Above Is tha chaaHul group of mora than 100 Rural Youthers and leaders at the Rural 

 Youth State Camp held In July at Camp Shaw-waw-nas-see en Rock creek near Kankakee. 



Resting at the half-way point on a Rural 

 Youth hike, H. W. Gilbert (left) and E. H. 

 Regnier of the University of Illinois lean 

 en the stone which marks the original 

 burial place of Indian Chief Shaw-waw-nos- 

 see for whom the Camp at Kankakee is 

 named. Note difference In spelling. 



SINCE conservation is an all important sub- 

 ject of today, Rural Youth of Illinois will 

 again study wild life conservation at the 

 state conservation school. Lake Villa, in Lake 

 county. There will be room for just . 50 

 people. Reservations must be made with the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association at an early 

 date. Both young men and young women may 

 take part in this three-day school which 

 begins at 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 24, and ends 

 on the afternoon of Sunday, Sept. 26. The 

 first people to make reservations will be ac- 

 cepted. However, a county's reservation is 

 limited to two people. 



4-H CLUB FAIRS 



For the past month county 4-H fairs have 

 been held over the state. According to re- 



RURAL 

 YOUTH 



By ELLSWORTH D. LYON, Director 



Young People's Activities 



ports. Rural Youthers throughout the state 

 have assisted in these fairs. Resulting partly 

 from the interest which Rural Youth is taking 

 in 4-H Club work in some counties Rural 

 Youth has sponsored or cooperated with 4-H 

 in sponsoring refreshment stands at the county 

 fairs. In some counties Rural Youth membe;> 

 have assisted 4-H in square and folk dance ac- 

 tivities under the district sports festivals being 

 held in connection with county fairs. Mem- 

 bers of Rural Youth are to be congratulated 

 upon their active interest in all these ac- 

 tivities for 4-H. 



DISTRia TALK FESTS 



District talk fests have been scheduled for 

 the two-week period from Oct. 18 to Oct. 28. 

 The district schedule covering the state is as 

 follows: Oct. 18. Orecon: Oct. 19, Cam- 

 bridge: Oct. 20. Rushville; Ort. 21, Peters- 

 burg; Oct. 22. Streator; Oct. 25. Champaign; 

 Oct. 26, Greenville; Oct. 27, Louisville; and 

 Oct. 28, Benton. 



This year more than one thousand young 

 people are expected to enter countv talk fests 

 in order to receive the training which experi- 

 ence in talk festinp provides. Three mem- 

 bers of Rural Youth from each countv mav 

 participate in the district talk fests. In each 

 distrin talk fest Rural Youth participants will 

 choose two of their own members to go to the 



state talk fest to be held in connection with 

 the Annual meeting of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association in Chicago on Tuesday, 

 Nov. 16. 



SKILLED DRIVERS 



Skilled Drivers' contests are already under- 

 way on the county level. In addition to writ- 

 ten tests in the counties, this year an actual 

 driving contest will be held. This part of 

 the work has already been done in some of the 

 counties. Three participants may go from the 

 county to the district driver contest. In the 

 district contests, one skilled, driver will be 

 chosen to enter the state skilled drivers' con- 

 test. All district contests will be held at 

 i p.m. on the afternoon of the date of the 

 Rural Youth talk fest. The state skilled 

 drivers' contest will be held in connection 

 with the annual meeting of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association as part of the Rural Youth 

 activity on Rural Youth Day, Tuesday, Nov. 



COUNTY AaiVITIES 



Peoria, Knox, Madison, Schuyler, and Men- 

 ard are proud to be among the groups pre- 

 paring for the annual skilled drivers' con- 

 test. County activity has already begun or 

 been completed. 



North Cook showed its fine spirit of co- 

 operation by sponsoring an exhibition folk 

 dance for the 4-H fair held at Arlington 

 Heights Aug. 27 and 28. 



Rock Island's square dance team danced tu 

 a first place in Moline's Centennial celebration 

 in July. The Henry Rural Youth teams took 

 second and fifth places. Congratulations to 

 both counties for participation and placing. 



Bond recently heard Glenn Miller on in- 

 surance. Miller is general agent for lAA 

 insurance in Fayette. 



Battling Brucellosis and Know Your Com- 

 munity were featured as two summer educa- 

 tional features for the Fairfield group in 

 Wayne 



Richland made themselves comfortable on 

 a hot day by visiting and learning about a local 

 locker plant at OIney. 



It was a big day in La Salle July 18 when 

 the annual all-day picnic was held at Mat- 

 thiessen Park. Nearby counties represented were 

 Kankakee, Iroquois, Lee, Marshall-Putnam, 

 Bureau, Grundy, Livingston, Carroll, and 

 Knox. A program of get-acquainted mixers, a 

 nature hike, photography, folk songs, relays, 

 Softball, and other active games provided 

 entertainment for 125 Rural Youthers from 

 9 a. m. to the time of the dying embers of the 

 evening campfire. Committee members were: 

 Bob Ashley and Erna Lou Walling, co-chair- 

 man, assisted by Betty Barr, Mae Pitstick, 

 Don Freebairn, Lois Wise, Quintin Elliott. 

 Harold Severson, Bill Knoll, Paula Pitstick 

 and Betty Miller. 



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Three rules of good milk production in- 

 clude sanitation, cooling and transportation. 

 Keep equipment clean and sterile. Cool 

 milk quickly to 60 degrees. Get the milk 

 to the creamerv or milk plant as soon as 

 possible. 



Illinois dairy herd improvement associa- 

 tion records show that it takes 3.1 hours of 

 labor for every 100 pounds of milk pro- 

 duced from cows with an average produc- 

 tion of 3,900 pounds of milk a year com- 

 pared with 2.1 hours to obtain 100 pounds 

 of milk from cows that averaged 7.400 

 pounds of milk a vear. . ... 





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