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FARM BUREAU 

 SERUM IS 

 INDUSTRY 'f 

 STABILIZER 1 



ILLINOIS Farm Bureau Association 

 continued to exert a stabilizing in- 

 fluence on the serum-virus industry dur- 

 ing the past year by furnishing a high 

 quality product at cost to Illinois farm- 

 ers. 



In his annual report to the member- 

 ship, Secretary-Manager Sam F. Russell 

 stated that the association had pur- 

 chased 42,410,075 cubic centimeters of 

 serum and virus for distribution among 

 members during the year ending Sept. 

 30. 



This was approximately 6,000,000 cc. 

 less than the previous year when hog 



Directors on the niinois Farm Bureau 

 Serum Association board during 1945 are 

 pictured here. Leit to right: (standing) 

 H. K. Daniorth, Cambridge; Vice President 

 Roy Cunningham, Alvin; Everett G. Rey- 

 nolds, lacksonville; William Stockley, Earl- 

 ville: E. T. Smith, Greenfield; Jesse E. 



Tuttle, West York, and Ben Bodecker, 

 Sutter. (Seated) Secretary S. F. Russell. 

 Chicago; President R. V. McKee, Varna, 

 and Dorothy Crum, office secretary. At the 

 annual meeting, I. W. Cory, Earlville, yraa 

 elected to succeed William Stockley, also 

 oi Earlville. 



production was larger. Russell said the 

 widespread use of serum held hog 

 cholera in check and helped a great 

 deal to keep war production high. 



After payment of $3,500 in dividends 

 on capital stock, $65,832.03 in patron- 

 age refunds were distributed to mem- 

 bers. Massac county became the 91st 



member of the association on March 

 10, 1945. 



Counties receiving more than 1,000,- 

 000 cc. of serum during the past year 

 were: Henry, Knox, both buying more 

 than 2,000,000 cc. : McLean, Fulton, 

 Warren, Pike, Whiteside, Peoria, Han- 

 cock, DeKalb. Bureau and LaSalle. 



DECEMBER, 1945 



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