Farm Supply News 



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at the annual meeting of the Iroquois Ser- 

 vice Company, Watseka, December 11. Di- 

 vidend checks averaging $30.85, were dis- 

 tributed to 1,040 Farm Bureau members. 



Patronage rates were 18 per cent on mo- 

 tor oils and grease; 15 per cent on Soyoil 

 paint; 13 per cent on other miscellaneous 

 rural sales, service station, and dealer busi- 

 ness; and 10 per cent on kerosene and dis- 

 tillate. 



During the year the company collected 

 $59,574.73 in state and federal taxes on net 

 sales of $305,653.74. 



Fred E. Herndon was principal speaker. 



dividends amounted to $7,744.69. 



W. B. Peterson, Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company, showed the new slide film, 

 "Eleven Years of Growth." 



Eleven hundred and twenty-eight Farm 

 Bureau members in Macon and Piatt coun- 

 ties shared in the $27,800 patronage melon 

 divided by the Macon-Piatt Service Com- 

 pany annual meeting, Decatur, December 9, 

 according to Secretary Jesse L. Beery. The 

 average dividend was $18.93 per Farm Bur- 

 eau member. An increase of 27 per cent 

 in sales and 29 per cent in net income was 

 reported by Manager Z. W Welch. Patron- 

 age dividend rates were 17 per cent on 

 motor oil and paint; 15 per cent on gaso- 

 line, grease, tires, and other miscellaneous 

 sales; 10 per cent on kerosene, tractor dis- 

 tillates, and burner oils; and 10 per cent 

 on dealer and service station sales. 



Wilbur James of Mansfield was elected 

 as director to succeed his father, E. B. James, 

 and Vernie Pistorius of Blue Mound was 

 elected to replace Fred McCulIey, retired. 

 More than ''00 persons attended the meeting. 



Farm Bureau members in Morgan and 

 Scott counties marked the twentieth annual 

 meeting of Morgan County Farm Bureau 

 and the tenth annual meeting of Morgan- 

 Scott Service Company by dividing $30,- 

 920.01 in patronage dividends from the 

 Service Company's past year's business, Jack- 

 sonville, December 8. The checks averaged 

 $22.30 per member. 



Dinner was served at five local churches 

 to more than a thousand persons. 



Farm Adviser Coolidge reported on Farm 

 Bureau activities; Claude H. Jewsbury, man- 

 ager of the Service Company, reported 

 progress made by the company during the 

 year. He announced that within recent 

 months Blue Seal feeds have replaced the 

 brand of feed formerly handled. 



J. C. Spitler and L. R. Marchant were 

 the speakers. 



Daniel Dietrick of Concord and Guy Ben- 

 der of Alexander were elected directors. 



Logan-Mason Service Company distributed 

 $20,000 in patronage dividends at its annual 

 meeting, Lincoln, November 30. Manager 

 Fred Lanterman reported increased business 

 during the year. 



The entire board of directors was re- 

 elected. C. H. Becker was principal speaker. 



Gains of 38.5 per cent in sales and 33.2 

 per cent in net income were reported at 

 the fourth annual meeting of the Hender- 

 son Service Company by Manager Nese- 

 meier, Biggsville, December 11. The total 

 net income for the year is two and one-half 

 times greater than the capital stock of the 

 company. 



At the close of the meeting, 446 Farm 

 Bureau member patrons, 88 per cent of the 

 total membership, received patronage divi- 

 dend checks averaging $17.36. The total 



With a record of $157,726.04 net sales, 

 for the year, the Madison Service Company 

 closed its sixth annual meeting, Edwards- 

 ville, December 9, by cutting a melon of 

 $21,860.70. . Dividend payments averaged 

 $25.90 per member patron. The rates of 

 dividends on various products ranged as 

 follows: lubricating oil 20 per cent; paint 

 18 per cent; gasoline and kerosene 14 per 

 cent; miscellaneous 10 per cent; service sta- 

 tions 10 per cent; and distillate 5 per cent. 

 Manager Livingston reported substantial 

 gains in sales of all products handled. 



The entire board of directors was re- 

 elected. 



C. H. Becker addressed the 350 members 

 who attended the meeting. 



Patronage dividends averaging $15.73 per 

 member patron were distributed at the third 

 annual meeting of the Green County Service 

 Company (Cooperative), Monroe, Wiscon- 

 sin, December 8th. At the close of the 

 meeting 242 Farm Bureau patrons of the 

 company received patronage dividends to- 

 talling $3,807.63. 



Since the company has a joint manage- 

 ment arrangement with Stephenson Service 

 Company, A. O. Grossmann gave the man- 

 agement report. Roscoe Smith, R. J. 

 Douglas, J. D. Hahlen, Fred Detwiller and 

 C. E. Young were unanimously re-elected 

 directors. The informative meeting was in- 

 terspersed with native Swiss ballads by the 

 Farm Bureau's ladies quartet. 



Donald Kirkpatrick, legal counsel for 

 the American Farm Bureau Federation was 

 the principal speaker and W. B. Peterson 

 represented the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany. 



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