ILLINOIS 



IOWA, 

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ILLINOIS Farm Bureau Baseball 

 League 1949 champions. Will 

 county, took the Illinois-Iowa inter- 

 state title in two straight wins in a 

 series played at Manhattan, 111., in late 

 September. Both games were won by a 

 4 to 3 score with the first game going 11 

 innings. Both games were well played 

 with good sportsmanship being ex- 

 hibited by the players. An outstanding 

 job of fielding was turned in by See- 

 hausen of Will county and the pitching 

 was good on both sides. 



The first game, played on a Saturday, 

 drew 360 paid admissions and the sec- 

 ond game on Sunday drew 750. Man- 

 ager Bob Seely of Will county did a real 

 promotion job with placards, street ban- 

 ners, etc., advertising the game. 



Iowa was represented by its cham- 

 pionship team from Palo Alto county. 



In another interstate series with Iowa. 

 Carroll county's Rural Youth softball 

 team which won the state division title 

 at the Sports Festival won three games 

 from Kossuth county on Oct. 1 and 2. 

 The first game was played at Whitte- 

 more, la., with Carroll topping the 

 Iowa nine 10 to 2. In the second game 

 at Wesley, Carroll took a 6 to victory, 

 and in the third win for Carroll county 

 at Algona the second was 7 to 1. 



DeKalb county's 4-H softball team 

 split a double header with Butler county 

 in Iowa on the weekend of Sept. 24. 

 but did not stay for a playoff game. 

 DeKalb thought the third game would 

 make their departure time too late. 



Following are the box scores on the 

 baseball interstate series with Iowa: 



Totals 41 3 6 43 1 



Shriner batted for Fogarty in 8th. 

 Will County 100 002 000 01-^ 



Palo Alto County 000 300 000 00—3 

 Summary: 2 base hits — Drecksler, 

 McEvilley, Broadrick, Stafford; Sacri- 

 fice hits — Honsbruch; Stolen bases — 

 Seehausen 2, Frederick, Fogarty ; Struck 

 out by Honsbruch 9. by Eckert 8; Base 

 on balls off Honsbruch 6, Eckert 2; 

 Left on bases — Will County 5, Palo 

 Alto County 13. Earned runs — Will 

 County 3, Palo Alto County 0. 



R. Eckert batted for Frederick in 9th. 

 Will County 100 120 000-^ 



Palo Alto County 020 001 000—3 

 Summary: 3 base hit — Stafford; 

 Doubleplays — Johnston to Compton to 

 Stafford; Wild Pitch— Shriner 3; Stolen 

 bases — Seehausen; Struck out by Smith 

 4, by Shriner 6; Base on balls — off 

 Smith 4; off Shriner 5; left on base 

 Will County 6; Palo Alto County 5; 

 Earned runs. Will county 4, Palo Alto 

 County 2. 



ILLINOIS FARM 

 LEADER DIES 



JOHN S. BUMGARNER, prominent 

 member of Marshall-Putnam Farm 

 Bureau, and a member of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association economic study 

 committee, died Sept. 15. He was a 

 former member of the Illinois state 

 AAA committee starting in 1936. In 

 1941 he went to Washington as assistant 

 to the director of the loan division of 

 the north central region for the AAA. 

 Shortly after the end of the second 

 World War he returned to his farm in 

 McNabb. 



Mr. Bumgarner had always taken an 

 active interest in farm problems and 

 programs and made a worthwhile con- 

 tribution to their solution and operation 

 because of his sound judgment. His 

 service on the lAA economic study com- 

 mittee was greatly appreciated by the 

 Farm Bureau leadership. 



Mr. Bumgarner was an organizer and 

 president of the Marshall-Putnam Farm 

 Bureau, director of the Marshall-Put- 

 nam Oil Company, member of the 

 board of directors of the Farmers State 

 Bank and McNabb Grain Company. H" 

 also was a director of the John Swaney 

 High School. He was 69 at the time of 

 his death. 



BETTER CORN.:., 



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plowed under or sidedressed. (Plowing 

 under has proven advantageous in cases 

 of minor drouths. Sidedressed nitrogen 

 is very efficient with plenty of rain). 



6. Don't let the corn ripen too early 

 while the weather is still hot. This 

 occurs too often when corn starves from 

 nutrients, especially nitrogen. (There' 

 is some observation, still not proven by 

 adequate research, that the leaf disease 

 Helminthosporium will be less dam- 

 aging when the potash supply is ade- 

 quate.) 



7. Make use of a full season by hav- 

 ing your corn remain active as long as 

 you dare to risk escaping the frost line. 



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