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ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY CO. 



608 S. DEARBORN ST. CHICAGO, 



Uncle Ab says the quotation "the 

 good die young" is also true in revrtse, 

 as "the young die good." \ 



According to studies of the United! 



States Department of Agriculture, farm- 

 ers in 1935 received the following num- 

 ber of cents out of each dollar spent by 

 consumers for these products: eggs, 66 

 cents; hens, 57; dairy products, 45; 

 potatoes, 42; oranges, 27; cabbage, 18; 

 white bread, 17; and rolled oats, 29 

 cents. 



Wm. Rengel, director from New 

 Trier Township, Cook county Farm Bu- 

 reau claims a membership in the Farm 

 Bureau equal to 100 per cent of the 

 farms in his township. He challenges any 

 other township in Illinois to equal this 

 record. 



The dates for the annual meeting 

 of the American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion have been changed from Decem- 

 ber 6, 7 and 8 to December 13, 14, 

 and 15. The meeting will be in Chicago. 



Rural Electrificalion 



\J^V HE application of the Edgar 

 — i^ Farm Electric Service Co., of 



^^ Edgar county was sent to the 

 Rural Electrification Administration July 

 16 for a loan to build approximately 363 

 miles of distribution lines to serve 895 

 signed customers and making service 

 available to 550 additional farms not yet 

 signed, reports Col. C. W. Sass, lAA 

 engineer. 



The Company will not be incorporated 

 until the loanJs approved by the RE A. 

 The lAA assisted in drawing up the ap- 

 plication and providing the necessary 

 maps outlining the route of the exten- 

 sion. 



Directors of the Eastern Illinois Power 

 Co-operative met with Col. Sass at 

 Watseka July 20 to consider the propKjsed 

 wholesale energy contract with Central 

 Illinois Public Service Co. If satisfactory 

 arrangements can be made with CIPS for 

 energy, the co-operative will not build its 

 own generating pfant. 



Mr. Zinder, rate analyst of the REA 

 met with lAA officials and directors of 

 the Wayne-White Electric Co-operative 

 at Springfield July 21 to discuss whole- 

 sale energy and proposed retail rates. 

 The co-operative line in Wayne and 

 White counties expects to get energy 

 through the municipal plant at Fairfield. 



The Rural Electric Co-operative in 

 Scott, Pike, Greene, and Morgan coun- 

 ties has been negotiating with Central 

 Illinois Public Service on wholesale rates 

 but up until press time, no agreement 

 had been reached. There is strong like- 

 lihood that this co-operative will erect its 

 own plant for which an REA loan has 

 been approved. Col. Sass was in Wash- 

 ington in mid-July conferring with REA 

 officials about proposed contracts for 

 wholesale energy in Illinois. i 



WANTED! 

 Missing from the lAA historical files 

 is a record of the proceedings of the famous 

 annual meeting of the Association held in 

 Peoria in January 1919. The board of 

 directors which met soon after voted to 

 publish the proceedings of this meeting. 

 Docs any member have a copy in his files? 

 If so, please notify Department of Informa- 

 tion, lAA, Room 1200, 608 So. Dearborn 

 St., Chicago. 



R. V. McKee, Varna, Marshall county was 



elected president of the Illinois Farm Bu- 

 reau Federation to succeed the late Edgar 

 Walther, Rock Island county at the recent 

 meeting of the board in Chicago. Ray Cun- 

 ningham, Vermilion county was elected vice- 

 president. Ray E. Miler is secretary. Other 

 directors are W. H. Stockley, LaSalle coun- 

 ty, E. G. Reynolds, Morgan county, J. W. 

 Gillespie, Lawrence county, K. T. Smith, 

 Greene county, F. H. Shunun, Whiteside 

 county. The executive committee consists 

 of the president, vice-president and K. T. 

 Smith. 



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