Rural Safet}^ 



By C. M. Seagrates 



BULL — June 29 — Virgil Calhoun, 

 42, of Northwest Palmyra, expired 

 Monday at the Macoupin hospital 

 where he has been taken Sunday eve- 

 ning after being gored by a bull. The 

 animal, infuriated at the actions of a 

 small calf Mr. Calhoun was carrying, 

 attacked him. He managed to crawl 

 into the yard, close the gate and at- 

 tract the attention of neighbors. A 

 major operation and several transfu- 

 sions were given in an eflFort to save 

 his life. 



HAYMOW — June 24 — Donna 

 Rees, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy 

 Rees of Grand Ridge (LaSalle county) 

 was playing in a haymow near her 

 home, Wednesday, when a hook sus- 

 pended by a rope was swung out by 

 one of her young playmates. The 

 hook struck Donna in the face cut- 

 ting her nose and upper lip quite 

 badly. 



TRACTOR — June 29 — Lester 



Rosendahl, 35, a farmer northeast of 

 Kankakee, was fatally burned Satur- 

 day when a tractor with which he was 

 working, became overheated causing 

 the fuel to explode and ignite his 

 clothing. 



LIGHTNING — June 29 — When 



Joseph Batterham, 48, a farmer near 

 Sheridan, LaSalle county, failed to re- 

 turn after going to see if his turkeys 

 had been injured in a severe electrical 

 storm Tuesday night, his wife and a 

 farm hand went to look for him. They 

 found him in a field. He had been 

 killed by lightning. 



FIRST AID 

 C. M. Seagraves, lAA director of Bcdatf- 

 treats a cut for Bernard McMohn, Fulton 

 county, at the 4-H Club camp near Gales- 

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ILLINOIS BREEDERS HOLD BLACK AND WHITE SHOWS 

 Mooseheart Farms. Aurora, and Elwood and Nelson, DeKalb. win first and second 

 respectively on their cows at the State Show. luly 1. To the right are Harry Wood 

 (above) of Tazewell county. Illinois director on the National Holstein Association board, 

 and lohn Nelson, DeKalb, member oi the state Holstein board. The Will-Kankakee 

 committee, above organized the largest district show held in the state. 



RUNAWAY — June 29 — Earl 



Adams, 50, Whiteside county farmer, 

 is in the Morrison hospital in a critical 

 condition from injuries received Thurs- 

 day noon when he was thrown beneath 

 the shovels of a corn plow and dragged 

 over the ground by a runaway horse. 



DROWNED — June 29 — Junior 

 LeRoy Musser, 2-year-old son of Mr. 

 and Mrs. Earl Musser, Carroll coun- 

 ty, was drowned at 6 o'clock Monday 

 night when he fell into a water tank 

 on the farm of his parents during their 

 brief absence. 



KICKED — June 30 — Nine-year- 

 old Arthur Edward Baue is recovering 

 from injuries sustained when he was 

 kicked in the face by a colt on the 

 Henry Liefer farm near Red Bud, Ran- 

 dolph county, last Monday. 



HOG — June 29 — Mrs. Warner 

 Brown, living near Irvington, Wash- 

 ington county, was treated in St. Mary's 

 hospital, Centralia, for injuries received 

 when she was attacked by a hog at her 

 home last Monday. 



Counties and conununities in Iowa 



with the highest Farm Bureau mem- 

 bership get more extension work done, 

 says Murl McDonald, assistant director 

 of extension. " 



HOLSTEIIVS 



A black and white cow may not 

 arouse much applause at a cattle feed- 

 ers convention but among Illinois dairy- 

 men the Holstein Friesian continues to 

 generate a lot of enthusiasm. During 

 June local black and white shows held 

 in central and northern Illinois were 

 topped off by a state-wide Holstein 

 Field Day at Mooseheart near Aurora 

 July 1. Organized by E. M. Clark, 

 midwest extension director for the na- 

 tional Holstein-Friesian Association 

 and assisted by northern Illinois county 

 farm advisers and breeders, the cream 

 of Illinois' Holstein herds v/ere paraded 

 before admiring eyes. 



Howard C. Klett of Elwood, was 

 chairman of the committee that put 

 on the first Will-Kankakee Black and 

 White show, June 27. It drew 32 

 exhibitors with 82 head. Farm Ad- 

 viser John Brock, McHenry county 

 was judge and awarded Orville Koop, 

 18, 4-H club lad, the grand champion- 

 ship with his senior bull calf. Loren 

 Carver's 4-year-oId cow was grand 

 championship female. 



The state show was combined with a 

 picnic and speaking program. Held 

 on the spacious wooded grounds of 

 Mooseheart it drew breeders from all 

 sections of central and northern Illi- 

 nois. Prof. C. S. Rhode of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois judged. 



AUGUST. 1939 



