A STITCH IN TIME — 

 Peter Holmbeck, right, 

 Putnam countY> mends 

 his shirt which was torn 

 in climbing through a 

 fence. Prize picture by 

 his daughter. Mrs. Edna 

 Mobeck. 



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GAS ATTACK 



Loyal Hanuner, Whiteside county, and John 



Boland. assistant farm adviser, with a few of 



the 100 rats they killed in 2 hours. Boland is 



shown with cyanid gun used. Dick Crabb photo. 



REPAIRS 

 Frank H. Shriver, president oi the Adams County Farm 

 Bureau comes to the aid oi his sons with his trusty 

 monkey wrench. Henry, 20, is doing the ground work 

 while brother Roger, 13, bores in above him. A prize to 

 Lois Shriver. 



OLD ROXY'S FAMILY 

 John A. McEee, McDonough county, with his 2I-yeai- 

 old mare and part of her tribe. Roxy. 4th from left, is 

 the mother oi 8, grandmother of nine and great- 

 grandmother of 6. Prize picture. 



PAL 

 For a lit- 

 tle boy's 

 portrait o f 

 his buddy, 

 a dollar to 

 Junior 

 Yoesle, La- 

 Salle coun- 

 ty. 





I'LL BE BUG-GONEDI 

 Bushels of chinch 

 bugs killed on Harold 

 Bond's farm, Brovm 

 county, by putting kero- 

 sene in the post holes 

 oi o creosote barrier. 



BEAUTY'S MAIDEN 

 Ten - year - old Brown 

 Swiss cow owned by 

 Marriott and Baker of 

 Champaign county is 

 shown at the New York 

 World's fair where she 

 is one of 150 cows in 

 the Dairy Worid of To- 

 morrow exhibit. She has 

 produced 2785 lbs. of fat 

 in 5 lactation periods to- 

 taling 1965 days. 



