August, 1931 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Fifteen 



527 Auto Applications 



Received During July 



Accident Prevention Campaign Is 

 Big Project in September 



AUTOMOBILE insurance applications 

 in the Illinois Agricultural Mutual 

 Ins. Co. up to the first of August total 

 29,153, for the month of July 527. 

 The 10 high counties last month in the 

 number of applications received were 

 McLean, Cook, DeKalb, St. Clair, Lake, 

 Will, Kane, Livingston, Stephenson and 

 LaSalle. 



The leading counties in auto insur- 

 ance applications for the past year were 

 Cook, Champaign, Livingston, White- 

 side, Lake and McLean. 



V. Vaniman, director of insurance 

 service for the I. A. A. in co-operation 

 with the Illinois Agricultural Mutual, 

 county advisers, and general agents, will 

 direct an accident prevention campaign 

 during the month of September. Vani- 

 man announces that 49 counties had 

 appointed special committees to work 

 on the project by the first of August. 



Safety Club 



The Illinois Farm Bureau Safety club 

 will be organized as part of the program 

 of reducing the number of accidents. 

 Since the payment of losses takes a large 

 percentage of the semi-annual premiums 

 collected from policyholders, a substan- 

 tial reduction in accidents will assist the 

 company in holding down assessments 

 and perhaps even lowering them if re- 

 sults justify such action. .; • 



A silver loving cup will be awarded 

 by the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 to the county Farm Bureau putting 

 over the best auto accident campaign 

 during September. The second prize 

 will be a banner. 



Damages Reported 



From Gas Pipe Line 



Damage claims against the Conti- 

 nental Pipe Line Company reported by 

 Farm Bureau members from Henry, 

 Kendall, and Will counties are in 

 process of settlement, reports the I. A. 

 A. Transportation Department. 



This is a natural gas pipe line run- 

 ning east and west through northern 

 I Illinois. In some cases the company 



■ found it necessary to go through hills 



and throw up large piles of earth. Sub- 

 soil consisting largely of clay was 

 leeched and washed down to adjoining 

 fields where considerable damage was 

 done to crops. ■ ,; 



In Will county a number of members 

 reported damages to onion set beds. The 

 company has announced that it will 

 settle all claims soon after the line be- 

 gins operating in the fall. :.,;;.„ 



' The Peoria Producers recently de- 

 clared a 30% commission refund. Com- 

 missions to McLean county shippers va- 

 ried from small amounts to as much as 

 $20, totaled more than $1,100, reports 

 the Farm Bureau. , ; '. 



I. A. A. Offers Aid in 



Bureau Telephone Case 



W. R. Soverhill, president, and W. F. 

 Black, vice-president of the Bureau 

 County Farm Bureau, Farm Adviser W. 

 W. Wilson, and B. L. Hudson of Wya- 

 net, conferred with L. J. Quasey and 

 Donald Kirkpatrick of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association in Chicago, Aug. 

 6, regarding the increase in telephone 

 rates of the Illinois Allied Telephone 

 Co. 



The Farm Bureau and the I. A. A. 

 will back the committee representing 

 6,500 local subscribers in requesting a 

 rehearing of the case before the Illinois 

 Commerce Commission. 



The recent drastic increase in rates, 

 the organized subscribers in both town 

 and county contend, was not justified. 

 They assert that the book value of the 

 telephone property has been greatly in- 

 flated, and that the old rates gave the 

 company an adequate return on the in- 

 vestment. 



In the meantime approximately 3,000 

 Bureau county subscribers have had 

 their telephones removed because of the 

 unwillingness to pay the higher rates. 

 In the town of Wyanet nearly all the 

 merchants as well as farmers in the 

 neighboring community had their 

 phones removed. 



Banker Pleased with 



I. A. A. Auto Insurance 



That prompt settlement of claims is 

 one of the best friend-makers any in- 

 surance company can have is the prin- 

 ciple upon which the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Mutual Insurance Company oper- 

 ates, according to A. E. Richardson, 

 manager. 



A letter from Guy Wolf, president 

 of the Exchange State Bank at Lanark, 

 Carroll county, Illinois, confirms this 

 position. Mr. Wolf writes to acknowl- 

 edge the receipt of a check in payment 

 for damages to his car in an accidental 

 collision. 



"I am very well pleased with the 

 manner in which you handled this mat- 

 ter," he said. "I wish to thank you and 

 assure you that the settlement is satis- 

 factory. I count myself lucky that I 

 had insurance covering damages to my 

 car and personal injury." v ; ; , 



New Record Established 

 In Co-Op. Oil Purchases 



A new yearly record in the co-opera- 

 tive purchase of petroleum products by v 

 Illinois farmers will have been estab- 

 lished in the 12 month period closing ■. 

 the end of August, announces L. R. .. 

 Marchant, manager of the Illinois Farm . 

 Supply Company. The total gallonage 

 of petroleum products handled during ; 

 the fiscal year ending August 31 will f^ 

 exceed 30,000,000. 



Substantial gains have been made in , 

 all lines of merchandise handled. The 

 incre&se was due partly to new county 

 companies established during the year 

 and to general expansion by all of the 

 45 associated companies. 



At a recent meeting of the managers 

 and directors of the associated com- 

 panies a goal of 1,000,000 gallons of 

 motor oil for 1932 was established. 



There are 847 farmer owned and 

 controlled oil companies operating in 

 the United States, according to a re- 

 cent government report. These com- 

 panies represent an investment of 

 around $5,922,000. They handled an 

 estimated 3 50,000,000 gallons of pe- 

 troleum products during their last fiscal 

 years and the average patronage refund , 

 to the member was 14.9 per cent. 



This co-operative service established 

 by farmers represents an effort to cut 

 their production costs, to get away 

 from buying everything retail while 

 selling their products wholesale. __ 



Blue Grass Co-Op. 



Formed in Kentucky 



Kentucky farmers, who have pro- 

 vided several dramatic pages of co- 

 operative history in connection with 

 tobacco, are adding another page. 



This summer they are netting $1.00 

 instead of 50 cents a pound for blue 

 grass seed — without increase of cost to 

 consumers — due to the fact that they 

 have assumed full charge of cleaning 

 and merchandising their crop. 



Growers of 1,500,000 bushels of seed, 

 8 5 per cent of the state's production, 

 accomplished this achievement through 

 organization of the Kentucky Blue 

 Grass Seed Growers Co-operative Asso- 

 ciation, at Winchester. Contracts were 

 made with three of the most reliable 

 seed concerns in the state to handle, 

 clean and sell as agents for the associa- 

 tion at a fixed charge of 13 to 15 cents 

 a bushel. Sales have been made from 

 $1.18 to $1.36 in contrast to prices of 

 25 to 3 5 cents for green seed received 

 by farmers earlier in the season before 

 the co-operative was formed. 



Similar co-operatives are being formed 

 in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kan- ;- 

 sas where blue grass seed is also grown. 



