A Pioneer Alfalfa Grower 



^ivVQOME take a walk with me." 

 g'^~\ So spoke the great soils 

 \C/ teacher, Dr. C. G. Hopkins, 

 to Fred F. Marcotte of Kankakee almost 

 thirty years ago during an Urbana short 

 course. 



"He took a fanq? to me," said Mr. 

 Marcotte as he told how Dr. Hopkins 

 showed him the college's results on al- 

 falfa with limestone and thereby "inocu- 

 lated" him with the desire. 



"Carload of limestone — have you 

 gone crazy.'" said W. R. Sanborn of 

 Lehigh Stone Company to him in 1910 

 when he asked about getting some for 

 his 203 acre Kankakee County farm. 

 The litmus paper test for sourness was 

 then the only available one. 



"I got good results from the start 





There's a 



Four Leaf 



Clover 



in every cream can we 

 empty. They are lucky 

 cans for we know they 

 brhig their owners more 

 money than cream cans 

 that wander about from 

 one market to another. 

 If we handled twice as 

 many a year, still more 

 profit to split up among 

 the oroducers' 



Illinois Producers Creameries 



Your Producers Creamery 



Is Your Insurance of 



Better Prices. 



Frad F. Morcott* 



"He went for a walk with Dr. Hopkins." 



using three tons limestone per acre," he 

 said. John Collier then farm adviser 

 viewing his first results exclaimed, 

 "you've got the nicest field of alfalfa 

 I've seen." Mr. Marcotte summed up 

 a whole bulletin of information by say- 

 ing, "I've never been disappointed in 

 my results from limestone but you must 

 put on enough and give it time to 

 work." 



Mr. Marcotte uses rock phosphate too, 

 but said it took about three years to see 

 results at first. The strip method of 

 application revealed on one of his early 

 tests, 70 bushels of good corn in the 

 fertilized part and 48 bushels on the 

 unfertilized, and that was enough for 

 him. He says he can still see some results 

 from the initial application of 1000 

 pounds per acre of twenty-seven years 

 ago. 



This rugged French lineage pioneer, 

 eldest of nine children, was not only the 

 first carload user of limestone in Kanka- 

 kee County which by the way was given 

 him free by Lehigh Stone Company 

 but was probably the first farmer to get 

 electric lights "outside the corporation." 

 His farm is just across the road from 

 Bradley and near the I. C. and N. Y. C. 

 Railroad tracks. In fact there is a railroad 

 spur on his farm where formerly he 

 unloaded large quantities of manure 

 shipped from the livery barns in Chicago. 

 At that time, a carload of manure cost 

 15.00. 



Mr. Marcotte, while still closely inter- 

 ested, has turned most of the farm opera- 

 tions over to his son. He devotes part 

 of his time to the presidency of the Brad- 

 ley Bank. Mr. Marcotte has a modern, 

 elevator-equipped com crib and granary 

 on his farm of which he is justly proud. 



Grinding feed doesn't pay wicb most 



livestock. 



Official Delegates 



Illinois Home Bureau Federation will 

 be represented at the London conference 

 by five official delegates reports Mrs. 

 John W. Clifton, state president, Mil- 

 ford. They are: Mrs. Spencer Ewing, 

 McLean county; Mrs. R. E. Milligan, 

 Champaign county; Mrs. John Morris, 

 Peoria county ; Mrs. Ira Judd, Kane coun- 

 ty; Mrs. Elmer Herman, Jo Daviess 

 county. 



Mrs. Leonard Killey, Monmouth is 

 sending a report of the accomplishments 

 of I.H.B.F. since the Washington, D. C. 

 conference. 



A handicraft exhibit, four articles from 

 Illinois, was sent by all the states co- 

 operating to the National Home Demon- 

 stration Council conference in Lexington, 

 Kentucky. From these, articles were to 

 be chosen to be sent to London, if they 

 could be sent duty free. The plan was 

 to make them a permanent loan exhibit 

 to be passed from one country to another. 



\ Booii To Read 



You still have time before you embark 

 for that London conference to read 

 Margaret Halsey's, "WITH MALICE 

 TOWARD SOME." You will be missing 

 half the fun of the trip if you miss this 

 light-hearted, flagrantly impolite, amus- 

 ingly phrased, satire of English men, 

 women and institutions. The book is 

 written by an American woman spending 

 a year in England with her husband on 

 an exchange professorship. 



You will leam much about what to 

 see and do; about the Woman's Insti- 

 tute, what topics of conversation to select, 

 how to comment on the Royal Family 

 when talking to an Englishman, and how 

 to conduct yourself at English hotels. 



Those who can't make the trip may go 

 in spirit through the book, and will know 

 what the tourists are talking about when 

 they return home. 



Read "With Malice Toward Some" by 

 all means .... and don't take it too 

 seriously. 



Talmadge DeFrees, I.A.A. vice-presi- 

 dent will be chief speaker before a 

 Northern Illinois interdenominational 

 gathering at Camp Epworth, 21^ miles 

 east of Belvidere on Rural Life, Sunday, 

 May 21. Rev. C. J. Hewitt of Kirk- 

 land is in charge of the program be- 

 tween 2:30 and 4:00 P.M. Frank Ging- 

 rich, I. A. A. director of young peoples 

 activities will talk to the young people 

 on the evening program. All Farm 

 Bureau members are invited. 



Crop estimates show 1939 com acreage 



will be 92,062,000, or less than the AAA's 

 goal of 96,000,000 acres and the smallest 

 acreage in 40 years. 



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