MAIUON SCHUPBACH & FRIEND 

 Vocational Ag work in high school 

 started the Schupbach brothers toward 

 success in the purebred Angus business. 

 They now own 12 head. 



V^^^^ HE tide of II million unem- 



^^~#^ ployed in U. S. cities has 



^_y backed up a flood of youth 

 on the farm. Are they happy? Are 

 they making money? Are they plan- 

 ning to stay on the farm? Where are 

 they headed? 



Here is a cross-sectfon of activities, 

 opinions and plans of a few young 

 farm men and women, as reported by 

 Frank Gingrich of the lAA staff. 



"I don't think times are so tough. 

 People just have that idea," said Fred 

 Schupbach, Jr., 20, Randolph county 

 farmer. 



And Fred should know. His father 

 bought their 175-acre farm in 1930, 

 just in time to be hit by some of the 

 leanest years Illinois farmers have ever 

 seen. But the boys, Fred and his broth- 

 er, Marion, 19, learned their business 

 during those years. 



Their practical farm experience was 

 supplemented with four years of voca- 

 tional agriculture at Sparta High 

 School and 4-H Club work. The boys 

 got their start in the Angus cattle 

 business seven years ago through I. F. 

 Green, then the vo-ag instructor at 

 Sparta. They now have 12 head. 



Says their mother: "Dad .and I 

 point out to the boys that the impor- 

 tant thing about money is what you 

 Spend it for. We encourage them to 

 spend their money wisely." 



Fred spent $100 on tools. Last 

 month he overhauled a motorcycle mo- 

 tor and made an electric motor to 

 pump water out of a Model T gen- 



Rural Youth? — They're Douig 

 All Right 



Read What They Say Ahout Farm Life 



erator. Fred has hand tools, jig saw, 

 bench saw, and a lathe in his shop 

 which is one of the rooms in their 

 II -room house. 



"If no one else had modern con- 

 veniences, 1 would like to stay on the 

 farm anyway. But as long as others 

 have electric lights, we want them, 

 too," he said. 



Power is supplied by a 32-volt light 

 plant which pumps water, runs the 

 washer and other small motors. 



Helen Krueger, 23, lives in Henry 

 county. She, too, has a spending phi- 

 losophy that works. 



CAN SHE BAKE A CHERHY PIE? 

 BoyI And howl There's a "Billy Boy," 

 too, not so iar away. Helen Krueger plans 

 to lire on the farm. 



Says she: "When times are hard 

 on the farm you spend what you have. 

 If you have less, you spend less. It's 

 all in the way you look at it." 



Asked if she preferred farm life to 

 living in the city, Helen retorted, "Ab- 

 solutely I would rather live on the 

 farm. I like it. I can be out of 

 doors and close to nature." 



While Helen is a little vague about 

 future plans, she aims to stay on the 

 farm. Entering into her plans, how- 

 ever, is the matter of a neighbor's 

 son (that is if you consider neighbors 

 within 20 miles). The couple became 

 acquainted several years ago but it was 

 a trip to Farm and Home Week at 

 the University with Assistant Farm 



Adviser Ralph Taylor and Mrs. Taylor 

 that brought about an understanding. 



The Krueger home is equipped with 

 electric lights, refrigerator, electric 

 range, iron, washer and running water. 

 Helen would miss these conveniences 

 but she prizes the car most. It en- 

 ables her to attend Rural youth meet- 

 ings, church (where she leads the 

 choir), dances, parties and other rec- 

 reational and social functions. 



Helen's hobby is sewing which she 

 learned in three years of 4-H Club 

 work. Two years ago she was leader 

 of the Blue-Ribbon 4-H Club. She 

 does all the housework and finds that 

 her high school training in home eco- 

 nomics comes in handy. 



Jimmie Henderson, 23, Pulaski coun- 

 ty, works on a 40-acre farm where 

 fruit, poultry, pigs, cotton and ever- 

 greens provide a small but constant 

 income. He says he will stick to the 

 farm until something better shows up. 

 He wants to get a job involving me- 

 chanics and would like to join the U. S. 

 Air Corps. 



Darwin Priegnitz, 20, who lives at 

 home on a 2l6-acre farm in DuPage 

 county, says, "I can make a living 

 farming. I've done that. I'd like to 

 install and service refrigerating plants. 

 Maybe I will as soon as I finish my 

 correspondence course in that line." 

 (to be continued) 



MONEY WELL SPENT 

 Fred Schupbach, mechanic of the familyt 

 perfects the motor he made from a Dodge 

 generator. It runs power tools in his shop. 



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