Country Life Six Months 

 ? Business Sets New Record 





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D. P. ROBINSON 



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Continuing its r e c o r d-breaking 

 pace, Country Life Insurance Com- 

 pany in the six months beginning 

 Jan. 1, 1934 wrote close to $10,000,000 

 of new business. This does not mean 

 issued and delivered business. It does 

 mean applications to this amount 

 were received. Part of this business, 

 of course, will not be issued. Some 

 may not be successfully delivered. 

 But the fact that the company is go- 

 ing at a pace of 

 nearly $20,000,- 

 000 new business 

 ip. 1934 is suffi- 

 cient to give 

 everyone an opti- 

 mistic outlook for 

 the company's 

 future. ' 



M o r t a lity is 

 even less than it 

 was a year ago, 

 and during the ^ . 

 first five months the Company had 

 enough new surplus to pay for all 

 1934 dividend expense. 



Although Country Life is only 64 

 months old, it has now close to $60,- 

 000,000 of insurance in force. At the 

 end of 1934 when the Company is 70 

 months old. Manager L. A. Williams 

 and his staff of agents hope to have 

 $70,000,000 in force. •: ,:; . ; - 



Lapses have been only half as 

 great in 1934 as in 1933. Many 

 counties are breaking their best pro- 

 duction records and only one or two 

 have produced nothing this year. D. 

 P. Robinson, general agent in Henry 

 county, is leading with $465,500 writ- 

 ten business for the first six months 



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New general agents and general 

 agencies are developing in fine shape, 

 reports Williams. In counties of light 

 production in 1933 there has been sub- 

 stantial improvement. Gain in force 

 for the first six months' period is a 

 70% improvement over the gain in 

 force for the same period of 1933. 



"On the first day of June we 

 started our campaign rather auspi- 

 ciously, with a breakfast in Centralia. 

 All of the agents in the southern end 

 of the state were there. At Bloom- 

 ington, the same day, the general 

 agents of the central section as- 

 sembled and at a dinner in DeKalb 

 in the evening we met the general 

 agents of the northern section. 



"In spite of chinch bugs, drought 

 and all of the alibis that agents could 

 legitimately be expected to use, we 

 completed the month of June with 

 $2,250,000 of business, the fourth 

 largest month in the history of the 



company. The largest production for 

 the month came from Henry county, 

 with $119,500 written business; next 

 came McLean with $114,500, and Liv- 

 ingston with $103,500." _ 



Following are the totals by counties 

 of business written in the first six 

 months of 1934: , ; i: . 



Organization Directors 

 At Work in 6 1 Counties 



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Lime and Legumes Given ^ 

 Boost By AAA Program 



Illinois farmers are using more 

 limestone and sowing more alfalfa 

 and clover seed this year than ever 

 before, reports from farm advisers to 

 C. M. Linsley, soils extension spe- 

 cialist, indicate. 



"Two of the most noticeable effects 

 of the AAA in Will county are the 

 increased demand for alfalfa and 

 sweet clover seed and the increased 

 use of the soil testing service to pro- 

 tect legume seedings," wrote L. W. 

 Braham, farm adviser. In Carroll 

 county, Farm Adviser M. P. Roske 

 says "it looks like one of the high 

 years for liming and sowing alfalfa. 

 Fifteen crushers have been operating 

 at local quarries to supply the lime- 

 stone demand." 



County Farm Bureaus are invited 

 to send copies of their by-laws to the 

 Legal Department of the I. A. A. for 

 checking. In some cases by-laws are 

 out of date and do not contain pro- 

 tective features found by experience 

 to be valuable. ■' ^ 



Ais '^e go to press more than 60 

 counties have appointed county or- 

 ganization directors according to V. 

 Vaniman, director of organization 

 service. These men are engaged full 

 time and will work under the direc- 

 tion of the county organization com- 

 mittee. They are approved jointly by 

 the County Farm Bureau and the 

 I.A.A. It is their job to write mem^ 

 berships and make collections. These 

 men also are charged with responsi- 

 bility for keeping accurate records of 

 dues paid, and make weekly reports 

 to the secretary of the I.A.A. 



Following are the county organiza- 

 tion directors whose appointments 

 have been approved as of July 20: 



County "V''':';/'''-:''^ 



Bond , ■■ 



Boone 



Brown 



Bureau ^ ;. > 



Champaign :: 



Christian •. > 



Clark 



Clay 



Clinton 



Coles 



Cook 



Crawford 



DeKalb 



Douglas •. 



Edgar 



Effingham : ; 



Ford 



Franklin 



Fulton ;. 



Ch*undy 



Hancock 



Henderson \: 



H«nry 

 .Jackson V 

 .Jefferson \ ,. ' 

 ; Jersey 

 '' JoDaviess 



Johnson 



Kankakee - 

 ^Kendall —r—^ 



Lake 



LaSalle 

 . Lawrence . ' 



McHenry 



McLean 



Macon 



Macoupin 



Madison , . 



Marion 



Marshall-Putnam 



Massac 



Montgomery 



Morgan 



Moultrie 



Ogle 



Piatt ■- ■:"<.■:'':' 



Pike 



Pope-Hardin 



Pulaski -Alexander 



Randolph 



Richland 



Rock Island . 



Saline 



Scott 



Shelby 



St. Clair 



Stephenson 



Vermilion 



Washington 



Whiteside 



Williamson 



Organization Director 



Chas. P. Boggess 

 F. A. LobdeU 

 Olin Hall 

 Geo. D. Springer 

 W. Z. Black 

 L. F. Brissenden 

 Thos. Drummond 

 H. 0. Hinkley " 



H. H. Walker 

 A. P. Cooper 

 C. H. Mills . 

 V, A. Jones i . ,- 

 Earl Wenzel 

 L. D. Hendricka 

 H. Zies Oumm 

 C. Ward Buzzard ■ 

 J. C. Phillips 

 John C. Small 

 C. W. Stremmel 

 Richard M. Johnson 

 M. O. Lambert 

 Clifford Thompson : 

 Eben F. CoU 

 Wm. Ziegler 

 H. H. Walker 

 John H. Powers 

 Harry J, Stanger 

 H. L. Cummins .. 

 J. J. Ruder 

 Sidney E. Rasmusen 

 A. £. Read ^i 

 G« L. Jaastf Jr. 

 Alvin C. Mahrenholz 

 Lester A. Siedschlag 

 Asa B. Culp 

 Edwin Bean 

 Elery A. Leefers 

 Chas. P. Boggess 

 H. 0. Hinkley 

 Guy R. French 7; ■"'^ 

 H. L. Cummins -^v 

 L. F. Brissenden 

 David R. Reynolda . 

 M. £. Roberts 

 R. J. Hamilton ' 

 Milo D. Himes / 

 Clay Agee 

 H. L. Cummins 

 E. H. Conant 

 Andrew Brown 

 Otto Shafer 

 Carl L. Mueller 

 John C. Small 

 David Reynolds 

 M. E. Roberts 

 Oscar Grossman 

 R. J. Hamilton 

 Mark F. Cooper 

 H. H. Walker 

 Lowell 8. Johnson 

 John C. Small. 



Co-op. Livestock Sales Up 



Madison county livestock growers 

 increased their co-operative shipments 

 70 per cent in 1933 over 1932, ac- 

 cording to T. W. May, farm adviser. 

 "Our farmers are undoubtedly realiz- 

 ing to a greater extent the impor- 

 tance and value of co-operative mar- 

 keting," he said. 



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