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Illinois Grain Opens New 

 Branch Office in Champaign 



A new branch office of the Illinois 

 Grain Corporation was opened in Cham- 

 paign Jan. 24 with Rex LaFleur, manager 

 of the IGC Bloomington branch in 

 charge. The branch office with a tele- 

 type machine and two trunkline tele- 

 phones is now located on the second 

 floor of the Champaign County Farm 

 Bureau in Champaign. It is expected, 

 however, that the branch office will later 

 occupy quarters in the Lincoln building 

 in Champaign. This move is not ex- 

 pected to be made for a month or six 

 weeks as the Lincoln building quarters 

 are now occupied by another tenant. 



With LaFleur going to manage the 

 new Champaign office, H. D. Lavery, 

 whose home is in JacksonvUle, has been 

 hired as the Bloomington manager, ac- 

 cording to Frank Haines, manager of the 

 Illinois Grain Corporation. Lavery was 

 born in Vandalia and was reared in a 

 farming community. He has lived in 

 Jacksonville since 1910 and until recently 

 was employed with a flour concern. He 

 is married and has two sons in the armed 

 services and two daughters in high school. 



The new Champaign office brings the 

 IGC branch units to four. Other branch 

 offices are located at Mendota, Blooming- 

 ton, and Jacksonville. The new office 

 -will serve Champaign, Iroquois, Ver- 

 milion, Piatt, Douglas, Ford, Moultrie, 

 Coles and Edgar counties. In addition to 

 the branch offices, IGC has terminal 

 offices in Chicago, St. Louis, and Peoria. 



The Champaign office, as do the other 

 branch offices, will serve as a contact 

 unit of the Illinois Grain with its mem- 

 bers and patrons in the area. 



In addition to operations through its 

 own terminal offices, the IGC works 

 closely with the Indiana Grain coopera- 

 tive through a reciprocal marketing agree- 

 ment under which producers in Illinois 

 are afforded an outlet through coopera- 

 tive channels for grain moving to the 

 Indianapolis gateway. 



H. D. Lavery 



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Two service flags were dedicated by the 

 Kankakee County Farm Bureau at its re- 

 cent annual meeting, one ior the children 

 of members in the services, and one ior 

 the boys who are serving on the farm 

 front. Farm Bureau board members and 

 officials, front row, left to right G. Tupper 

 Swaim, farm adviser; Edward I. Fecke, W. 

 C. Hatch, secretory-treasurer: Lester Day, 



president' Edward LeClaire, Donald Fort- 

 ner, Charles I. Woore, and Hirlo Hicks, 

 general ogent. Back row, G. W. Mussman. 

 Henry Tammen. Harold Seedori John R. 

 Schott, Henry Weber, Fred Imhauser, Ed- 

 ward W. Schwark. and W. W. Holmes, or- 

 ganization director. Absent ore Director* 

 Henry Beedy, Edgar Bonvallet Percy Cook, 

 and Enute lensen. 



Figured Your Income Tax Yet? 



IT WILL soon be income tax time 

 again! March 15 is just around the 

 corner and farmers are already busy 

 trying to figure out their income tax 

 returns for 1943. 



A complete final income report on 

 1943 income is required on or before 

 March 15, 1944. This return will com- 

 plete the income tax requirements for 

 1943. If this final report shows a tax 

 obligation higher than the payments 

 made during 1943, the difference must 

 be paid when the return is filed. If the 

 payments have been over the amount 

 indicated in this final return, a credit 

 on future or back taxes or refund will 

 be granted. 



Here are the two forms which farm- 

 ers will use in filing their income tax 

 returns: 



FORM 1040F: This is the farm 

 form that has been in use for several 

 years. A farmer must use Form 104oF 

 if he reports on the cash basis; it is 

 also beneficial to those who report on 

 an accrual basis. This form enables 

 the farmer to classify his farm income 

 and farm expenses and determine his 

 net farm income. The net farm in- 

 come is the base farm income for both 

 the regular income tax and the Victory 

 tax. Farmers are urged to fill out this 

 form as completely as possible before 

 seeking aid with their tax reports. 



FORM 1040: Every farmer who 

 files an income tax report on or before 

 March 15, 1944, will use Form 1040. 

 The net farm income on Form 1040F 



will be transferred to Form 1040. All 

 other income and exemptions will be 

 entered on Form 1040. The tax ob- 

 ligation is computed on Form 1040. 

 Provision is made on Form 1040 for 

 reporting both the regular income tax 

 and the Victory tax. 



A number of County Farm Bureaus 

 are providing assistance to farmers in 

 filing their income tax returns. A 

 series of income tax schools was held 

 during the last of January by the U. 

 of I. department of agricultural eco- 

 nomics for those who will assist farm- 

 ers in preparing their returns. 



Further income tax information may 

 be secured from a new circular No. 

 569, "Figuring the 1943 Income Tax," 

 which is available at the County Farm 

 Bureau or the College of Agriculture, 

 Urbana, for 5 cents. This booklet has 

 been prepared by R. C. Ross, professor 

 of farm management, U. of I. College 

 of Agriculture. 



Mason County Farm Bureau put out 

 a special income tax edition of their 

 "Farm Bureau News" in January in the 

 form of a farm record book for filing 

 1943 income tax returns. 



Farm Adviser E. H. Garlich of 



Brown County has received this sug- 

 gestion for a national farmers' slogan 

 in 1944 from Frederick A. Soderburg: 

 "I resolve to produce all the food 

 that is humanly possible, hoping in do- 

 ing so I will be able to help my gov- 

 ernment end the war in '44." 



FEBRUARY. 1944 



