Tennessee and Illinois 

 Farm Bureau officials 

 complete plans for 

 July visit of 296 Ten- 

 nessee Farm Bureau 

 Federation members 

 to 23 Illinois county 

 Farm Bureaus and the 

 lAA offices. Left to 

 right, seated: O. R. 

 Long, executive sec- 

 retary, TFBF; Vernon 

 Voniman, AFBF; Clyde 

 York, TFBF insurance 

 staff. Standing, left to 

 right: Larry Brandon, 

 Indiana Farm Bureau 

 Federation; George E. 

 Metzger, lAA; and 

 Roy Johnson, lAA. 



Feeding Plus Sanitation 

 Equals High Hog Profits 



(Continued from page 14) 



He has started to feed a few steers 

 during the last several years but does 

 not keep milk cows. He did, however, 

 when he first started farming and would 

 advise any young farmer starting out to 

 keep four to six dairy cows. "It keeps 

 those troublesome little bills paid up 

 that seem to get to be a burden." 



The buildings on the Smith farm are 

 neat and trim. Everything is picked up. 

 He likes to have things clean — and 

 this goes for the way his pigs are raised 

 because it just doesn't pay to court 

 trouble, Smith says. 



Since his farm is level and fertile much 

 of the land is planted to corn and small 

 grain to feed his hogs and cattle. This 

 year about half the acreage was in corn 

 and the rest in oats and alfalfa for hay 

 and pasture. 



Corn yields in recent years have aver- 

 aged 102 bushels an acre. This provides 

 between seven and eight thousand bush- 

 els of corn for Smith to feed his hogs. 

 The amount of corn he raises does not 

 limit his hog program because he feels 

 that he can make just as much by buying 

 and feeding corn, except for the elevator 

 operator's commission, as from the corn 

 he raises on his own farm. 



A loyal and sincere booster for Farm 

 Bureau in his home community. Smith 

 buys his farm supplies through Farm Bu- 

 reau when it is possible to do so. He is 

 particularly sold on the Farm Bureau 

 serum and virus which he buys by the 

 case, and which he has used successfully 

 for many years. 



By location his farm is particularly 

 suited to hog farming. Smith is located 

 in a surplus grain area. He lives, within 

 100 miles of the great Chicago stock 

 yards and can get his hogs to market 

 quickly by truck. 



18 



FOUR FROM ILLINOIS 

 ATTEND NATIONAL 

 4-H CLUB CAMP 



FOUR Illinois 4-H club members at- 

 tended the 18th National 4-H club 

 camp as representatives of the state's 45,- 

 000 club members in mid-June. 



The lucky four were Athylin Harris, 

 Pulaski county; Meta Marie Keller, La 

 Salle; Gilbert Blankenship, Kendall, and 

 Robert Willret, DeKalb. These young 

 people were selected on the basis of out- 

 standing 4-H achievements, leadership 

 qualities, and accomplishment in project 

 and community activities. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 contributed $100 towards the expenses 

 of the four delegates to Washington. 



FORD COUNTY TOPS 



STATE IN SALE 



OF SECURITY BONDS 



FORD county led the state in the Se- 

 curity Loan Drive report for the period 

 ending May 22, according to a report is- 

 sued in June by A. J. Rauen, state di- 

 rector of the U.S. Savings Bonds divi- 

 sion. 



Ford reached 86.8 per cent of its quota 

 to top the entire state. Purchase of sav- 

 ings bonds by Ford county residents 

 amounted to $392,411. 



Other counties among the first ten in 

 the state on goal percentage attainments 

 were: Menard, Hamilton, Schuyler, Cum- 

 berland, DeKalb, Henderson, Kendall, 

 Morgan, and Pike. 



The Security Drive objective is to 

 urge each and every citizen to provide 

 financial security for himself and his 

 family by investing to the limit in the 

 world's best investment — United States 

 Savings Bonds. Aside from financial se- 

 curity and stability for the nation, farm- 

 ers will benefit individually by having 

 adequate financial reserves to protect 

 themselves from the natural hazards of 

 their business. 



EDGAR GRAIN MANAGER 



Carlton Cannon, Coal City, has been 

 employed to manage the newly organ- 

 ized Edgar County Grain Company 

 starting July 1. The company will op- 

 erate four elevators •and sell plant food 

 and Blue Seal feed in Edgar county. 



Growth of Farm Cooperatives 



Illinois 



MACKETINQ 

 ^166.1 



%Z05.7 



PURCHASING 



$21.9 



$.»o 



1913 



LMiTED States 



I930 



1945 



/// Millions of Dollars 



Source: Vnitersity of Illinois 



L A. A. RECORD 



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