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^^ -UCH talk about ideals and 

 J^A ij objectives, the technique of 

 C^ Z /yf getting members, the rela- 

 tion of extension work to farm organiza- 

 tion, policy making, and a score or more 

 of addresses by leaders in agriculture, 

 education and rural youth occupied the 

 attention of some 700 people at the 



Strawberries 



(Conliimed from page 19) 



cents to 75 cents a case from one day 

 to the next. Decoration Day, for ex- 

 ample, was a bad market with 

 thousands of people away from home 

 and many stores closed. Friday, May 

 26, was a good market day. No. I's 

 brought $2.25 a case. In fact, Thurs- 

 days and Fridays invariably are good 

 market days. "We try to put a quar- 

 ter on the price Thursdays and Fri- 

 days," said Harry, "we might have to 

 take it off Sunday and Monday." 



On Monday, May 29, the market had 

 slumped from |2.25 to |1.90 pool aver- 

 age on top grades. Utilities brought a 

 pool average of $1.57. By the end of 

 the season the price for Utilities had 

 slipped to 11.50. 



Top Michigan berries, June 6, were 

 bringing $1.25 for a 16 quart case 

 which is equivalent to $1.88 for 24 

 quarts. The Michigan berries, buyers 

 said, were a little better quality than 

 Edgar county strawberries this year be- 

 cause of the late spring drought in 

 eastern Illinois. 



Midwest Farm Bureau training school 

 on Michigan State College's beautiful 

 campus. East Lansing, July 16-20. Here 

 agricultural education was born, the -first 

 of the land grant colleges, nearly 85 

 years ago. 



To many the exchange of ideas in the 

 lounge or over luncheon and dinner 

 tables was quite as valuable as the pro- 

 gram itself. President Robert S. Shaw 

 of the state college set Farm Bureau 

 leaders to thinking when he said that the 

 distressing problems of the nation were 

 waiting for the sound, clear-thinking 

 people of rural America to solve. 



Adequate finance to guarantee con- 

 tinuity of a program and the employ- 

 ment of high grade personnel, not too 

 broad a program but concentration on a 

 few important services that are carried 

 through to completion, and a sharp di- 

 vision of duties between policy-making 

 and administrative groups were essen- 

 tials advanced by President Earl C. 

 Smith for an effective otganization. A 

 great weakness of some institutions, he 

 said, is due to directors getting over into 

 the employees' field of administration, 

 and the latter crossing the border and 

 assuming the prerogatives of the mem- 

 bers chosen representatives. The dan- 

 gers of giving the dollar sign and com- 

 mercial activities too great prominence in 

 the Farm Bureau program were pointed 

 out. 



In a stirring address on Tuesday night. 

 President Edward A. O'Neal of the 

 AFBF told his audience that farmers 

 must fight to stop the encroachments of 

 other groups on agriculture's share of 

 the national income. "The American 

 farmer has to learn," he said, "that some 



fellow a thousand miles away often has 

 more to do with what the farmer gets 

 for his sweat and toil than we do. One 

 of our biggest jobs is to maintain na- 

 tional unity, to overcome sectional dif- 

 ferences among the corn, cotton, and 

 dairy farmers. Let's not allow the corn 

 belt to get mad at the cotton south, or 

 the dairy farmers northeast. All of us 

 together can get a square deal." 



Undersecretary of Agriculture M. L. 

 Wilson spoke on "The Practice of De- 

 mocracy " and F. F. Hill, governor of 

 the Farm Credit Administration used as 

 his topic "Meeting the Credit Needs of 

 Agriculture." 



The Illinois delegation (see picture) 

 of more than 100 outnumbered all other 

 states except Michigan. 



Tractors— Seeing a need for 1,000,- 

 000 tractors to replace two-horse teams. 

 International Harvester Company Fer- 

 guson-Sherman Mfg. Co., (Henry 

 Ford), Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., Fate- 

 Root-Heath Co., Cleveland Tractor Co., 

 and Deere & Co. recently announced 

 tractors ranging in price from 1500 

 to $600. 



In Jo Daviess County, Farm Adviser 

 Kearnaghan reports ten cars, or 250 tons 

 of ground rock phosphate distributed this 

 spring, which is 50% more than last year. 

 Phosphate costs $13.64 per ton at Jo Daviess 

 County railroad points. Rock phosphate 

 base prices in Illinois are $1.00 to $1.30 per 

 ton lower than in other midwestern states 

 says the Ruhm Phosphate Company, because 

 selling costs are less. Ruhm held an en- 

 thusiastic sales meeting at Danville on June 

 26th. 



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