BERT KELLOGG OF KENDALL COUNTY. 

 "It cut my fuel cost a third and increased 

 the power." 



SAME TRACTOR ON THE LAUTERBACH FARM 

 in Will County pulled a 3-bottom plow in hard ground. 



ALADDIN GAS 

 delivered by barge at 

 Shawneetown. 



High Compression Tractors 



Do More Work on Less Fuel 



, INCE I high-compressioned my 

 two-plow tractor it has done the 

 , work of a three plow machine." 

 E. G. Reynolds of Jacksonville, told 150 

 farmers who assembled, August 7th, on 

 the J. N. Geiger farm, four miles north- 

 east of Normal, to attend a tractor dem- 

 onstration sponsored by the McLean 

 County Service Company. 



"And," Reynolds added, "we now use 

 only one and one-half gallons of gaso- 

 line to plow an acre whereas we used two 

 gallons before the change was made." 



This experience with a high compres- 

 sion tractor and many similar ones were 

 related at the McLean county demonstra- 

 tion and similar ones on the Lauterbach 

 farm, south of Plainfield in Will county, 

 August 10, and at the L. F. Keeler farm 

 near Freeport, August 11th. The latter 

 tractor demonstrations were conducted by 

 the Will, DuPage and Stephenson Coun- 

 ty Service Companies respectively. 



• Bert Kellogg of Kendall County hauled 

 his five year old 10-20 International, re- 

 cently changed to high compression 5 to 

 the Plainfield meeting where he demon- 

 strated to 1 50 farmers its increased draw- 

 bar horse power. He pulled a three 

 bottom 14 inch plow set six inches deep, 

 with a four foot harrow following. It 

 was necessary for five men to stand on 

 the plow beams to hold the shares in the 

 ground. 



"Before I overhauled it," he said, "it 

 wouldn't pull a three bottom plow. 

 When I changed over to high compres- 

 sion the spade lugs would not hold the 

 added power. Then I installed Gillette 

 rubber tires and my jx)wer was increased 

 a third and my fuel consumption per 

 acre plowed was reduced a third." His 

 brother, Fred, also has his new type 

 Farmall high compressioned. 

 --■ ■ At the Freeport meeting, a Farmall 



F-20, with spade lug wheels, was hooked 

 to a three bottom 14 inch plow which 

 was sunk so deep that the tractor could 

 no longer pull it in third gear. Then 

 a Farmall F-20 equipped with a high 

 compression motor and rubber tires using 

 the same kind of fuel, was hooked on to 

 the plow. It started the plow easily 

 from a dead pull in fourth gear. Again 

 those present were impressed with the 

 added power of the high compression 

 tractors when equipped with rubber tires. 



"Glad other farmers are investigating 

 high compression," says A. K. Hohen- 

 boken of Henry County. "I high com- 

 pressioned my tractor last winter and 

 now I can do much more work with a 

 25% saving of fuel." He predicted that 

 many tractors would be changed to "high 

 compression" this winter. 



Farmers present at the three meetings 

 heard their neighbors praise freely high 

 compression tractors, for better work, 

 greater convenience, and lower fuel con- 

 sumption all gained by the use of 70 

 octane gasoline. The tractor owner can 

 get the added power and savings of high 

 compression by having his dealer make 

 a simple change of cylinder heads; or he 

 can write his factory for complete in- 

 formation about parts and costs of con- 

 verting low compression engines to high 

 compression. 



William Cole, of Henry-Stark Ser- 

 vice Company was recently appointed 

 manager of Fayette Service Company. 

 The directors feel that Mr. Cole's service 

 with Henry-Stark Service Company well 

 qualifies him for his new position. 



Fayette Service Company is one of 



the younger companies affiliated with 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company. In- 

 corporated in February, 1936, it now 



Barge Cut Costs For 



Wabash Valley Service 



A dream became a reality July 10th 

 when Morris Crandall, manager of the 

 Wabash Valley Service Company, un- 

 loaded the first 300,000 gallons of gas- 

 oline from a barge at the marine terminal 

 tank recently constructed by his company 

 on the banks of the Ohio River at Shaw- 

 neetown. This method of transporting 

 fuel to the farmer co-operative is saving 

 its members approximately one cent per 

 gallon in transportation charges. Crandall 

 received his third barge load August 

 18th. 



"I believe it is possible for a terminal 

 and transportation unit to be formed as a 

 subsidiary of my company with a terminal 

 located at some strategic point along the 

 Ohio River, serving at least 60 per cent 

 of the total gallonage in the southern 

 part of the state and with a possibility of 

 perfecting a system to handle practically 

 all the gallonage," Mr. Crandall wrote 

 L. R. Marchant, Manager of the Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company last October. The 

 Shawneetown project is an early step to- 

 ward that ambition. 



The fuel is pumped from the barge 

 into the bulk station through 1500 feet 

 of pipeline at the rate of 27,000 gallons 

 per hour. The 300,000 gallon storage 

 tank is equipped with modern vents to 

 hold shrinkage to a minimum and has 

 the best available safety and fire pre- 

 venting equipment. 



One of the trucks to be used to dis- 

 tribute gasoline from this terminal to the 

 half-dozen southern Illinois service com- 

 panies has a capacity of 2,700 gallons 

 and can be loaded in twenty minutes. 



has four trucks in operation and is 

 doing a splendid business. 



Oscar Grossmann, organization di- 

 rector for Peoria County Farm Bureau, 

 was made manager of the Egyptian Ser- 

 vice Company at a meeting of its board 

 of directors in Salem, August 14th. 



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