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Sports Festival 



(Continued from page 7) . 



Bunting, all of the lAA staff. Repre- 

 senting the University of Illinois are: 

 J. C. Spitler, D. E. Lindstrom, E. T. 

 Robbins, E. I. Pilchard, G. S. Randall, 

 Mary Stansifer and Cleo Fitzsimmons. 

 From Farm Bureaus are: Paul V. 

 Dean, Bureau ; J. E. Harris, Champaign ; 

 Roy Johnson, DeKalb; J. C. McCall, 

 Jackson-Perry; J. L. Stormont, Livings- 

 ton; Eb Harris, Lake; T. W. May, 

 Edwards; George Iftner, Tazewell and 

 Lloyd Graham, McLean. 



Committeemen from radio stations 

 are: E. L. Bill, WMBD; Clair Hill, 

 WDZ; Harold Safford, WLS. Verio 

 Butz represents Prairie Farmer. Home 

 Bureau representatives are: Mrs. Spen- 

 cer Ewing, Clareta Walker, Mrs. R. E. 

 Milligan and Margaret Lee Bines. 



Rule Book Coming 



A book containing rules for all events 

 is being printed and will soon be in 

 the hands of farm and home advisors. 

 There is a contest in the following 

 list of interest to you. Ask your ad- 

 viser about it. 



Baseball, Softball (including divisions for 

 all county teams, county league teams. 

 Farm Bureau members over .i5, 4-H boys 

 and girls teams), track for boys and girls, 

 wrestling, horseshoes, tug-o'war, horse 

 pulling, trap, skeet and rifle shooting 

 for men and women in singles or teams, 

 hog calling, checkers, swimming for boys 

 and girls, bait casting, events for women 

 including paddle tennis, chair quoits, clock 

 golf, darts throwing and shuffle board, oldest 

 Farm Bureau member, oldest Home Bureau 

 member, largest Farm Bureau family, fun 

 stunts and an experiment station tour. 



In the Folk Festival there will be contests 

 for square dance teams, square dance bands, 

 folk dance teams, family singers, music 

 specialties and novelties including tap and 

 clog dancing or humorous skits. 



Festival Grows 



The Farm Sports Festival has grown 

 some since 1936 with more folks tak- 

 ing part each year. That's noteworthy. 

 But of more importance is the fact that 

 the Festival idea has caught on in most 

 Illinois counties. Farm Bureau sports 

 festivals, field days ox picnics will be 

 held in most counties this summer 

 where champions and championship 

 teams will be selected to represent 

 counties in State Festival competition. 



Nice thing about local sports festivals 

 is that everybody can take part. You 

 don't have to be an expert in any of 

 the contests that range from baseball 

 to hog calling. Yet you may be better 

 at your favorite sport than you think, 

 and you may win a chance to represent 

 your county. Anyway, you'll have fun 

 trying I 



Illinois' farm Olympics will have a 



JUNE. 1939 



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Manager G. W. Scheef of the Liv- 

 ingston Service Company congratulat- 

 ing Chris Schulz who found a certificate 

 $^0 in the millionth gallon of Soy- 

 oil paint sold by Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company since 1931. Chris owns 240 

 acres, rents 400. He lubricates his 

 three tractors with Blue Seal greases 

 and Pen Bond oil and buys White 

 Motor gas to run them. His dividend 

 check from the service company last 

 year was $82.07. 



Chris feeds around 80 head of Angus 

 and Hereford steers every year. Al- 

 though he is one of the newer Farm 

 Bureau members in the county, he co- 

 operated with the AAA program last 



year and plans to follow his acreage 

 allotments this year. 



The Illinois Farm Supply Company, 

 in demanding a paint made from soy- 

 bean oil in 1931 when beans were sell- 

 ing for 30 cents, pioneered in making 

 a market for soybeans. Experiments 

 leading up to the discovery of a mix- 

 ture for superior paints, however, led 

 to the hydrogenation of soybean oil 

 which makes it edible. Food manu- 

 facturers now use more soybean oil 

 than the paint industry and growers 

 enjoy a fairly steady market for their 

 crop. Present soybean price at Chicago 

 is about 95 cents, making soybeans one 

 of Illinois' leading cash crops. 



baby brother this fall when Iowa folks 

 gather at Ames the second week in 

 September to run off a number of con- 

 tests similar to ours. Iowa's plan may 

 be the first step in making the farm 

 sports festival a national institution 

 with interstate competition. 



Sideboards for Farms 



(Continued from page 12) 



farm without terraces or strip cropping 

 or both," Vic said. "I advise every 

 owner of rolling land to see his farm 

 adviser right away and ask him to help 

 out an erosion control plan." 



Rev. L. A. Magill of the First Metho- 

 dist Church, Flora, owns 104 acres 

 of hill land that was once operated by 

 his father. So anxious is he to see the 

 land built up that as long as his ten- 

 ant, Ray Nash, supplies the necc^sary 

 labor, Ray pays little rent. The farm 

 has 35 acres in strip crops, 20 acres in 

 terraces, 12 acres of permanent pasture. 



30 acres of woodland on which no live- 

 stock is allowed, and seven acres of 

 badly eroded land which has been re- 

 forested. Thus far, 100 tons of lime- 

 stone has been applied on the crop 

 land with more on the way. 



"Satisfactory results are being ob- 

 tained with limestone, phosphate and 

 legume treatment of pastures in tests 

 on W. H. Nuttall's farm," Conserva- 

 tionist Silliman reported. "His was one 

 of the first farms worked on in this 

 part of the district and pastures im- 

 provement was one of the first proj- 

 ects. On his farm, too, we first demon- 

 strated the use of black locust seed- 

 lings in stopping gullies." 



You could spend many profitable 

 hours studying works of the soil con- 

 servation service in the Lawrenceville 

 district. And the chances are that when 

 you got home you'd start measuring 

 your farm for sideboards. — L. A. P. 



Plant cucumbers on soil rich in humus 



and keep them well-watered, says B. L. 

 Weaver, U. of I. 



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