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CO per cent of the rural biuiiMW in Tize- 

 well county, with 1,300 patrons 



Farm Bureau member patrons of Macon- 

 Piatt Service Company received patronage 

 dividend checks averaging Jli 87 at the com- 

 pany's annual meeting, Decatur, December 

 12. ToUl dividends were $12,534.a. This is 

 the best record in the history of the com- 

 pany, according to Manager Z. W. Welch. 

 L. R. Marchant, Manager of Illinois Farm 

 Supply Co.. spoke. ., 



Ford County Service Company held Its 



ninth annual meeting at Piper City Decem- 

 ber 13. Manager H. H. Doughty reported 

 the largest gallonage of motor oil booked for 

 Spring delivery in the company's history. 

 Approximately $10,000 was returned to Farm 

 Bureau members in patronage and pre- 

 ferred dividends. Patronage dividends aver- 

 aged $16.39 per member State President 

 Fred E. Herndon spoke. 



Henry -Stark Service Company reported 



an attendance of 800 at its annual meeting, 

 Galva, December 7. Dividends totaling $20,- 

 466.07 were distributed. Patronage checks 

 averaged $17 per member. Geo. F. Hayes, 

 president, presided, and Manager Dale Wil- 

 son gave a splendid report of the company's 

 1935 operations. W. B. Peterson was speaker. 



Morgan-Scott Service Company returned 



$20,000 in dividends on the past year's opera- 

 tions. Patronage dividends averaged $18.73 

 per member. At the company's annual meet- 

 ing December 11. Manager Jewsbury re- 

 ported increases in all lines including a gain 

 of 500 i)er cent in Soyoil paint sales. W. B. 

 Peterson represented the state company at 

 this meeting. 



Bureau Service Company, operating under 



the management of LaSalle County Farm 

 Supply Company, reports another good year. 

 Its annual meeting was held at Walnut, De- 

 cember 14 in connection with the Farm Bu- 

 reau armual meeting. W. B. Peterson was 

 a speaker. Six hundred and forty-one divi- 

 dend checks were issued. 



Rock Island Service Company held its sec- 

 ond annual meeting in Moline November 23. 

 W. B. Peterson was the speaker. Manager 

 Harold Q. Frey gave a most encouraging re- 

 port. Approximately $4,000 in cash was paid 

 to members, including a 7 per cent preferred 

 dividend. 



Immediately following its sixth annual 



meeting Pekin, December 17, patronage divi- 

 dend checks numbering 1,063 were distrib- 

 uted by Tazewell Service Company. L. R. 

 Marchant was the principal speaker. Walter 

 S. Frazee, president, announced that cash 

 refunds aggregating $85,000 had been re- 

 turned to Farm Bureau members since the 

 company was organized 5% years ago. Man- 

 ager Clyde Woolsey stated that the com- 

 pany had emerged from the severest price 

 war in its history with funds to pay divi- 

 dends totaling $14,725.73, after recovering 

 from an operating loss of $4,600 during a 

 ninety-day period. Manager Woolsey claims 



About 700 people attended the sixth an- 

 nual meeting of Fulton Service Company. 

 Canton. December 18. to hear reports of the 

 company's most successful year. Business in- 

 creased 36 per cent, and the net income and 

 patronage dividends 30 per cent over the 

 preceding year, according to Manager C. L. 

 Siehr. BUghty-five per cent of the Farm Bu- 

 reau members patronized the company the 

 past year. Harry L. Leeper, president, an- 

 nounced that, due to the low percentage of 

 accounts receivable, (less than one per cent 

 of sales> the sum of $16,000 was available for 

 patronage dividends. These checks averaged 

 $23.85 per Farm Bureau member. Preferred 

 stock dividends totaled $1,408.75 additional. 

 Approximately $68,000 has been returned to 

 member patrons of this company the past 

 five and one-half years. Principal speaker 

 was L. R. Marchant. 



The fifth annual business conference of 



Iroquois County Farm Bureau and the Serv- 

 ice Company was held December 16, at 

 Watseka. An overflow crowd came out. 

 J. D. Bunting, manager, pointed out that 

 the company's increased business with 

 townships and other government units had 

 reflected considerable savings to tax-payers. 

 Six hundred ninety-eight members received 

 patronage dividend checks averaging $20.90 

 each. Preferred stock and patronage divi- 

 dends totaled $15,743.80. W. B. Peterson rep- 

 resented the state company. 



A total of $170,SA2 In patronage dividends 



has been paid to member patrons of La- 

 Salle County Farm Supply Company during 

 the past seven years, according to M. H 

 Comisky, manager. At the company's an- 

 nual meeting in Ottawa. December 17. a 16 

 per cent patronage dividend was declared 

 totaling $27,828.95. Checks numbering 1.050 

 were issued, averaging $26.35 per member 

 patron. In addition $1,890 was paid back in 

 preferred dividends. W. H. Stockley, Earl- 

 ville, and Harry Flesburg, Winona, were new 

 members elected to the board. W. B. Peter- 

 son represented Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany. 



Kane County Service Company held its 



sixth annual meeting in Sugar Grove. De- 

 cember 18. Patronage dividend checks, aver- 

 aging $25.97 each, were distributed to 522 

 Farm Bureau members. Patronage and pre- 

 ferred stock dividends this year totaled $14,- 

 435.25, largest in the company's history. G. 

 C. Wame, manager, reported 157 per cent in- 

 crease in paint sales and 37 per cent in all 

 petroleum products. W. B. Peterson at- 

 tended. 



Patronage dividend checks distributed by 



Madison Service Company at its third an- 

 nual meeting, Edwardsville. December 19th, 

 exceeded Farm Bureau dues for the year. 

 The siun of $10,706.01 was returned, an aver- 

 age of $16.60 per member. 92% of the Farm 

 Bureau members patronized the company 

 the past year. In addition $910 was paid In 

 preferred dividends. Manager Livingston 

 stated that the number of truck salesmen 

 had been increased from four to seven 

 within the year, which resulted in nineteen 

 new customers per month and a 32.6% in- 

 crease in business. L. R Marchant was the 

 speaker. 



Pota+o Control Plan 



Begins on 1936 Crop 



Tax free allotment of 600,000 bushels 

 has been made to Illinois commercial 

 growers under the Potato control pro- 

 gram recently announced by the AAA. 

 The act places no restrictions on total 

 production, but each commercial grower, 

 that is one who has been producing and 

 marketing upwards of a fifty bushel av- 

 erage yearly, will be given an allotment. 



The tax exemption allotment has been 

 set high enough to aUow producers to 

 sell enough potatoes to satisfy normal 

 food requirements of the nation. This 

 figure for next year has been set at ap- 

 proximately IVi million bushels more 

 than the average annual sales for the 

 country from 1929 to 1934. The national 

 allotment for tax free sales is 226.600.- 

 000 bushels. 



Any potato grower whose average an- 

 nual sales during the years 1932 to 1935 

 were 50 bushels or less, will receive a 

 tax free allotment equal to such annual 

 sales. To obtain tax free allotments, each 

 grower will file an application to es- 

 tablish his past sales. The potato con- 

 trol act goes into effect on the 1936 crop. 

 It does not apply to potatoes grown in 

 1935. t .- • 



More Than 73,000 I. A. A. 

 Farm Bureau Calendars 



Orders were received from 83 County 

 Farm Bureaus for more than 73,000 

 I. A. A.-Farm Bureau calendars for 1936. 

 The new calendar, published by the De- 

 partment of Information, is a 12-page 

 job illustrating most of the services of 

 the county and state organizations 

 Three combinations of tints are used, 

 green and black, dark purple and laven 

 der, and orange and black. .-".., 



The pages present photos and testi- 

 monials of a number of Illinois Farm 

 Bureau members. Most of the pictures 

 were made especially for the calendar. 



nual meeting of Kankakee Service Company 

 on December 12th. This company has in- 

 crea.sed its business since it became asso- 

 ciated with the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany and has paid its preferred stock and 

 patronage dividends regularly. Farm Bu- 

 reau membership has more than doubled 

 the past two years. 



Fred E. Herndon. president of illinoli. 



Farm Supply Company, spoke at the an- 



Logan-Mason Service Company and Logan 



County Farm Bureau held a joint annual 

 meeting on November 26th. Approximately 

 900 people gathered at the tables for the 

 aiuiual dinner. Fred E. Herndon, president 

 of Illinois Farm Supply Company, was one 

 of the speakers. "The business report in- 

 dicated a good year and liberal patronage 

 dividends 



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