Very good -excellent condition.

GRAND CHAMPIONS John Stowers, Jr., a 10-year-old 4-H club boy of Natchez, Mississippi, estab-

lished a record for Mississippi when he won the grand championship at the Southwest Mississippi Fat

Stock Show at Port Gibson on March 23 and went on to sell his 915-pound grade Hereford calf in the

auction sale for $1.15 per pound, the highest price ever paid for a Mississippi fat calf. Out of the $1,052.25

John plans to buy another calf for feeding and put the rest in the bank to help pay his expenses through

college.

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Here is one more reason to be glad that you live in the United States. English mothe

are learning to wear gas masks and even to provide babies with gas-proof buggi

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CONTENTS-MAY, 1939

The Cover No artist's picturing of American farm people and their

environment has made more talk than the work of Grant Wood. Born in

Anamosa, Iowa, 47 years ago he grew up in the atmosphere that he now

puts on canvas. Seldom literal, the Grant Wood paintings invariably have

something to "say." This May cover picture for FARM JOURNAL and

FARMER'S WIFE is "Spilt Milk," an everyday farm tragedy, stated so

simply by Mr. Wood that it approaches perfection. The more you look

at it the more you will like it. (From "Farm on the Hill" by Madeline

Horn, courtesy Charles Scribner's Sons)

"The first farmer was the first man, and all historic no-

bility rests on possession and use of land."-EMERSON.

Announcement

Page

Farmer's Wife

Page

onate

s for

econ-

6

extra

binet.

Topics in Season..

12

Letters from Farm Women....

42

Planting Time

Hybrid Seed Land

Gardens

Foxtail

Air Cleaners

To Old Friends and New........43

May Life

Now Is The Time To:

News Trend of the Month.

Fiction

.44

.15, 16

"The Farmer Takes A Wife"-by Harry

Harrison Kroll

Crisis?

Supplies

Defense

Policy

Special Features.

..46 & 68

North, East, West, South..17, 18, 19

Ingenuity

Eggs For Vaccines

New Horizons

God's Acre

Soybean Progress

Hired Men

Lamps For Lemons

Snow Ridging

Wheat Prices

Farm Bureau Birth-

day

Associated Farmers

Goings-on in Washington....19, 20

Congress Wrangles Export Subsidies

War Propaganda Hopkins

Economy Scrapped Mice for Royalty

If I had the Wings of An Angel

Mothers Day in Europe

Home Furnishings

.47

Colorful Cottons Will Work Miracles

Foods

.48, 49, 51

Even A Born Cook Can Learn

Reader's Menus for May

These Women Take Pride in Planning

.52, 54, 56

aking

good

ilkor

A Program for Milk.

Fiction

Panels Slenderize

Fashions.

Gay Prints

22

26

Dr. Holland

Four Minutes of Fashion

The Changeless Things

"No Man's Land"-Part III-by Harold

Channing Wire.

Beauty

58

Laws

WPA

.30

Your Spring Complexion

For Girls.

.62, 63

Our Folks Write:.

.31, 32, 33

Letters From Our Readers

Go on With Your Education

Up in Polly's Room

Talkies

...33

Child Health and Training.

....64

Those Allergies

Business of Farming

Fertilizer

34 to 39, 76 to 83

Egg Cart

Handicraft

.66

Dairy

Swine

Pasture

Grinding

Combines

Pests

Feeding

Sorghum

Brooding

High Farming at Elmwood..

Buildings

Custom Rates

Incinerator

Trefoil

Gardens

Short Cuts

Ladino

For Showers or Home

Children's Page

.71

Books

Bits of Verse.

.72

Flower News

73

Passed by the Non-sensor.

...88

.40

Say the Editors..

90

Tim Webb's Letter to the Editor