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NEWS 



During the ninth annual meeting of the 

 Jersey County Farm Supply Company, Jer- 

 seyville, January 4, it was reported that 

 96 of every hundred members patronized 

 the company. Checks averaging J39.93 

 each were distributed to 516 Farm Bureau 

 member patrons. 



Of every dollar of net income, 95.7 per- 

 cent went back in the form of patronage 

 or preferred stock dividends. 



Fred Herndon attended the meeting. 



The Greene County Service Company re- 

 ported, at their annual meeting, Carrollton, 

 January 8, that sales increased 19'/2 P^f" 

 cent, net income increased 20.2 percent over 

 last year. Total net income was $16,617. 



Nine out of ten Farm Bureau members 

 are patrons; 453 member patrons received 

 dividend checks averaging $28.68 and total- 

 ing $12,996.03. Fred Herndon was prin- 

 cipal speaker. 



More than $1,416,000 of Service Brand 

 products were sold in 71/2 years by the 

 Tazewell Service Company it was reported 

 at the eighth annual meeting of the com- 

 pany, Tremont, January 19. Patronage divi- 

 dends of $118,391.10 were distributed during 

 that time. The 1937 dividend was $24,000. 

 C. B. Oswald of Morton was elected director. 



Charles M. Love, Milan, was elected 

 director of the Rock Island Service company 

 at the fourth annual meeting of the com- 

 pany, Moline, January 8. Four hundred 

 twenty-seven member patrons received checks 

 averaging $12.92 each. Manager Tesch re- 

 ported a 33.4 per cent increase in sales while 

 cash dividends increased 52.5 per cent over 

 a year ago. 



The Christian County Farmers Supply 



Company closed its eleventh fiscal year on 

 November 30, 1937, wth total net sales 

 amounting to $161,652.16. 



D. A. Mason, president, said that even 

 though this was the company's most suc- 

 cessful year, they hoped to make 1938 even 

 a better one. 



Manager J. J. Lanter reported increased 

 sales along all lines. At the close of the 

 meeting, he and the salesmen distributed 

 672 patronage dividend checks averaging 

 $24.70 each. Dividend rates ranged from 

 10 to 20 per cent. L. E. Gerde of the 

 Gillette Rubber Company, and C. H. Becker 

 of Illinois Farm Supply Company were the 

 speakers. 



Sales of Lake-Cook Farm Company well 



exceeded the half million dollar mark in 

 1937, Manager Smith reported at the an- 

 nual meeting in Des Plaines, January 15. 

 More than 900 persons attended the meet- 

 ing. Ray N. Ammon and L. R. Marchant 

 ■of Illinois Farm Supply Company spoke. 



Ebb Harris, president of the company, 

 announced that patronage dividends on the 

 past year's business, to be distributed among 

 Farm Bureau members in Lake and Cook 

 counties, totaled $45,000.00. 



The eleventh annual meeting of Menard 



County Farmers Supply Company, attended 

 by 200 stockholders, was held in the Farm 

 Bureau building, Petersburg, December 20. 



Patronage dividends of $10,612.25 were 

 distributed to 576 Farm Bureau patrons; 

 average — $18.42 per member. According 

 to M. H. Colson, manager, the company 

 serves 1,093 customers, 517 of which are 

 non-members. W. B. Peterson was the prin- 

 cipal speaker. 



The joint annual meeting of Kendall 



Farmers Oil Company and Kendall County 

 Farm Bureau was held in Yorkville Wed- 

 nesday, December 29. More than 750 peo- 

 ple attended. 



C. H. Becker was speaker. 



Arthur Rasmussen, Carl Shobert, and Gus 

 Corneils were new members elected to the 

 board of directors of Kendall Farmers Oil 

 Company. 



Dr. J. O. Christiansen, director of Uni- 

 versity Farm School, St. Paul, Minnesota, 

 addressed the 500 persons who attended the 

 annual meeting of the Kane County Farm 

 Bureau and Seivice Company, Geneva, Dec. 

 16. 



Patronage dividends totaling $15,918.28 

 were distributed to 672 members. Rates of 

 dividends were nine and thirteen per cent. 

 Nearly 80 per cent of the Farm Bureau mem- 

 bership patronized the company during the 

 year. 



George C. Bates of the production credit 

 Corporation of St. Louis addressed the 

 annual meeting of stockholders of the 

 Edgar County Service Company, Paris, 

 January 18. 



During the meeting 757 Edgar County 

 Farm Bureau Members received $25,000 in 

 patronage dividends. The average was 

 $3302 each. Dividends of 15 per cent on 

 rural sales and 10 per cent on service sta- 

 tion and dealer sales were reported by 

 Manager Russell. L. R. Marchant spoke. 



Farm Adviser Cbas. E. "Chuck" Yale says 



that 1937 was a record breaking year for 

 limestone spread in Lee County. He es- 

 timates that more than 40,000 tons were 

 used. 



NOTICE 



Illinois Agricultural Association 

 Election of Delegates 



Notice is hereby given that in con- 

 nection with the annual meetings of 

 all County Farm Bureaus to be held 

 during the months of February and 

 March, 1938, at the hour and place 

 to be determined by the Board of 

 Directors of each respective County 

 Farm Bureau, the members in good 

 standing of such County Farm Bureau 

 and who are also qualified voting 

 members of Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation, shall elect a delegate or 

 delegates to represent such members 

 of Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and vote on all matters before the 

 next annual meeting or any special 

 meeting of the association, including 

 the election of officers and directors 

 as provided for in the By-Laws of 

 the Association. 



During February, annual meeting 

 will be held in DeKalb, Douglas, 

 Lake, Monroe, Will and Whiteside 

 Counties. 



During March an annual meeting 

 will be held in Boone County. 

 Feb. 1, 1938 



(Sgd) Paul E. Mathias, 

 Corporate Secretary. 



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I have read with interest your editorial 

 in the January RECORD. Have clipped out 

 a paragraph as follows: 



'But — and this is a very large but — 

 the farmer is surrounded by a wall of 

 fixed artificial prices, protective tariffs, 

 rates, fees, commissions, taxes, rents, 

 interest, fixed wage scales, 40-hour 

 weeks and what not. All of these things 

 enter into the farmers' cost of produc- 

 tion and all of them are largely beyond 

 his control." 



The farmer's fundamental trouble is stated 

 exactly here. 



But please tell me why the farm organiza- 

 tions do not go to the root of things and try 

 to get these very things corrected instead of 

 asking for compensations and doles, etc. 



The U. S. ought to be shipping farm prod- 

 ucts in quantities to Europe as we did before 

 the war, and tariff walls should be lowered 

 to allow international trade. Why don't the 

 farm organizations go after this? Why not 

 fight to correct the other things mentioned 

 in your editorial? 



W. A. Joy, 

 Bond county, 111. 

 The American Economic System is satu- 

 rated with corporations and organizations to 

 control produrtion, prices, wages, rates, and 

 fees. Should the farmer attempt to over- 

 throw this strongly enttenched system or 

 strive to lift his prices up to the level of 

 other groups? No farmer wants government 

 payments. All he wants is a fair price. 



— Editor 



The board of directors and manager of 

 Rich-Law Service Company reported a 15.7 

 percent increase in sales and a 37 percent 

 increase in patronage dividends over last 

 year at their seventh annual meeting, Law- 

 renceville, January 6. 



Five Hundred Farm Bureau members were 

 in attendance to review the past year's ac- 

 tivities and chart a course for the coming 

 year. Eight hundred seventy-four dividend 

 checks were distributed, averaging $25.17 

 and totaling $22,000.00. 



H. C. Condray from Crawford County 

 was elected to the board of directors. Mr. 

 Fred E. Herndon was principal speaker. 



Histories of the McDonough County Farm 

 Bureau and the McDonough Service Com- 

 pany were portrayed on the screen by slide 

 films for the 1100 persons who attended 

 the joint annual meeting of the organiza- 

 tions, Macomb, Jan. 19. It was the 20th 

 annual meeting for the Farm Bureau, 7th 

 for the Service Company. 



Dividends of $17,223.34 were distributed 

 to 737 Farm Bureau member patrons of 

 the company. Checks averaged $22.92. 

 During six years of operations the com- 

 pany returned $95,627.78 in cash dividends 

 on a capital investment of $19,950.00. 



Ralph Taylor and Marion Herzog were 

 elected directors. Talmage DeFrees, vice- 

 president of the lAA, was principal speaker. 



H. R. Brunnemeyer, former adviser of 

 JoDaviess County, estimates that 15 to 20 

 thousand tons of limestone were spread in 

 that county. Other estimates are 35,000 

 tons for Winnebago County; Moultrie 

 County, 3,000 tons; Washington County, 

 35,000 tons. 



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