Marketing News 



(Continued from page 13) 



The recent marriage of Louise Tice to 

 Everett Feld and Mary Nelson to J. B. 

 Simon, together with the previous marriages 

 of girls of this office, has led the maidens 

 in the surrounding territory to believe that 

 the matrimonial bug is hiding in the Pro- 

 ducers Creamery of Mt. Sterling, Manager 

 Tourtellott reports. As a result applica- 

 tions for employment are pouring in — 

 salary being no object. 



Livestock (continued) 



Feeder Outlook Meetings: Sept. 5 — 

 Carroll and JoDaviess at Mt. Carroll; 

 Kane, Dupage and Kendall at Sugar 

 Grove; Logan; Sept. 6 — Lee, Wood- 

 ford, Piatt, Monroe; Sept. 7 — Mercer, 

 Peoria, Vermilion, Douglas, McLean; 

 Sept. 8 — Knox, Tazewell, Dewitt, 

 St. Clair, Moultrie; Sept. 12 — Ford 

 LaSalle, Green, Richland; Sept. 13 — 

 Iroquois, Ogle, Lawrence, Macoupin; 

 Hog Feeders Tour — LaSalle Co. ; 

 Sept. 14 — Champaign, DeKalb, Kan- 

 kakee, Sangamon; Sept. 15 — Living- 

 ston, Edgar, Macon ; Sept. 18 — Mason ; 

 Sept. 19 — Fulton, Christian, Stephen- 

 son; Sept. 20 — Adams, Menard, 

 Union, Winnebago; Sept. 21 ^ Cass, 

 Pike, Pulaski-Alexander, McHenry, 

 Boone; Lake & Cook at Woodstock; 

 Sept. 22 — Scott, White, Will; Sept. 

 26 — Rock Island ; Sept. 27 — Clark, 

 Henderson, Whiteside; Sept. 28 — 

 Bureau, Brown & Schuyler, Jasper- 

 Crawford; Sept. 29 — Fayette, Henry. 



Feedlot Tours. Sept. 8 — Vermilion; 

 Sept. 14 — Ogle, Sangamon; Sept. 15 — 

 DeKalb, Macon; Sept. 21 — Adams; Sept. 

 22 — Pike; Sept. 28 — Whiteside; Sept. 

 29 — Bureau. 



Market Tours to Chicago Producers 

 Sept. 7 — Piatt County; Sept. 14 — War- 

 ren; Sept. 20 — Lee; Sept. 21 — LaSalle; 

 Sept. 28 — McHenry. 



Hog Feeders' Tour — Sept. 13 — LaSalle. 



Signed:-- Four win County Farm 

 Bureau baseball players to contracts 

 with big league teams. Laverne Meyer, 

 shortstop. Tommy Bergera, utility play- 

 er, and Robert Schwiesow, pitcher are 

 under contract to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 

 the first two assigned to the Pirates 

 minor league "farm" at Carthage, Mo., 

 Schwiesow to the Pirates training camp 

 at Hutchinson, Kansas. Wm. Deininger, 

 big 17 year old catcher signed a con- 

 tract with the New York Yankees 

 and reported for inspection during the 

 Yankees recent trip to Chicago. 



More than 10,000 persons attended 

 the 9th annual Hooppole plowing 

 match, Henry county, Aug. 15. Win- 

 ners were Simon Vandersnick, 2-bottom 



class and sweepstakes; William Wyflels, 

 3-bottom class; Mrs. William Holstrom, 

 women's class; Dwaine Keim, boys' 

 class. Mrs. Lawrence Van Hyfte, win- 

 ner of second place in the women's 

 class, has been women's champion five 

 times in eight years. 



Lo&nSS — Government wheat loans in 

 Illinois this year varied from 67 to 72c 

 per bu. Reports indicate that loans 

 will be made on about 250,000,000 bu. 

 throughout the U. S. or on approxi- 

 mately one-third the crop. 



Combination- two years of 



experimenting with pasture improve- 

 ment and livestock at Dixon Springs, 

 Pope county, in an attempt to find a 

 paying combination for unfertile south- 

 ern Illinois soils, last month bore fruit. 



Of 292 lambs raised on the 10,000- 

 acre tract, 92 carried market finish. 

 They were sold on the Chicago market 

 and studies were made of carcasses in 

 the packing house. 



Contributing to success of the sheep- 

 raising project were quality purebred 

 rams and a pasture consisting of les- 

 pedeza, bluegrass and red top. Thirty- 

 five lambs sired by Hampshire rams 

 averaged 86 pounds as compared to 78 

 pounds for 30 Shropshires and 78 

 for 27 Southdowns. All lambs were 

 produced by western ewes. 



The experiment is being conducted 

 by the University of Illinois in cooper- 

 ation with the U. S. Soil Conservation 

 Service and the U. S. Forest Service. 



/Z^tJ YOUTH 



By Frank Gingrich ' 



Bureau County Junior Farm and Home 

 Club was the first to sign up for the 

 Talk Fest project which will be used in 

 many counties this fall. Talk Fests are 

 designed to assist Rural Youth in expres- 

 sing more clearly and eflFectively. Fifteen 

 Bureau County young people will hold 

 practice sessions during September and Octo- 

 ber, and at their November l6th meeting 

 will have the Talk Fest as one of the fea- 

 ture events on the program. Copies of the 

 Talk Fest outlines will be sent upon request. 



Pennies, nickels and dimes rolled in at 

 the EJFingham County Rural Youth refresh- 

 ment stand on August 3rd. The occasion — 

 Effingham County Annual Farm Bureau Pic- 

 nic. Opal Stine, secretary, reports that 

 $100.78 was added to the treasury. 



Sixty young people representing the Iowa 

 Young People's Assembly World's Fair 

 Tour were guests of the Peoria County 

 Rural Youth on August 4th. The Iowa Rural 

 Youth members were returning from the 

 New York's World Fair. 



acquainted with new faces and new places 

 will be on the Rural Youth Caravan Tour 

 schedules this fall. One delegate from each 

 county is eligible. The dates: Oct. 9-14; 

 and Oct. 23-28. 



Visitors at the I.A.A. office last month 

 were Marie Davie, Sarah Treece from Union 

 County. Asked about happenings in Union 

 County, they replied: "Peaches, Peaches! 

 Everyone is Peach conscious." They reported 

 that Southern Illinois Rural Youth groups 

 were having a full schedule of tours and pic- 

 nics at neighboring state parks. 



Stanley Corke, president Iroquois County 

 Rural Youth writes "I am out here in Den- 

 ver enjoying myself and am afraid I will not 

 get back in time to get our hay out of the 

 way so that I can help with the Illinois 

 Farm Sports Festival. 'Took a fishing trip 

 Saturday but somehow I couldn't coax any 

 fish to bite. The main trouble is there are 

 more fishermen than fish. Went up to the 

 top of Pike's Peak Sunday and it snowed 

 there in the forenoon so you can imagine 

 that I did not sweat any. You could sure 

 see a lot of country from the Peak!" 



Christian County Farm Bureau will 

 hold open house in its new building 

 in Taylorville, August 30. 



"Som* of tiM P«opl« -^ 



One thousand miles 'round Illinois study- 

 ing Farm Bureaus, cooperatives, and getting 



An of the Tlino" 



insist upon buying the 

 best butter. This is your 

 opportunity, Mr. Cream 

 Producer. Bring us more 

 Grade A cream. We can 

 then make more Prairie 

 Farms butter which we 

 can sell at a premium, 

 thus enabling us to pay 

 you a premium for grade 

 A cream. 



And the more high score 

 butter we make, the more 

 butter will be used; for 

 most of the people, all of 

 the time insist upon 

 Prairie Farms Butter. 



Name of Creamery 



Your Producers Creamery 



Is Your insurance of 



Bffter Pritei. 



SEPTEMBER. 1939 



