Prairie Farms Creameries 

 Manager Resigns 



JB. COUNTISS, manager of Prairie 

 • Farms Creameries, Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association affiliate with 10 down- 

 state Illinois mem- 

 ~^ ber creameries, has 

 offered his resigna- 

 tion to take effect 

 Oct. 1. 



He will become 

 sales manager for 

 Pfister Associated 

 Growers, hybrid 

 corn producers and 

 I distributors with 

 headquarters at El 

 Paso, 111. 

 Countiss has been 

 employed by the lAA since 1930. As 

 sales manager he will direct sales for 

 the organization's 25 associated com- 

 panies with 2800 salesmen scattered 

 throughout the Midwest and Canada. 



Under Countiss, the lAA started co- 

 operative creameries for farmers in 

 1933. Since then the organization has 

 grown to include plants at Moline, 

 Bloomington, Peoria, Champaign, Ol- 

 ney, Carbondale, Mt. Sterling, Gales- 

 burg, Carlinville, Mt. Carroll and 

 Henry with buildings and equipment 

 today worth an estimated $2,000,000, 

 all owned and controlled by Illinois 

 farmers. 



Countiss was born at Cookeville, 

 Tenn., Oct. 27, 1898 and served a short 

 time in the army during World War I 

 before coming to Illinois in the early 

 1920's. He was graduated from the 

 University of Illinois College of Agri- 

 culture in 1925 and worked for the 

 Peoria Creamery Company before com- 

 ing to the lAA. 



He took charge of the fluid milk 

 marketing department in 1930 and 

 helped organize milk producer dairies 

 at Danville, Peoria, Jacksonville and 

 Harrisburg, and milk associations at 

 Moline and Rockford. 



Later he helped organize the cream- 

 eries during the depression and since 

 then their operations have increased 

 steadily and profitably to their present 

 proportions where every dollar invested 

 IS now worth $1.48. 



To the creameries patrons, 89 cents 

 have been returned on each dollar in 

 the form of preferred stock dividends 

 and patronage refunds. 



He will continue to make his home 

 in Hinsdale with his wife and three 

 children, Chad, 15, Marynan, 13, and 

 Eileen, 11. 



Country Life in Midst 

 of $12,000,000 Campaign 



COUNTRY LIFE'S 450 agents are in 

 the midst of a campaign to write 

 $12,000,000 in new business during 

 August and September. 



If your Country Life agent gets in 

 touch with you, you will know he is 

 out trying to get his county's share of 

 that $12 million. 



In terms of volume of new business, 

 this $12 million will represent an out- 

 standing ■ accomplishment. But far 

 more important are the many personal 

 problems that the new business will 

 solve. 



Life insurance is today's best invest- 

 ment. Country Life Insurance Com- 

 pany belongs to the farmers of Illi- 

 nois. Therefore, every Farm Bureau 

 member and members of his family 

 should have an opportunity to pur- 

 chase a Country Life policy. 



Among the many services being of- 

 fered to Farm Bureau members by the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association and 

 its subsidiary organizations, none is 

 more important than the service of 

 Country Life Insurance Company. 



This Company has been operating 

 since 1929 for the special benefit of 

 Illinois farm people and has been rec- 

 ognized for outstanding achievement 

 each year since its inception. It is 

 owned and controlled by the Farm Bu- 

 reau membership of this State. 



At iiMtallatlon of Illinois Bell Tele- 

 phone's two-millionth phone in farm 

 home of Horry Cronister, 12 miles north- 

 west of Springfield, Lt. Gov. Hugh W. 

 Cross (center) takes phone from Illinois 

 Bell President A. H. Meliinger to put 

 in first call to lAA President Charles B. 

 Shuman in Chicago. Mrs. Cronister loolcs 

 on. At left. President Shuman talks 

 from lAA office with Lt. Gov. Cross. 



The Company issues regular, stand- 

 ard policies so that any financial prob- 

 lem of an individual, requiring the use 

 of life insurance, can be solved. Since 

 1929 the growth of the Company has 

 exceeded all previous records made in 

 the life insurance business. The total 

 business in force as of Aug. 1, 1946 

 exceeded $268,000,000 on the lives of 

 approximately 145,000 people. 



Since this Company is a subsidiary 

 of the lAA, operating as a part of the 

 Farm Bureau service program, its oper- 

 ating cost is held to a minimum. Sta- 

 tistics show the life expectancy of rural 

 people is about six years longer than 

 the average. For this reason the mor- 

 tality experience of Country Life In- 

 surance Company has always been ex- 

 tremely low. The savings from oper- 

 ating expense and low mortality re- 

 flects a low net cost to Country Life 

 policyowners. 



When you consider that life insur- 

 ance can be used to guarantee the edu- 

 cation of children, to furnish a sure 

 source of income for widows, and that 

 it is the most economical way to pro- 

 vide retirement income and the only 

 certain method of providing ready cash 

 to pay for the cost of transferring an 

 estate at death, you begin to realize 

 how many people need to be thinking 

 seriously about the purchase of addi- 

 tional insurance. 



SEPTEMBER, 1946 



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