September y 19} 1 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Nine 



ONLY four out of 34 County Farm 

 Bureau teams remain in the race 

 for the Illinois Farm Bureau baseball 

 championship. The semi-final series of 

 games opened ^Jf'^ednesday, September 

 9, with Knox and Carroll counties play- 

 ing at Galesburg. Greene and Livings- 

 ton counties were scheduled to open at 

 Carrollton on Sept. 12. 



Livingston county, the dark horse ir 

 the race for the championship, upsel 

 the powerful Logan 

 County Farm Bureau 

 team in the final game 

 of their series at the 

 Three-Eye League Park, 

 Bloomington, Sept. 4, 

 score 9 to 7. 



It was a hard-fought 

 game from start to fin- 

 first one team ahead, then 

 Livingston county took the 

 lead 5 to in the second. Logan county 

 came back in the 3rd, 4th and 6th in- 

 nings and took the lead 6 to 5. In the 

 8th the two teams stood at 7 all, but 

 in the 9th the Livingston boys forged 

 ahead with two runs to win the game. 

 Livingston had won the previous 

 game played at Lincoln, 7 to 1. Logan 

 county won the opener on August 21, 

 1 to 0. 



The two remaining teams will play 

 for the state championship which last 

 year went to McDonough county in 

 western Illinois. 



Knox county is look upon as a strong 

 contender for championship honors by 

 virtue of having eliminated the 1930 

 champions from McDonough in the di- 

 visional contest. The basis of elimina- 

 tion is two out of three games. 



3,000 at Pike Co. Picnic 



with 

 other. 



Peoria Communities Meet 



Hear Marketing Talks 



Several hundred Peoria county farm- 

 ers and their families assembled at the 

 Dave Wycoff farm near Laura, August 

 2 5, at a community meeting where 

 Frank Barton, field representative of 

 the Illinois Grain Corporation, discussed 

 the Farm Bureau program in relation 

 to co-operative marketing. Short talks 

 were made by D. P. Moore of the Farm- 

 ers National Grain Corporation, John 

 Benson, manager of the Peoria office of 

 the Mid-West Grain Corporation, and 

 Albert Hayes, president of the Peoria 

 County Farm Bureau. 



L. A. Williams spoke at a second 



Tilts Mllver trophy will be presented to 

 the Stnte Fnrni Bureau League chnniplonH 

 for 1931. The trophy, together tvlth g;ol«I 

 buKeball cratch eharnm a^varded to '«vin- 

 nerH In the eiKht divisionH, M'ere donated 

 by the Spalding Company 'when the 

 Lieagrue adopted the Spalding: ball for 

 official ganieN. 



14 Counties Represented 



At Dixon Springs Meet 



^^/'^UR two-day outing and confer- 



v^ence at Dixon Springs, August 

 22-23 in Pope county was a decided 

 success," writes district organization 

 Manager L. F. Brissenden, who planned 

 the meeting. 



Farm Bureau officials and representa- 

 tives from 14 counties in southeastern 

 Illinois attended. The program which 

 opened on Saturday included communi- 

 ty singing led by Farm Adviser L. L. 

 Corrie of Wayne county, talks by L. F. 

 Brissenden who told about his recent 

 trip to British Columbia, F. E. Long- 

 mire, assistant state leader of farm ad- 

 visers, and by Secretary George E. 

 Metzger. '' ' V v \.'. - 



On Sunday morning Adviser J. G. 

 McCall from Jackson county led in 

 singing church hymns and addressed 

 the adult class on the Sunday school 

 lesson. Miss Temptner of Perry county 

 taught the young people. About 100 

 attended the morning services. At noon 

 a fish fry and barbecue was the prin- 

 cipal attraction. 



"Dixon Springs is located about half 

 way between Golconda and Vienna on 

 a hard road. With beautiful scenery, 

 hotel accommodations, sleeping quar- 

 ters, swimming pool and the courteous 

 treatment given by the owner, Mr. 

 Wheeler, a Farm Bureau member, and 

 Mr. Dixon, the conference could not 

 have been better," writes Brissenden. 



community meeting at the Dunlap high 

 school August 27. 



Sam Crabtree of Henry spoke at the 

 third meeting of the series at the home 

 of Dan Larkin, west of Hanna City. 



<ieorge Metager 



NEW CANTON, Illinois, Sept. 5.— 

 More than 3,000 Pike county ■[ 

 farmers heard addresses by Earl C. j ■ 

 Smith, president, and George Metzger, , 

 secretary of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, at the annual Farm Bureau 

 picnic held here today. Weather condi- ; • ;; 

 tions were perfect for the outdoor ; 

 gathering. • '^ 



Mr. Smith, who appeared unexpected- " 

 ly at his home county picnic, spoke v 

 principally of two A 

 major problems now 

 facing agriculture: 

 •namely, the need for 

 mobilizing the farm- , 

 ers' bargaining pow- 

 er in the sale of his 

 products, and the 

 need for tax reform 

 in Illinois. Organiza- 

 tion offers the only 

 solution to these 

 problems, Mr. Smith 

 said. ;' '■■. 



Mr. Metzger in his address pointed 

 out the fault in the monetary system 

 of the country, which permits wide 

 fluctuation in the value of the dollar. . 

 This condition, he said, is one of the 

 chief stumbling blocks in the way of . 

 agriculture and other industries, which 

 depend upon long term credit. - 



"This is a problem that agriculture 

 has never attempted to work out in 

 the past, but if it is ever solved the . 

 borrowing classes will have to do it," 

 he said. "It is certain that the specu- 

 lators and those who benefit by the 

 fluctuation of the dollar will not at- 

 tempt to have it stabiHzed." 



Charles S. Black, director of the I, 

 A. A. from the 20th Congressional dis- 

 trict, and John C. Moore, district or- 

 ganization director, also made brief 

 talks. 



Marian Strauss of Quincy, 1930 4-H 

 health champion in Illinois, appeared on 

 the program in several roles during the 

 day. She played a violin solo, gave sev- 

 eral vocal numbers and made a talk 

 about the 4-H Club Congress held in 

 Chicago last winter. Other 4-H num- 

 bers on the program included folk 

 dances and demonstrations. 



An old fiddlers' contest was conducted 

 on the platform with five entrants. The 

 winner was William Raftery of Barry. 

 The numbers played were "Arkansas 

 Traveler," "Soldier's Joy" and "Red 

 Wing." ^r^ 



The annual meeting of the Illi- 

 nois Farm Supply Company w^ill be 

 held at Bloomington, Wednesday, 

 October 14, 1931. 



