: -WAY DOWN SOUTH 

 Surel It's Illinois. Alexander 

 county to be exact. I. P. Bedman, 

 cotton planter, and his field boss 

 greet the "northerners." For many 

 Rural Youth tourists this was the 

 first cotton they'd ever seen grow- 

 ing. 



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MORNING SONGFEST 

 Six A.M. WMBD listeners in 

 and around Peoria heard IS 

 minutes oi song ond chatter, 

 Oct. 9, supplied by members 

 oi the Caravan. Here they are 

 singing. Later some were in- 

 terviewed by Farmer Bill. 



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COTTON PICKERS? PHOOEYl 

 Three boys trying their 

 hands at harvesting cotton. 

 They agreed that com ianners 

 have much to leom about the 

 South's big crop. 





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AT THE END OF THE TRAIL 

 Tourists eating with 500 delegates irom 75 counties at - 

 the Rural Youth conierence, Urbano, Oct. 14. Sixteen boys 

 and seven girls irom 16 counties made the trip covering 

 1000 miles. Their average age: 23. 



MILKMEN 

 Peotone high school Future Farmers, Will county, exhibiting 

 trophies won in milk judging at the U. oi L Sept. 30. L. to R. ore 

 E. G. Holt, coach, Richard Nieland, Thomas Lewis and Wm. Betten- 

 hausen, Ir. They represented Illinois at the National Dairy Show, 

 San Francisco. Oct. 21-30. 



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COTTON SEED 

 A patron oi Redman-Smith cotton gin receiving a load 

 oi seed. This is the most modem plant oi its kind in the 

 U. S.. caravan tourists learned. It was completed just in 

 time to handle the 1939 crop. 



MEAT EXPERTS 

 Sterling high school Future Farmers, Whiteside county, 

 iirst in meat judging at the U. oi L. Sept. 30, represented 

 Illinois at the American Royal Livestock Show, Kansas 

 City, Oct. 14-21. L to R.: Geo. Reitzel. Wayne Friedrichs, 

 Kenneth Harms and I. A. Tw<irdock. coacn. 



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