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Illinois Grain Opens New 

 Branch Office in Champaign 



A new brantli office of the Illinois 

 Cirain Corporation was ppened in C^ham- 

 pai^n Jan. 2) with Rex Lal-ieur, mana^i;er 

 of the IGC Bloomington branch in 

 (harye. 1 he iiranch office with a tele- 

 type machine and two trunkline tele- 

 piioncN IS now located on the second . 

 floor of the Champaign (bounty Farm 

 E^ureau in Champaign. It is expected, 

 however, that the branch office will later 

 occupy quarters in the Lincoln building 

 m 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 C^hampaign office, H. D. Lavery. 

 whose home is in JacksonviJIe, has been 

 hired as the Bloomington manager, ac- 

 cording to Frank Haines, manager of the 

 Illinois Grain Corporation. La\ery was 

 born in Vandalia and was reared in a 

 farming community. He has lived in 

 J.icksonville 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. Vcr- 

 imlion, Piatt. Douglas, I-'ord. Moultrie. 

 Coles and Hdgar counties. In addition to 

 the branch offices, IGC' has terminal 

 otTices 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 for the children 

 of members in the services, and one for 

 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, secretary-treasurer; Lester Day, 



president; Edward LeClaire, Donald Fort- 

 ner. Charles I. Woore, and Hirlo Hicks, 

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

 Henry Tammen, Harold Seedorf. John R. 

 Schott, Henry Weber. Fred Imhauser. Ed- 

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

 ganization director. Absent are Directors 

 Henry Beedy. Edgar Bonvallet. Percy Cook, 

 and Knuie Jensen. 



Figured Your Income Tax Yet? 



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T WILL soon be income tax time 



again I March I'j is just around the 

 corner and farmers are already busy 

 trying to figure out their income tax 

 returns for 19)3 



A complete final income report on 

 1943 income is required on or before 

 March 15, 19-4^- This return will com- 

 plete the income tax requirements for 

 19t.3. If this final report shows a tax 

 obligation higher than the payments 

 made during 19-i3, the difference must 

 be paid when the return is filed. If the 

 payments have been oxer 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 lOloF: This is the farm 

 form that has been in use for several 

 years. A farmer must use Form lOiOF 

 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 ineonic 

 and farm expenses and determine liis 

 net farm income. 1 he 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 1010: Lvery farmer who 

 files an income tax report on or before 

 March 15, 1944, will use Form lOiO. 

 The net farm income on Form lOloF 



will be transferred to Form 10 K). All 

 other income and exemptions will be 

 entered on Form 10 lO. The tax ob- 

 ligation IS computed on Form 10(0. 

 Provision is made on Form 10)0 for 

 reporting both the regular income tax 

 and the Victory tax. 



A number of County Farm Bureaus 

 are prcj\iding assistance to. farmers in 

 filing their income tax returns. A 

 series ot 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. 



I'urthcr income tax information may 

 be secured from a new circular No. 

 ^(i9. "liguring the 19 1.3 Income Tax," 

 which is available at the County Farm 

 Bureau or the C^ollege of Agriculture. 

 Urbana. for 5 cents. This booklet has 

 been prepared by R. C . Ross, professor 

 of farm management, U. of I. College 

 ot Agriculture. 



Mason C ountv Farm Bureau put out 

 a special income tax edition of their 

 "Farm Bureau News ' in lanuary in the 

 form of a farm record book for tiling 

 19 13 income tax returns. 



Farm Adviser K, H. Garlich of 



Brown County has received this sug- 

 gestion for a national farmers' slogan 

 in 19H 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 -M." 



FEBRUARY, 1944 



