left: Burton Bauer, Franklin county, shows Jock Hewlett, lAA 

 organization director for Southern Illinois, what rotation and 

 fertilizers can do to make a heavy stand of clover. Bauer's 

 son George looks on. Below: Son George stops Dad at end o< 

 field during disking. 



'il Smart Thing for Me to Join Farm Bureau' 



FIl'ILIiN years dgo Gcor^'c- Bauer ot 

 1 ranklin county wasn't too luppy 

 ibout his role in lite as a tanner. 

 He thought depressin^a thouchts 

 :ine day while disking corn stalks, 

 lor one thins:, the nation was in the 

 midst ot .1 paralyzint: depression. lor 

 another, prices were at rock bottom and 

 e>en it prices had been hi^^h it wouldn't 

 have helped much because production 

 per acre '-^as tri>;httully low. He had 

 never sensed ^uch a dark future for him- 

 self. 



B.uier liates the iont; pull upward 

 from th.it d.iy he disked those puny corn 

 stalks, I he s.ime d.iy larrn .Adv iser jerrv 

 Emser stopped to see him. Tmser looked 

 at the srindlv corn .iVu] asked Bauer how 

 many bushels ot uirn he was i:;cttint: to 

 the ac re. 



'About ?(1. " Bauer .uiswered. 

 llov. mui h whe.it.' " tile tarm .ulxisir 

 asked. 



Arounil seven to ten bushels." 

 '"\'ou can do better than that." said 

 Hmser. 



llow;' " Bauer asked. 

 "I'll show you how. " Emser replied. 

 "■VC'ell sir." Bauer related, ".seeing is be- 

 lieving. It wasn't long at all before the 

 farm adviser took me along to the Uni- 

 versitv of Illinois experiment fields at 

 Urbana. Then he tcx)k me to the experi- 

 ment farm at Dixon Springs." 



Bauer stopped and was thoughtful for 



a moment. "You know," he said, that 



Dixon Springs is sure a wonderful place." 



"I learned." Bauer continued, "what 



By JIM THOMSON 



Ass't Editor, lAA Record 



it means to apply phosphate, limestone. 

 .ind potash, and how sensible it is to plow 

 under sweet clover for nitrogen. 



■ I also learned that it would be- .1 smart 

 thing for me to join the Earm Bureau. I 

 dill and I've been a member e\er since. A 

 good farmer can't afford not to belong." 



He IS proud of the f.ut that he was 

 one ot the first tarmers in the neighbor- 

 hood to appiv phosphate to his fields. 



Todav B.iuer has more than eloubled 

 his corn \ields. Wheat yields are be- 

 yond his dreams. Now he has more feed 

 and more time for hogs and beef cattle. 

 He raises .md average of about ~() 100 

 hogs eaeh year. 10 beef cows .iiul 10 beef 

 calves. 



He owns 1:10 acres and rents an adeli- 



tional .SO. Eifteen to 20 acres art m 

 corn, 70 in wheat, .30 in soybeans and 

 the rest in pasture and clover. 



Today Bauer is a lot happier about 

 his role as a farmer. Thanks to Farm 

 Bureau, he said, and the fateful high 

 prices of the past eight years. He now 

 owns farm machinery worth about S6,000. 

 Mrs. Bauer is happier too about the re- 

 modeling of the home this year which 

 includes the installation of running water, 

 a coal furnace, and a bathroom. 



Eor more than a decade now, Bauer 

 has never lost sight of the importance of 

 soil building, anil conser\ation. If there 

 is any question in his mind, he looks to 

 the Farm Bureau for guidance. Some 

 day he hopes to pass along th^ farm to 

 his .son. There is little doubt but that 

 it will be in better condition than he re- 

 .eived it. 



Toot and Mouth Disease in Mexico to Stay' 



FOOI-AND-MOLTH disease i\ in 

 Mexico to stay, believes Dr. G. \\". 

 Hess of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. Doctor Hess spoke 

 to the staff of the University of Illinois 

 College of \'eterinary Medicine re 

 lently on his experiences with foot-and- 

 mouth disease in Mexico. 



"When the Americans first went 

 dow n to Mexico, they tried to eliminate 

 the disease by slaughtering infected and 

 exposed cattle," Doctor Hess reported. 

 This method had been used successfully 

 to eliminate foot-and-mouth disease in 



the United States many years ago. But 

 it was abandoned in Mexico after several 

 months' trial. At that time 12.000 cattle 

 a week were being sacril'iced in the dis- 

 triet under Doctor Hess' supervision. 



Doctor Hess said that foot-and- 

 mouth disease was so widespread that 

 it would have been necessary to slaugh- 

 ter 7]/-, million cattle to eliminate it. 



"Another reason why the slaughter 

 program was not effective was that 

 many farmers refused to cooperate, 

 hiding their cattle rather than allowing 

 them to be killed." Doctor Hess said. 



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