It Pays to Advertise! 



Is YOU drive east on Highway 20 

 along the approaches to Terrapin 

 Ridge near Elizabeth in Jo Daviess 

 county you see a large outdoor 

 advertising sign. 

 The sign is painted on the well-kept 

 barn of Adolph Krug, and it doesn't 

 advertise tobacco, tonic, or beer. In 

 big, clear letters it acquaints the motor- 

 ists with a farmer's organization. It 

 tells the public they are nearing Eliza- 

 beth, home office of the Jo Daviess 

 County Farm Bureau. 



Folks in that part of the country 

 know the sign well — and speak of the 

 Krug farm as "that one with the Farm 

 Bureau sign on the barn". It has done 

 a good job of acquainting the public 

 with the name of Farm Bureau. 



Krug offered the space to the Farm 

 Bureau in Jo Daviess county soon after 



he moved to the farm in 1936. Adolph 

 believes in the Farm Bureau movement 

 and this was his way of demonstrating 

 his convictions. He accepts no pay for 

 the space. 



This is the 25th year Krug has been a 

 Farm Bureau member. He joined in 

 1924, the year he started farming. 



Krug believes in the value of organi- 

 zation and said the turning point for 

 farmers came with the enactment of the 

 AAA in the early '30's. Always a hard 

 working and conscientious farmer, he 

 nevertheless had to give up the farm 

 he had purchased when the depression 

 hit. 



"The low point for me came in about 

 1932 when a dandy 160 pound pig I 

 had shipped was thrown out as worth- 

 less because it didn't weigh up to 200 

 pounds." 



The Farm Bureau, he said, through 

 its legislative efforts helped him back 

 on the road to financial recovery. 



He purchased the farm he now oper- 

 ates in 1936. It consists of 94 acres. 

 He and his son rent about 80 acres and 

 do custom work for neighbors. 



By central Illinois standards, the 

 Krug farm is extremely hilly. Yet by 

 careful management and long rotations 

 Krug is able to maintain a high-produc- 

 ing herd of 20 Brown Swiss dairy cows 

 and feeds out 100-150 hogs each year. 



The neat, trim farmstead tells with- 

 out words the story of a successful and 

 careful farmer, and the sign on Krug's 

 barn shows that he knows it takes more 

 than one man's effort to maintain the 

 farmer's prosperity. He believes in the 

 power of organization. 



Prairie Farms Wins 

 Butter Making Prize 



JW. FELSCH, manager of the Prairie 

 • Farms Creamery of Bloomington, has 

 been named champion out-of-state butter- 

 maker in the Minnesota Creamery Oper- 

 ators' annual contest at St. Paul. 



According to a report received from St. 

 Paul, the Bloomington plant's butter 

 scored 98.76, indicating careful work- 

 manship, accurate attention to details, 

 and skill. 



Felsch gave credit to Harry Lash, 

 plant buttermaker, for winning the award. 

 The 20-pound sample entered in the con- 

 test was taken from a regular 2000 

 pound churning of butter turned out by 

 Lash. 



The Bloomington plant during mid- 

 June was producing 10,000 pounds of 

 butter daily, according to Felsch. 



Hundred* of livestock men and their famlltes Intpetted the new marketing tattlltlet of 

 the Henry County Marketing Auoclatlon on route 81 just cast of Cambridge on >lie open- 

 ing day May 38. 



Ansel Nesbitt, left, manager of the White- 

 side Marketing Association, congratulates 

 Manager tmory Gregory of the Henry As- 

 sociation. Both county groups are units of 

 the Illinois Livestock Marketing Association 

 which Is now operating In 20 counties. The 

 association shows a gain of 33 per cent so 

 far this year over last. 



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