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Soft Ball League Is 

 .Organized in Randolph 



Randolph County Farm Bureau re- 

 cently organized a soft ball league of 

 12 teams. A schedule of games has 

 been worked out beginning July 21 

 and running until September 29. 

 Teams are open to both men and 

 women. 



Eligible are Farm Bureau members 

 and members of their families, or 

 hired men employed for at least six 

 months. 



Future games with teams from 

 Sparta and Chester will be played on 

 lighted diamonds later in the season. 

 County manager of the league is 

 Leonard Schoenberger of Sparta. His 

 assistant, Russell Graham, is general 

 insurance agent. Each community has 

 a manager and these men make up 

 the soft ball committee. 



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Personal 



Married. Murl Tascher, assistant 

 farm adviser, Cook county to Helen 

 Lindquist of the I. A. A. (treasurer's 

 office) at Forrest; Arthur Johnson, 

 assistant adviser, Marshall-Putnam 

 county to Faye Dickerson of Nepon- 

 set; Harold Wright, son of I. A. A. 

 Vice-president A. R. Wright to Ger- 

 trude Dickerson, sister of Faye, in a 

 double wedding at Neponset. . . \, 



Wilbur H. Coultas is employed as 

 farm supervisor for John Hancock 

 Life Insurance Co. Headquarters 

 Bloomington. 



W. G. McCormick, former secretary 

 Douglas County Farm Bureau and 

 secretary-director of Soybean Mar- 

 keting Association, is looking after 

 farms up and down eastern Hlinois 

 for Equitable Life Assurance Society 

 of New York. -^ •^^• :.- V'\.v' •■>'■: 



New Farm Advisers: Geo. B. 

 Whitman who has farmed in Warren 

 county since graduation from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois more than 15 years 

 ago, succeeds E. D. Walker as ad- 

 viser in Henderson. J. L. Stormont, 

 former ag. teacher at Aledo, more re- 

 cently manager of Tri County Oil Co. 

 succeeds J. H. Hughes as adviser in 

 Moultrie. . - 



Sand-blasting is now being used on 

 the Pacific Coast to clean dirty eggs. 

 A sand-blasted egg will keep almost 

 as well as before. : 



Farm purchasing power during 1933 

 averaged 58 compared with 100 from 

 1909 to 1914. The index number for 

 June 1924 was 63. ; : 



Big Shortage of 



Horses and Mules 



rMany farmers will find it to their 

 advantage to allow horse and mule 

 colts to utilize pasture and hay made 

 available by shifting from cultivated 

 crops to pastures and meadows, ac- 

 cording to the U. S. Dept. of Agri- 

 culture. 



The number of horses and mules in 

 this country has declined rapidly for 

 15 years. Even last year there was a 

 decline of 358,000 work animals, leav- 

 ing only 16,873,000 head on January 

 1, 1934 compared with more than 26,- 

 000,000 head of horses and mules in 

 1919. In 1919 there were 1,588,000 

 horses and mule colts raised on 

 American farms — in 1932 only 531,000, 

 not nearly enough for normal replaccr 

 ment needs 



How Australia Brought 

 About Business Recovery 



• C. Hartley Grattan, writing on "Has 

 Australia Recovered" in the New Re- 

 public says: "The Australians are 

 in an optimistic mood once more. 

 Every traveler coming from that 

 distant land has some excited words 

 to say about the rise in wool 

 prices and the exhilarating effect it 

 will have upon Australian life. Nat- 

 urally the Australians do not claim 

 personal credit for this price increase. 

 They know that it is the result of 

 world factors and not the successful 

 outcome of any particular recovery 

 measure of the Commonwealth gov- 

 ernment. None the less, the beneficial 

 effects of the higher wool prices would 

 not be so great as they are if it had 

 not been for just such policies put 

 through by the Australian people 

 themselves. . . . Australian recovery 

 was engineered by class collaboration. 

 It was accomplished by a complicated 

 series of technical financial measures, 

 including a devaluation of the Austra- 

 lian pound in terms of sterling, an all- 

 round reduction of interest charges on 

 public debt through conversion and 

 on private debt through legislative ac- 

 tion (to prevent overconcentration of 

 the national income in the hands of 

 holders of fixed-interest obligations), 

 a lowering of the tariff and a deter- 

 mined effort to balance governmental 

 budgets without cutting too deeply in- 

 to the social services. The budget sav- 

 ings were increased by eliminating 

 duplicating functions of the Common- 

 wealth and the states and by a 10 

 percent cut in wages through court 

 action. . . . 



Farm Hands Don't Need 

 ChaufFeur's License 



Farm employees who occasionally 

 drive a motor truck for their em- 

 ployers are not required to take out 

 a chauffeur's license, Attorney Gen- 

 eral Kerner has ruled. "In my 

 opinion, where a farmer has a man 

 hired to do regular farm work, not 

 employed regularly as an operator of 

 a truck but merely operates it as in- 

 cidental to other farm work, such 

 employee is not required to have a 

 chauffeur's license," said the Attorney 

 General in a recent letter to Walter 

 McLaughlin, director of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



Several farmers reporting that 

 their hired men were being picked up 

 by state highway policemen and 

 asked to show their chauffeur's li- 

 cense, appealed to the I.A.A. for ad- 

 vice. The Legal Department re- 

 ferred the matter to the State Di- 

 rector of Agriculture who relayed it 

 to the Attorney General. 



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Millc License Hearings 



Members of the McLean County 

 Milk Producers Association voted un- 

 animously to apply for a licensing 

 program for the Bloomington milk 

 market. As we go to press hearings 

 are being arranged for various down- 

 state milk markets where AAA rep- 

 resentatives will take evidence on the 

 question of licensing. Cities being 

 considered are Bloomington, Peoria, 

 Decatur, Danville, Rockford, Quincy, 

 Champaign-Urbana. J. B. Countiss 

 and Paul G. Mathias of the L A. A. 

 will attend the hearings to assist in 

 presenting evidence for organized 

 producers.;. ;^ ■ . v • 



Ship Alfalfa Hay Info 

 Northern Illinois Counties 



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Large quantities of alfalfa and 

 clover hay have been purchased by 

 Farm Bureaus, Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion and individual farmers for feed- 

 ing dairy cows in the drouth stricken 

 northern Illinois counties. 



E. C. Foley, Boone County farm 

 adviser, made a quick trip through 

 central Illinois and located 37 car- 

 loads of alfalfa in Shelby and Chris- 

 tian counties early in June. This hay 

 was on its way to Boone county by 

 June 6, the first to be brought into 

 the territory. Pure Milk Ass'n. shipped 

 in several trainloads of alfalfa from 

 Kansas for members, saving them sub- 

 stantial amounts. As much as |25 per 

 ton was paid for local supplies. 



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