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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 reverse, 

 as "the young die good." 



According to studies of the United 



States Department of Agriculture, farm- 

 ers m 193^ received the foliowmg num- 

 ber of cents out of each dollar spent by 

 consumers for these products: eggs. 66 

 ccnls; hens. 37; dairy products. 45; 

 potatoes. 42 ; oranges. 21 ; cabbage, 1 8 ; 

 white bread, 1 7 ; and rolled oats, 29 

 cents. 



VC'm. Rengel, director from New 



Trier Township. C ook county Farm Bu- 

 reau claims .i membership in the Farm 

 Bureau etjual to 100 per cent of the 

 farms in his tounsliip. 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. l-i, 

 and 1*) The meetins will be in Chicago. 



Rural Electrification 



V ^^^ HE application of the Fdgar 

 — i^ Farm Electric Service C~,o., of 



^^ Edgar county was sent to the 

 Rural Electrification Administration July 

 16 for a loan to build approximately 363 

 ryiles of distribution, lines to serve SM'i 

 signed customers an^ 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 loan is approved by the RFA. 

 The lAA assisted in drawing "Wp the ap- 

 plication and providing the' necessary 

 maps outlining the route ol the exten- 

 sion. ' 



Directors of the Eastern Illinois Power 

 (Cooperative met with Col. Sass at 

 VC'atscka July 20 to consider the proposed 

 wholesale energy contract with ( cntral 

 Illinois Public Service Co, If satisfactory 

 arrangements can be made with CIPS for 

 energy, the co-operative will not build its 

 own generating plant. 



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 m ^'ayne and 

 W'hitc^ 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 m mid-July conferring uith REA 

 officials about proposed contracts for 

 wholesale energy in Illinois. 



wanted: 



Missing from the lAA hiMorical files 

 is i recorJ of the prccctdinjis (if the f.imous 

 annual meeting of the Association held in 

 Peoria in -January 1919. The board of 

 directors wiiitli met soon after voted to 

 publisli the proceedinj;s of this meeting. 

 Does anv meraher 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 ot the board in Chicago Ray Cun- 

 ningham. Vermilion county was elected vice- 

 president Rav t. Miler is secretary. Other 

 directors are ^X'. H Stockley. l.aSalle coun- 

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

 Gillespie. Lawrence county. K T. Smith. 

 Greene county. F. H. Shuman. Whiteside 

 county The executive committee consists 

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

 Smith. 



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