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The swing to SOYOIL paint this year 

 is phenomenal! On the first day of 

 August Illinois farmers bought 18,693 

 gallons of SOYOIL paint. This is suffi- 

 cient paint to beautify 935 sets of farm 

 buildings. 



More than five million gallons of gaso- 

 line were sold by the county service com- 

 panies during the month of July. This 

 is a new record in the nine years of Illi- 

 nois Farm Supply Company history. 



This is the year that farmers are 

 actually painting their homesteads in a 

 big way. SOYOIL paint sales are averag- 

 ing over 2,000 gallons daily this month. 

 This is a sufficient quantity to keep more 

 than BOO painters busy spreading SOY- 

 OIL paint. 



September marks the beginning of the 

 tenth year for Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany. With marked improvement in 

 farm buying power and greatly increased 

 Farm Bureau membership. Manager 

 Marchant and his associates are looking 

 forward to a record Anniversary Year. 



Do you know that the SOYOIL paint 

 sold by Illinois Farm Supply Company 

 and associated companies would paint an 

 18 inch strip around the world at the 



equator — 268,589 gallons. Brush applica- 

 tion of this quantity would require a 

 thousand men, working two and one half 

 months, and would paint more than 

 13,500 average farm buildings. 



Joe J. Lanter was employed August 1 

 to succeed George B. Clore as manager 

 of Twin County Service Company (Wil- 

 liamson and Jackson counties); Mr. Clore 

 resigned to accept a similar position with 

 St. Clair Service Company. Mr. Lanter 

 comes from Belleville where he has been 

 associated with St. Clair Service Co. 



JoDaviess Service Company held its 

 annual meeting in the Township High 

 School in Elizabeth Tuesday evening, 

 August 13. Five hundred farm people 

 were present to hear the report of the 

 company's most successful year and to 

 enjoy most unique entertainment fur- 

 nished by the boys and girls of the coun- 

 ty. Seventy-seven per cent more cash 

 was returned this year than last to Farm 

 Bureau members in good standing. John 

 E. Bonnet is president of the company 

 and A. M. Ault is manager. 



Clay Agee, Pike county Farm Bureau 

 member was a visitor at the state office 

 Friday, August 16. Mr. Agee reports 

 that he drove a hundred miles out of his 

 way coming to Chicago in order to use 

 Magic Aladdin gasoline exclusively on 

 the trip. 



Production forecast for Illinois this 



year is 261,820,000 bushels of corn 



compared with 146,760,000 bu. last 



year and the five-year average of 329,- 

 659,000 bushels. 



Wilfred Shaw New 



Dairy Market Director 



Wilfred Shaw who began work August 

 1 as director of dairy marketing for the 

 I. A. A. comes to the Association after 15 

 years' successful experience as agrricul- 

 tural adviser and manager of dairy co- 

 operatives at Peoria. , 



Mr. Shaw was 

 born and reared in 

 Clark county, Illi- 

 nois. Following his 

 graduation from the 

 College of Agricul- 

 ture, Urbana, in 

 1920, he went to 

 Peoria county as as- 

 .•^^^^ ^_ sistant farm adviser, 

 ^^m ^^^ ^^M later succeeding W. 

 W^^Jiy ^^H E. Hedgecock 



chief adviser. In 

 1928 when the Illi- 

 nois Milk Producers' Association was or- 

 ganized "Bill" was chosen as manager. 

 When certain local distributors three 

 years ago started unethical practices and 

 refused to buy through the association, 

 the latter bought out the Little Brown 

 Dairy and started their own business. 



Today the Peoria Producers Dairy has 

 17 to 18 delivery trucks on the street 

 daily and the Producers Creamery, or- 

 ganized to take care of surplus milk, 

 is turning out Prairie Farms quality 

 butter at a rate of a million and a half 

 annually. Mr. Shaw had been managing 

 both the dairy and the creamery as well 

 as the Producers Association. 



WILFKED 8HAW 



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 and doct 



McDonough Ssrvlce Co.'s N*w Super-Servic* Station located on* block east of the city square in Macomb. One thousand cars were served 

 the fint week following i^ opening July 22. Each customer got a coupon good for a soyoil paint helmet hat when presented at the Farm Bureau 

 office. Manager Runlda it proud of the new (tation. Si« trucks serve McDonough county patreni from the bulk plants at Macomb and Prairie City. 



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