Two Feed Plants 



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 variety of ingredients and the feed ready 

 for use, and these patrons are willing to 

 pay a little extra for these advantages. 

 There are other feeders who, in grain 

 surplus areas, prefer to take advantage 

 of the organization's large buying power 

 on other supplements such as soybean 

 meal and mill feeds, to be mixed with 

 local grains. They may find it to their 

 financial advantage to use the "Service 

 Brand" feeds. 



Service Brand formula feeds are reg- 

 istered with the State of Illinois, Di- 

 vision of Foods and Dairies. Their 

 analyses are guaranteed by the Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company and the Henry- 

 Stark Service Company. Their uni- 

 form high quality is assured through a 

 supervisory service by the Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company whereby the ingre- 

 dients in each batch are laboratory- 

 tested. The Henry-Stark board is of 

 the opinion that this is the kind of 

 service that farm people want. 

 Through it they may purchase their 

 high protein Pre-mix with vitamins 

 and essential minerals through their 

 own state purchasing association and 

 then add locally the grains and grain 

 by-products. What is more they may 

 do this without the high cost of two- 

 way freight charges, high labor costs, 

 and many of the frills of over-done ad- 

 vertising and selling. 



As stated by A. O. Grossmann, gen- 

 eral manager, "The business will be 

 handled on a cooperative basis similar 

 to our petroleum division. Profits will 

 be refunded to Farm Bureau patrons 

 after operating costs and reasonable 

 reserves are taken care of." 



With a look to the future, Gross- 

 mann further said, "Members who may 

 find it inconvenient to use this service 

 because of the distance involved have 

 the assurance of the board of directors 

 that the feed service will be expanded 

 as soon as a reasonable supply of pro- 

 tein ingredients is available." 



Kenneth Smith, member of the field 

 staff of the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany, is temporarily assisting Henry- 

 Stark Service Company in the super- 

 vision of their feed manufacturing pro- 

 gram. Smith has had considerable ex- 

 perience. His first connection with the 

 organization was with the Mid-State 

 Supply Company in Peoria county, and 

 he had a large part in its early develop- 

 ment of the Blue Seal direct-to-the- 

 farm service. Later he became man- 

 ager of the feed department of the 

 Shelby County Livestock Association at 

 Shelbyville, at which point he devel- 

 oped a very successful feed department 

 including a custom-grinding and mix- 

 ing service which served Shelby and 

 Effingham counties. 



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ORGANIZATION NOTES 



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and Home Week, which was the last or- 

 /^anization meetinf; he attended. He had 

 been in ill health for several months. 



By O. D. Briitenden 



WHEN people try to live by getting 

 more out of the land and out of 

 each other than they give back, the 

 community sickens and may die. But 

 it has been shown that when they take 

 care of the land and each other, they 

 are likely to find eventual security 

 through this stewardship of their 

 physical and human resources. — Arthur 

 Raper. 



Those planning to attend the annual 

 AFBF Midwest Training School, June 

 19, 20 and 21 in Milwaukee, are ad- 

 vised to make their hotel reservations 

 directly with the Wisconsin Hotel, 

 headquarters for the sessions. 



Record membership acquisition for 



any fiscal year was enthusiastically 

 pledged by COD's and others attend- 

 ing the district meetings held at Gales- 

 burg, Champaign and Mt. Vernon, 

 May 3, 4, and 5. It was the central 

 feature of these meetings, closely fol- 

 lowed in emphasis by a sober realiza- 

 tion that membership maintenance pro- 

 grams must be restudied, improved, 

 and put into effect. 



Fieldmen Moore, Hornbeck, and Claar, 

 speaking; at the respective meetings on 

 "Keeping in Tune with the Times" pointed 

 out that we have signed 12,000 members so 

 far this fiscal year and that one of the 

 obligations of the COD, if he is truly to 

 be "on the beam of 1944" is to continue his 

 personal and other organization work dur- 

 ing the balance of the year, if 1000 new 

 members a month are to be signed and the 

 18,000 goal attained. 



This means a personal production of at 

 least 10 new members a month, the speakers 

 stressed. They laid emphasis, too, on care- 

 ful planning, both in regard to freeing 

 time to do organization work and in mak- 

 ing it effective by arranging calls so thai 

 a maximum number can be made in the 

 time allotted. "Plan your work and work 

 your plan" was the tested, proved formula 

 which all of the fieldmen stressed. They 

 observed — with real insight — that some 

 of us were not "in tune with the times ' 

 during the second quarter, because those 

 who did have drives got splendid results 

 from them. 



Lee Roy Hays, assistant farm adviser and 



COD in Logan county, resigned his position 

 effective May 20, and will enter the armed 

 services in (he near future. Our congratula- 

 tions and best wishes to Lee Roy. 



Voyle C. Bennett, Carmi, COD for White 



county for eight months, died suddenly 

 April 6. Many of you will remember meet- 

 ing Mr. Bennett during the sessions of Farm 



Harry Bryson, Iowa Farm Bureau Fed- 

 eration organization director, reports that 

 paid membership in Iowa on May 15 stood 

 at 72,}22, leaving them only 2678 short of 

 the 75,000 goal which he predicts will be 

 on the line by June 1. Illinois extends con- 

 gratulations to our neighboring state on this 

 splendid accomplishment. 



F. W. Tieken, Ford COD, reports that 



the 1000th member in the Ford County 

 Farm Bureau was signed by Grotis McGuire 

 April 22. A good maintenance program, 

 plus the signing of 214.28 per cent of the 

 county's new member quota during the first 

 7 months of the year, has made this ac- 

 complishment possible. 



The recent membership campaign in Rich- 

 land county, which netted almost 100 new 

 members, was under the leadership of Otto 

 Shafer, whom we welcome back as COD 

 and general agent of insurance. 



Lee Lybarger, well known as the aggres- 

 sive president of the Clay County Farm Bu- 

 reau, has servered that connection and is 

 now COD in Douglas county. We welcome 

 Mr. Lybarger to the organization forces, 

 and extend best wishes for success in the 

 field where his talents and experience will 

 serve him well. 



Word has been received in this office that 

 Whiteside County Farm Bureau has adopted 

 the ambitious goal of 2050 members to be 

 attained by Sept. 30, 1945. 



A number of new member meetings are 

 still being held in the state with splendid 

 attendance. Most recently held were Ful- 

 ton, Jasper, Lawrence, and Clark counties. 



Spring membership drives are being 

 stated in a number of counties in the south- 

 ern district. Final reports are not in as 

 yet, but it is understood that good drives 

 were put on in Jackson-Perry, Clinton, and 

 Gallatin counties during the closing days of 

 April. 



Here is a report from J. F. Yaeger, direc- 

 tor of state field services, Michigan Farm 

 Bureau. "We are happy to announce that 

 practically every County Farm Bureau is 

 over its 1944 goal, and that the state goal 

 of 24,000 has been exceeded by 2309, mak- 

 ing a total to date of better than 26,000 

 families in the Michigan State Farm Bureau 

 at the end of the first three months of this 

 year." 



Machinery Ontpnt Lags 



In mid-May WPB Chairman Donald 

 Nelson reported that farm machinery 

 production had been lagging because of 

 military demands but now is proceeding 

 at a very high level. 



He estimated that by June 30 produc- 

 tion will have reached 90 per cent of 

 schedule. 



The lag in production schedules was 

 17 per cent at the end of March and had 

 been cut to 13 per cent by the end of 

 April. 



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