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Tune in on the I. A. A. Forum from Station 

 WLS every Thursday night at 6:30 p. m.. 

 Central Standard Time. 



The daily farm program of the I. A. A. from 

 Station WJJD, Mooseheart (265 meters) is 

 broadcast between 12:00 and 12:20 p. m., Mon- 

 day to Friday inclusive. Hear the daily Chicago 

 livestock market from the Producers, and each 

 Friday the weekly market review. Outlook 

 reports, reviews, and talks by I. A. A. staff 

 members, officials, and leaders in farm thought 

 are broadcast daily. 



Forum Speakers 



Pertinent facts regarding the development of 

 grain marketing will be discussed on the I. A. 

 A. Radio Forum from Station WLS by Har- 

 rison Fahrnkopf on Thursday, July 18, time 

 6:30 p. m. 



V. Vaniman, director of insurance service, 

 will be the Forum speaker on Thursday, July 

 25, when he will discuss "Accident Prevention" 

 and what farmers can do to avoid unnecessary 

 losses. 



John C. Watson was the Forum speaker on 

 July 1 1 when he reviewed the history of tax 

 equalization of farm lands and property since 

 1920 and '21 when the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association for the first time in history repre- 

 sented Illinois farmers before the State Tax 

 Commission. 



Broadcast From KMOX 



"A Limestone, Legume, Livestock Tour 

 Through Monroe County" was the subject of 

 a 2 5 -minute broadcast from Station KMOX, 

 St. Louis on Saturday, June 29, during the 

 noon-hour. The Monroe County Farm Bureau 

 sponsored the radio program and a number of 

 Farm Bureau members in that county, including 

 "Limestone John" Gummershiemer, took part. 



"Limestone John" was one of the early spon- 

 sors of the Limestone-Phosphate Department of 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



During the program the radio listeners went 

 for a ride on a limestone truck, saw fields of 

 alfalfa and sweet clover, corn on sweet clover 

 land, dairy herds, and hogs grazing on sweet 

 clover. Farm Adviser C. A. Hughes was in 

 charge. 



Use Your Organization 



When the home of a Marshall County farmer 

 burned recently, the mortgagee of the farm — 

 the Federal Land Bank — collected the insurance 

 and remitted the same to the farmer to restore 

 the home, requesting that he insure the build- 

 ing at once. 



He bought a $2,000 policy of an old line 

 fire insurance company, paying a premium of 

 $23 per one year. 



"When the Farm Bureau insurance director 

 explained to him," says the Marshall-Putnam 

 Farm Bureau News, "that the identical policy 

 could have been secured from the Farmers 

 Mutual Reinsurance Company for $7.60 he 

 said: 'I did not know the Farm Bureau had such 

 a service to offer.' His ignorance, which is 

 not peculiar to him alone, cost him $1$ in good 

 money." 



A Close Call 



'"^ I TIERE is some humor in this job 

 -^ of selling insurance," writes Del- 

 bert Saxe, general Farm Bureau insurance 

 agent for Edwards county. "It never 

 pays for a prospect to say that he will 

 not die for a long time. 



"Yesterday I wrote the wife of one of 

 our charter policyholders and tried to 

 write the husband for additional insur- 

 ance," relates Saxe. "The man told me 

 he thought he would not be apt to need 

 insurance for 20 or 25 years yet, at least 

 not until after harvest when he might 

 have more money. 



"I had to leave it that way. Tonight 

 I heard that he, in less than an hour, was 

 struck by lightning which burned all the 

 hair off his legs from the knees down. 

 We shall surely have to see him again 

 and see if he is the kind of a man who 

 can be gotten to change his mind." 



As an educational fund, 20 year endowment 

 policies may be started for the baby, and when 

 the child is ready for college the cash value of 

 the policy may be taken in its fifteenth, six- 

 teenth, seventeenth or eighteenth year, and 

 used for educational purposes. It has been a 

 compulsory savings plan that has provided the 

 ready cash at the time that the child starts to 

 college. 



A nation-wide program in which wheat 

 growers are being urged to increase their facili- 

 ties for storing grain on farms so as to distribute 

 marketings throughout the season to prevent 

 gluts and to secure the premiums of high pro- 

 tein content is being launched by the Bureau 

 of Agricultural Economics, U. S. D. A. 



Thanks For Quick 

 Service 



Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 

 Co., Chicago, III. 



"I am this day in receipt of your 

 check in full for claim of $7 Re: Way- 

 land Sears auto accident," wrote Charles 

 H. Francis, Woodstock, Illinois, lawyer, 

 on June 29. 



"I did not write you in regard to this 

 claim until June 25," continues Mr. 

 Francis. "I just want to let you know 

 that I highly appreciate the quick serv- 

 ice and lack of red tape in the matter. 

 That is the way to get favorable ad- 

 vertising and at the same time to give the 

 best of satisfaction." 



Progress Against i 



■ -^ T. B. in Whiteside 



T^EN thousand eight hundred and sixty-four 

 A cattle were tested for tuberculosis in 

 Whiteside county. III., last year. Only 2.3 per 

 cent reacted. Initial tests were made of 930 

 cattle with 167 reactors, or a percentage of 

 17.9. Retests were made of 9,934 cattle with 

 only 102 reactors, a fraction over one per cent. 

 The year before the percentage of reactors 

 on initial tests was 11.5 per cent, showing that 

 in untested herds the infection is increasing. 

 With one per cent reactors on retests in the 

 year just closed against 2,1 per cent reactors 

 the previous year, a reduction of more than 

 5 per cent of affected c»ttle in tested herds 

 is revealed. 



It is important that the children of this gen- 

 eration learn the value of life insurance at an 

 early age, that they may increase their estates 

 through the medium of insurance as the years 

 go by, in keeping with their knowledge of 

 the value of insurance. If the boy or girl is 

 old enough to earn money, he or she is taught 

 responsibility by shouldering the premium pay- 

 ments of the policies started by the parents. 

 Teaching children to shoulder responsibility is 

 an education. 



Need Both 



'T^HE following letter was received recently 

 ^ from W. B. Fitch of Lawrence county: 



"I have been carrying a policy on my auto 

 with the Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 

 Company for some time. When I came to the 

 first meeting of the Company, I had never 

 thought of auto insurance; but I refused to 

 return home without a policy. 



"Without Public Liability and Property 

 Damage, any man can lose an entire life's earn- 

 ings in one wreck, and should be the first in- 

 surance any man should buy. 



"Complete coverage- on any car will save 

 anyone his Farm Bureau dues and you need 

 both, as Agriculture is the foundation of all 

 industry. : 



"wi B. FITCH, 

 "Executive Committeeman, 

 "Lawrence Co. Bureau." 



Farm Bureau Members 



FARM BUREAU MEMBERS are interested 

 in the success and progress of the co-ofwrative 

 farmer elevator. In Ogle County of 45 men 

 who are directors of five elevators, 36 are Farm 

 Bureau members. In McLean County, of 20 

 farmer elevators with 148 men as directors, 96 

 are members of the Farm Bureau. 



Mr. Gehring, president of the Knox County 

 Farm Bureau, recently made the following 

 significant statement: 



"The Farm Bureau is not going to try to 

 tell any farmer's elevator how to run its busi- 

 ness. But if there are marketing problems that 

 the Farm Bureau can help solve it stands ready 

 to serve the community an^ the county." 



We are in an age of spending that requires 

 a lure and a bait to get people to save. The 

 competitive age is competitive in making money 

 only. It is not competitive from a savings 

 standpoint. The ones who really advance in 

 the long run are the people who are able to 

 set aside funds in reserve. It is true that an 

 estate is guaranteed the first minute a life 

 insurance application is signed, paid-for, and 

 approved, and that thousands of estates will 

 be left as a result of COUNTRY LIFE IN- 

 SURANCE CO.MPANY and its activities in 

 Illinois, that would not be left had that Com- 

 pany not come into existence. These estates 

 will benefit the beneficiaries. 



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