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JZutJ youth 



By frank Gingrich 



Installment buying plans offering "noth- 

 ing to pay until the first of the year" were 

 analyzed when LaSalle County Young People 

 met in the Farm Bureau Office, Oct. 17, 

 reports Katherine Rinker, secretary. Dis- 

 cussion leader was E. G. Fruin, of the Farm 

 Bureau-Farm Management service. 



A big problem for Rural Youth today is 

 to decide which adult organization they 

 will join, declared John Schuett, McHenry 

 county, in an address at the Rural Youth 

 Conference, University of Illinois, Oct. 14. 

 He was one of 11 young speakers. More 

 than 500 from 75 counties attended. Cleo 

 Fitzsimmons and Larry Colvis, Rural Youth 

 extension specialists, arranged the program. 



Caravan Tour 

 A reunion dinner for members of the 1938 



Caravan Tour and their friends was held 

 in Peoria Oct. 9, with more than 70 at- 

 tending. Honored guests were 2} young 

 folks from northern counties who were 

 starting on the week-long Caravan Tour 

 through southern Illinois. These tours per- 

 mit farm youth to study cooperatives and 

 get better acquainted with young folks in 

 other parts of the state. Places of com- 

 mercial and historical interest are also 

 visited. 



St. Clair county young people came out 



to meet the tourists who stopped for the 

 night in Belleville, Oct. 10. 



The next evening, at Giant City Lodge, 



Jackson county. Rural Youth held a jam- 

 boree for the tour group. Story telling 

 around the fireplace in the Great Hall and 

 folk games were features of the mixer. 



Chief-for-a-day was the rule on the Cara- 

 van Tours. Each morning a new chief was 

 elected to be official spokesman for the 

 day. Folks so honored on the first tour 

 October 9-14 were: Ruth Zabel, Grundy 

 county ; John Schuett, McHenry ; Dick Herm, 

 Chief Wash-in-the-face. Tazewell; Dean Ole, 

 Knox; Robert Klein, Chief Friday, Marsh- 

 all-Putnam; and Lawrence "Hoot" Gibson, 

 Chief Saturday, DeWitt. 



Beulah Moeller, Effingham county, in- 

 dulged in a bit of candid reporting when 

 the tour stopped in Effingham for an eve- 

 ning of fun. Here are a few of her notes 

 about the mixer: 



Helen Jones, Effingham County, when she 

 was asked why she was sitting and not in the 

 games, replied "Comjortable shoes are 

 needed." And from Robert Kerr of Brown 

 County, we get this angle: "For as old as I 

 am, I'm very spry, hut after all this fun. I am 

 slightly puffing. No, I don't sell fruit jars." 

 Dean Ole. Knox County, another old timer: 

 "The recreation was recreation. I'm like 

 Kerr, I'm puffing a little, but sure enjoying 

 it." Paul Thompson. Peoria, summed it up: 

 "Fine finish up for our trip of fun." And. 

 oh. yes. Gene Hamman, Hancock County, 

 says he liked the eats, especially! He should, 

 he left with a big pocket full. 



History, spons, and current events were 



the basis for questions used in the "Askit 

 Basket program in the October Iroquois 

 Rural Youth meeting. "Our Responsibility 



FAT STOCK SHOW COMING 

 These calves, raised vrithin a mile and 

 a hali oi each other near Geneseo, in 

 Henry County, HI., were judged the best 

 three from any one county in the 4-H ex- 

 hibit at the 1938 International Livestock 

 Show. Calves were fed by Stanley and 

 Burdette Erdman and Leyden Shipman. 

 Left to right are Ralph Taylor, Henry 

 county club leader, holding Stanley's colL- 

 Leyden Shipman, with his own; and Arvin 

 Erdman holding Burdette's calf. 



The Junior Feeding contest will be one 

 of the features oi the 1939 International at 

 Chicago. Dec. 2-9. 



In the Safety Program" will be discussed by 

 C. M. Seagraves of the I. A. A. on Nov. 7 

 at Milford. 



District Talk Fests designed to assist Rur- 

 al Youth to better express themselves on 

 short notice, will be held during December 

 and January. Each county is eligible to 

 send three delegates to a district Talk Fest, 

 so watch for the dates. Practice up during 

 November. Two Top Notch Talkers from 

 each of ten districts will have their ex- 

 penses paid to the I.A.A. Annual Meeting. 



Shelby county held their box supper and 



Kid Party on Sept. 24th, which provided 

 plenty of fun and increased their bank ac- 

 count by $1700. Seventy folks attended. 



The Barber of Seville, a humerous, light 



opera, was studied by Will County Rural 

 Youth at their October Meeting. They will 

 attend the opera in Chicago, Friday eve- 

 ning, Nov, 3. President Frank O'Connor re- 

 ports .30 Rural Youth have made reserva- 

 tions. They plan to arrive at the I.A.A. 

 offices in the morning and will visit the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation and other 

 points of interest in the afternoon. 



As we go to press, 20 young folks from 

 southern Illinois counties are just starting 

 on the second 1939 Caravan Tour of the 

 state. After visiting two days in Chicago, 

 Oct. 24 and 25, they will stop at Conco 

 Press, Mendota, to see this issue of the 

 RECORD coming off the presses. From here 

 they will go to Bloomington, New Salem, 

 Springfield, Carlinville and home. 



Job — With the dedication of the 

 Northern Regional Research Labora- 

 tory of the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Chemistry and Engineering at Peoria by 

 Secretary' Wallace, Oct. 18, head of the 

 lab, Dr. Elbert C. Lathrop, started work 

 in earnest. His job: to find industrial 

 uses for corn stalks, corn cobs, oat 

 hulls and straw. Most probable use 

 is in the manufacture of cellulose 

 products. 



Thieves stole 50 chickens from the 



Louis Hillman farm near Lake Zurich 

 in Lake county Oct. 12. 



Ray Benbow, former teacher of voca- 

 tional agriculture at Normal, later district 

 4-H club leader with the state university is 

 on the job as farm adviser in McDonough 

 county. 



Among the more recent additions to 



the family of Illinois farm advisers are 

 Albert Pease in Pulaski-Alexander 

 counties, and B. B. Claghorn in Wayne 

 county. 



Total assets of 79 County Farm Bu- 

 reaus audited by the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Auditing Association last year 

 amounted to $1,571,604.20 at the close 

 of the year. 



A total of 564 boys and girls enrolled 

 in junior and 4-H clubs have approxi- 

 mately $36,000 borrowed from Illinois 

 Production Credit Associations says W. 

 S. Brock, president of the Production 

 Credit Corporation, St. Louis. 



Illinois poultry and egg production 



is a $53,000,000 industry. This sum 

 represents gross annual income from 

 eggs, chickens and turkeys. 



STOLEN — Forty-three Buff Rock 

 chickens weighing 5 to 7 pounds each 

 from the Ross R. Raker farm in Penn 

 township. Stark county, October 4. The 

 Stark county Board of Supervisors has 

 a standing reward of $25 for informa- 

 tion leading to the arrest and convic- 

 tion of the thieves. 



DeKalb county's state championship 



men over 35 and girls soft ball teams 

 played the Iowa Sports Festival champ- 

 ion at Traer, Tama county, Iowa in 

 night games Oct. 2. The girls lost, 

 the men won. 



Anti-hog cholera serum used by Illi- 

 nois Farm Bureaus the first eight 

 months of 1939 totaled 33,708,425 c.c. 

 which compares with 27,731,075 during 

 the same period in 1938 and the five- 

 year average (1934-38) of 21,252,225 

 c.c. 



The LaSalle County Farm Bureau 

 board on October 4 adopted a resolu- 

 tion favoring the removal of party 

 labels from ballots except in the elec- 

 tion of state and federal candidates. 

 It would have all local officials elected 

 on their merits without party labels. 



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