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Long^ lines of tables were quickly flll«d by pretty pirls with g:ood food as more than 1400 assembled for the annual banquet in Quincy's armory W?dne$>1%y nlffht. 

 The speakinf^ program and introduetUf of guests waa held later in the high school auditorium to aocommodate the crowd. 



A Big Day In Co-operative 



History Was Jan. 29 



Interspersed with the clear, sweet 

 tones of hog callers putting their hearts 

 into their work, Tuesday, .January 2i!th 

 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 ti« put down 

 the actual figures, here's what he'd tiiid: 

 the business of eight farmer-owned com- 

 panies totaled an estimated S10.18'2,rtr)2 

 during 1934, and savings to Farm Bu- 

 reau members $1,695,198 through the co- 

 operative purchasing of petroleum prod- 

 ucts and other supplies, insurance, serum 

 and in the co-operative marketing of 

 farm products. 



The conference of Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company, attended by 1800 directors, 

 managers and salfesmen of the 58 af- 

 filiated county companies saw and heard 

 how their combined efforts accounted for 

 inore than seven of the ten million dollar 

 business done by the companies closely 

 pssociatcd with the .1. \. A. in Illinois. 

 They also cheered the $03(1,000 pa';ronr.ge 

 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 .'>uie^- 

 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 uain over li'-'I'!, alsn 

 liiought huge savings to Farm Bureau 

 nienibeis and their friends. 



A gross premium of Sl..'!20,00() paid in 

 by policyholders effected a saving of 

 .S.'{96,000 based on the average costs in 

 participating companies, .\ssets 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 .■\gricultural Mutual Insurance 

 Company realized a saving of $300,000 

 compared with costs in other companies. 



Farmffl-s Mutual Re-insurance Com- 

 pany had a 66 per cent gain in business 

 in force to talk about — from 58 milljon 

 to 96 million. Premiums paid in during 

 1034 totaled S2.58,2.")2, bringing a saving 

 to farmers of $12.5,000. i 



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 

 $1T."),000 worth of serum and virus it 

 handled at a saving of some $30.1',iS to 

 fai mors during 1934. 



The Illinois Fruit Growers Eyolu'n-;re 



reported how it sought out wider outlets 



iff.r the produce of its members increasing 



net returns on the 8175,000 worth of 



fruit and vegetables handled. 



20!'h Annual Meeting 



(Continued from page 3» 

 service. Mr. Smith received an enthusias- 

 tic ovation on his return to the platform 

 to preside during the rest of the session. 



Onl.v one change was nia<ie in 'h»! 

 board of directors. Chester .McCord if 

 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 in 

 Southern Illinois. Directors reelected for 

 two years are Ebb Harris, Lake county, 

 11th district; C. E. Bamborough, Ogle 

 county, 13th; M. Ray Ihrig, .\dams coun- 

 ty, 15th; Ernest D. Lawrence, McLean 

 county, 17th; Eugene Curtis, Champaign 

 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 Four under the leadership of 

 H. B. .Austin, the singer-iioet 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 .-pcakers 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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