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PLAN 

 BIGGEST BEST 



Sports Festival 



Aug. 26-27 



Trap Shoof to be held August 6 



DISTRICT folk festivals and soft- 

 baJl contests will mark the weeks 

 ahead in July and early August as 

 teams compete to represent their 

 counties in the ninth Illinois Farm 

 Sports Festival to be held Aug. 26-27 at 

 Champaign-Urbana. 



District contests will be held in the 

 Rural Youth, all-county, 35'ers, and 4-H 

 girls and boys Softball divisions where 

 nearly 200 teams have already been en- 

 tered. These district contests should be 

 completed before Aug. 14. 



District folk festivals have been sched- 

 uled from July 19 to Aug. 7 and will be 

 held at Mendon, Effingham, Galesburg, 

 Champaign, Oregon, Yorkville, Carlin- 

 ville, Eureka, Elgin, and Carbondale. 

 Sixty-one counties already have submitted 

 entries in various music, drama, and 

 dance events. Persons or groups may 

 enter the folk festival most convenient in 

 location to them. 



This should be the biggest year in the 

 history of the Sports Festival. Roy John- 

 son, festival secretary, says that in the 

 bowling contests alone nearly 1100 indi- 

 viduals took part. District bowling tour- 

 naments were held in May and June 

 when alleys were still open. 



Another sports event, a part of the 

 state Sports Festival, will share the spot- 

 light with Softball in August. The state 

 skeet and trap shoot, which annually 

 draws thousands of Illinois sportsmen, 

 will be held Aug. 6 at the Champaign-Ur- 

 bina Gun Club, three weeks in advance 

 of the state Festival. 



This advance in the date of the trap 

 and skeet shoot was made to avoid a con- 

 flict with the Grand American Trap 

 Shoot, and real competition is expected 

 this year. 



William Holderman, trap chairman 

 from Grundy county, and Glen Cheno- 

 weth, skeet chairman from Livingston 



JULY. 1943 : , 



county, report that 40 counties plan to 

 send teams, and three champions from 

 last year's Festival will be back to de- 

 fend their titles. These are the skeet 

 team from Logan county, the Class A 

 trap champions from Tazewell, and the 

 Class B trap winners from Henry coun- 

 ty- 

 Counties will earn points for taking 

 part in the county and district festivals 

 as well as in the finals at the state festival. 

 First and second place teams in the district 

 Softball games and all entries in the folk 

 festival contests with a class A rating 

 will be eligible to enter the state festival. 

 Two of the highlights of the Sports 

 Festival will be the entertainment on 

 Thursday evening and Friday afternoon. 

 The Thursday evening program will con- 

 sist of three separate events: the square 

 and folk dance jamboree, the swing carni- 

 val and dance, and the evening musical 

 revue consisting of selected folk festival 

 numbers. 



The grand finale program on Friday 

 afternoon will be highlighted by the 

 WLS Dinner Bell program, songs by the 

 champion barber shop quartet, hog-cailling 

 and watermelon eating contests, the wood- 

 chopping finalists, and announcement of 

 awards. 



In the district bowling contests nearly 

 all results have been reported. The high 

 scores so far in the men's open class have 

 been made by Ogle county, 2716 points, 

 Macoupin, 2709, and Champaign, 2689- 

 High individuals were: Degen, Ran- 

 dolph, 620; Kaney, Ogle, 610, and Rus- 

 sell, Will, 610. 



In the women's open class St. Clair 

 leads with 2145 points, DeKalb is sec- 

 ond with 2108, and Ogle is third with 

 2105. High individuals are: Dietz, St. 

 Clair, 528; Dufner, Macoupin, 522, and 

 Morey, Douglas, 489. 



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How Many Pigs 

 Are You Going to 

 Raise This Fall? 



WONDERING how many pigs to raise 

 this fall.-' Here are some facts from 

 Larry Simerl, U. of I. farm economist, 

 that may help you decide. 



1. With average or better weather, the 

 1948 corn crop will be one-fifth to one- 

 fourth larger than the 1947 crop. 



2. There can be no rapid increase in 

 the numbers of hogs, cattle, and poultry 

 to use up this larger supply of corn. 

 Therefore, corn will be much more 

 abundant, in comparison with the num- 

 bers of livestock to eat it, than it has 

 been during the past nine months. 



3. When the new crop of corn be- 

 comes available, corn and other feeds 

 probably will become relatively cheaper 

 than hogs. This situation should pre- 

 vail throughout the period when the 

 1948 fall pigs will be fed and marketed. 



4. Unsatisfactory prices for hogs in re- 

 cent months have discouraged many in- 

 efficient hog producers. Judging from 

 pa,st experiences in similar situations, the 

 1948 fall crop may be five to 15 per cent 

 smaller than the 1947 fall crop which 

 is now being rparketed. 



5. Market supplies of meats which 

 compete with pork will be considerably 

 smaller in 1949 than in recent years. 



Simerl concludes that there are no 



"sure things" in farming, but for. hog 



producers who know their business, a 



good-sized fall pig crop looks like a 



good bet. 



