ing feed has been a thriller to me. It was 

 a problem in organization. We had 

 13 on our county committee. We didn't 

 expect to get such a large volume of 

 feed. Our fellows have been honest and 

 all tried to be fair. We wrote each 

 man in the flood area, told them not 

 to call for feed unless notified. When 

 the feed came in we notified them. Our 

 survey disclosed which ones needed feed 

 the most and how much was a fair allot- 

 ment to each. During the flood we had 

 nine relief bases, but all the feed after 

 the water went down was distributed 

 from Carmi. 



"Each man who got help had to take 

 his turn and help distribute. We had 

 five men in every day. Made a deal with 

 the Golden Grain Elevator at Carmi to 

 receive the feed and store it for us. They 

 didn't charge us, either. We had five 

 volunteer workers in each day and when 

 there wasn't any feed to distribute they 

 were assigned to work around the 

 elevator. 



"We still have a quantity of feed, 

 enough hay to last two to three weeks, 

 and grain 4 to 5 weeks. We told our 

 folks to look upon this as just a neigh- 

 borly act, not charity." 



Adviser Wright had all the feed re- 

 ceipts carefully listed by counties. It 

 would make a list long as this page. 

 From Douglas, Dewitt, Coles, Kendall, 

 Moultrie, Effingham, Livingston, LaSalle, 

 Stephenson, Vermilion came caravans of 

 trucks laden with hay, straw, corn, oats, 

 mill feed. "One truck brought a 3-horse 

 walking plow," said Wright. "I didn't 

 know what to do with it until Arva 

 Hanold came walking in. He had four 

 horses. 'I want that plow' he said. I 

 gave it to him. It fitted him to a T." 



Here's how the distribution worked in 

 White county. Claude Hawkins of near 

 Maunie had 160 acres covered by water. 



is estimated that between 2000 and 

 3000 farmers were aided by this state- 

 wide display of the good neighbor spirit. 



— Editor. 



FLOOD PROOF 

 This tank oi Wabash Valley Service Co. at 

 Shawneetown didn't get a scratch nor ship any 

 water. 



12 feet in the house, l4 feet in the barn. 

 The house was torn to pieces, the barn 

 moved around off the foundation. He 

 lost one of his four horses, saved three 

 cows, 27 of his 30 hogs, and 85 of his 

 100 chickens. He lost 300 bu. corn, 11/^ 

 tons hay. He received 27 bu. corn, 24 

 bales hay and straw, 13 bu. seed oats, 

 some garden seeds, 6I/2 lbs. timothy seed, 

 and a box of clothing. Those with more 

 horses got more feed. The cattle and 

 hogs didn't figure in the allotment. Feed 

 distribution was handled similarly by the 

 Farm Bureau in Johnson and Flamilton 

 counties. 



Of some $18,000 in cash contributed 

 in Farm Bureau relief drives, practically 

 all has been spent or committed to buy 

 seed oats, seed corn, and hay. These pur- 

 chases figure in the 88 carloads estimated 

 contributions. The I. A. A. contributed 

 approximately $5000 to pay for transport- 

 ing the supplies into the flood area. It 



DAN SCHERRER AND SOYOIL 

 "A little aluminum paint will brighten things up." 



Rockford Milk Producers 

 Report Record Sales in '36 



At its annual meeting, March 23 in 

 the Shrine Temple, Rockford, the Mid- 

 West Dairymen's Company representing 

 producers supplying the Rockford mar- 

 ket, reported a new high record of milk 

 sales for the year. A total of 54,390,921 

 pounds of milk were sold for $962,- 

 574.62. At the condensery code price 

 the increase amounted to $154,000 ac- 

 cording to Wilfred Shaw who represented 

 the lAA at the meeting. 



Sales of Class 1 milk increased 4.35 

 per cent during the year, although dairies 

 had an increase of only 3.1 per cent in 

 this class. The association shipped sub- 

 stantial quantities of milk to Kansas 

 City when that market ran short due to 

 the drouth. 



The company had a total operating 

 income of $27,293.31, total expense of 

 $16,210.95 and net income of $11, 

 968.96. 



Approximately 1,000 producers at- 

 tended the meeting. A differential of one 

 cent cwt. was paid to Farm Bureau 

 member producers. 



Ogle Service Company 

 is Organized 



Ogle Service Company is the most 

 recent Illinois Farm Supply Company 

 affiliate. Subscriptions for stock in the 

 company have been pledged to the extent 

 of $20,000, the board of directors and 

 officers have been elected and plans made 

 to begin serving Ogle county farmers 

 early in May. 



Until the company could be organ- 

 ized, the executive committee of the 

 Ogle County Farm Bureau handled all 

 the business relative to its formation. 

 Applications for shares of stock were 

 taken and 900 shares were pledged. This 

 was more than a hundred over the 

 necessary number needed to set up the 

 business. 



The temporary board consists of H. 

 J. Donaldson, president; Edward Thomas, 

 secretary; L. M. Gentry, Clarence Rat- 

 meyer, Amzi Johnston, Claude E. Holmes, 

 J. H. Carney, H. A. Stevens, J. L. Hilde- 

 brand and Ray Shaver. Willis Smith is 

 manager. 



Farmers of Ogle county formerly were 

 served by the DeKalb County Service 

 Company which also serves DeKalb, 

 Boone and McHenry county farmers. 

 Bulk plants and service stations in Ogle 

 county now owned by the DeKalb com- 

 pany are to be purchased by the new 

 organization. 



L A. A. RECORD 



