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Illinois GramClllnpration 

 Through Farmers N^Mm^I 



Offers Up-to-the-Minute Wire Servl 



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Want to know the price of grain ? Just step to your telephone, call your 

 local elevator, and get the Farmers National bid. Up-to-the-minute wire 

 service now available through your own organization puts you in instant 

 touch with world markets. From the local elevator on to the big terminals 

 Illinois farmers now have a complete co-operative grain marketing system 

 working for them. A total of 190 farmers elevators and county grain asso- 

 ciations in Illinois are now linked up in this fast growing organizatio. 

 These elevators are in constant touch through telephone and telegr, 

 with farmer-controlled branch offices located at St. Louis, Indian 

 Peoria, Jacksonville, 

 Champaign, Pontiac and 

 Mendota. 



For the Producer 



For the first time in history 

 farmers have a complete co-op- 

 erative grain marketing sys- 

 tem at their command. How is 

 this system different? It is 

 organized to pay the producer 

 as much as possible for his 

 grain. It is co-operative. Farm- 

 ers own it and direct its op- 

 eration. Experienced grain 

 men are in the key positions 

 doing the actual work of buy- 

 ing and selling. But the prof- 

 its and savings belong to the 

 farmers who patronize the 



system. Only grain producers Edd!e Spear, above, is opjgffor-manager at the Mendota 



may share in patronage divi- ofRee. He serves elejatoa^roughout his territory and is 



''^'^''^- constantly in touch iMb^Tanagen giving markets, making 



bids and transmitt^^HHTsages. Other offices from whici 

 elevators are q'ly^^^^KtU are Pontiac, Champaign, Me 

 dota, Peorif, a^^St^Louis. 



Lt Your Service 



To the right are three key men in the of- 

 fice of the Chicago branch. They head the 

 operative department. J. O. McClintock. 

 abo ve, an experienced grain man. supervises 

 Illinnis_£]mill^rs and is in direct 



fierchandising Q^pwnTT^h'raiL 

 son, left, has a record of more than .30 

 years service in the grain business at Chi- 

 cago. "Andy" sells and handles all Illinois 

 grain on the floor of the Exchange. Mr. 

 Anderson is ably assisted by John Power, 

 right, who has general charge of financed 

 accounts in Illinois territory. 



Trained IMen 



Trained men are in charge of 

 your organization's vast network 

 of grain marketing news. Trained 

 men are on the job in the branch 

 offices, in the terminal offices and 

 on the floor of the leading grain 

 exchanges in constant touch with 

 grain markets the world over. No 

 other marketing agency in the 

 country can compare with Farm- 

 ers National in size and coverage 

 of the field. It owns 15 million 

 bushels of terminal elevator space 

 and leases 23 millions more. Last 

 year the grain crop was the short- 

 est in recent history but your 

 co-operative handled 40,000,000 

 bu. from July 1 to .A.ug. 31. . 



John E. Pacatte, above, receives and 

 transmits messages that sell the farm- 

 ers' grain at Chicago. 



UPPORT YOUR FARMERS ELEVATOR 



