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It Pays to Advertise! 



I S \'C)L' dn\c cast on Hitihw.iy 20 



m aloDi; the appro.Khcs to Terrapin 



/I Ridi:e near Elizabeth in Jo Da\ ie>> 



IM Lounty you see a lari;e outdiior 



advertisini,' si_i:n. 



'1 lie si^n is painted on the well-kept 

 barn of Adolph Knit;, and it doesn t 

 ad\ertise tobaci.0. tonii., or beer. In 

 bii.'. clear letters it acc|uaints the motor- 

 ists with a tarmer's ortianization. It 

 tells the public they are nearint; Eliza- 

 beth, home offiie ot the Jo Daviess 

 County l-'arm Bureau. 



I'olks in that part ot the country 

 know the si^tin well — and speak ot the 

 Kru^ farm as "that one with the I'arm 

 Bureau si^n on the barn". It has done 

 a L'ood job of actjuaintint; the public 

 with the name of I'arm Bureau. 



Krut: otfered the spate to the I'arm 

 Bureau in Jo Da\ iess county soon after 



he mo\ed to the farm in 1930. Adolph 

 belie\es in tlie I'arm Bureau movement 

 and this was his way of demonstrating 

 his con\ ictions. He accepts no pay for 

 the space. 



This is the J'ith year Krui; has been a 

 harm Bureau member. He jomed in 

 iy2i. the year he started farming. 



Krug belie\es in the value of organi- 

 zation and said the turnins; point for 

 farmers came with the enactment of the 

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

 working and consiientious farmer, he 

 nevertheless had to i;i\e up the farm 

 he had purchased when the depression 

 hit. 



"The low point tor tne 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 9i 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 Brow n Swiss dairy cows 

 and feeds out 100-1 'iO hogs each year. 



The neat, trim farmstead tells with- 

 out words the story of a successtul and 

 lareful farmer, antl the sign on Krug's 

 barn shows that he knows it takes more 

 than one man's effort to maintain the 

 farmer's prospcritv. He believes in thc 

 power of organization. 



Prairie Farms Wins 

 Butter M.ikino Prize 



J. 



Vi'. r"EJ.S( H. manager of the Pr.iinc 

 •J' I-'arms Creamery of Bloomington, has 

 been nameil champion out-ot -state butter- 

 maker in the Minnesota f reamery Oper- 

 ators' annual contest at St. Paul. 



According to a report received trom St. 

 Paul, the Bloomington plant's butter 

 scored 9S."'6, indicating caretui work- 

 manship, accurate attention to details, 

 and skill. 



I'elsch g.i\e credit to Harrv I. ash. 

 plant buttermaker. for w inning the award. 

 The 20pound sample entered in the con- 

 test was taken from a regular 2000 

 pound churnini; of butter turned out bv 

 I.ash. 



The Bloomington plant during mid- 

 June was producing 10.000 pounds of 

 butter dailv. accordini; to I'elsch. 



Hundreds of livestock men and their families inspected the new marketing facilities of 

 the Henry County Marketing Association on route 81 just east of Cambridge on the open- 

 ing day May 38. 



Ansel Nesbittt 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 yeor over lost. 



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