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calf in the Peoria County Farm Bureau 4-H Club 



Show, Sept. 8-4. Ri^ht, Dean Quin of Trivoli 



and his 870 lb. champion beef calf. Dean sold 



his calf to the 0. F. Smith Market at 17 



cents a pound. 



Below, Champion 4-H Club County 



Group at 1984 Illinois State Fair. Shown 



by Wayne Daily, Thomas and Mar- 



graret Chamberlin and Loren Turner of 



Coles County. Organized by Coles 



Ccunty Farm Bureau. 



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Thousands of Illinois farm boys and 

 girls like those in the accompanying pic- 

 ture have taken part in 4-H club work 

 under the leadership of the County Farm 

 Bureaus and the Illinois Extension Serv- 

 ice during the past summer. ^ ^ ; ; 



"The boys in our 4-H Jersey Calf Club 

 have done a splendid constructive piece 

 of work," reports Farm Adviser Rusk of 

 Coles county. "Tommy Chamberlin, the 

 boy in the middle holding his sweet two- 

 year old heifer is rounding out his tenth 

 year of club work. He won first in the 

 4-H club class and fourth in the strong 

 open class at the Illinois State Fair. He 

 showed this heifer's dam before her and 

 also won first with her at previous state 

 fairs. 



"Tommy has won many honors in club 

 work including the trip* to Washington. 

 He is now a junior at Eastern Illinois 

 State Teachers College and I hope he 

 will attend the College of Agriculture 

 at University of Illinois a year from 



Harold Kepple of Elmwood 

 and his Guernsey calf and 

 yearling. Each wen first place 

 in its respective c'ass in the 



Peoria County 4-H Club Show, 



Sept. 3-4, 



Right to left: Vernon WolJand 

 of Peoria, Charles Smith of Alta, 

 and Robert Pitsch of Alta and 

 their 1st, £nd, and 3rd prize ewe 

 lambs, 



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now. His sister Margaret showed a calf 

 this year that is a grand-daughter of a 

 cow she showed three or four years ago. 

 Several of the boys and girls have thus 

 built up good herds of Jersey cattle at 

 home through consistent, constructive 4- 

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"Coles county 4-H boys and girls won 

 all the Ists in 4-H club classes, all the 

 seconds for which they showed and 

 Grand Champion County Group. 

 . "We also have winners in Baby Beef 

 classes (1st County Group in Hereford 

 steers), also other good winnings in baby 

 beeves and sixth in the Poland China 

 litter show at State Fair," reports Mr. 

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"Our Corn Club boys will have their 

 show at our County Institute at Charles- 

 ton, October 18th and 19th." 



LaSalle County Show 



Medals, ribbons and a cup to the out- 

 standing 4-H Club of LaSalle county 

 (Otter Creek) were awarded recently at 

 the annual 4-H Club campfire achieve- 

 ment program held in Allen Park, Ot- 

 tawa, reports Farm Adviser C. E. Gates. 



Money won by the Club members at 

 the Mendota Show and the State Fair 

 was distributed. The medals were 

 awarded by the Chicago Producers Com- 



mission Association. Several hundred 

 club members and their leaders attended. 



H. A. deWerff , county farm adviser of 

 Woodford county, reports that the Chi- 

 cago Producers sold 13 4-H beef club 

 calves from that county on December 5, 

 two of which brought a top price of 

 $9.45. The better calves weighed more 

 than 1,000 pounds. Other good calves 

 sold for $9.20, and $9. The lowest price 

 was $7.95. Calves are purchased in 

 Nebraska at a cost of $6.75 per cwt. laid 

 down in Woodford county. 



Peoria County Farm Bureau held its 

 County 4-H Club Show early in Sep- 

 tember. Some of the winners are shown 

 above. In nearly every county in Illi- 

 nois similar shows and 4-H club projects 

 are an important part of the Farm Bu- 

 reau program. Training boys and girls 

 in the art of better farming, home-mak- 

 ing and livestock production — all of 

 which means good citizenship — is one of 

 the great contributions Farm Bureaus 

 are making to the future of agriculture. 



A total of 5,164,954 cattle had been 

 purchased on the ranges of 21 drouth- 

 stricken western states up to September 

 12. Purchase payments total more than 

 thirty and one-half million dollars and 

 benefit payments $17,670,423. 



OCTOBER, 1934 



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