Approved Distributors of Blue Seed Grow Crop Inoculant: 



Coles County CooperotiTe Service 



Crowioi 



Cumbei 



Douglas' 



Edgar Ci 



Edwards 



Egyptian 



Farmers 



Fayette 



Ford CounI 



Franklin-1 



Fruit Belt Serrice Company 



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Ra ndolph F ar m Bureau C ooperotiTe 

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lefierson 

 JoDaviess Produ< 

 Johnson County 

 Kankakee Serrio 

 Kendall County 

 Knox County Supp! 

 Lake Cook Form 

 LaSalle County Fi 

 Lee County Service, 

 Iiawrence County 

 Livingston County 

 Logan Producers Supplies 



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Woodford County Seed Company 



BLUE SEAL GROW CROP 



INOCULANT 



Blue Seal Inoculants az0 distributed only by Cooperative Associations 

 approved by local county Farm Bureaus and that are affiliated with 



ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY COMPANY, Chicago 



By G. H. Iftner 



Anton Powers, formerly manager at Co- 

 veil Farmers Grain Company, McLean coun- 

 ty, has accepted managership at the LaPlace. 

 Co-Op Grain Company, Piatt county. Paul 

 Erlich, former manager at LaPlace, has re- 

 tired to Bloomington because of his health 

 Powers was succeeded at Covell by W. P. 

 Gittinger, formerly an assistant at Meadows 

 Elevator, McLean county. 



There are a number of vacancies among 

 farmers' elevators and prospective managers 

 can help out in this manpower problem by 

 contacting the director of grain marketing 

 for the Illinois Agricultural Association. 



J. C. Kennedy, manager of the Sdota 

 Farmers Elevator, McDonough county, re- 

 ports that his elevator is "very much in 

 existence." It paid a 10 per cent dividend 

 last year and right now the feed volume 

 is approximately $4000 per month. This 

 column made an error when it reported the 

 elevator not in operation. 



Cli£F E. Bray, elevator manager at Tren- 

 ton, Clinton county, was scheduled to enter 

 the Navy early in April. 



Ralph Allen, Tazewell county, former 

 board member of the Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration, says that the primary objestive 

 effort is to get things done in the home, 

 on the farm, in the community, and in the 

 nation that will promote the general wel- 

 fare. Degree of success in reaching the 

 ultimate objective, according to Allen, de- 

 pends on the amount and quality of mem- 

 ber participation. This, to us, sounds like 

 a fundamental cooperative principle. 



The addition of new members is possible 

 in any farmers' elevator that wants to give 

 new members a chance to participate in 

 earnings as a reward for patronage. The 

 Ferrin Equity Exchange, Clinton county, 

 each year sends out several paid-up stock 

 certificates of $100 representing accrued 

 earnings of patrons. A little extra work? 

 Yes. Worth it? Ask Manager Hugo. The 

 elevator has 142 members, many of them 

 having earned a second share of stock 

 through the patronage dividend plan. 



Twelve years before the Savoy Grain and 

 Coal Company of Champaign county became 

 a true cooperative the board of directors 

 recommended reorganization. Stockholders 

 voted against the proposal because the stock 

 was worth more than two for one. It took 

 12 years of effort on the part of the direc- 

 tors to bring about reorganization on a co- 

 operative basis. Stockholders now feel as 

 though they get more money — stock divi- 

 dends plus patronage — than they received 

 formerly on stock alone. 



Farm Bureaus have an increasing respon- 

 sibility in the promotion of cooperative 

 marketing in view of changing conditions. 



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