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Atchison County Farm Bureau News Notes
The Farm Journal offers a large banner prize to the first county reporting eradication of scrub sites. An Illinois survey of 124 farms shows purebred bulls yield a $1,102 net income, while scrub bull herds show a $240 net loss. Eureka School and Mrs. L. D. May led a vitalized agriculture survey of 22 local farmers. The report lists counts of purebred versus scrub cattle hogs poultry sheep horses and mules. The piece discusses definitions of purebred stock and emphasizes breeding quality. It cites J. Kelly Wright on Boone County farmers who bred purebreds as leaders in wartime drives. It advocates enterprise farming records to track production costs and warns that hog losses can shift farming behavior. The College of Agriculture plans to expand enterprise record keeping across the county with new blank forms.