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THE BIO
KANKAKEE
A County Agent Unlocked
of Latent Wealth.
Millions
(By HAL M'AULEY, -who acts in
same capacity as docs C. C. Cate in
Union County.)
Kankakee County, Illinois, is list
ed in the first dozen agricultural
counties of the United States for its
production. There is a reason for
its high place in the farming busi
ness, as it has climbed rapidly ' in
:rating during the past three years.
(Organization by its county agents,
.John S. Collier, is the key to the
Kankakee rating.
Of course Kankakee county had to
Ihave the business men and live farm
ers who are willing to take a chance
on a new venture to get. out of the
rut; otherwise, they would not have 5 " uUsed to tl e
pledged 12,000 from the .pocket .of "71913 and thr,
some nan uuaen men w u m-xv vrm
For a week during the month of Feb- proper support. A Chicago mail order
ruary these club members redoubled house had given itself considerable
ing to forget selfish plans and am
bitions and put up their money on a
. i college tarm in tne iace oi riuicuie
and with little successful precedent.
But Kankakee had the material to
work on, and it wanted to make farm
ing conditions bettsr. Ki
mee it it has not succeeded.
There were 92 silos in the county
in 1912 when Professor Collier was
brought from the college of Agricul
ture of the University of Illinois to
taken charge of the work as county
agent; 160 were built in 1913 and 288
last year. Alfalfa growing was still
a mystery to most of the farmers in
unite of vears of bulletin, farmers' in
stitute and farm papers preaching,
and the acreage a wavering little plot
of 50 acres scarred over the cr ' 1
sown, in 1913 and six thousand in
1914.
Thir'T per rf' -,r tin farmer?
;o-,. their se;d corn spring of
1913; last year 7i-0 farmers selected
their seed corn from the field to
plant thirty thousand acres in Kan
kakee county, and four hundred
farmers tested seed corn for germin
ation for the planting of ninety
thousand acres of the ninety-five
thousand acres of this king cereal
grown in the county. For two
twenty-two hundred acres were
months or more the Young Men's
Country club, organized by County
acent Collier to heln the boys and
young men on the farms of Kanka
kee county, have worked through
their 17 township clubs to get every
farmer in county to test his seed
their efforts to enlist every farmer in
the county in the improvement work,!
calling them up over the telephone
every day and jogging their memor
ies, so that there could be no excuse.
Those who said they did not know
how to make a germination teat or
treat for smut were given personal
aid. .It looks as tho every acre of
corn and oats going into Kankakee
soil this year will have the benefit of
a germination test or smut treat
ment Only 16 per cent of the farm
ers treated their wildoats for smut
in 1913, while 600 of them tested last
year, increasing their yields 8 bushels
to the acre..
In 1912, 450 bushels of clover were
bought on the co-operative plan; the
following year the amount was
twenty-six hundred and forty-five
bushels. Seven hundred acres of soy
beans were grown last year, 325 acres
of sweet clover, and 90 acres of
vetch.
In 1911, 140 tons of rock phosphate
were used in the county, and the
following year the amount rose to
220 tons, which in 1913 was increas
ed to six thousand tons. Limestone
bought and distributed on the co-op-
ine amount
three thou-i
sand tons in 1914, In 1913, fourteen
thousrfhd eight hundred dollars of
potash was bought and distriubted
co-operatively.
A cow testing association has been
started. 380 cows being tested, so
5m?K a T that as much milk was produced
Keaa on, ana . mnriv iss cow3 fr0m less feed.
Seventeen anti-hog 'cholera clubs
one in each township have been form
er!, and twentv-one hundred and
forty two hogsw ere vaccinated last
vear against cholera. Some other odd
items that are putting Kankakee out
in front are 150 farmers maKingD et-
ter use of straw and manure last
year; 60 farmers keeping farm ac
counts, oartial or comnlete; 42 farm-
exchange of the Kankakee CourrtyT
ers supplied with labor tnrougn tne
Soil and Crop Improvement Associa
tion, which is the official name of the
organization that nas Deen aomg
things for the farmers of the county;
28 farms rented through the exhange,
and 408 farms surveyed.
It is iealousv on the part or many
politicaly inclined persons over the
four thousand dollar salary of the
county agent. Probably no other com-
mowe th is so politically cursed as
in Illinois consider the foot and
mouth situation if you need any tan
gible proof and there again is a
handicap. State or Federal work is to
free advertising by offering a mil.
lion dollars to aid such county work,
offering to give a thousand dollars
to each county to help start the work.
Kankakee cuonty applied for a slice
of this fund and got it. Later, it ob
tained help from the United States
Department of Agriculture to the ex
fffrt of twelve hundred dollars a year.
An official from the Department of
Agriculture made a trip to Kankakee
to study the work before recommend
ing the association for a share of the
Government money, Here is a para
graph from his reports:
"I have inspected the organization
tho standing of the men who are back
of it, the plan of the work that they
are trying to do, and hereby recom
mend that of the forty odd counties
that I have just inspected, if you
turn down all of the counties except
one, please make that one that you
rre to help Kankakee county."
The Young Men's Country Club is
one of the main branches of the work
that is worthy ot national attention.
Thero are 14 of these r.ctive clubs in
the township now, and there will soon
be one in each township. Boy sand
young men from 14 to 25 are enroll
ed, and are given their own shor
courses at the Kankakee court house
each winter. The township club that
turns out tne biggest attendance for
the shortc ourse gets a big silver cup,
and the 380 members work like beav
ers to get out a big attendance.
Ihe club members pay regular
nual dues and fee of SI to defray ex
penses of the short course. Some of
the leading educators, bankers, law
yers and agricultural experts of the
country are listed on the program.
The boys are straining every energy
to get every acre of corn tested and
every acre of oats treated for smut
this year in their township, even go
ing so far as to do it for the back
ward farmers themselves, to make
fertein thaithore"is not a "limae"
aCre llTTheir townships.
A Pedigree Seed Breeders' Asso
ciation was formed among the farm
ers of the county, as it was found that
the demand was enormous in their
home county, and that it was better
business togrow it at home, so as to
standardize and get seed at neighbors
that are known end backed, by the
county organization, besides keeping
the money at home.
"Not more, but better cows" is the
slogan of the dairy breeders who
have banded together into testing as
sociations. Fewer cows that produce
more milk and butter fat on Icfs feed
and in less stable room, and require
put the men in ts handle it who has t less time for care and milking is the
done something for Borneo ne, rather
than to fill offices with men who are
equipped for the work. Hence, Col
lier is a misfit in the political scheme.
Tho was Kankakee attacked the
problem from the outset got the or-
. torn and treat hi oat seed for smut, gaaiaatioa lots of well-wishers and
result. The better cow movement
progressing.
The girls of the county are organ
ized in a sister movement to the
young Men's Country Club, The
Young Women's Country club has
branches, or locals, ia each of the
17 townships. This club has done won
ders for the girls and young women
of Kankakee county. Not only are
they brought into more intimate and
interesting contact with the better
side of life, but they become acquaint
ed with practically every country girl
in the county, and are stimulated by
the leaders in each community into
doing better work and finding the
brighter side of rural life.
They hired a nurse last year to
make a tour of the country to
visit the girls in their homes and at
their meeting places, giving them
talks on health in the farm home
and personal hygienics. Another wom
an leader was hired to give talks on
home decoration and other household
topics of vital importance to the
girls and young women of the county
There are now over 600 girls enrolled
in the Young Women's Country Club,
and a campaign is on to bring the
(lumber up to 700.
There are townsnip picnics to run
up the neighborhood spirit and help
the social side of farm life, some of
the picnics drawing five thousand
neoDle. The rjlowine match has to-
come a big drawing card, and hns
done much to stimulate interest in
good plowing, whether the plowman
walks or rides. There Is a parade of
teams and plows before the match,
and the champion of the match holds
the county championship till the next
annual event, when his rivals attempt
to dow him ano lift the honor. Bas
ket dinners are a feature, while polv
ticians never fail to over look such
an opportunity to do some fence
building'.
Kankakee County expects to climb
or, up the ladder in the list of Ui'.cle
Fnm's best counties, as it is getting
lietter every year, and has been
Ftarted on its climb only three years.
The farmers are getting better or-
gpni:td every year, and every yr
iinds the per cent of those who oan
afford to farm the old wav and go it
alone getting smaller. Uhere w a
little band of men in the Illinois coun
ty who Reserves monuments soma
day when monuments are built to
those who have had the citi?emy
trnintd in produ?tion, and when thnt
day comes the man who is the key to
Kankakee should receive attention,
not forgetting his snbnsers. .
'(Continued Tomorrow)
SUMMONS.
In the Circuit Court of tke State of
Oregon, for Unfair Conntf.
W. M. Conrfit, plaintiff,
V9.
JAMES HENRY, and also all other
persons or parties UNKNOWN,
claiming any right, title, estate, lien
or interest in the real estate
described In the complaint herein,
dof endairttfl.
To James Henry, and also all other
persons or partiee unknown, claiming
aay right, title, evbato, lioa or interest
in the real estate described in the com
plaint herein:
In the Name of the State of Oregon,
you are hereby required to appear and
answer the complaint filed against you
in the above entitled cause within six
full weeks from the date of the first
publication of this summons, towit:
on or before June 22, 1915, and If you
fail to so appear and answer, for want
thereof the plaintiff will take decree
against you for the relief prayed for
in the complaint, to-wit: To correct
the error in description of - property
in the deed made by the defendant
James Henry to S. F. Richardson, on
February 11, 1889, so th- ;he same
will describe the property therein
conveyed as the S. E. 1-4 of the N. W.
1-4, and N. E. 1-4 of S. W. 1-4 of 4
Section 14, T. 3 S. R. 36 E W M, and
that plaintiff be decreed to be the
owner thereof in fee.
This summons is published by order
of the Honorable J. F. Phy, County
Judge of Union County, Oregon, made
and entered on May 7, 1915, which or
der directs the summons to be pub
lished for six full weeks and that the
first publication shall be on May 10,
1915. '
TURNER OLIVER and
JOEL H. RICHARDSON,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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