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Thrifty, healthy pigs im- 

 munized against cholera 

 are mighty good property to 

 own in times of rising in- 

 dustrial employment and 

 probable increased foreign 

 demand. 



It's easy and inexpensive 

 to protect your pigs against 

 cholera with Farm Bureau 

 senun. There's always a 

 fresh, potent supply ready 

 for you at the Farm Bureau 

 office. Remember to vac- 

 cinate while the pigs are 

 young. It takes less serum. 



Taie advantage of this 

 organized buying serv- 

 ice for Farm Burtau 

 members only. 



Patronage dividends to F. B. members 



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SEE YOLR COUNTY FARM BUREAU 



Sports Festival 



V \^ mAR broke out in Europe the 

 ^*^yi/ opening day of the 1939 

 (f Illinois Farm Sports Festival 

 on the University of Illinois campus, 

 Sept. 1, and news of the German army's 

 march into Poland had a sobering ef- 

 fect on many an oldster. Nevertheless 

 it was a gay crowd that came out to 

 cheer some 3500 athletes and contest- 

 ants from 80 counties who came for a 

 good time and had it. 



Everybody wanted to play. There 

 were more pie-eaters than pies for the 

 pie-eating contest. A score of young 

 women and girls eagerly lined up for 

 the slipper kicking contest. Fifty boys 

 chased three roosters. Even pretty home 

 advisers who were normally prim and 

 proper, doffed shoes and stockings, 

 waded daintily in a mud puddle. 



Most contests were close but there 

 was little beefing and sportsmanship 

 ran high. DeKalb county folks, repeat- 

 ing their triumph of last year, garnered 

 2385 all around participation and com- 

 petition points or more than any county. 

 DeKalb not only won the District II 

 trophy but scored state championships 

 in many divisions. Other district win- 

 ners, who reported victories of a year 

 ago, were Champaign in District I with 

 1715 points, and Henry in District III 

 with 1055. 



A world record was broken in the 

 horsepulling contest when King and 

 Duke, 4400-pound grade Belgians 

 owned by Cederdell Farms, Kendalf 

 county, lugged 4000 pounds the regu- 

 lation 271^ feet. Pliny Baird drove 

 them. Their former world mark was. 

 3975 pounds. Second place went to E. 

 A. Stout, Piatt county, whose 3400- 

 pound team pulled 3050 pounds the 

 full 271/2 feet. Willard Rhoads' 3880- 

 pound team, pulled the 3050 weight 

 1234 feet for third place. 



More than 20,000 folks saw the Fri- 

 day evening program in the stadium. 

 The program included acts by Chuck 

 Baum, Henry county; Jean Gates and" 

 Webb Hunter, Champaign; DeKalb 

 and Tazewell folk dance teams; Kane 

 and Henry square dance teams; Tap- 

 Dancers Laura Dexter and Ruth Conn, 

 Champaign ; Singer Dona Jean Gibson,. 

 Vermilion; Argenta Home Bureau 

 novelty band, Macon county ; P i n e- 

 Grove square dance band, Edgar 

 county; professional wrestlers, Ruffy 

 Silverstein and Roy Rickenbacker; Pat- 

 sy Montana, The Rangers and Pat But- 

 tram of WLS. 



Earl C. Smith, president of the lAA,, 

 and Dean H. P. Rusk officially wel- 

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