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Eighty-two of Illinois' 102 counties 

 now have active county Home Bureau 

 organizations. Three new organizations 

 added since Jan. 1 are Pope-Hardin, 

 Marion and Logan. Franklin and Car- 

 roll are about finished with the process 

 of organization and Massac and Cum- 

 berland have shown some interest in 

 Home Bureau work. McLean expected 

 to have a membership high for the state 

 of 1,900 this month. 



Since last August, Clinton county 

 has upped its membership 260 per cent. 

 Kendall county follows a membership 

 procedure popular among organizations 

 in a number of counties, that is, it 

 spends a considerable amount of time 

 with a possible new member explaining 

 the purposes of Home Bureau. 



The 1946 turkey crop is expected to be 



about 15 per cent less than the record crop 

 last year. 



BANQUET CLOTH FOR THE 

 BRIDAL TABLE 



A wedding reception colli for the best of 

 everything — silver, china and your price- 

 less hand-crocheted tablecloth. What could 

 be more beautiful than this exquisite cloth. 

 Malce it of mercerized crochet cotton. For 

 instructions free of charge, write to WOM- 

 EN'S EDITOR, Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion Record, 608 South Dearborn Street, 

 Chicago 5, III. 



HOT PLATE MATS ON THE SQUARE 



Here's a gift Item for the summer bride 

 that's small in cost but long in usefulness. 

 Crochet a set of these hot plate mats in 

 ecru pearl cotton with contrasting trim. 

 They ore 9, 7 and S'/i inches square. For 

 instructions free of charge, write to Wom- 

 en's Editor, Illinois Agricultural Association 

 Record, 608 South Dearborn Street, Chicago 

 5, ill. 



ILLINOIS RURAL CHORUS 

 TO BE HEARD AGAIN 



Illinois Rural Chorus, discontinued 

 in 1941 at the onset of the war, is be- 

 ing revived this year under the direc- 

 tion of James K. Van Slyke, extension 

 specialist in music at the University of 

 Illinois. Six counties have already or- 

 ganized their choruses — Moultrie, 

 Williamson, La Salle, Winnebago, Ste- 

 phenson and DeKalb — and are plan- 

 ning to take part in the State Fair 

 Festival, the Chicagoland Music Festi- 

 val, and the Illinois Farm Sports Festi- 

 val. Seventeen other counties are now 

 planning their choruses. 



Men of McDonough county have 

 been sitting in on Home Bureau meet- 

 ings to get the proper slant on family 

 relationships. Meetings are held in the 

 evening under the direction of Home 

 Adviser Hazel Adams. 



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Fifty acres of wooded land along 

 Rock Creek near its confluence with the 

 Kankakee river in Kankakee county has 

 been chosen as the site of a permanent 

 4-H club camp for the Northern Illinois 

 district. 



A temporary tent camp will be set up 

 this summer until labor and materials 

 become available for permanent struc- 

 tures which will include clubroom fa- 

 cilities, 20 cabins, kitchen and dining 

 hall, recreation hall, storage and supply 

 rooms, and swimming pool and show- 

 ers. When completed the camp will 

 accommodate 300. 



EXPERIMENTS SHOW 



NEW FLOUR WORKS WELL 



Homemakers who are experimenting 

 with the new 80 per cent flour find that 

 it works very well in their usual recipes, 

 but some of the scrupulous ones are a 

 bit disappointed that their cakes or pies 

 aren't quite up to the standard. 



They will be encouraged by some al- 

 ternate methods offered by Mrs. Metta 

 Zahorsky of the food and nutrition 

 staff. University of Illinois College of 

 Agriculture. 



When making leavened products 

 with baking powder or sour milk and 

 soda, a minimum amount of mixing 

 should be done after the flour and 

 liquid have been combined. "Mix only 

 until flour is moistened," is Mrs. Zahor- 

 sky's rule. Yeast products need light 

 handling, especially after they have 

 risen once, and they shouldn't rise too 

 much — not more than double in size, 

 or not quite double. 



Eighty per cent flour has the same 

 thickening qualities for all practical 

 household purposes. Gravies, pud- 

 dings and sauces require the usual 

 amount. 



The average size of Illinois farms in 194S 



was 15} acres compared with 137 acres in 

 1935, 135 in 1920 and 124 in 1900. 



The La Salle County Home Bureau 

 is issuing the fourth edition of its 

 Home Bureau cook book and is offering 

 it to Home Bureau women through 

 their county organizations. La Salle 

 county reports more than 33,000 of the 

 cook books already have been sold. 



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