. Lonff li&ea of tablei wen qnlokly filled by pntty r^U with good food as moT« than 1400 assembled for the annual banquet in Quincy'i armory Wednesday nl#M. 

 Th* spe«kiac progrua and iateodnstiaa of roMtt was kald latar ia th» lii(h school auditorium to accommodate tha crowd. 



A Big Day In Co-operative 

 , V Hisfory Was Jan. 29 



Inter^ersed with the clear, sweet 

 tones of hog callers putting their hearts 

 into their work, Tuesday, January 29th 

 at Quincy, turned out to be a day of 

 celebration for the thousands who made' 

 the trip to hear how I. A. A. sponsored 

 cooperatives fared during 1934, and 

 stayed to cheer the savings collective 

 effort had brought them. 



If a man were so minded to put down 

 the actual flgures, here's what he'd find: 

 the business of eight farmer-owned com- 

 panies totaled an estimated |10,182,9£i2 

 during 1934, and savings to Farm Bu- 

 reau members fl,695,198 through the co- 

 operative purchasing of petroleum pi"od- 

 ucts and other supplies, insurance, serum 

 and in >he co-operative marketing of 

 farm products. 



The conference of Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company, attended by 1800 directors, 

 managers and salesmen of the 58 af- 

 filiated county companies saw and heard 

 how their combined efforts accounted for 

 more than seven of the ten million dollar 

 business done by the companies closely 

 associated with the I. A. A. in Illinois. 

 They also cheered the $650,000 patronage 

 dividend payments paid by County Serv- 

 ice companies. Adding interest to the 

 barrage of figures and charts was the 

 trial of "Grumpy — the no-account Sales- 

 man" who was duly sentenced to toil or 

 suicide. He chose the latter. 



Country Life Insurance Company with 

 better than $66,000,000 business in force. 



a 22 per cent gain over 1933, also 

 brought huge savings to Farm Bureau 

 members and their friends. 



A gross premium of 11,320,000 paid in 

 by policyholders effected a saving of 

 $396,000 based on the average costs in 

 participating companies. Assets of the 

 company jumped 40 per cent to $3,282,- 

 142.61. 



The 38,000 Farm Bureau members who 

 last year insured their automobiles thru 

 Illinois Agricultural Mutual Insurance 

 Company realized a saving of $300,000 

 compared with costs in other companies. 



Farmers Mutual Re-insurance Com- 

 pany had a 66 per cent gain in business 

 in force to talk about — from 58 million 

 to 96 million. Premiums paid in during 

 1934 toUled $258,252, bringing a saving 

 to farmers of $125,000. 



The youngster of the bunch, only a 

 year and a half old, Illinois Producers 

 Creameries, Inc., was rightfully proud of 

 the fact that it handled an aggregate 

 of $800,000 worth of butter out of its 

 five plants located at Bloomington, Mo- 

 line, Peoria, Champaign and Olney. The 

 savings to farmers amounted to $193,000. 

 Two new creameries are to be added 

 soon at Galesburg and Carbondale. 



The Illinois Farm Bureau Serum As- 

 sociation was glad to talk about the 

 $175,000 worth of serum and virus it 

 handled at a saving of some $30,198 to 

 farmers during 1934. 



The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 

 reported how it sought out wider outlets 

 fcr the produce of its members increasing 

 net returns on the $175,000 worth of 

 fruit and vegetables handled. .■»• 



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20!-h Annual Meeting ! 



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 service. Mr. Smith received an enthusiast 

 tic ovation on his return to the platform 

 to preside during the rest of the session. 



Only one change was made in the 

 board of directors. Chester McCord of 

 Newton, Jasper county, prominent pure- 

 bred Jersey breeder and Master Farmer, 

 was elected to succeed W. L. Cope of 

 Salem, 23rd district, one of the oldest 

 men in point of service on the board 

 and a pioneer in farm organization ia 

 Southern Illinois. Directors reelected for 

 two year^ are Ebb Harris, Lake county, 

 11th district; C. E. Bamborough, Ogle 

 county, 13th; M, Ray Ihrig, Adams coun- 

 ty, 15th; Ernest D. Lawrence, McLean 

 county, 17th; Eugene Curtis, Champaig^n 

 county, 19th; Samuel Sorrells, Mont- 

 gomery county, 21st; Robt. B. Endicott, 

 Pulaski county, 25th. K. T. Smith of 

 Greene county, 20th district, was elected 

 for one year to fill out the unexpired 

 term of the late Chas. S. Black. 



The story of the convention would not 

 be complete without mention of the 

 Pawnee Fo.ur under the leadership of 

 H. B. Austin, the singer-poet of Spring- 

 field. The speed and accuracy with which 

 Mr. Austin put the various addresses 

 into rhyme together with his ready wit, 

 amazed and delighted the speakers and 

 audience. Some 600 feet of moving pic- 

 ture film was taken of the convention 

 and speakers, part of which it is contem- 

 plated will be used in an educational 

 sound picture describing the services of 

 the organization. 



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