AtteiHiing Country Mutual Fire Company's school for adfustors in Chicago April 1 1 are, 

 left to right: V. W. Keniclin, Madison, Wis.; Vem E. Holland, assistant manager. Country 

 Fire; Albert Hummermeier, Freeport; Theodore Schaller, Evansville, Wis.; W. A. Bonser, 

 Shelbyvllle; Forrest Fellers, Tower Hill; John Wenlce, Peoria; Fred M. Brocli, DeKolb; 

 Garth Hinlcley, DuOuoin, and George Dirreen, Chicago office. 



Offer New Crop Hail Polity 



DETAILS on the new insurance polic)' 

 being written on growing vegetable 

 crops were discussed at a meeting of crop 

 hail adjusters of the Country Mutual Fire 

 Company held April 1 1 in the Stevens 

 Hotel, Chicago. 



The new policy is being written to 

 give greater service to Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers throughout the state. The new hail 

 insurance policy is being limited to cer- 

 tain cannery crops and onions. 



The insurance company has been writ- 

 ing hail insurance on sweet corn for sev- 

 eral years and is now increasing the cov- 

 erage to include cannery crops of peas, 

 tomatoes, lima beans, cabbage for proc- 

 essing, and onions grown for the dr)' 

 commercial onions and for sets. The 

 amount of coverage that can be carried 

 on any of these crops is largely based on 

 average yields in the State of Illinois and 

 the cost involved in growing the crops. 

 The insurance is designed mostly to re- 

 imburse the grower for the expense and 

 work required in growing the crop and 

 not to guarantee all profits for the grow- 

 er who suflFers damage from hail. 



The new insurance policy should meet 

 with the approval of the growers of 

 cannery crops because it will protect 

 them on crops which require a high cost 

 to plant and grow to maturity. In set- 

 tling claims for losses, the adjusters will 

 attempt to determine the actual percent- 

 age of loss to the crop whenever hail 

 damage occurs. Consideration will be 

 given to those injuries which will lower 

 the grade of the vegetable as well as in- 

 juries which will actually destroy the 

 crop. 



It was considered advisable to include 

 onions and onion sets in the new pro- 

 gram because the grower has an unusual- 

 ly high investment when planting and 

 growing the onions, especially the onion 



sets. Since a very large percentage of the 

 onions are grown in a rather small area 

 close to Chicago, it is necessary to limit 

 the acreage that can be insured in each 

 township and section. 



Extra hail adjusters are needed by 

 the Country Mutual Fire Company dur- 

 ing the coming summer months, ac- 

 cording to Vern Holland, assistant man- 

 ager. 



School men, whether teachers or ad- 

 ministrators, who have farm back- 

 grounds may be interested in this work. 

 Holland said. No previous experience 

 in adjusting losses is necessary as train- 

 ing on the job will be furnished by 

 an experienced adjustor. Travel ex- 

 penses will be paid in addition to per 

 diem wages. 



The work will be only in Illinois 

 which will allow prospective adjusters 

 some time at home each weekend. Such 

 adjustment work will be available each 

 summer. 



Those interested may write the Coun- 

 try Mutual Fire Company, 608 South 

 Dearborn Street, Chicago 5, III. 



SOUTHERN ILLINOIS GRAIN 

 COMPANY IS ORGANIZED 



TO PROVIDE a much needed mar- 

 ket for wheat and soybeans in a 

 seven-county Southern Illinois area, a 

 Farm Bureau elevator cooperative has 

 been organized at Benton in Franklin 

 county. ' 



The new grain marketing coopera- 

 tive will be known as the Southern Il- 

 linois Grain Company and will be close- 

 ly allied with the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company which owns the facilities at 

 Benton. 



When the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 



pany bought an idle fiour mill at Ben- 

 ton about a year ago to convert it into 

 a feed manufacturing plant, the prop- 

 erty included elevator facilities that had 

 not been used in more than a decade. 



Since the discontinuance of the flour 

 mill, the nearest marketing point for 

 grain was, in some instances, as much 

 as 60 miles away. Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers in the area thereupon requested 

 that the elevator facilities be made 

 available for grain marketing. 



Time did nor permit setting up a 

 permanent organization last year before 

 wheat harvest, so a temporary arrange- 

 ment was worked out with the Franklin 

 County Service Company resulting in 

 the marketing of 84.000 bushels of 

 wheat. 



Farm Bureau presidents and chair- 

 men of county Farm Bureau grain mar- 

 keting committees from the seven coun- 

 ties — Franklin, Williamson, Saline, 

 Jackson, Jefferson, Perry and Hamilton 

 — met at Benton on April 25 with lAA 

 representatives George Iftner, grain 

 marketing director, and J. J. Lanter, Il- 

 linois Farm Supply feed division di- 

 rector, to discuss the project and pro- 

 ceed with its organization. 



Member of Illinois Grain 



Incorporating directors include three 

 operating farmer members from the 

 board of the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company and two from the grain pro- 

 ducing area. The members from the 

 area are Pete Perona, Franklin county, 

 and A. E. Drennan, Jefferson county. 



Farm Supply members will be named 

 later and at a meeting of the board to 

 be held shortly, officers of the board 

 will be elected and management em- 

 ployed. The new company will be a 

 member of Illinois Grain Corporation, 

 which will handle its grain on the ter- 

 minal markets. 



Renovation of the mill is nearing 

 completion and modern equipment is 

 being installed in the elevator. The 

 elevator will be ready in time for the 

 wheat harvest. It is expected to handle 

 between 75,000 and 100,000 bushels of 

 wheat and a sizable volume of soybeans. 



The entire project, including mill and 

 elevator, will involve about a |100,- 

 000 investment to the Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company. 



"When farm incomes are substantially 



.ibove normal for a succession of years, 

 owing to high prices for agricultural prod- 

 ucts, the price of land rises. In extended 

 periods of low faim incomes, the price of 

 land declines. Illinois Circular 592, "Post- 

 war Farm Johs." 



There are more than 2,300 community 



forests in the United States. 



Agriculture in Illinois is in the four-bil- 

 lion-dollar bracket. 



MAY. 1946 



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