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CHAMPION 4-H AND FUTURE FARMER JUDGES 

 Above, left: Sterling High Schools meats identifica- 

 tion team represented Illinois in a contest for voca- 

 tional agriculture students at the American Royal Live- 

 stock Show, Kansas City. Left to right: Arthur Koster. 

 Russell Wagenkencht. Claude Bley and J. A. Twar- 

 dock, coach. 



Left: State champion corn judges at the recent an- 

 nual contest for 4-H Club members are: lames Stell. 

 right, Fulton county, highest scoring individual, and 

 the Moultrie county team. Wayne Wilson. Charles 

 Rhoades and Billy Baumgartner who were coached by 

 Farm Adviser Krows and Leader Roy Martin. 



Above: Winnebago county 4-H poultry judges, state 

 champions who will represent Illinois in a national 

 contest at the International Livestock Show, are: left 

 to right. Colleen Condon, Clayton Hoisington, R. E. 

 Hoisington. coach, and Curtis Smith. 



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NEWS 



After seven years of operation Schuyler- 



Hiown Service Company heM its banner an- 

 nual meetinj; in the Rushville High School. 

 Septemher 21. 



Manajzer George Scheef reported that the 

 sales of the company haJ increased 21.8 per 

 cent the past year, with a net income the 

 liighest in the history of the company. 



Out of I, .I'll patrons. 581 Farm Bureau 

 members or 92 per cent of the membership 

 received patronage dividend checks totaling 

 SI^.2'r.69. an average of S20 60 per mem- 

 ber. The seven per cent preferred stock divi- 

 dend totaled ShM''^ The largest patronage 

 dividend check issued « as in the amount of 

 $111 02. 



The rates of patronage dividend paid 

 ranged from eleven to twenty per cent on 

 rural sales, and ten per cent on service sta- 

 tion and dealer business. 



Four Iniiidred eiglity-tive tractors in Schuyler 

 and Brown counties operate on service com- 

 pany fuels and lubricants. 



Special entertainment at the annual meet- 

 ing was furnished by WLS radio artists. 

 1. R. Marchant was the speaker. The entire 

 board of directork. «ith Brooke Hdmonston, 

 president, was reelected. 



report that patronage dividends declare. I 

 on the past year's business had hit a new all 

 time high. Eighty-seven per cent of the Farm 

 Bureau members patronized the compaiu 

 during the fiscal year. They received p.itr.m 

 age checks averaging Sl'.'iO per member 

 The total amount ot dividends paid on the 

 years business was S1-,S0600. The rates of 

 dividends were 20 per cent on motor oils 

 and grease, 12I/2 per cent on all -other rural 

 sales, and 10 per cent on service'station and 

 dealer business. C. H. Becker of Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company was the principal 

 speaker. 



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Farm Bureau members of Hancock county 



who attended the thirteenth annual meeting 

 on September 1^, were pleased to hear 

 Manager Dorothv of the Service Company 



The Warren County Service Company dis- 

 tributed $10,181 00 in patrona.ue dividends 

 to 618 Farm Bureau members. '•■) per cent of 

 the total county membership, at the animal 

 meeting. Monmouth. Oct. I-i. 



The rate of dividends on rural sales w.is 

 12 per cent on fuels, with the exception of 

 distillate which was eight per cent. jni.\ 1*) 

 per cent on all other products. 



Harold \X'hitman and Sam Phelps weie 

 elected directors. C H Becker was principal 

 speaker. 



Producers" Creamery of Olney has 10S8 



active cream patrons .is compared to ~sO a 

 year ago. reports C W Simpson, manager. 

 This is a -l-Kr increa^e for the year. 



Says Simpson: A comparison of ^2 

 cream routes on October s shows only three 

 with fewer active patrons tlian they had a ve.ii 

 ago. The check-up indicates less turnover 

 of patrons during l'>'" than In other years. " 



Illinois Producers Creameries announces 

 that It will pay member creameries one Cent 

 more for 92 score butter th.in for 'X) scimc 



The new price assures producers of .ir 

 least I'4 cents a pi>iind more for Grade A 

 butterfat. 



In order 10 secure a reaily market for 



burtrrmilk. Producers Cieameries of (ham 

 paign and Bloomington recently inst.ilU-d 

 C'lulensing equipment to produce semi solid 

 buttermilk. The new product will he sold 

 for liog and chicken feed 



Butterfat sales to the Farmers Creamery 

 of HiiKvmington ironi l.ogan county in- 

 cuaved )0 per cent during the year, reports 

 F (i. Fairchild. m.in.iger log. in coiaitv 

 producers were served by Harold ^^'llllanls 

 until April 1. and Nince then bv Joe S'lwth 



\'olume of cream handled hy Illinois Pro- 

 ducers Creameries during t!ic lust nine months 

 of 19.s~ shows substantial increases over the 

 same period a year ago. Cjrhondale ri-potts 

 a 1" per cent increase. Moline IJ per cent. 

 Peoria H per cent. Galc-sburg 9^ per cent 

 .ind "ther pl.ints show similar increases 



(losing the first year of operation of the 

 Central butter cutting plant in Chicago. 

 Illinois Producers Creatneries declared a 

 patronage dividen.l of Sl(I.S-)~.-S <„ he 

 paid member creameries A ' per ce-it (lass 

 A Preferred Stock dividend of SI. Ills! "2 and 

 a dividend of S696 "i ) on purchases of 

 supplies Were also declared. 



Operation of the plant reduced tr.insporta- 

 tion charges Ss per cent, saved Sv'^no More 

 than a null;. mi dollars worth of butter was 

 packaged and st>ld. "Buvers arc so eager 

 to get Praine Farms Butter that they come 

 out to the plant to get it. C. I. F (Cjsh 

 in Fistl." reports Jack Countiss, sales 

 manager 



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