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surance Company for the fiscal year end- 

 ing Sept. 30, 1944, amounted to $1,306,- 

 059.39, according to the report of Mana- 

 ger J. H. Kelker. 



Dividends paid were as follows: fire 

 and extended coverage, $92,210.13; 

 windstorm, $12,046.79; hail on crops, 

 $363,436.37, to make a total of $467,- 

 693.29. Losses paid in these three 

 classes amounted to $838,366.10, as com- 

 pared with $463,860.17 in the previous 

 year. 



Kelker reported that insurance against 

 hail damage to crops reached its peak in 

 the 1944 season. A total of 22,454 

 applications in an amount approximating 

 80 million dollars of insurance were re- 

 ceived as compared with 15,750 applica- 

 tions and 50 million dollars of coverage 

 in 1943. 



In addition to the hail insurance busi- 

 ness, the home office processed 17,128 

 applications for fire and windstorm cover- 

 age, the amount written or renewed being 

 more than 100 million dollars. Appli- 

 cations in all classes were 39,582 as com- 

 pared with 33,542 in the previous year. 



Illinois Agricaltnre 



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thousands of acres of our finest crop 

 land from innundation and guarantee 

 regular production and steady income to 

 many farm families. 



It is my firm conviction that the best 

 way to improve farm living conditions in 

 the matters of housing, plumbing, power, 

 and educational opportunities is to pro- 

 mote those things which will give the 

 farm family a steady income maintained 

 at a fair parity with the income of other 

 economic divisions. 



Veterans' Program 



I have spoken often on the subject of 

 our state program for veterans. There 

 probably is not a parent here tonight who 

 does not know the general outline of that 

 program which calls for complete re- 

 habilitational and medical care for the 

 disabled veteran, and job-finding ser%'ice 

 for the able-bodied. As you know, I 

 have apjX)inted a war veteran in every 

 Illinois county as a Service Officer to aid 

 and advise the fighting men and women 

 as they return. These officers are already 

 at work, assisting the veterans and their 

 dependents in obtaining the benefits due 

 them under the mass of State and Federal 



legislation that has been enacted while 

 they were at war. 



In order that no one who needs and 

 wants this assistance should be over- 

 looked, we have trained more than a thou- 

 sand volunteer Service Officers, repre- 

 senting municipalities, counties, civic 

 clubs, and other agencies to help the state 

 Service Officers in contacting the return- 

 ing soldiers. And to make certain that 

 the thousands of farm boys and girls in 

 uniform will not be slighted, I have 

 asked Director of Agriculture Howard 

 Leonard to contact e\'ery County Farm 

 Adviser requesting that he serve, or 

 name a volunteer who will serve, as a 

 special contact for veterans who live on 

 the farms in their respective counties. 

 Through this free service, the veteran 

 may be apprised of many benefits and 

 special privileges to which he is entitled, 

 but of which he did not know. 



. . . Our task is to build a new and 

 better world - — a sane, sound, practical 

 world — in which security, prosperity, 

 and happiness will accrue to all Ameri- 

 cans who have supported and fought this 

 war so loyally. May Almighty God give 

 us the strength and guidance to achieve 

 that goal. 



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ILLINOIS FARM BUREAU SERUM ASSOCIATION 



DECEMBER. 1944 



