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NEWS 



M. S. Rogers, retiring president of Carroll 



Service Company, announced to some 900 

 Farm Bureau folks at the annual meeting, 

 Lanark, February 4, that patronage dividends 

 for the year totaled $22,609 or an average 

 of $31.55 per Farm Bureau member patron. 

 Six hundred eighty-seven members partici- 

 pated in dividends which ranged from 10 to 

 16 per cent. C. H. Becker was the speaker. 



McDonough Service Company held its 



ninth annual meeting at Macomb, January 

 26 with 1100 present. Sales made a new 

 high of $184,703, an increase of 5.15%, 

 while net income increased 16.05% over the 

 previous year. Seven hundred twelve pa- 

 tronage dividend checks, averaging $28.51 

 and totaling $20,558.00, were distributed. 

 L. A. Rahn represented Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company. Hassil Schenck, president of 

 Indiana Farm Bureau Federation spoke. 



Newly elected members of the board of 

 directors are Roy Emory, Prairie City; Gail 

 HufiF, Sciota; George Dunn, Plymouth; 

 Hubert Caspall and Ralph Copeland of 

 Macomb. 



Don E. Mowry, director of business re- 

 search for the American Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration, delivered the principal address at 

 the annual meeting of Wabash Valley Ser- 

 vice Company, Grayville January 26. W. B. 

 Peterson represented Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company. There was a record attendance 

 of 2000 people. Sales for the past year 

 totaled $395,000, a gain of 13.49 per cent. 

 For the third consecutive year all trade 

 accounts were paid in full when the books 

 closed. Patronage dividends totaling $46,- 

 500 were paid to 1,706 Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers, the checks averaging $25.37. 



New directors are James Drone, Lee 

 Mills, and Pernie Marks. 



Fred E. Herndon, president of Illinois 



Farm Supply Company, was among the 

 speakers at the annual meeting of McLean 

 County Service Company, Bloomington, 

 January 20. More than 2,500 people 

 attended. The sum of $88,26393 was dis- 

 tributed among Farm Bureau member pa- 

 trons who purchased 91.52 per cent of the 

 supplies sold last year. The average patron- 

 age dividend check was $33.57. 



Rock County Service Company celebrated 



its second anniversary at the annual meet- 

 ing in Janesville, Wisconsin, January 28. J. 

 G. Dorward of Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany addressed some 600 Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers and others in attendance. Sales of the 

 company have substantially increased the 

 past year. Some 329 Farm Bureau members 

 received patronage dividend checks averag- 

 ing $15.24. 



Ogle Service Company held its annual 

 meeting in Oregon January 18. President 

 Donaldson revealed a substantial growth in 

 the business during the past year with sales 

 exceeding $150,000. A total of $14,845 

 was returned to 687 Farm Bureau members. 

 Patronage dividend rates were 20 per cent 

 on lubricating oil and grease, 15 per cent 

 on Soyoil paint, 12 per cent on gasoline, 

 and 10 per cent on station business and 

 rural sales of tires and miscellaneous pro- 

 ducts. L. R. Marchant was the speaker. 



MARCH. 1939 



MACOUPIN'S 110 YR. OLD HOUSE 



This beautiful home north of Modesto 

 in Macoupin county was built in 1828. 

 It is on the form owned by Mrs. OUie 

 Rinaker, tenctnted by Farm Bureau 

 member Prentice Cox. 



Once a regular stage coach stop and 

 postofiice, it was also a community 

 gathering place. Music and laughter 

 rang out as the boys and girls of the gay '40s and 'SOs did the square dance to 

 the tunes oi old time fiddlers in the spacious play room upstairs. 



The stairway to the right is on the third floor and leadia to the window which 

 served as a lookout lor the stage coach as it came lumbering across the open 

 prairie from the southwest. Despite its 110 years this fine old home retains much 

 of its natural beauty and is in a remarkable state of preservation coiuidering 

 its age. 



jEoMo'i-SaalH^ Pi(f> QaJliete/Ua 



Frank Hubert, McLean county swine 

 grower, built a moveable, 6500-bushel, 

 self-feeder com crib in the fall of 1937. 

 The sides are made of 32-inch hog wire, 

 the floor consists of planks laid on fence 

 posts and the roof is 12-inch boards. 

 Cedar posts, 1 4 feet high in front and 1 1 

 feet high at the back, form the frame- 

 work. The posts are tied together with 

 wire cable fpr added durability. 



Posts, itaked in position at the bottom 

 so that they can be easily removed, form 

 the self-feeder feature. Frank uses the 

 crib as a feeder only in the summer and 



early fall while the feeding area is com- 

 paratively dry. Little com is wasted by 

 the several hundred pigs that use the 

 cafeteria and Frank does little scooping 

 to keep them well-fed. 



While the crib was constructed to be 

 moved each year, it is sturdy enough for 

 storage of Frank's 1938 crop. Com 

 Sealer Robert Coyle says it will meet gov- 

 ernment specifications for com storage 

 under the corn loan plan. A smaller crib 

 of the same type, used as a self-feeder 

 this summer, has been moved and will 

 be Frank's pig cafeteria next year. 



NO HOG CALLERS 

 NEEDED 



A hybrid Poland 

 China - Chester White 

 (inset) shows how the 

 self-feeder crib works. 

 Photo shows repairing 

 underway for 1938 Crop. 

 The crib is 100 feet long 

 and is fed out section 

 by sectioii. 



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