Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1937 — Page 22

PAGE SIX

4-HCONGRESS TO OPEN SOON ■ a, —4. Boys, Girls To Meet At International, November 27 Chicago, Nov. 8 — A big feature of the 38tb international Live Stock Exposition, to he held at the Chicago Stock Yards November 27 to December 4, will be the National 4-H Chib Congress. It will be Held for the 16th time in connection with the exposition. Approximately 1200 boys and girls from the farms of nearly every state in the Union will attend this year. They will be the pick of the million members now active in 4-H Club work throughout the country. Free Trips Awarded It will be a gathering of state and district champion farm youths who will be given free trips to the Stock show and congress to compete for national honors. A series of banquets, educational tours, and entertainment programs has been arranged for their stay here this year. Among the important awards Which will be made during the week are the Roosevelt trophies, presented in the name of the President to the boy and girl who have made the most outstanding achievement in Club work during the past year. A national health contest, in which winners will be selected from among state health champions. is another feature. Stock, meat, and grain judging

Mr. McMillen Our associations with the farmers of this community, in the daily routine of our business, is our proof that you justly deserve the recognition and honor bestow ed upon you today. McMillen Day No one has done more for the developing of Agriculture than you. Your vast industries are proof of your friendly relationship with the farmer, and it is with a source of pride that we feel this relationship will grow stronger as the days go by. \ • We, too, depend upon the ‘ men of the soil” in the operation of our business. We like to think of the farmers of this community as our friends and hope our associations with them will continue to be forever pleasant. .. ■ Burk Elevator Co.

BRITAIN FINDS CROP SPEED-UP Emergency Food Plan To Shorten Growing Season Os Crops London, Nov. 15 <U.R> — A vast emergency food plan, designed to prevent a food shortage in Great Britain in event of war, has been drawn up by British scientists. Under the scheme, crops that contests and the exhibition of beeves, lambs, and pigs of their own raising are other events in which farm youths will figure prominently in the exposition's opening week-end programs. State champion stock judging teams frojji many states will compete here as a pre-opening event on Friday. November 26. College scholarships will be awarded to the winners. Youths Exhibit Stock A junior live stock feeding contest will be held on the following day in which farm boys and girls between the ages of ten and twenty will exhibit hundreds of prixe animals that have won high honors in county and state shows held earlier in the season. Entries for this year's contest have been received from ten states. A stock judging contest for agricultural college students will also be held on the opening day of the show. Student teams from over 20 states are now being drilled in stock judging skill for this competition which has been a feature of the exposition since the first show in 1900.

now take months to mature could 1 he ripened artificially in as many weeks, vast quantities ot food | could be secretly stored for long periods, and production capabili-' ties of agricultural land could be ! greatly increased, it was reported. "We can now make Britain' self-supporting for a minimum po-| riod of from two to three years by Intensive methods, and no war Is. likely to last anything like as long as that," one leading British chem-* 1 leal research specialist declared. , "Hay crops, first essential In the 1 nation's milk supply, can be produced artificially in three weeks. Wheat can be brought from sow- ! Ing to maturity In little more thanl a month. “The method employed is to sow, the seed in huge trays filled with chemically treated water and force its growth in artificial light. No j soil is used. All the chemical components required for rapid growth are in the water.” • New methods of fertilizing will be used to make many large areas! of waste land productive. Propa- ; ganda is being used to initiate a general movement to improve fer- ( tilization and keep the soil everywhere in good health against an emergency. In the last war, compulsory tillage schemes were introduced by the government, In the event of | another emergency the use of certain fertilizers would be made ■ compulsory also. SOY BEANS ARE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) are ingredients of many of the Master Mix feeds manufactured in Decatur.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1937.

S'r.// // z Congratulations, // / ■ / Mr. McMillen! / / // / * dWwife v// <i k B ./- / 77/ 7/j'i '* IJrM U / y k v* HAPPY TO SERVE YOU! r - j J. i.G> THE development of a city and its industries is dependent in a large measure upon: 1. Excellent Utility Service 2. Favorable Utility Rates. We are pleased to know that Decatur’s municipally owned light, power and water utilities have been a factor not only in the establishment of the McMillen industries in this community but in their steady growth —a growth which in a remarkably short time has made this business one of national scope and significance. It is also gratifying assurance to Decatur’s constructive utility policy to know that our exceptionally low industrial power rate, one of the most favorable in the country, is instrumental in attracting industry to Decatur and holding it We also take pride in the fact that our plant and equipment, assuring satisfactory quality and quantity of service to industrial and commencial as well as residential users, is unexcelled for a city of its size. The McMillen companies are among our very largest users of electric power. We congratulate them upon their success and pledge our continued cooperation to further their growth and the progress of all Decatur. ■ I B I? City’of Decatur Light, Power & Water Dept A. R. HOLTHOUSE, Mayor M. J. MYLOTT, Light Supt CHAS. BRODBECK, Mgr. Water Dept COUNCILMEN: Andrew Appelman, Forest Mrs. Ada Martin, Clerk-treasurer Elzey, Herman Gillig, George Stults ; John L. DeVoss, city attorney. Albert Miller.