before April 15. 



Living with his parents, Mr. and 

 Mrs. H. J. Schweitzer on their l60-acre 

 farm near Malta, Harvey is serving as 

 county 4-H club leader after having 

 served as assistant leader and then lead- 

 er of his local club. He has been a 

 state champion in 4-H poultry club 

 work and was declared one of the out- 

 standing 4-H club members in the state. 

 He is national secretary of the Future 

 Farmers of America. • 



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