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V^^^^IONEERS in the early Farm 

 KJ Bureau movement of Illinois 



-f . were recognized and honored 

 at a unique and historic celebration 

 commemorating the 25th anniversary 

 of the Smith-Lever Act and the 27th 

 anniversary of the DeKalb County 

 Farm Bureau in the Lutheran church, 

 DeKalb, May 8. 



Despite the rainy night, several hun- 

 dred agricultural leaders and DeKalb 

 county members attended the dinner. 

 Gold watches were presented to four 

 ex-presidents of the DeKalb Farm Bu- 

 reau including Henry H. Parke, L. D. 

 Sears, Henry J. White, and A. J. Plapp. 

 Presenters were Earl C. Smith, Clifford 

 V. Gregory of Wallace's Farmer and 

 Wisconsin Agriculturist, Dean-elect 

 Henry P. Rusk of the University of 

 Illinois College of Agriculture, and 

 State leader J. C. Spitler. 



Whatever has been accomplished by 

 your state organization was made pos- 

 sible by the sound thinking of the 

 early pioneers who started the Farm 

 Bureau, Earl Smith remarked. Inter- 

 esting experiences of the early days 

 were related by W. G. Eckhardt, first 

 Illinois county agricultural adviser, 

 Henry Parke, Clifford Gregory, Father 

 Solon of DeKalb, Dave Thompson, 

 Tom Roberts, Vernon Vaniman and 

 others. 



DeKalb was advanced as the only 

 county in Illinois that could muster a 

 double quartette of both Farm Bureau 

 presidents and county farm advi.sers 

 who reside in the county. Farm ad- 

 visers present were Eckhardt, Thos. 

 Roberts, Rus Rasmussen, and Roy John- 

 son. Emery E. Houghtby, president, 

 ably presided. 



Comments on \\\ Film 



''Shoulder to Siioulder'' 



Rock Island: "We have received the 

 film Shoulder to Shoulder' and used 

 it last Monday night. We had a very 

 excellent attendance and the picture 

 was received in fine spirit." 



DeWitt: "I think that the picture 

 is a good one for giving a picture of 

 the lAA and tells more in 55 minutes 

 time than any organization man could 

 tell in a week. Our first meeting which 

 was held in Weldon was especially 

 well attended having about 50 more 

 people then we had seats for." 



Livingston: "We had a very pleas- 

 ant experience last night when the 



HENRY J. WHITE, LEFT. RECEIVES 

 Congratulations from Earl C. Smith. 



lAA picture 'Shoulder to Shoulder' 

 was given to the membership pep meet- 

 ing for some 80 farm membership 

 workers who were present at Pontiac. 

 Several of our unit officials saw the 

 picture and are anxious to schedule it 

 for unit meetings." 



Winnebago: "Film well received. 

 Many comments on wide scope of lAA 

 activities." 



Macoupin: "All well impressed by 

 film, want it later for series of county 

 meetings." 



Butter Suit Filed 



A suit was filed in the Cook County 

 circuit court April 28 against the 

 Dairy Products Marketing Association, 

 Land O' Lakes Creameries, Illinois 

 Producers Creameries, and the Dairy 

 and Poultry Cooperatives charging an 

 attempt to fix butter prices in principal 

 milk-producing areas. 



The suit was filed by one Frank P. 

 Girard, Chicago public accountant and 

 income tax expert "as a citizen of 

 Illinois," according to news reports. 

 Producers are considering the possibili- 

 ty that the suit may have been insti- 

 gated by the "trade" to prevent pur- 

 chasing of butter surpluses by the Co- 

 operatives when the price is low dur- 

 ing the current flush period. This 

 would allow speculators a clear path 

 to buy up heavy stocks of butter cheap 

 for storage and sale next winter when 

 prices rise. 



Farmers had $5,230,000,000 to live on in 

 1938 as compared to $1,800,000,000 in 1932, 

 or three times as much. 



90 Per Cent \\\ Signup 

 in Logan County Estimated 



L. W. "Lee " Lucas, secretary of the 

 Logan County Soil Conservation Asso- 

 ciation, estimates that 90 per cent of 

 the crop land in that county will be 

 included in the AAA program in 1939. 



"More of the big landowners are co- 

 operating this year," Lucas said. "They 

 have looked into the program and de- 

 cided that it deserves their support. 

 Many of these landlords are elderly 

 people. They are not so much inter- 

 ested in the corn loan because they 

 make a practice of holding their corn 

 until the price is satisfactory. We have 

 a lot of corn in this county not under 

 seal, although there are 2,195,000 bu. 

 of '.^8 corn under seal and about a 

 million bu. of '37 corn re-sealed. Nor- 

 mally the county produces about 6 

 million bu. of corn annually." Lee 

 estimates that corn carry-over in Log.m 

 county this year is the largest in history. 



N. H. Anderson, farm adviser, re- 

 ports that there has been a remarkable 

 gain in purebred hogs, also cattle in 

 Logan county during the past five years. 

 He credits 4-H club work for most of 

 the gain. 



Soybean acreage for seed was down 

 25 per cent from 1937 to '38, Ander- 

 .son says. It will be up slightly in '39 

 because of the heavy cut (30%) in 

 wheat acreage. Logan county farmers 

 are findintj that soybeans plowed un- 

 der sharply increase corn and wheat 

 yields on soils of medium and poorer 

 fertility. 



In Logan county participation in the 

 AAA is much higher in the better 

 agricultural townships. In Hurlburt 

 township, for example, where the soil 

 is rich and there is practically no per- 

 manent pasture, all but 1500 acres out 

 of 15,000 is signed up. In Eminence 

 township where the land is more roll- 

 ing and most farms are smaller and 

 rougher, about 40 per cent of the 23,- 

 000 acres will be included in the AAA 

 program. These farmers have smaller 

 acreages of crop land and feel they 

 must use it all for grain. Where soil 

 improvement and a good crop rotation 

 system was practiced before the AAA 

 program came along, participation is 

 much higher. 



Here's a grain feed for calves. Give them 



all they will eat of a good grain ration like 

 80 parts of shelled corn, ten parts of whole 

 oats and ten parts of cottenseed meal. 



Are your spring pigs getting a grain ra- 

 tion? Here is one that has given excellent 

 results on many farms : 70 pounds coarsely 

 cracked corn, 20 pounds coarsely cracked 

 wheat and ten pounds of tankage or meat 

 and bone scraps. Mix the feeds and self- 

 feed in a creep. 



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