Mcdonough cx)unty farm bureau service record 



Item 1927 28 29 '30 '31 '32 



Total Office Calls 2208 2029 2408 2510 2053 2339 



Total Farm Visits 204 694 722 581 568 419 



Individual Letters Written 2491 2025 2100 3108 2936 2596 



News Articles Published _ 651 446 365 



Members Attending Annual Meeting 408 406 403 438 325 300 



Members Using Serum Service 177 238 248 247 338 370 



Members Using Other Biologies 



Members Using Vaccinating Supplies 47 85 79 9 56 



Members Using Corn Testing Service 172 166 113 140 106 48 



Members Purchasing Sweet Clover Seed 33 45 54 90 46 16 



Members Purchasing Alfalfa Seed 48 41 62 54 43 31 



Members Purchasing Seed Corn 72 16 3 8 5 3 



Members Purchasing Soybean Seed 54 19 50 9 15 3 



Members Purchasing Worm Oil 31 60 55 49 47 32 



Members Using Farm Accounting Service 37 36 56 64 70 45 



Farm Bureau Members With 



4-H Club Enrollments in Family 



Total 4-H Club Members in County _ 26 91 73 82 93 165 



Members Using Limestone 45 59 63 46 9 2 



Tons of Limestone Used 4500 5950 5749 4135 680 250 



Members Using Produce Mktg. Service 102 118 140 100 139 



Service Company Patrons 467 447 



Members Using Livestock Mktg. Service 328 308 



Wheat Adjustment Cooperator 



Corn-Hog Adjustment Cooperator 



Members Using Corn Loan Service 



Cooperator in Agricultural 



Conservation Project 



Farm Crop Hail Insurance 146 280 210 203 118 26 



Automobile Insurance 71 155 218 285 317 318 



Farm Property Insurance 117 



Life Insurance 31 61 170 246 175 



Miscellaneous 85 110 150 197 110 



Members Using Inoculation 69 63 108 130 113 61 



Number of Farm Bureau Members 663 681 719 804 770 601 



Percentage of Farm Bureau 



Members in Good Standing 95 97 93 83 87 



Number of Members Using Service 596 591 644 726 693 575 



has witnessed many changes in methods 

 of farming and marketing during the 

 past 18 years. "We set up 13 co-opera- 

 tive livestock shipping associations in this 

 county," Mr. Doneghue said. "Paved 

 roads, trucks and packer buying in the 

 country put all of them out of busi- 

 ness. The stock yards erected at Bush- 

 nell several years ago was another in- 

 fluence tending to disorganize co-opera- 

 tive livestock marketing here. We are 

 not through yet, though. We're going 

 to take another hitch in our belts and 

 keep going." 



McDonough county has its own mod- 

 ern office building where most of the 

 agricultural activities in the county cen- 

 ter. The Service Company recently built 

 its own office building next to the bulk 

 plant and livestock marketing association 

 headquarters at the edge of Macomb. 

 The Farm Bureau office provides space 

 for the Home Bureau, Farm Bureau in- 

 surance department. Production Credit 

 Association and the Soil Conservation 

 Committee. In the basement seed corn 

 testing using the germination method 

 with high temperature and humidity is 

 carried on for farmers who believe in 

 planting only strong disease-free seed. 

 This service costs II/2 cents jjer ear for 

 members. A total of 129 members 

 used it last year. 



RAY DONEenUE AND FAMILY 

 "H« made friandi and kept twaat." 



At the last annual meeting, members 

 authorized the board of directors to build 

 an addition to the Farm Bureau building 

 for an auditorium. The Farm Bureau is 

 in a thriving condition with its fine brick 

 building paid for and approximately 

 1 10,000 in current assets besides. 



"We always have had an able board 



of directors and excellent farm leader- 

 ship in this county," Doneghue said. 

 Fred Herndon, president of Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company, has also served with 

 great ability as president of the Mc- 

 Donough County Farm Bureau for many- 

 years. 



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APRIL. 1937 



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