Zealy M. Holmes, 81, 

 Former lAA Vice Pros., 

 Dies March 5 in Peoria 



Zealy M. Holmes, 81, of Mossville, 

 veteran fann leader and for two years 

 vice-president of the Illinois Agricultural 



Association, died 



March 5 in a Peoria 

 hospital. 



Active as a farm- 

 er and farm manag- 

 er during his adult 

 life Holmes served 

 on the lAA board 

 of directors from 



1919 to 1921 and 

 as vice-president in 



1920 and again in 

 1921. 



Shortly after its 

 organization in Peoria county Holmes 

 served as president of the Peoria Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureau and for a number of 

 years as a member of its executive board. 

 A grand-nephew of Lydia Moss 

 Bradley, founder of Bradley University 

 in Peoria, Holmes has served as a trus- 

 tee of the school since he was 30 years 



Z. M. HoliMt 



old. His ability as a farm manager 

 proved invaluable. 



Holmes farmed for many years near 

 Mossville in Peoria county and for the 

 last 23 years has been farm manager for 

 the Bradley endowed university, a posi- 

 tion he held up to the recent illness that 

 preceded his death. 



His father came from Londonderry, 

 Ireland, and settled in Peoria county in 

 the 1830's and at one time owned 1,500 

 acres of Peoria and Marshall county farm 

 land. 



A life-long member of the Methodist 

 church, Holmes was active in local civic 

 affairs, having held nearly every office 

 in Medina township. 



Holmes is survived by his wife, the 

 former Nellie Frye with whom he cele- 

 bated their 59th wedding anniversary this 

 year, and three sons, Maurice of Rich- 

 woods township, Charles of Edelstein, 

 and John of Medina township. 



One kilowatt-hour of electricity will pump 

 1,000 gallons of water from the average 

 farm well. It will milk 30 cows, heat five 

 gallons of water, grind 100 bushels of grain, 

 run a tool grinder for four hours, shell 30 

 bushels of corn, cool 10 gallons of milk, 01 

 cut one ton of ensilage and elevate it into a 

 30-foot silo. 



Eilcellianier Succeeds 

 A. R. Wriglit as lAA 

 Assistant Treasurer 



LYLE F. Eikelbarner, 41, investment 

 adviser in the trust department of the 

 Continental Illinois National Bank & 

 Trust Co., Chicago, since 1933, has 

 joined the staff of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association as assistant treasurer. 



Eikelbarner will handle the investment 

 work of the lAA and associated com- 

 panies. Three insurance firms serving 

 Illinois farmers are among the associated 

 companies. County Life, Country Mu- 

 tual Casualty, and Country Mutual Fire. 



This investment work formerly was 

 handled by A. R. Wright, Varna, assist- 

 ant treasurer of the lAA, who retired 

 April 1. 



Eikelbarner, a native of Washburn, 

 was graduated from Monmouth college 

 in 1928, and received his master's de- 

 gree from the Northwestern graduate 

 school of business administration in 

 1932. He has also studied law at De- 

 Paul and for the past four years has been 

 head finance lecturer at Central YMCA 

 college. 



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m A Sure STRIKE-OUT 



FOR YOUR UNVACCINATED PIGS WHEN 

 THEY'RE PITTED AGAINST HOG CHOLERA! 



Yes, once hog cholera gets into the game it's ail 

 over w^ith not one reaching first base. Play safe — 

 vaccinate your pigs early w^ith Farm Bureau Serum 

 and you're sure to be a "winner at the season's end. 



SEE YOUR FARM BUREA U 



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