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Title: Illinois Agricultural Association record (microform)
Identifier: 5060538.1935-1939
Year: 1923 (1920s)
Authors: Illinois Agricultural Association; Illinois Agricultural Association. Record
Subjects: Agriculture -- Illinois
Publisher: Mendota, Ill. : The Association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Vegetable Oil Imports If all the imported oils were to be replaced with soybean oil, more than 7,640,000 acres of soybeans would be required, assuming a yield of 25 bushels per acre and an oil yield of eight pounds to the bu. To get this oil, 4,584,000 tons of soybean meal would be produced, says Prof. L. J. Norton, U. of I. Principal oils imported are palm oil, cocoanut oil and copra, which go into soaps, and flaxseed and tung oils, which go into paints. About two-thirds of the oils and fats used in making oleomar- garine in 1938 were of domestic origin. I. A. A. Safety Lane Probably the last season for the lAA testing lane will start some time in May. This brake and headlight testing serv- ice which has toured the state for the past four years has been received increasingly well. Note the results by years . . . 5311 cars tested in 1935; 24,550 in 1936; 24,485 in 1937, and 26,030 last year. The results indicate that motorists are becoming more concerned over the con- dition of brakes, lights and other safety factors, a healthy condition and one brought about in no small measure by safety activities of many organizations during recent times. It may be more than a coincidence that this trend preceded last year's substantial decrease in highway deaths. To travel around with no taillight, only one headlight or poor brakes is no more foolhardy than to carry a loaded and cocked pistol in one's pocket. Watch for the Safety Lane date in your county and take advantage of this free safety check up — another Farm Bureau serv- ice. After May 1 it will be illegal to per- mit any motor vehicle you own or con- trol to be driven by anyone who does not have a chauffer's license or driver's license as required by law. ON BUYING A FABM "T'HE seUction of a farm and Ih* ■^ decision to sign a mortgage to finance a part of the purchase price," says Governor F. F. Hill of the Farm Credit Administration, "are probably the most important busi- ness decisions a farmer makes in his lifetime. If he makes a mistake in selecting o farm, in trying to finance too great a port of the purchase price on credit, in undertaking to repay the mortgage in too short a time and on terms he cannot rea- sonably expect to meet, or agrees to an interest rate which is beyond his ability to meet, he has started a struggle that may last a lifetime against almost impossible odds." 10 L A. A. RECORD

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