Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-09-10
ILLINOIS
Il STATE NEWS


mander of the Illinois department of
the American Legion in the October
election.
Thomson.-The Thomson melon
fields, famous all over the country, are
yielding this year the largest and
finest crop in their history. One
grower has been shipping 5000 water
will continue to do so for another fort
night.
Belleville.-SOuthern Illinois potato
growers will pool their potato crops
for marketing this fall. The cO-opera-
tive movement will be effected under
the auspices of county farm bureaus
and the Illinois Agricultural Associa
ton. st. Clair county, where most Of
the organized growers are located,
grows about a million bushels of pota-
toes annually, more than any other
one county in Illinois
straightforward most of the sum-
mer work on farms completed, farm
labor is much in excess of the de-
mand at present according to reports
received here by S. D. Fessenden
Agricultural statistician of the gov
eminent In Illinois. Fall blowing for
winter wheat and rye has been making
good progress and is far advanced for
the season, according to reports. The
ground as a rule has been in perfect
condition for this operation.
ChicagO.-Wealthy dairy farmers,
dissatisfied with the two cents a quart
reduction in milk given Chicago con-
sumers by the big milk distributors,
are planning to invade the retail mar
ket with a farmers Independent milk
company. The new concern will sell
milk at ten cents a quart, two cents
less than the new retail price, accord
ing to Russell J. Poole, secretary of
the city council committee on living
costs, with whom the farmers inter
ested in the new venture have been
comforting.
ChicagO.-By the abolition OF the
last of the restrictions which for years
have caused strife and dissatisfac-
ton in the building industry, Judge
Lands, arbiter in the wage contro-
versy between the unions and the
contractors, opened the door to the
greatest building boom that the city
has ever experienced. Incidentally he
provided work for $4,000 men when
the building season reaches its height.
The restrictions removed by agreement
with officials of the union and heads
of the big building associations are
the so-called work permit and SUBJ
contractor practices
AurOra.-NobOdy ventured to oppose
the championship tractor plowmen in
the fOrty-third annual Wheatland
blowing match at Plainfield, perhaps
because of the tradition attached to
a name. The tractor champion, AL
bert Stark, is q son of Cyrus Stark
many times champion in the days
when the hOrse-drawn pillow was the
only blade used in turning a furrow.
In any event, when Albert wheeled his
machine up to the starting mark to
defend against the world the title he
won last year not person offered to
enter the lists. Just as Stark went
unchallenged in the tractor contest,
so did Frank BOardman of Wheatland
in the horse-drawn event.
Washington, d. C.-The bureau Of
announces that the costs of govern
ment for the city of Aurora, Ill, for
the fiscal year ending Dec. 81, 1920,
amounted to S969,541, which was a
per capita cost of $247S. In 1917
the per capita cost was $22.9O, and
in 1914, $24.46, the totals for these
years being $19S,SSO and $SO9,311 re-
spectively. The per capita costs for
1920 consisted of expenses of general
departments, 1904; expenses Of gen.
eral departments, 1904; expenses Of
public service enterprises, $3.44; pay
ments for interest, SLIT; and
for OUTLAWS, 1922. The total
revenue receipts in 1920 were
1927 1892, or S25.2S per capita. For
the fiscal year the per capita ex-
cess of revenue receipts over govern
mental costs was, therefore, so cents.
Peoria. = Corn farmers appear to
have been hit harder than wheat farm
ers by the slump of corn prices to pre-
war levels, and tenant farmers have
been hit harder than owners. That is
the testimony in Peoria and Woodford
counties, which are a rich portion of
the corn belt. Farm tenantry, one
of the growing problems of American
agriculture, has increased to such a
degree that nearly two out of every
five farms in the United States are
run by renters instead Of by owners,
and the fastest increase has been in
the states comprising the bread bas-
ket region. Of all the northern states,
Illinois now has most tenants-101,-
1876. Of all the farms in the state,
42.7 are operated by tenants, and in
WOodfOrd county, it is said, the ratio
is higher and there are about as many
renters as owners, many of the
tenants, however, being relatives of
the deed holders.
Mount Carroll.-COrn, fully ripened.
is being gathered on farms in the vi
cinity of Mount Carroll a month earlier
than usual. The cars in most cases
are large and well filed.
Chicago.-Added work on the New
Union railroad terminal in Chicago, to
employ 700 to 900 men, is being
planned to start in the next three
months.