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Will county defeated Woodford 6 to 3 

 and 11 to 1 in the quarter finals of the 

 Illinois Farm Bureau Baseball League. 

 Games were played at Frankfort and 

 Eureka. Carroll and McHenry, divisional 

 winners, were scheduled to play their 

 first game at Woodstock August 25. 



Sangamon and McDonough crossed bats 

 in the first game of their series August 

 18 at Macomb. McDonough won 8 to 6. 

 Shelby will play the winner of this series 

 while Will county is waiting for the out- 

 come of the CarroU-McHenry contest. 



In the game at Macomb Sangamon 

 started out handsomely by driving in five 

 runs in the opening inning. Then G. 

 Bradford, McDonough pitcher, settled 

 down and held his opponents scoreless 

 until the eighth. McDonough kept ham- 

 mering away against Scott and Fitz- 

 hugh, Sangamon pitchers, throughout 

 the game. Two runs in the second, three 

 in the fifth, and three more in the 

 seventh were enough to win. 



6,000 At Randolph Co. 



:y^:%y^^^^^^^ Bureau Picnic 



Six t)ibusand people attended the eve- 

 ning program of the Randolph County 

 Farm Bureau picnic at Sparta Fair 

 grounds August 2, reports Farm Adviser 

 E. C. Secon - 



"L. A. Williams spoke to an enthusias- 

 tic crowd in the afternoon following a 

 program of baseball between Farm Bu- 

 reau members from the west side of the 

 county vs. members from the east side," 

 he writes. 



"Father Nell from Effingham county 

 who has done so much for organized ag- 

 riculture in the St. Louis milk shed, 

 spoke in the evening to one of the larg- 

 est groups ever assembled at a Farm 

 Bureau picnic." ^ . • ; . v .v 



In the evening the Farm Bureau girls 

 defeated Sparta factory girls at soft 

 ball. The boys' game was rained out. 



The Randolph County Farm Bureau 

 Soft Ball League is going into its fourth 

 series of games with three teams still 

 undefeated — Red Bud, Baldwin and 

 Walsh communities. 



L. J. Ullensvang, general insurance 

 agent for the Lee County Farm Bureau, 

 reports that the Farm Bureau recently 

 organized a soft ball league. He be- 

 lieves that next year the entire county 

 will participate and schedule games with 

 teams from adjoining counties. 



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"In the long run, we may come to 

 realize that real farm prosperity depends 

 upon reducing the number of workers in 

 agriculture as rapidly as productivity per 

 worker rises," says Dr. Mordecai Ezekiel, 

 economic adviser to the Secretary of 

 Agriculture. "Even now (with normal 

 weather) we could produce all the farm 

 products we need with 60 per cent of our 

 present farmers. As soon as industrial 

 activity is restored we should turn to the 

 task of helping these four million work- 

 ers, unneeded in agriculture, find more 

 productive occupations elsewhere. 



"Not *back to the farm,* but 'factory- 

 ward ho!' is the slogan we must adopt 

 and put into practice," says Ezekiel, "if 

 we wish to translate our industrial tech- 

 nological potentialities into really higher 

 standards of living for everyone." ;■ 



Three Ways To Cut £ 



Taxes On Farm Lands 



Three ways to reduce farm taxes are 

 suggested in an extensive report on "The 

 Farmers' Tax Problem" recently pre- 

 pared by the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics at the request of Congress- 

 man Marvin Jones, chairman of the Ag- 

 ricultural Committee. 



The three ways suggested are: (1) re- 

 duce the number of local governmental 

 units, (2) combine governmental func- 

 tions and reallocate them between states 

 and counties, and (3) put more of the 

 revenue load on sources other than gen- 

 eral property. ^"^"''^ ■■^■,_- 



The report published as House Docu- 

 ment 406 discusses the personal income 

 tax as a possible means of reducing the 

 taxes on real estate and in that way giv- 

 ing the farmer relief at the time he 

 needs it most, when his income is low. 

 Such a change would help toward a solu- 

 tion of the problem, says the report, 

 provided expenditures are kept down at 

 the same time. 



Taxei per acre of farm real estate readied a peak 

 in 1929 at 241 per cent of the tax per acre in 191S. 

 In 1982 grross farm income per acre wai |5.08, com- 

 pared with 17.78 in 1918 and |12.24 in 1928, the 

 1982 figure being 44 per cent below that of 1918, 

 while taxes per acre were 89 per cent above pre- 

 war. — Editor. 



Year Book Contest For 

 Community Clubs $ 1 50 Prize 



The American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion is sponsoring a Prize Year Book 

 Contest which closes November 1, 1934. 

 The year books to be entered by a com- 

 munity or local Farm Bureau unit must 

 contain outlines of programs designed 

 to interest, inform, and inspire every 

 farm family to enlist in the Farm Bu- 

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The entries must contain the signed 



Farm Week At World's M- 

 ^* Fair A Big Success 



FARM WEEK at the Fair brought 

 thousands of farmers from Illinois 

 and other middle west states to Chi- 

 cago the week beginning Aug. 11. Spe- 

 cial programs were held throughout the 

 week beginning with a parade on Satur- 

 day and Farm Organization Day the fol- 

 lowing Monday. Farm Bureau leaders 

 attending the Midwest Conference went 

 in a body to the Exposition on August 

 13 where Administrator Chester C. Davis 

 was the principal speaker. 



John C. Dameron of McLean county, 

 Illinois, who won the hog calling con- 

 test last year, was given third place at 

 the contest this year. Mrs. Charles Hayes 

 of Alta, Peoria county, Illinois, won first 

 in the husband calling contest. Milking, 

 horse pulling and tug-of-war contests 

 were other features. Station WLS broad- 

 cast most of the proceedings during the 

 week which set new attendance records. 





Soybean Oilmeal Fed 



Cattle Top All Others 



The three best lots of cattle fed in a 

 recent experiment at the University of 

 Illinois experiment station received soy- 

 bean oilmeal as the protein supplement 

 to their rations. The top lot paid 90c 

 per bu. of com and were appraised by 

 packer buyers as "as good a lot of 

 yearlings as you will see." The steers 

 were carried on bluegrass pasture from 

 Dec. 22 to April 13, then moved to dry 

 lot to finish out the feeding period of 

 220 days. Average daily feed: 12.4 lbs. 

 shelled com, 1.8 lbs. soybean oilmeal, 5 

 lbs. corn silage, 1.5 lbs. alfalfa per head. 



St. Louis Area Gets A 



• Milk Price Boost 35c 



The Sanitary Milk Producers recently 

 secured an increase in the price of Class 

 I milk from $2 to $2.35 per cwt. FOB 

 distributors' plants. The new schedule 

 became effective August 14. 



Class II was broadened to include be- 

 sides cream, evaporated milk, condensed 

 milk, flavored milk and cream, butter- 

 milk and cottage cheese. Class II price 

 is 3.5 times 92 score butter, plus 30 

 per cent, plus 20 cents per cwt. 



statements of the Farm Bureau chair- 

 man, county adviser and home adviser, 

 if there is one, that such programs were 

 actually carried out as planned. 



Fifty dollars will be awarded for first 

 prize, f25 second prize, $15 third, $10 

 fourth and ten prizes at $5 each. Pro- 

 grams used in 1933 and 1934 are eligible. 



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