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News and Views 



Uncle Ab says the strange thing about 

 war is that it is based on fear. 



Test crops reveal that Hybrid corn 



outyielded standard, open-pollinated 

 varieties by an average of 15 bushels to 

 the acre in Illinois last year. 



Handling a volume of livestock 



larger than the next three largest firms 

 combined, more cattle than the next 

 two largest, more hogs than the next 

 seven, is the record of the Chicago Pro- 

 ducers Commission Association in 1936. 



No County Farm Bureau in any 



county shall solicit or accept member- 

 ship of persons living in any other 

 county without the consent of the 

 Couny Farm Bureau in that county, a 

 resolution approved by the board of 

 directors of the I. A. A. declares. 



R. L. Ash is the new Farm Adviser 



in Clark County. He succeeds R. E. 

 Apple, now Farm Adviser in Jasper 

 County. 



Roy Johnson is the new Farm Ad- 

 viser in DeKalb County. He succeeds 

 R. N. Rasmussen. 



Harry L. Brown, former agricultural 

 extension worker in Georgia, has been 

 appointed Assistant Secretary of Agri- 

 culture. M. L. Wilson, Iowa farm boy, 

 former county agent, professor of eco- 

 nomics at Montana Agricultural Col- 

 lege, and inventor of the AAA, moves 

 up to the post of undersecretary for- 

 merly occupied by Rex Tugwell. 



By January 1, 1938, about 650 of our 



Farm Bureau members will have been 

 killed or injured in automobile acci- 

 dents, according to the January issue of 

 "Your Safety," monthly publication of 

 the Department of Safety. 



H. W. Mumford, dean of the College 



of Agriculture of the University of Il- 

 linois, has been reappointed district 

 director of the Federal Land Bank of 

 St. Louis for another three-year term 

 beginning January 1, 1937. Dean Mum- 

 ford has held the position since Sep- 

 tember, 1933. 



More than 1200 attended the annual 



meeting of the McDonough County 

 Farm Bureau at Macomb, January 21. 

 Members authorized the board of di- 

 rectors to build another story on the 

 Farm Bureau building. 



Farm Supply- 

 News 



Orville Tesch, formerly service station 



manager at Pontiac, was employed by the 

 Rock Island Service Company on December 

 11 to succeed Harold Frey who resigned to 

 accept the management of Winnebago Serv- 

 ice Company. 



Harry Bucher, leading truck salesman in 



Fulton Service Company for the past seven 

 years, was employed as manager of Monroe 

 Service Company on January 12 to succeed 

 the late Theron Broster. 



Greene County Service Company showed 



a gain in the volume of business handled, 

 net income and dividend returns on past 

 year's business. The annual meeting of the 

 Company was held on January 2 at the 

 Greenfield Community High School which 

 was attended by 407 farm people. According 

 to Mr. Wehrly, President, sales increased 

 $17,986 or 22.7% over 1935. "This is the 

 result," he said, "of farmers attending to 

 their own business, following a sound credit 

 policy and fostering an aggressive selling 

 program." Preferred stock and patronage 

 dividend checks were distributed at the close 

 of the meeting, totalling $10,"'26.92, aver- 

 aging $25.29 per member. W. B. Peterson 

 was the principal speaker. 



The annual meeting of the Kendall County 



Farmers Oil Company held at Yorkville, 

 December 31st, was attended by 750 farmers. 

 Patronage dividends of $9,820.44 were dis- 

 tributed to 377 Farm Bureau members, an 

 average of $19.07. Seventy-four percent of 

 the members patronized the company during 

 the past year, and their purchases repre- 

 sented 90 percent of the business. C. V. 

 Gregory and Fred E. Herndon were the 

 speakers. A 14% sales increase was reported. 



The Vermilion Service Company held their 



annual meeting December l6th at Danville 

 and was attended by 1000 farmers. Patron- 

 age dividends of $12,500 were distributed 

 to Farm Bureau members who patronized 

 the company during the past year. W. B. 

 Peterson of the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany was the speaker at their annual meet- 

 ing held in Danville, December 16. 



Kendall County Farm 



Bureau Leader Dies 



OV HOMAS J. PENMAN, 

 ^— ^ of Yorkville, former 



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 vice- 

 president of Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company, died December 18 

 in the home where he spent his entire 

 life. 



In addition to being a charter mem- 

 ber of the Kendall County Farm 

 Bureau, Mr. Penman served that or- 

 ganization for eight years as a director, 

 holding the office of treasurer this past 

 year. During this entire period, rec- 

 ords show he missed but one regular 

 monthly meeting and one special meet- 

 ing of the board of directors. Mr. 

 Penman, a heavy set man, was known 

 for his unswerving loyalty to the Farm 

 Bureau, sound judgment, and constant 

 attention to the welfare of the organ- 

 ization. 



He was instrumental in organizing 

 the Kendall County Farmers' Oil Com- 

 pany of which he served as president 

 since it started in 1928. His ability 

 soon attracted state-wide attention and 

 five years ago he was elected a director 

 of Illinois Farm Supply Company. In 

 1933, he accepted the vice-presidency of 

 that company, an office he held until 

 his death. 



On January 6, 1917, he was married 

 to the former Carrie Caywood of Chi- 

 cago. He has two children, Caywood, 

 18, and Robert, 13. Besides his wife 

 and two sons, he is survived by his 

 father. P. W. Penman and four sisters: 

 Mrs. Ruth Ohse, Mrs. Laura Hemm, 

 Mrs. Janette Ringberg and Mrs. F. E. 

 Knowles. 



One thousand farmers attended Bureau 



Service Company's annual meeting, Decem- 

 ber 19th. held at Tislcilwa. Patronage divi- 

 dends of $11,363.81 were distributed to 721 

 Farm Bureau members, an average of $15.85. 

 G. W. Bunting was the principal speaker. 

 Reuben Faber was elected to the Board of 

 Directors. 



Patronage dividends of $14,675 were re- 

 turned to 540 Farm Bureau members of the 

 DeWitt Service Company, during its An- 

 nual meeting held December 17th, Clinton. 

 Patronage dividend returns were 18% on 

 Soyoil paint, tires and tubes, 15% on rural 

 sales of petroleum products and 10% on 

 station and dealers sales. 



Patronage dividends of $34,510.90 were 



returned to 1,063 Farm Bureau members of 

 Will-DuPage Service Company at their an- 

 nual meeting held January 9th in Joliet. 

 Dividend checks averaged $24 54. 45% of 

 the Farm Bureau members in DuPage County 

 and 83% in Will County patronized the 

 company. The rates of patronage dividends 

 were 15% on rural sales except 8% on 

 distillate, 10% was paid on station and 

 dealer sales. President Fred E. Herndon 

 was the principal speaker. 



FEBRUARY, 1937 



