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By C. in. Seagraves 



V \ 4 *«E don't know anything about 

 ^s.y 1/ sulphur and molasses, but 

 Q ff then we aren't supposed to 

 .... it's up to the doctors to take care 

 of spring conditioning of folks. How- 

 ever, we do happen to know something 

 about the safety factors of automobiles 

 and you can take our word for it that 

 it's no accident that many traffic acci- 

 dents occur during the early spring 

 months. Far too many people fail to 

 realize the punishment that the car 

 takes during the winter months, espe- 

 cially the lights and brakes. 



Freezing, thawing, rain, cold, ice, 

 have a way of working themselves into 

 brake linings with bad results. Since no 

 driver can be safer than his brakes, it 

 follows that all drivers should give 

 these devices the attention that any 

 life-saving appliance deserves. 



To offer a scientific check on brake 

 and headlight efficiency that would be 

 available to farm people was one of the 

 purposes behind the I. A. A. -Farm Bur- 

 eau testing lane. This device which 



MAKES HIGHWAYS SAFE 

 ''When aoiety becomes popular among 

 young people, long strides will have been 

 taken in making our highways saie," 

 comments Mary E. Trovillion, Pope county, 

 who sent in this prize photo of Massac 

 county's most sIdlUul driver, LeRoy Cotter. 

 This young farmer turned in a perfect 

 paper in his county's skilled drivers' exam, 

 scored 98 per cent in the district examina- 

 tion and was runner-up in the state 

 Skilled Drivers test at the lAA convention. 

 LeRoy is active in the year-old Massac 

 Rural Youth Organization. 



will be starting on its fifth tour of the 

 state within the next few weeks has 

 checked approximately 100,000 cars. 



Watch tor Safety Lane date an- 

 nouncements in your community. Make 

 arrangements to have your car put over 

 the equipment and know the condition 

 of your brakes and lights. 



Now that farm work is getting back 

 into full swing, it might be worthwhile 

 to look at the record of farm accidents 

 last year. Although 1938 was so par- 

 ticularly bad we trust we will never 

 have another season like it, still the 

 methods by which people met death 

 will probably be much the same this 

 year, even though the number is smal- 

 ler. Here are the facts: 



Hand tool accidents, 1 child killed; 

 machinery accidents, 6 children killed, 

 1 woman, 30 men; miscellaneous acci- 

 dents, 44 children killed, 15 women, 

 92 men or a total of 58 children, 18 

 women, and 167 men who met acci- 

 dental death on Illinois farms in 1938. 



It seems to us that young men are 

 far too often unjustly blamed for spurts 

 of driving recklessness. The real cul- 

 prit is often the young lady in the case. 

 For instance, we are convinced that 

 many a young man has been incited to 

 automobile "monkey shines" through 

 little squeals of simulated scare coming 

 from the young lady of current choice. 



Had the young lady really been in- 

 terested in her personal safety, a sober 

 request to that extent would have in 

 the vast majority of cases been effect- 

 tive. The remarkable thing about this 

 is that the young lady herself knows 

 it better than anybody else. How about 

 it, young ladies, don't you thing you 

 might put in a word or two for safety? 



Producers Creamery of Olney started 

 delivering milk and cream both whole- 

 sale and retail on May 1. New pasteur- 

 izing and refrigeration equipment were 

 installed in response to local demand 

 for a home dairy specializing in high 

 quality products. Heretofore bottled 

 milk has been shipped in from larger 

 cities. 



The sale of Producers' condensed butter- 

 milk in increasing quantities reported by 

 the Champaign creamery. "There is some 

 low grade buttermilk ofTered at reduced 

 prices in this area, but we have definite 

 evidence where users have turned down 

 cut-price buttermilk from competitors 

 in favor of our condensed buttermilk," 

 says Mr. Burns. 



NEW McDONOUGH SERVICE COMPANY 

 TANK 

 Up goes another ISJXK) gallon Storage 

 Tank at Macomb for the new "Green 

 Rocket" gasoline. Picture by E. W. Runkla. 

 manager. Eighty-seven additional storage 

 tanks have been installed to take care of 

 the growing farmer demand for "White 

 Motor" and "Green Rocket" gasolines. It 

 now appears that the county service com- 

 panies are the only petroleum distributors 

 who are still maintaining large supplies of 

 white "non-leaded" gasoline of U. S. motor 

 specifications suitable for lamps, stoves, 

 and other household uses. 



FEED FOR 204)00 CHICKS 

 A lull carload. 400 bags, of Blue Seal 

 Chick Starter scientifically packed for 

 shipment to Columbia Farmers Coopera- 

 tive Company, Monroe county. The unique 

 method of stacking the bags prevents 

 shifting and damage. This is Columbia's 

 second straight carload of feed this sea- 

 son. Sales of chick starter are running 

 60 per cent ahead of a year ago, accord- 

 ing to IFS Feedmon Ray N. Ammon. 



Fred P. Ziegler, 33, manager of Cass 



Farmers Oil Company, Virginia, died sud- 

 denly, April 11th. A native of Jackson 

 County, Mr. Ziegler was a truck salesman 

 for Twin County (Jackson-Perry) Service 

 Company for five years. He served Wabash 

 Valley Service Company as a field man prior 

 to becoming manager of Cass Farmers Oil 

 Company two years ago. 



Producers' Creamery of Champaign has. 



put on the market a new loaf cheese in 

 two and five pound packages under the 

 name Prairie Homes. Production started 

 in the middle of March and since its in- 

 troduction, reports Manager C. C. Bums,, 

 we have had many favorable comments on 

 its quality. Hundreds of people have sam- 

 pled the cheese at Home Bureau and Farm 

 Bureau meetings and pronounce it the best 

 processed cheese they have ever had. 



MAY. 1939 



