By 6. H. Iftner 



The elevators and facilities of the Bush- 

 nell Co-op Company, McDonough county, have 

 been purchased by the McDonough Grain & 

 Milling Co., a Farm Bureau cooperative. 

 The property consists of two grain elevators, 

 a grain storage warehouse and all of the 

 equipment used in the handling of feeds, 

 seeds, grains and coal. 



The Farm Bureau cooperative plans to 

 begin a feed mixing program with the 

 facilities some time during the first of the 

 year. Officers of the cooperative are Leo 

 Walter, Prairie City, president; Ryal Leith- 

 ley, Macomb, vice-president; Ernest Combs, 

 Bushnell, secretary; J. D. Murphy, Bush- 

 nell, treasurer. Incorporation papers have 

 been filed. 



Moultrie Grain Associatioti, which owns 



and operates the elevator at Cadwell, an- 

 nounced recently the purchase of the C. 

 F. Scott elevator at Williamsburg. In or- 

 der to extend cooperative marketing to a 

 larger number of producers and to provide 

 another outlet for grain, the board of di- 

 rectors has made the purchase and was 

 scheduled to have possession soon after Jan. 

 1. 



The Moultrie Grain Association was 

 started in 19J6 when the need for a co- 

 operative elevator became apparent in the 

 Cidwell area. L. D. Seass of Jonathan 

 Creek township was the association's first 

 president. Its successful operation since 

 the beginning has enabled the association to 

 provide a strictly cooperative outlet for 

 grain and retire all of the association's in- 

 debtedness. In addition, storage and op- 

 erating facilities at Cadwell have been in- 

 creased. 



Present members of the board are: W. S. 

 Elder, president; C. M. Howell, vice-presi- 

 dent; Edmund Daily, secretary; Charles Mc- 

 Donald, treasurer; Melvin Beals, C. F. Davis 

 and Charles Casteel. T. H. Boyd, Sullivan, 

 is the manager. 



This office is getting more requests from 

 farmers' elevators for assistance in changing 

 to true cooperatives. Right now, there are 

 at least ten farmers' elevators working on 

 this problem. The Cooperative Act of 1923, 

 secured by the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, was streamlined for cooperative per- 

 formance. It takes some effort to change 

 over, but it is worthwhile to do so. 



Member managers throughout the state 

 who were unable to attend the annual meet- 

 ing on Nov. 28 will be pleased to hear that 

 there was a large delegation of managers 

 present. At least 35 stood up and took 

 a bow when the guests were introduced. 



Special guests at the annual meeting were, 

 R. B. Wilson, assistant manager of Indiana 

 Grain Cooperative, Inc., of Indianapolis, 

 Ind. ; Charles Nieman assistant general man- 

 ager of the Farmers Union Grain Terminal 

 Association of St. Paul, Minn. ; Don E. Edi- 

 son, secretary. Farmers Grain Dealers As- 

 sociation of Iowa; Fred Maywald, manager. 



grain department of the same organization; 

 F. E. Ringham, secretary, St. Louis Bank for 

 Cooperatives; Mr. Thompson, secretary, 

 Omaha Bank for Cooperatives, and three 

 managers of Iowa elevators, namely, Mr. 

 Jurgens, West Bend ; Mr. Anderson, Poca- 

 hontas; and Mr. Christenson, Malcolm. 



The year 1944 closes the seventh one in 



succession that the nation's farmers have 

 produced more bushels of feed stuffs than 

 were produced the year before. The up- 

 stream of production started in 1937. Each 

 year since then we have had increased food 

 production. Each year people have said, 

 "This is the big year, surely we can't pro- 

 duce such a bumper crop next year. " Then 

 they went out and planted more acres and 

 blessed with favorable seasons, out-produced 

 the previous year. If men would market 

 their grains as well as they produce them, 

 cooperative structures would be valued in 

 the millions of dollars and patronage divi- 

 dends would flow like gold from the horn 

 of plenty. 



lockers 



By Frank Gougiar 



Farm Bureau leaders itx the Chapin, Mor- 

 gan county community, are interested in es- 

 tablishing a locker plant at Chapin. Wed- 

 nesday evening, Dec. 6, about 75 farmers 

 and their wives met to hear the project ex- 

 plained. Following the discussion, an or- 

 ganization committee was selected consist- 

 ing of the following: Daniel Detrick, 

 president ; Arlo Schumacher, vice-president ; 

 J. E. Herbert, sec'y-treasurer ; Harry Kock, 

 and Luther Bockhouse, directors. 



This committee was charged with the re- 

 sponsibility of renting the necessary number 

 of lockers and the sale of stock. Dec. 21 

 was scheduled for a report meeting. 



During the mooih of December new 

 locker plants have opened up for business 

 at Mounds, Pulaski county; Mount Carmel, 

 Wabash county; Fisher, Champaign county; 

 Piper Gty and Sibley, Ford county; and 

 Shipman, Macoupin county. 



The Fisher plant was op>ened officially 

 Nov. 24 with 456 lockers. County Manager 

 Kugler stated that practically all lockers 

 had been rented. 



Three Illinois Advisers 



Receive National Awards 



Three Illinois farm advisers were 

 among the 90 county agricultural agents 

 from 26 states who were presented with 

 certificates for outstanding service to agri- 

 culture at a joint dinner meeting Dec. 

 7 in Chicago of the National Association 

 of County Agricultural Agents and the 

 National Association of County Home 

 Demonstration Agents. 



The three farm advisers honored were 

 L. E. McKinzie, Paris, Edgar county; J. 

 E. Watt, Canton, Fulton county, and W. 

 B. Bunn, Pittsfield, Pike county. 



To qualify for the distinguished serv- 

 ice award, a county agent must have been 

 an agent or assistant agent for 10 years 

 and must have taken graduate woik in 

 addition to his college degree. He must 

 have developed an outstanding program 

 for serving the farmers in his county, 

 and must be an outstanding leader. 



A major part of the county agents' 

 meeting consisted of reports from com- 

 mittees on agricultural planning, farm 

 labor, agricultural adjustment, soil con- 

 servation, rural youth, farm credit, rural 

 electrification, relations with various or- 

 ganizations, and professional improve- 

 ment. 



E. A. Bierbaum, Union county farm 

 adviser, served as chairman of the pub- 

 licity committee for the national meeting. 



Left to right arc the oificera and directors 

 of the niinoia State Assodotion of farm 

 advisers. Front row: F. A. Bierbaum. 

 Union county, secTetary-treasureR H R. 

 Brunnemeyer, Winnebago, directoR Edwin 

 Boy, Saagaaon. president- C. E. Yale. 



vice-president. Back row. oil directors: 

 Jonathan B. Turner, Fayette; E. O. lohnson. 

 Piatt; C. T. Kibler, Jersey; F. H. Shmnan. 

 Whiteside, and H. E. Daniorth. Henry E. 

 S. Amrine. Monroe county, is not in the 

 picture. 



JANUARY, 1945 



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