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Now then, if we are going to live in the country, if we are going to ask 

 the boys and girls to stay on the farm let us show them that there is just 

 as much fun to be had in the country in the good old fashioned way as in 

 town. There is lots of fun to be had in town, but I will tell you, men, I am 

 a member of a Grange of 250 people. We are located within three miles 

 and a half of a town of twenty-five thousand; where we have the best kind 

 of moving pictures and dances. We have members who live on the other 

 side of the hill who pass through the city of Belleville and come out and 

 attend our meetings. Why? Because they know they are going to have 

 some good, wholesome fun. We have our community hall there which has 

 steam heat and electric lights, we have a stage where we present little plays. 

 We have an annual strawberry festival that is the talk of Belleville. They 

 look forward to it when the bluebirds begin to sing. They ask "When is 

 your strawberry festival going to be?" We served 475 plates of chicken 

 supper last summer to the residents surrounding there. Everybody has a 

 good time. We have lots, of fun on good old Turkey Hill. We believe in 

 the Grange. I thank you. 



PRESIDENT MANN: I believe that such great crops as we grow, as 

 wheat, corn and oats, were once weeds, but that don't mean that all weeds 

 have the value that those crops do, and the farmer has a constant conflict 

 with a lot of weeds, weeds that we haven't trained and we don't want to 

 train them. The purport of the seed law is a move internationally to help 

 the farmers get rid of the weeds. Mr. Wilson, who is the Chief Seed Analyst 

 under that seed law is here and I would like to have him explain the seed 

 law a little bit to you. Mr. Wilson: 



ILLINOIS SEED LAW. 

 (Albert C. Wilson.) 



MR. PBESIDENT, AND DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTION: I am very glad to 

 have this opportunity to explain the state seed law, but I think probably a 

 great many of you fully understand it. There are some points which might 

 bear explaining, and before I start I think I want to say that I was very 

 much interested in the talk on the Farmers' Market given by Mr. Collier 

 of Kankakee. He brought out the fact that a great amount of sausage was 

 sold every Saturday and Wednesday at that market and I was very pleased 

 to know before he got through that that was pork sausage, because 1 heard 

 at one time of a party who was making sausage known as rabbit sausage. 

 He had a good deal of sausage to sell and people began to wonder why he 

 could sell so much rabbit sausage and they asked if he was using anything 

 else in the sausage. He said yes, he was using a little horse meat. Well, 

 they wanted to know how much horse meat. He said fifty-fifty. "Well, 

 what do you mean by 'fifty-fifty' "? "Oh," he says, "one rabbit and one 

 horse." [Laughter.] 



The seed law which was adopted in 1919 was termed, as most seed laws 

 are termed, "Label Laws", because there are certain label requirements. 

 That is, we require the seller of seed to label it with certain information 

 so that you farmers, or anyone buying that seed, will know what the qual- 

 ity of it is. 



The seed law in Illinois requires that it be named with the common 

 name and the names of the weeds which are present in greater proportion 

 than one to five thousand of the farm crop seed. If Canada thistle, quack 

 grass, dodder, wild mustard or wild carrot are present in greater propor- 

 tion than one to one thousand seeds that seed is not saleable. If buckhorn, 

 curled dock, field sorrel, ox-eye daisy or corn cockel are present in greater 

 proportion than one to five hundred seeds the seed is unsalable. So when 

 you buy seed if you see on the tag the words "Curled dock, Canada Thistle" 

 or any other weeds, it means that those seeds contain the noxious weeds in 

 a proportion not greater than one to five hundred seeds. If it was greater 

 than the law would allow they could not put a tag on it. I am not saying 

 there is no seed sold but what is all right, because we find some now and 



