Mortimore Believes in Cooperation 



His Farm Bureau Membership Pays Good Dividends 



THE Farm Bureau and ;.'! its serv- 

 ices are just as much a part of 

 farming operations on the Charles 

 Mortimore farm in Livingston county 

 as the fertile soil itself with its ncimally 

 abundant yields of crops and livestock. 

 You get that impression as you talk to 

 Mr. Mortimore, a soft-spoken, kindly- 

 faced, solid man — the kind you would 

 like to know better. His attitude toward 

 the Farm Bureau is that toward an 

 established institution or service he has 

 come to rely on for help. 



Mortimore has been a member from 

 the beginning. He believes in farmer 

 co-operation. When the Farm Bureau 

 set up its insurance services, and organ- 

 ized buying of farm supplies, he took 

 advantage of them. He makes his mem- 

 bership work for him. He has confi- 

 dence in everything connected with the 

 Farm Bureau. He believes in and co- 

 operates in the AAA corn-hog program. 



With such members, and there are 

 thousands like him, you appreciate the 

 great responsibility of the organization 

 and its leadership in measuring up to 

 such faith and confidence. 



Mortimore is a man you will always 

 find on the right side of things. He has 

 not been prominent although he is presi- 

 dent of the Pontiac Farmers Grain Com- 

 pany, a member of Illinois Grain Corpo- 

 ration. You will not see him in the 

 front line of the parade nor on the plat- 

 form. But you will find him among the 

 100 per centers who practice co-opera- 

 tion all along the line and who stand 

 for everything for the betterment of 

 agriculture. 



The 320 acre Mortimore farm near 

 Pontiac is not only an efficiently op- 

 erated business. It is also a fine home 

 for the family. Moreover Mr. Mortimore 

 has made sure that that farm will con- 

 tinue as a home for his family. The 

 mortgage which isn't worrying him any 

 is amply covered with insurance in 

 Country Life Insurance Company. The 

 buildings are protected from loss in the 

 Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Company. 

 The two cars and truck are insured in 

 the Illinois Agricultural Mutual and are 

 operated on Livingston Service Com- 

 pany petroleum products. The pigs are 

 vaccinated with Farm Bureau serumj 

 and when the grain, hogs and cattle 

 are ready for market they are sold 

 through co-operative channels. Surplus 

 cream is picked up by the Farmers 

 Creamery Company at Bloomington. 



Twenty-eight Hereford cows and their 

 calves clean up the roughage on the 

 farm. They get sweet clover pasture 

 for the most part in the summer and in 



the fall they run over the stubbles and 

 stalks. Alfalfa and soybean hay are re- 

 lied on for winter feed. Corn, oats, and 

 soybeans are the leading field crops. 



CHARLES MORTIMORE FAMILY, LIVINGSTON COUNTY 

 Seated are Mr. and Mrs. Mortimore and Pearl, age II. Standing left to right are Earl 19, 

 John 21, Harry 14 and Marjoria 16. 



I. A. A. Member Chosen 

 As Typical American Farmer 



(Continued from page 13) 

 Republican predecessors. Then came 

 Secretary Wallace and the AAA and crop 

 control. Roosevelt and Wallace, he 

 thinks, understand the farmer and know 

 what to do for him. Wissmiller is sold 

 on the AAA. 



"He worked to get the farmers to 

 sign up for the corn-hog reduction pro- 

 gram, explaining it to them patiently, 

 getting them to agree to reduce corn 

 acreage 10 to 30 per cent from their 

 1932-33 average, to raise 10 per cent 

 fewer pigs than they had in those years. 

 About three-fourths of the farmers 

 signed up. Wissmiller agreed to cut 

 down his hog production from sixty-nine 

 to sixty-two. But anyway he hadn't 

 planned on doing much with hogs this 

 year. Last year they got a kind of in- 

 fection and he'd like to get the place 

 clear of it because he and Elwood are 

 talking about getting some pure-bred 



Durocs and starting a new, clean drove. 

 "Under the 1935 contract he will raise 

 140 acres of corn instead of his average 

 of 159 — a 13 per cent reduction. The 

 nineteen acres don't have to be plowed 

 under or left idle. He can plant oats or 

 soybeans or grass, anything but com, 

 and he will be paid $252.70, thirty-five 

 cents a bushel for an appraised reduc- 

 tion of thirty-eight bushels an acre. And 

 for the hogs |105— fl5 a head for the 

 seven not raised. Last year he got 

 $686.60. This program, he says, is a fine 

 thing — it's not a handout from the gov- 

 ernment, it's a fair method of adjusting 

 farm prices and it pays for itself out of 

 processing taxes. It helps the farmers 

 do collectively what they never could do 

 individually and it's only a few of them 

 that won't co-operate. The dairy farm- 

 ers, of course, get sore because they 

 have to pay high prices for feed and 

 get no more for milk, but for the most 

 part McLean County farmers are for the 

 Administration. They're better off than 

 they have been in a long time." 



SEPTEMBER, 19U 



