Grain Corporation and of Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company. Walter Reichart is man- 

 ager. 



By H. 6. Iftner 



New memberships in Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration during the past year are: Henry 

 Stark Service Company, Cambridge, Henry 

 county, A. O. Grossmann, manager; Penfield 

 Grain and Coal Company, Penfield, Cham- 

 paign county, Lee Nelson, manager; Farmers' 

 Grain Company of Palmer, Palmer, Chris- 

 tian county, Howard McWard, manager; 

 Dillsburg Cooperative Grain Company, Ran- 

 toul. Champaign county, John Ehman, man- 

 ager; Orleans Farmers Grain Company, 

 Alexander, Morgan county, Francis Kaiser, 

 manager; McDonough Grain Milling Com- 

 pany, Bushnell, McDonough county, W. A. 

 Elam, manager; and Grundy Grain and 

 Supply company. Coal City, Grundy county, 

 L. W. Womacks, manager. 



The first shipment of com by the Mc- 

 Donough Grain and Milling Company at 

 Bushnell was marketed through the Jack- 

 sonville office of Illinois Grain Corporation 

 pf which J. O. Cain is manager. 



The Jacksonville and St. Louis offices of 



Illinois Grain Corporation have enjoyed a 

 good patronage from C. P. Griffiths who 

 owns the elevator at Colusa, Missouri. 

 Griffiths once served on the board of di- 

 rectors of Illinois Grain Corporation. 



W. A. Davenport, grain merchant at 

 Jacksonville, died in January. Mr. Daven- 

 port was a patron of Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration, although he operated a private 

 business. 



Martin Hugo, Ferrin, Clinton county, is 



new manager of the Cooperative Equity 

 Exchange. He succeeds his father Fred 

 Hugo who served the company for 22 years. 

 The Ferrin Cooperative Equity Exchange, 

 under Fred Hugo's management, became one 

 of the outstanding cooperatives in southern 

 Illinois. Operating on a strictly cooperative 

 basis, the number of stockholders increased 

 yearly. When patronage credits totalled 

 llOO, a share of stock was issued to the 

 patron. Ten new stockholders were added 

 at the annual meeting on Jan. 31. 



The Equity Union Exchange, official 

 organ of the National Organization, reports 

 that Fred Hugo's last year with the Ferrin 

 Cooperative was the best in its history. 



Mr. and Mrs. Hugo moved to St. Louis, 

 leaving their son Martin in full charge of 

 the organization. 



The Columbia Farmers' Cooperative 



Grain Company, Monroe county, merits rec- 

 ognition. This company enjoys the dis- 

 tinction of becoming the first in the state 

 in 1944 to re-organize on a county wide 

 basis, becoming a Farm Bureau type coop- 

 erative. It will serve Monroe county farm- 

 ers in the marketing of their grain and in 

 supplying Blue Seal and Service Brand 

 Feeds. The Columbia Farmers' Cooperative 

 Grain Company is a member of Illinois 



Prior to 1944 county grain companies had 



been organized in four Illinois counties. 

 They were: Lee County Grain Association, 

 Champaign County Grain Association, 

 Jersey County Grain Company, and Moul- 

 trie Grain Association. Since May 1944 

 county grain and feed programs have been 

 assured in nine counties: Henry, Grundy, 

 McDonough, Schuyler, Coles, Cass, Bond, 

 Montgomery, and Monroe. 



Progress is under way in at least 25 other 

 Illinois counties in the grain producing 



Lee Nelson, manager of the Penfield 



Grain and Coal Company, Champaign 

 county, has been employed to manage the 

 Farmers Elevator Company at 'Villa Grove, 

 Douglas county. Nelson succeeds L. W. 

 Womacks, who goes to Coal City, Grundy 

 county. 



Stock and patronage dividends totalling 



$20,328.53 were distributed by the Ludlow 

 Cooperative elevator, Champaign county, to 

 stockholders and patrons at a recent annual 

 meeting. 



Dividends of 2Vi cents on grain, 6 per 

 cent on merchandise and 5 per cent on pre- 

 ferred stock were reported by President 

 Warren H. Watson. 



Three directors whose terms expired were 

 re-elected: Byron Walker, Ed Ouin'an and 

 M. P. Quinlan. At the organization meet- 

 ing, directors re-elected all officers as fol- 

 lows: Mr. Watson, president; John F. Mc- 

 Cabe, treasurer, and W. O. Smith, secre- 

 tary. Eugene C. Hoerner is manager. Prof. 

 A. T. Anderson, U. of I. department of agri- 

 cultural economics, was the speaker. Din- 

 ners were served to 203 persons, including 

 representatives from the Paxton and Gif- 

 ford elevators. 



Cooperative grain marketing lost a good 



friend in the death in January of Thomas 

 D. Karnes, 79, who served as manager of 

 the Farmers Grain 

 Company, Fairbury, 

 Livingston county, for 

 35 years. Born Dec. 

 19, 1865, in Eagle 

 township. La Salle 

 county, he moved to 

 Fairbury with his fam- 

 ily when he was a 

 small boy. During his 

 lifetime he was active 

 in community affairs, 

 serving as president 

 and director of the 

 Fairbury First Na- 

 tional Bank, and as 

 Fairbury postmaster under Grover Cleveland. 

 He was a member of the Presbyterian 

 church, the Masons, and Fairbury Rotary 

 club. For several years he was a delegate 

 to the Democratic national conventions. He 

 leaves his wife and one son, Cmdr. Thomas 

 Donald Karnes of Lake Forest', now aboard 

 the destroyer, Frank Knox. He also leaves 

 one brother and a sister. 



Thomas D. Kamea 



Williard Barclay, former manager of an 



elevator at Wing in Livingston county, was 

 selected by the board of directors of the 

 Farmers Grain Company at Fairbury to 

 succeed T. D. Karnes. While Barclay has 

 had many years experience in elevator man- 

 agement, he said, "Mr. Karnes will be a 

 hard man to follow". Barclay began his 

 duties at Fairbury Feb. 19. 



milk 



By Wilfred Shaw 



Meet the new president of Illinois Milk 

 Producers Association. He's Edwin Gumm 

 of Galesburg. A veteran of World War I, 

 he has been on a 

 dairy farm since 1919, 

 and is owner-operator 

 of a 250-acre farm in 

 Knox county and also 

 operates his father's 

 farm of 650 acres, 400 

 acres of which is pas- 

 , ture land. He main- 



• '^ ;A(v. t*'"s a dairy herd of 

 ^^^HSb 30 milking cows, and 

 ^^^H feeds from 125 to 150 

 ^jfj^H steers and 150 to 175 

 hogs annually. Ed 

 helped organize the Galesburg Pure Milk 

 Association, and has been president since 

 it was organized in 1932. He also is vice- 

 president of the Knox County Farm Bureau, 

 and has been a Farm Bureau director for 

 16 years. He is president of the Knox- 

 Warren Livestock Association. Ed is chair- 

 man of trustees for the First Universalist 

 Church, Galesburg, and is a member of the 

 American Legion, 'Veterans of Foreign 

 Wars, Exchange and Galesburg Club. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Gumm have two children, Dorothy 

 and John. 



The annual meeting of Mid- West Dairy- 

 men's Company of Rockford will be held 

 the evening of March 27 by action of the di- 

 rectors. 



H. W. Mainland, manager of Mid-West 

 Dairymen's Company, reported recently that 

 their members delivered 46,455,709 pounds 

 of milk to their buyers in 1944, or 9.6% 

 more milk than in 1943. Their average 

 member produced 321 pounds of milk per 

 day, or 5% more than in 1943. The aver- 

 age price of 3.5% milk in Rockford was 

 $3.07 per cwt. in 1944. Class I sales to 

 dealers, or bottled milk sales increased 

 11.8% in 1944. 67% of all milk sold was 

 sold in Class I and 13V'2% '" Class II. 



Plans for the 20th annual meeting of 

 Pure Milk Association, scheduled for March 

 13 in Chicago, have been canceled. In 

 order to transact the necessary and essential, 

 business a skeleton meeting of one repre- 

 sentative from each of their 16 districts will 

 meet at the Pure Milk Association offices 

 on March 13, according to A. H. Lauterbach, 

 manager. { 



The 15th aimual meeting of Quality Milk 



Association was held Feb. 15 in the Con- 

 sistory building, Moline, and was attended 

 by 415 members and their wives. 



Manager C. G. Huppert reported 4.5% 

 more shipper members in 1944 than in 1943; 

 6.1% more milk delivered in 1944 than in 

 1943 ; an average weighted price of $3.00 

 per cwt. for 3-5% milk marketed in 1944. 



Membership approval was voted of the 

 Quality Milk Association purchase of the 

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