A FARM BUREAU PIONEER 



GEORGE L. POTTER, Pontiac, a pio- 

 neer in county and statewide Farm 

 Bureau cooperative work, was honored 

 by 400 stockholder-patrons of the Gray- 

 mont Cooperative Association, Livingston 

 county, with a lifetime membership as an 

 ex officio board member at the 41st an- 

 nual meeting of the cooperative Feb. 7 

 in Rooks Creek town hall in Graymont. 

 Mr. Potter has served as a board member 

 of the Graymont Cooperative for 40 

 years. During that period he served as 

 secretary for 12 years and for a number 

 of years as president. 



Mr. Potter joined the Livingston 

 County Farm Bureau when it was or- 

 ganized in 1913 as the Livingston County 

 Soil & Crop Improvement Association. 

 It was the fourth Farm Bureau formed in 

 Illinois. Mr. Potter has served on the 

 Livingston County Farm Bureau board 

 of directors and as its president. 



Mr. Potter has been equally active on 

 the boards of two lAA statewide co- 

 operatives, the Illinois Grain Corpora- 

 tion, and the Illinois Agricultural Audit- 

 ing Association. 



He was one of the incorporating di- 

 rectors of the Auditing Association when 

 it was formed June 5, 1924 as the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Cooperative Associa- 

 tion, and was elected temporary secre- 

 tary at the incorporating meeting. He 

 was re-elected a director at the first an- 

 nual meeting Jan. 14, 1925 at Urbana, 

 and later was named vice-president. He 

 continued as vice-president until June 

 22, 1927 when he was named president 

 and continued in that office until 1931 

 when cooperative was reorganized. 



Mr. Potter's service on the Illinois 

 Grain board started on Feb. 22, 1933 

 when' he was elected a director-at-large. 

 On Feb. 12, 1937, he was elected presi- 

 dent of Illinois Grain and served one 

 year, at which time the cooperative was 

 reorganized. Mr. Potter continued to 

 serve on the board of directors of Illi- 

 nois Grain until the 1944 annual meet- 

 ing. This gives him a record of 1 1 years 

 of service on the board of the statewide 

 cooperative. 



A real pioneer in Farm Bureau work, 

 Mr. Potter will celebrate his 75th birth- 

 day on March 18. He was born in 

 Chenoa, McLean county, and has spent 

 most of his life in Livingston county. 



According to the annual reports given 

 at the annual meeting of the Graymont 

 Cooperative, three-quarters of a million 

 bushels of grain were marketed through 

 its facilities during 1944. Sales included 



$641,175 for corn, $68,639 for oats, 

 $184,263 for soybeans, and $253 for 

 wheat. 



Feed sales totalled $156,838; seed 

 sales, $61,051; lumber sales, $46,247; 

 fencing, $65,720, and coal sales, $14,- 

 914. 



A big business was rcoorted for the 

 association's hatchery, with chick sales 

 boosted 35 per cent over 1943. Total 

 sales in this department amount to $15,- 

 000 showing a net income of more than 

 $3700. 



George L. Potter 



The feed mill department reported a 

 75 per cent increase in tonnage over 

 1940, with a total of 4107 tons of grain 

 milled. There were also 40,000 bushels 

 of seed oats cleaned and treated, more 

 than 15,000 bushels of seed beans 

 cleaned, and approximately 200 tons of 

 country run clover seed cleaned. 



Total sales amounted to $1,239,102. 

 Net income was reported at $50,036. 

 Dividends including 6 per cent on capi- 

 tal stock, 21/^ cents a bushel on grain, 

 and 5 cents per dozen on eggs, amounted 

 to $44,550. The capital and net worth 

 of the company was reported to be 

 $154,076. 



Officers and members of the board, 

 other than Mr. Potter who will continue 

 as an ex officio member, are John Algeo, 

 treasurer; Arthur Bertsche, president; 

 Harry Carstens, L. I. Harris, secretary; 

 Max Winters, C. A. Harris, vice-presi- 

 dent, and J. H. Unzicker. A. B. Scheeler 

 is the manager. Clinton L. Reedy is 

 manager of the mill and feed depart- 

 ment, and G. C. Gundy is manager of the 

 hatchery department. 



Brown, Morgan Counties 

 Name New Farm Advisers 



Edward Garllch, farm adviser in 

 Brown county for nearly 10 years, will 

 succeed W. F. Coolidge as adviser in 

 Morgan county March 20. Coolidge is 

 starting as farm adviser in Livingston 

 county March 1 to take the place of 

 R. C. Smith who has accepted a posi- 

 tion with the Ford-Ferguson company 

 in Michigan. 



The new farm adviser in Brown 

 county will be Eldon Powell, former- 

 ly assistant farm adviser and organ- 

 ization director in Warren county. 



Powell, a native of Jersey county, 

 was graduated from the University of 

 Illinois College of Agriculture in 1931, 

 and prior to his work in Warren coun- 

 ty was vocational agricultural teacher 

 at Elkhart, Logan county. 



Garlich, a graduate of the College 

 of Agriculture in 1928, has served as 

 farm adviser in Brown county since 

 July 1, 1935. Prior to that time he 

 was a vocational agricultural teacher 

 at Nashville, Washington county, and 

 served as 4-H leader at Clinton and 

 Washington while teaching school at 

 Breeze, Clinton county. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Garlich and their two children, Patri- 

 cia, 10, and Marica, 8, will make their 

 home in Jacksonville. 



Edwin W. Jones of Alpha, Henry 

 county, has been hired as assistant farm 

 adviser in that county, according to a re- 

 port of the Henry County Farm Bureau 

 board of directors. Jones will assist 

 Farm Adviser H. K. Danforth with 4-H 

 club and Rural Youth work and other 

 activities. 



Jones attended Iowa State College at 

 Ames and Knox College at Galesburg 

 after which he was in soil erosioh con- 

 trol work as a surveyor with the CCC at 

 Eldora, la. 



Nine years ago he went to Henry 

 county where he was first a farm' hand 

 and later operated his own farm. It was 

 while operating his farm that his interest 

 in soil building practices was expanded 

 to cover swine sanitation, poultry flock 

 improvement and farm management. He 

 is married and has two sons. 



R. D. Pennewell of Palmyra, Mo., was 



elected president of Sanitary Milk Pro- 

 ducers at the organization meeting of the 

 board of directors of that organization held 

 at the association offices on Feb. 20, states 

 A. D. Lynch, secretary-manager of the as- 

 sociation. 



Pennewell has been vice-president of the 

 organization and succeeds J. King Eaton of 

 Edwardsville, Illinois, who has held that 

 office for the past 21/2 years. 



Other offices selected are Frank B. Tjacy, 

 Jerseyville, III., vice-president and August 

 F. Dieckmann of Lebanon, 111., treasurer. 



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 Dorsett, 

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