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NEWS 



OLD TIMER BHOADS 

 Montgomerr county waa one oi the first 

 in the state to organize a Farm Bureau oil 

 company (1926) and it claims the distinc- 

 tion oi having one oi the oldest truck 

 salesmen in point oi service in William 

 Rhoads of Butler. Here he is in front oi 

 the new service station at Hillsboro ready 

 to start out on some more deliveries. 



nurooage dividend checks were distribu- 

 ted to 556 Farm Bureau members at the 

 annual meeting of the Warren County Farm 

 Bureau and its Service Company on Octo- 

 ber 13. Donald Kirkpatrick and L. A. Rahn 

 were speakers. 



Dividend rates ranged from 8% to 15%. 

 The average patronage dividend check per 

 Farm Bureau member patron was $23.58. 

 Wilbur Gardner of Gerlaw was elected a 

 new member of the board of directors. 



The Hancock Farm Bureau and its Supply 

 Company held a joint annual meeting in the 

 Carthage College field house Saturday, Octo- 

 ber 8th. Cash patronage dividends totaled 

 $17,240 or an average of $21.55 per mem- 

 ber. Patronage dividend rates varied from 

 5% to 18%. 



E. W. Lambert of Burnside was elected 

 a new member of the Board of Directors. 



Dave Swanson of Chicago Producers Com- 

 mission Association and L. A. Rahn of Illi- 

 nois Farm Supply Company were the speak- 

 ers. The Pawnee-Four furnished entertain- 



Earl C Smith, president of the Illinois 



Agricultural Association, spoke to 600 mem- 

 bers of his Farm Bureau at a joint annual 

 meeting of the Pike County Farm Bureau 

 and county service company in Pittsfield, 

 October 28. A cash dividend of $7,686.19 

 was distributed to Farm Bureau stockholder 

 patrons. Earle Johnson, manager of the 



service company, reported a gain of 13 per 

 cent in sales and a gain of 22 per cent in 

 income for the year. Other speakers were 

 Farm Adviser W. B. Bunn, J. C. Spitler, 

 state leader of farm advisers, and L. R. 

 Marchant, manager of Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company. 



Egyptian Service Company held its an- 

 nual meeting in Salem, Thursday, October 

 27, when some 400 members participated in 

 the annual distribution of earnings, the 

 highest in the history of the company. L. R. 

 Marchant was the speaker. 



Leslie McElyea of Flora was elected di- 

 rector to succeed L. E. Stoutenburg. 



George Metzger of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association spoke to some 600 Farm 

 Bureau members at the annual meeting of 

 Montgomery County Farm Bureau and its 

 local service company in Hillsboro, October 

 29. Approximately 80 per cent of the Farm 

 Bureau members patronized the company 

 and received an average refund of $23.83. 

 Dividends paid on rural sales ranged from 

 9 per cent to 18 per cent and 9 per cent 

 was paid on dealer sales. A. M. Ault repre- 

 sented Illinois Farm Supply Company. 



Adams County Farm Bureau and the 



County service company held a joint annual 

 meeting in Quincy, October 26. O. C. Bris- 

 senden of the lAA and A. M. Ault of Il- 

 linois Farm Supply were the speakers. 78% 

 of the Farm Bureau members patronized the 

 company during the past vear and received 

 patronage dividend checks totaling $11,- 

 789.76. Rates of dividend ranged from 10% 

 to 15% on rural sales and 8% on dealer 

 sales. 



A two-sate Milking Contest i* to be held 



in the lobby of the Great Northern Hotel, 

 Chicago, on November 28th, between Illinois 

 and Wisconsin milk maids. Wisconsin ac- 

 cepted the Illinois challenge and the two 

 states will each fit four of their best dairy- 

 maids to defend their respective state honors. 

 The contest is being sponsored by the Agri- 

 cultural Club of Chicago with the Pure 

 Milk Association, Illinois Milk Producers 

 Association, and the Illinois Dairy Prod- 

 ucts Association, cooperating. The lobby 

 of the Hotel will be transformed into a 

 dairy barn for the occasion. 



The Advisory Committee of the Pure 



Milk Association met Friday, November 

 11th, in the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, 

 where they voted to issue a revised member- 

 ship agreement designed to replace their 

 present membership agreement which has 

 been in effect for many years. New con- 

 ditions of marketing and new needs made 

 the contract advisable, reports A. H. Lauter- 

 bach, manager. i 



Edwin W. Jones of Henry county, former 

 Iowa CCC boy, recently bought a poor, 80- 

 acre farm with a federal loan. Knowing the 

 value of soil erosion control, Jones is co- 

 operating with the Galva CCC camp in im- 

 proving his farm. 



B. F. Beach, secretary of the Michigan 



Milk Producers Association, Detroit, reports 

 that the cost of delivering a quart of milk 

 in the city is 3.8c. 



Daily cleaning of dropping boards 

 healthier farm flocks. j 



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