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COUNTY WINNERS WHO COMPETED IN THE 1934 COUNTRY LIFE QUEEN CONTEST ON FARM BUREAU DAY, ILLINOIS STATE FAIR, AUG. 24. 

 Miss Irene Bachman of Williamson county, seated, was crowned "Queen," and Miss Marjorie lambert, McLean county, standing directly behind her, was 

 declared "Maid of Honor." 



loan funds disbursed by the Federal Land 

 Bank of St. Louis have been used to re- 

 finance debts already owed by farmers. 



One of the best measures of the suc- 

 cess of the Federal Land Banks in re- 

 lieving the farm credit distress can be 

 found in the large decrease in the num- 

 ber of letters received in Washington 

 from farmers facing an emergency. Last 

 November, the Farm Credit Administra- 

 tion in Washington was receiving 600 let- 

 ters daily from farmers whose cases de- 

 manded prompt action. These letters 

 have now dropped to less than 50 daily. 



.In this respect it should be noted that 

 while the Frazier-Lemke Amendment to 

 the Bankruptcy Act, since its purpose 

 is to prevent occasional selfish creditors 

 from foreclosing on distressed farm 

 debtors, is in accord with the program 

 of the Farm Credit Administration. The 

 activity of the Federal Land Banks in the 

 past year has relieved a great majority 

 of the distressed farm mortgages, leav- 

 ing only a slight minority of farmers 

 who will have to go into bankruptcy to 

 save their homes. . . 



The Federal Land Bank is not a relief 

 device, neither is it a spender of taxpay- 

 ers* money. Loans are made on a sound 

 business basis. Formerly made from funds 

 secured through the sale of bonds to 

 the investing public, loans are now being 

 closed in bonds of the Federal Farm 

 Mortgage Corporation. The ready re- 

 ception accorded these bonds by farmers 

 and their creditors is responsible for the 

 fact that during June the Federal Land 

 Bank of St. Louis disbursed more than 

 seventeen and one-half million dollars. 

 This sum broke all previous records for 

 loans closed in a month's time. 



The work of the Federal Land Bank 

 is not finished. Applications for loans, 

 while not approaching the volume re- 

 ceived at the start of the refinancing 

 program, continue to arrive. 



The land banks are designed to be 

 permanent. They have served this gen- 

 eration well. It should be the individual 

 responsibility of every borrower to meet 

 his obligations as they come due that 

 the Land Bank System may continue to 

 operate on a self-sustaining basis and 

 serve future generations in the same 

 manner as it is serving this generation. 



The Farm Bureau is proud of the part it played 

 in securing: the passage of the Emergency Farm 

 Mortgage Act and other helpful measures early in 

 1933, is appreciative of the aid that administration 

 of this legislation has brought to many distressed 

 debtors. — Editor. 



May Use "Idle" Ground 



jSJext Year For Forage 



Wheat contract signers may plant 

 their idle ground to forage crops in 1935. 

 Grass and clover crops grown on such 

 land may be used for hay, pasture or 

 seed production. Wheat, corn, barley, 

 rye and grain sorghums are forbidden 

 but millet, soybeans, oats, etc. may be 

 grown when used only for hay, pasture, 

 or roughage. . ^ .> / 



Seed to Sell? 



Avaiidbie Phosphorus 



Cuts Chinch Bug Loss 



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Plenty of available phosphorus in the 

 soil will help wheat overcome chinch 

 bugs, according to L. B. Miller, associate 

 in soil experiment fields at the State 

 College of Agriculture. 



This consideration is particularly ap- 

 plicable where wheat is to be planted 

 following the harvesting of soybeans for 

 seed, he says. * • ^ * 



In Macoupin county this year on Enos 

 Waters' farm, wheat on fallow ground 

 yielded 28 bushels per acre, while on 

 similar soil following soybeans, it re- 

 turned only 18.9 bushels. 



Ground rock phosphate on soils de- 

 ficient in phosphorus has produced* some 

 outstanding results. An application of 

 1,000 pounds per acre of rock phosphate 

 on many soils is sufficient to grow beau- 

 tiful crops of alfalfa arid clovers. 



The Seed Department of the Farmers 

 National Grain Corporation at Chicago 

 advises that it will be glad to bid on all 

 kinds of clover seeds, timothy, lespedeza, 

 soybeans, and others grown by Illinois 

 farmers. Send samples to the Corpora- 

 tion in the Fisher building. Dearborn 

 and Van Buren streets, Chicago. •-" "' 



The Farmers National Seed Depart- 

 ment is not only assisting farmers iii 

 disposing of seed, but also attempts to 

 bring buyers and sellers together to the 

 mutual advantage of both. . 



Weatfier 



Foreca 



Herbert Janvrin Browne, long-range 

 weather forecaster of Washington, D. C. 

 recently offered a bulletin for $5 "cover- 

 ing the causes of the drought and defi- 

 nitely predicting when it will end." An 

 additional bulletin is offered "giving the 

 dates of cold waves in the northwest, in 

 the Mississippi Valley and the eastern 

 states up to October 15, and naming spe- 

 cifically the dates for killing' frosts." 



XT. S. Weather Bureau officials take no stock in 

 Browne's forecasts. His forecast af rains in 

 western states during Augrust came true. Weather 

 prophets are now predicting a long cold winter. 

 —Editor. • - : 





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