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A joint annual mee:ing of the Macoupin 



Service Company and the Farm Bureau 

 was held at Carlinville, November 2nd. 

 1,500 people attended. Patronage divi- 

 dend checks averaged $16.18 according 

 to Manager Dorward. C. H. Becker rep- 

 resented Illinois Farm Supply Company. 



Marshall-Putnam Oil Company recently 



distributed patronage dividend checks 

 totaling $12,308.84. This figure repre- 

 sents a 20% patronage on lubricating oil. 

 12% on rural sales of gasoline and kero- 

 sene, 10% on service station sales, and 

 15% on paint, tires, dry dip, and other 

 products handled by the company. 



Stephenson Service Comnany he'd its 



Annual Meeting in Freeport the evening 

 of October 29th. W. B. Peterson of Illi- 

 nois Farm Supply Company was prin- 

 cipal speaker. Six hundred people at- 

 tended. The reports of President Geiter 

 and Manager Grossmann were optimistic 

 and w^Il received. A total of $10,030 in 

 preferred stock and patronage dividend 

 checks was distributed at the close of 

 the meeting. 



The Sixth Annual Meeting of Adams 



Spr"'ce Company was held in Quincy, 

 Octob?r 26th. This company has en- 

 joyed a substantial gain in bus'ness the 

 past year, with sales well above any 

 previous record. Wilmer Cornw^l'. man- 

 ager, announced that $81,932.61 had 

 been returnrd to the stockholders of the 

 compnny the past six years in the form 

 of patrorage and preferred stock divi- 

 dends. Th=s figure includes $10,730 on 

 the past year's business, returned to 

 stockholders the day of the m-^eting. L. 

 R. Marchant was the speaker. Fred 

 Schnellbecher, Jr., president of Adams 

 Service Company presided. 



E'ght hundred people attended the 



Fifth Annual Meeting of Whiteside Serv- 

 ice Company at Morrison, November 

 14th. L. R. Marchant was the speaker. 

 Manager Allen McWard announced a 

 34% gain in business with the highest 

 net income in the history of the com- 

 pany. L. A. Abbott, president of the 

 company, stated in his report that ap- 

 proyimately $57,000 in cash had been 

 returned to stockholders on a $25,000 

 investment the past 4>4 years. Patronage 

 dividend checks totaling $14,291.07 were 



Mary Lake, 10, of Menard county and her Reserve Champion Calf, "Lakeside Stamp," a short- 

 horn. The calf sold for 31c a pound to the Illinois Agricultural Association at the Producers Baby 

 Beef Club Show and Sale, E. St. Louis, Nov. 22. Luella Padgett, 15, of Adams county showed the 

 Grand Champion, "Frisky," a yearling Angus, which sold to Sleloff Packing Co. of St. Louis for 

 $1.10 a lb. The I. A. A. bid on the calves to express its interest in fostering and promoting 

 4-H Club work. 



distributed. A 15% patronage dividend 

 was paid on certain commodities and 

 10% on others. Ninety-three per cent of 

 the Farm Bureau members in Whiteside 

 have patronized the company the past 

 year. 



A recent customer survey reveals that 



the sixty member companies affiliated 

 with Illinois Farm Supply Company are 

 lubricating 28,198 tractors with Penn 

 Bond and Blue Seal Motor Oils. This is 

 half the tractors in the state! The other 

 half is divided amon<? 650 other petrole- 

 um d'stributors. This is evidence that 

 Blue Seal and Penn Bond Motor Oils are 

 mortf popular among farmers than any 

 other brand. A summary of this survey 

 shows 14,591 International Tractors, 

 3.571 John Deere, 3,449 Fordson, 1,366 

 Allis Chalmers, 1,323 J. I. Case, 979 

 Oliver Hart Parr, 722 Twin City, 516 

 Caterpi'lar, 457 Wallis (Massey-Harris), ' 

 219 Rock Island, and 1,005 all other 

 makes. 



I. A. A. Buys Reserve 



Champion Club Calf 



The winners of the 1935 Presidential 



Soyoil Paint Campaign were announced 

 and prizes were awarded at a series of 

 sales meetings held early last month. 

 Charles N. Whitebread, manager of the 

 Lee County Service Company was the 

 leading manager of the state. Dale Wil- 

 son, manasrer of Henry-Stark Service 

 Company, was the leader of the Rough 

 Rider Division. A. M. Ault, formerly of 

 JoDaviess, and now manager of Mar- 

 shall-Putnam Oil Company, divided the 

 Norsemen leadership with Allen Mc- 

 Ward. manager of Whiteside Service 

 Company. G. H. Foley, manager of 



County Farm Bureaus in Central and 

 Western Illinois, eastern Missouri, and 

 southeastern Iowa co-operated with the 

 Producers Commission Association at E. 

 St. Louis in sponsoring a successful Baby 

 Beef Club Show and Sale at the National 

 Stock Yards Nov. 21-22. 



Nearly 200 boys and girls from 39 

 counties exhibited. Illinois furnished 

 about 150 of the calves from 29 counties, 

 Sangamon county alone showing 23 

 calves to lead the list. Madison and Mon- 

 roe had 11 calves each ^nd Greene coun- 

 ty 10. rv .-■-.:;.;:;-v I ;.:;:•-;- :.;; 



The grand cliampion calf, a twin to a 

 heifer, was bred by George Dyson of 

 Rushville. Under the direction of Club 

 Leader J. C. McLean of Adams county 

 the calf was fed a ration of ground com, 

 ground oats, and grround barley, dried 

 brewers' grains, soybean oilmeal and 

 molasses. Clover and alfalfa hay pro- 

 vided the roughage. Frisky weighed 980 

 lbs. The reserve champion calf which 

 weighed 1030 lbs. was fed shelled corn, 

 linseed oilmeal and beet pulp, alfalfa 

 and timothy hay. It was purchased by 

 the L A. A. for 31c a lb. 



Shelby-Effingham Service Compfiny, was 

 Division Leader of the Egyptian Di- 

 vision. Leadership in the Ill'ni Division 

 was divided between R. G. Stewtrt, man- 

 ager of the Champaign County Service 

 Company, and Z. W. Welch, manager of 

 Macon-Piatt Service Company. 



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