THE I. A. A. RECORD 



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Otis Kercher, Farm 



Adviser, Vermilion 



County 



Livestock Men Form 



Co-op. In Vermilion 



THE Vermilion County Farm Bureau 

 recently organized a county-wide co- 

 operative livestock marketing association. 

 A constitution and 

 by-laws were adopted 

 and a committee was 

 appointed to incor- 

 porate with capital 

 stock of $25,000. 

 More than 30 mem- 

 bers signed the mar- 

 keting agreement at 

 the first meeting. 

 They agreed to ship 

 their livestock 

 through the associa- 

 tion for at least one 

 year. Construction of a stock yards at Dan- 

 ville at a cost of approximately $10,000 is 

 contemplated. 



L. T. SkefiBngton of the I. A. A. livestock 

 marketing department who covers the south 

 half of Illinois is assisting Farm Adviser 

 Otis Kercher in getting the new organiza- 

 tion under way. The capital stock set-up 

 is similar to that being used by other co- 

 operatives organized in co-operation with 

 the Farm Bureau and Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. 



The association will market livestock of 

 non-members as well as members. Farm 

 Bureau members will be favored with a dif- 

 ferential under the plan of organization. 



The incorporating committee was re- 

 ported as follows: Mont Fox, Oakwood; 

 Ray Cunningham, Bismarck; W. J. Sandus- 

 ky, Indianola; A. J. Gunder, Fairmount; 

 Charles Juvinall, Collison; H. H. Klayer, 

 Fairmount; G. H. Broadman, Rossville; 

 John T. Leemon, Hoopeston; J. L. White, 

 Georgetown; C. B. Crawford, Potomac, and 

 Earl Bass, Armstrong. 



"Record Limestone Year 



THE year 1929 was a record year for 

 the sale of agricultural limestone in 

 Illinois. Approximately 9 J 0,000 tons were 

 used according to estimates by J. R. Bent, 

 director of the Limestone-Phosphate depart- 

 ment. The previous high year was 1925 

 when around 750,000 tons were spread. All 

 but three or four counties in Illinois pur- 

 chased limestone from the 22 I. A. A. con- 

 tract companies last year. Farm Bureau 

 members buy limestone 10 cents a ton 

 cheaper than non-members. The heavy sale 

 of agricultural limestone in Illinois is due 

 largely to the work of the county Farm 

 Bureaus co-operating with the University 

 of Illinois in advocating its Juse. 



The Pawnee Four will be on hand to pro- 

 vide entertainment throughout the coming 

 convention at Springfield. The Pawnee 

 boys are perhaps the best known entertain- 

 ers among Farm Bureau folks in Illinois. 

 Not only have they sung at previous annual 



I. A. A. Trophy Awards Champs from Mr! f ■ 

 County. 



meetings of the I. A. A. but during the 

 past three years they have appeared at many 

 annual county Farm Bureau meetings, also 

 at county and district picnics. Additional 

 entertainment will be provided by the 

 Springfield Chamber of Commerce and the 

 Sangamon County Farm Bureau. • ■ 



Resolutions 



The resolutions committee will meet at 

 the I. A. A. office to consider resolutions 

 on Thursday, Jan. 23. Members are re- 

 quested to send their resolutions in at once. 

 The resolutions committee will be in ses- 

 sion at Springfield in Room 5 01 in the 

 Abraham Lincoln hotel. 



Members of the committee are as fol- 

 lows: A. R. Wright, R. F. Karr, Charles 

 Black, M. G. Lambert, George J. Stoll, Chas. 

 Marshall, and W. L. Cope. 



Farm Bureau members in Scott county 

 averaged a net yield of 174 per cent on 

 their $ 1 5 per member investment in the or- 

 ganization in 1929 according to Farm Ad- 

 viser Alfred Tate. Mr. Tate computed this 

 figure from actual cash gains and savings 

 from marketing, insurance, centralized pur- 

 chasing, and personal service. Savings were 

 computed at $15,060.48. Farm Bureau dues 

 aggregated $4760.87. The net profit was 

 $8299.61 or 174 per cent. 



Insurant 



By L. A. WilUanu 



COUNTRY Life had no death claims in 

 September, October or November and 

 then in ten days in December had five 

 death claims. - , . ■■. ■ 



Country Life's largest day since t)ic fint 

 special was nearly half a million paid-for 

 business in the office on December 31. Sec- 

 ond largest was December 30 with $260,000 

 paid business. 



Homer Hitchcock is the first agent of 

 the Company to write a million of business 

 in one year. He is general agent in Winne- 

 bago County. 



Marshall-Putnam County had more agents 

 writing life insurance than any other coun- 

 ty in the state. Sam Crabtree is the gen- 

 eral agent. 



The campaign and all quotas have been 

 extended through January — 30 days more. 

 Let's go over the top. 



Figures from L. A. Glover, our actuary, 

 show Country Life saved an acquisition cost 

 over the average acquisition cost of compa- 

 nies with less than $50,000,000, of $10 per 

 thousand on the first year alone. 



This acquisition cost plus the savings ef- 

 fected in rates to policy-holders is sufficient 

 to prove Country Life's right to ascendancy. 



Think this over! 



The marvel of the year is not the total 

 of business sold, but the spread of informa- 

 tion and insurance education. Hundreds 

 of agents who, schooled in one year, are 

 able to do the efficient work that is shown 

 on the balance sheets. More schools will 

 be held every two months in 1930. 



Credentials 



Members of the credentials committee 

 who pass on the eligibility of delegates from 

 the various counties are as follows: A. N. 

 Skinner, Fred Dietz, F. G. Oexner, C. J. 

 Gross, and Harold C. Vial. 



The committee on constitution and by- 

 laws includes F. D. Barton, Samuel Sorrells, 

 G. F. Tullock, C. E. B^mborough, and A. 

 R. Wright. 



Annual Report 



The Annual Report of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association and Associated Com- 

 panies for 1929 will be bound in a single 

 volume. It will appear with an attractive 

 two-color cover. Copies will be available 

 for distribution at the Kfctjestic Theatre on 

 Thursday, Jan. 30, at noon. The reports 

 will not be given general circulation but 

 copies will be placed in every Farm Bureau 

 office for the use of tho^ who do not come 

 to the convention. 



