Mcdonough county launches 



NEW GRAIN CO-OP 



W. A. Elam is Manager of New Service Enterprise 



K COUNTY-WIDE grain marketing 

 -** and feed distributing organization, 

 the McDonough Grain and Milling 

 Company, incorporated under the spon- 

 sorship of the McDonough County Farm 

 Bureau, opened its doors for business 

 Jan. 3. 



Launching of this new coop>erative cul- 

 minates more than six months of study 

 and planning by the McDonough County 

 Farm Bureau grain and soybean commit- 

 tee. 



The committee enjoyed the cooperation 

 and collaboration of the directors, man- 

 agers, and stockholders of the Bushnell 

 Farmers Elevator Company whose prop- 

 .erties were taken over oy the new coop- 

 erative. These properties include two 

 grain elevators, a grain storage ware- 

 house, and all of the equipment used in 

 the handling of feeds, seeds, grains and 

 -coal. 



With these properties and equipment, 

 the new cooperative will operate on a 

 county wide basis and will ultimately 

 serve Farm Bureau members and other 

 patrons throughout the entire county. 



Grain marketing will be carried on 

 -through the offices of the Illinois Grain 



Corporation, lAA associated company, 

 and a county-wide distribution program of 

 both Blue Seal and Service Brand feeds 

 will be afforded. It is planned that the 

 manufacture of Service Brand feeds will 

 become one of the major operations. 



Blue Seal feed distribution, hitherto 

 the function of the feed department of 

 the McDonough Service Company, has 

 been transferred to the new cooperative, 

 and direct-to-the-farm service will con- 

 tinue under the present feed salesmen, 

 Fred Heck and Harold Oberman. 



In addition to grain and feed, the co- 

 operative will enjoy a large volume of 

 business in coal and other farm supplies. 



Manager of the cooperative is W. A. 

 Elam, formerly assistant to the manager 

 of the Shelby-Eff^ingham Service Com- 

 pany in charge of the feed department. 

 Manager Elam was at one time a petro- 

 leum truck salesman for Bond County 

 Service Company. Prior to that he had 

 extensive experience in elevator opera- 

 tions. For 10 years he managed the 

 Greenville Equity elevator, and for eight 

 years preceding that period he was super- 

 visor of elevator operations for the 

 Valien Spiess Milling Company of St. 



Taking inTontory ore Manager W. A. 

 Elam and President Leo Walter 



This ia a view oi the properties purchased 

 by the McDonough Grain and Milling 

 Company. Elevotors and storage iacil- 



itiea are at the leit. At the right is the 

 working plant. Low building in the iore- 

 ground is an oHice oi the properties. 



This is the feed mixing unit oi the Mc- 

 Donough Grain and Milling Company. 



Louis. He has a long record of experience 

 in the elevator business and is well qual- 

 ified to handle the grain marketing and 

 feed mixing program which the board 

 has outlined. He is 47 years old, has 

 two children, and is a veteraif of World 

 War I having served with the Marines. 



Officers and directors of the new co- 

 operative are: Leo Walter, Prairie City, 

 president; Ryal Keithley, Macomb, vice- 

 president; Ernest Combs, Bushnell, sec- 

 retary ; J. D. Murphy, Bushnell, treasurer ; 

 Grover Swigart, Ralph E. Wilson, In- 

 dustry, and Marion Herzog, Blandins- 

 ville, directors. 



The McDonough Grain and Milling 

 Company is one more link in a rapidly 

 developing chain of Farm Bureau coop- 

 eratives in Illinois. Similar projects are 

 soon to be concluded in more than a 

 dozen Illinois counties. 



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