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V^\ .UOI talk about ideals and 

 ,^""^^/l// objectives, the technique of 



^^^Yl i^t-ttin^ members, the rela- 

 tion ot extension work to farm oryaniza- 

 tion, policy makinu. and a score or more 

 of addresses by leaders in agriculture. 

 education and rural youth occupied the 

 attention of some ""(K) people at the 



Struu berries 



(Continued from l>j,e.e 1')) 



cents to 7^ cents a case from one day 

 to the next. Decoration Day. for ex- 

 ample, was a bad market with 

 thousands ol people awav Irom home 

 and many stores closed. I'nday. May 

 2^1, was a good market day. No. 1 s 

 brought 52. 2*1 a case. In fact. Thurs- 

 days and Fridays invariably are ^'ood 

 market days. "VV'e try to put a quar- 

 ter on the price Thursdays and Fri- 

 d.iys. said Harry, we micht have to 

 take It otf Sunday and Monday.' 



On Monday. May 29. the market had 

 slumped from $2.2^ to $1.90 pool aver- 

 ai;e on top grades. Utilitie.s brought a 

 pool average of &\.'s~. By the end of 

 the .season the price for Utilities had 

 slipped to SI. 50. 



Top Michigan berries. |une 6. were 

 bringing SI.2"' for a Id i|uart case 

 which is ec|uivalent to SI.KS for 2i 

 quarts. The Michigan berries, buyers 

 said, were a little better (.|uality than 

 Fdgar lounty strawberries this year be 

 lause ot the late sprmt; drought m 

 eastern Illinois 



Midwest Farm Bureau training school 

 on Michigan State Colleges beautiful 

 campus. Fast 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 Sliaw 

 of the state college set I'arm Bure.iu 

 leaders to thinking when he said that the 

 distressing problems of the nation were 

 waiting tor the sound, clear-thinking 

 people of rural America to solve. 



Adec|uate finance to guarantee con- 

 tinuity ot a program and the employ- 

 ment ot hit;li 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 ot duties between policv-makinL' 

 and administrati\e groups were essen- 

 tials ad\anced bv President Farl C 

 Smith tor an etfective organization. A 

 ereat weakness of some institutions, he 

 said, is due to directors cetting o\er into 

 the employees' field of administration, 

 .mil the latter crossint; the border and 

 assuming the prerogatives of the mem 

 bers chosen representatives. The dan- 

 izers of givini; the dollar sign and com- 

 mercial acti\ities too great prominence in 

 the I'.irm Bureau program were pointed 

 out 



In a stirrini; address on Tuesdav night. 

 President Fduard A O'Neal of the 

 .AI-'BI' told his audience that farmers 

 must fight to stop the encroachments of 

 other grou.ps on .igric ulture's share of 

 the nation.il income. "The American 

 t.irmcr li.is 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 north.east. All of us 

 together can get a square deal. ' 



Undersecretary of Agriculture M. L. 

 VC'ilson spoke on "The Practice ot De- 

 mocracy" and I". I". Hill, governor of 

 the I'arm Credit Administration used as 

 his topic "Meeting the f redit Needs of 

 Agriculture. 



File Illinois delegation (sec picture) 

 ot more than 100 outnumbered all other 

 states except Michigan. 



TraellirS— Seeing a need for 1.000.- 

 000 tractors to replace two-horse teams. 

 International Flarvester (ompany Fer- 

 guson-Sherman Mfg. (.0., (Henry 

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

 Root Heath (^o.. Cleveland Tractor Co.. 

 and Deere & Co. recently announced 

 tractors ranging m price from S500 

 to &«)i). 



In Jo Daviess (bounty. Farm Aciviser 



Ktarn.iuli.in rcpurls ten cars, or 250 tons 

 of ;;rourid rock phosphate distnbuteJ thi'- 

 sprin.i;, which is Sd', more than last year 

 Phospliati costs SH6I per ton at Jo Davuss 

 County railroad points. Rock pliosphatc 

 h.isi' rrucs in Illinois arc SI. 00 to Sl.sO per 

 ton lo\ctr til. in in other miJwt-sttrn states 

 s.iys the Ruhin Phospli.itc- (lompanv. bccaiisi 

 scMinj; costs .irc less. Ruhin held an en- 

 thusiasiu s.ilts iiHctini: .it D.iiniile on Uine 

 26th. 



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