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FARM SUPPLY BUYS 

 MATTOON ELEVATOR 



TO MEET its need for corn drying 

 facilities and corn storage, the Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company has purchased 

 the Big Four elevator at Mattoon from 

 C. C. Turner. 



Ownership of the elevator, which has 

 corn-drying equipment and storage ca- 

 pacity for 60,000 bushels of corn, was 

 taken over September 15. 



Actual operation of the elevator will 

 be undertaken by the Farmers Grain Com- 

 pany of Doran which has entered into 

 a working agreement with the Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company. 



Farmers Grain operates two elevators 

 at Doran, four miles north of Mattoon, 

 and is one of the older and more suc- 

 cessful cooperative farmers elevators in 

 the state. It is a member of the Illinois 

 Grain Corporation, grain brokerage af- 

 filiate of the Illinois Agricultural Asso 

 ciation. 



Chief reason for the purchase of the 

 Big Four elevator, according to J. J. 

 Lanter, Illinois Farm Supply Company 

 feed division director, is to provide 

 needed storage for the Benton feed mill 

 which will begin operations in the near 

 future. 



The elevator also will be used as a 

 source of supply of good quality corn 

 for member feed distributors in the 

 southern Illinois corn deficit areas who 

 wish to make the corn available to feeder 

 patrons. 



It is ideally located for this purpose," 

 Lanter said, "because it is situated at the 

 end of the northern Illinois surplus corn 

 area and has good rail and highway con- 

 nections to southern Illinois." 



Farmers Grain Company of Doran 

 has been a distributor of Blue Seal Feeds 

 for many years and on April 1, 1945, 

 became a Farm Bureau Type cooperative. 



Addition of this elevator, under the 

 management of Andrew Homan, will 

 make cooperative grain marketing avail- 

 able to a greater number of Farm Bureau 

 members in Coles cpunty. It will also 

 make possible full cooperative handling 

 of corn from farmer producer to farmer 

 consumer. 



HESSIAN FLY THREAT 



Hessian fly infestation may be as bad 

 or worse next year in Illinois wheat 

 fields because mid-summer rain-fall 

 sprouted volunteer wheat to serve is 

 host for the bug this fall, warns J. H. 

 Bigger, Illinois Natural History Survey 

 entomologist. 



NOTICE 



niinoia Agricultural Asaeciatien 



□•ctioa ei Delegates . 



Notice is hereby given that in con- 

 nection with the annual meetings oi 

 all County Form Bureaus to be held 

 during the months of October and 

 November, at the hour and place to 

 be determined by the Board of Di- 

 rectors of each County Farm Bu- 

 reau, the members in good stand- 

 ing of such County Form Bureau 

 and who are also qualified voting 

 members of Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation, shall elect a delegate or 

 delegates to represent such mem- 

 bers of Illinois Agricultural Associ- 

 ation and vote on all matters before 

 the next annual meeting, or any 

 special meeting of the association, 

 including the election of officers and 

 directors, as provided for in the 

 By-Laws of the Association. 



During October, annual meetings 

 will be held in Adams, Fayette, 

 Hamilton, Hancock, JoDoviess, Madi- 

 son, Menard, Montgomery, Peoria, 

 Pike, Pulaski-Alexander, Scott, 

 Washington, White and Pope-Hardin 

 Counties. 



During November, annual meet- 

 ings will be held in Bond, Brown, 

 Clinton, Cumberland, Franklin, Gal- 

 latin, Henry, Lawrence, Logan, 

 Macoupin, Massac, Schuyler, Shel- 

 by, St. Clair, Warren, Williamson 

 and Richland Counties. 



Paul E. Mathios, Secretary 

 September 18, 1946 



. . . "AS FARMERS 

 FORWARD GO" 



ORGANIZATION NOTES 

 By O. D. Bissenden 



FARM Bureau membership in Illinois 

 hit a new high of 130,409 as of 

 Aug. 31, 1946. This represents a total 

 of 21,109 new members for the first 11 

 months of the current fiscal year. 



Seventy-two volunteer workers attended 



an organization supper meeting in Christian 

 county Sept. 9. Three days later they came 

 back to a report meeting with a total of 

 1}0 new members. This is the first big 

 county-wide membership drive held this 

 fall, and is indicative of the progress that 

 we may expect in many other counties dur- 

 ing the fall and winter drives. Other Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureaus staging membership drives 

 during the month of September are Ed- 

 wards, Union, Greene, Gallatin, Iroquois, 

 Douglas and Lake county. 



Temple R. Lovett, county organization di- 

 rector from Livingston county, reports a 

 most successful drive in two townships in 

 that county, where effort was concentrated 

 to better acquaint both non-members and 

 members with the Farm Bureau program. 



lAA DIRECTOR HAS 

 MANY-SIDED CAREER 



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self somewhat of a wheat farmer. Since 

 then wheat acreage has been cut and 

 livestock raising increased. Today, the 

 home farm — he also owns a 200-acrc 

 farm south of Baldwin — raises about 

 50 acres of wheat, 30-40 of corn, 20-25 

 of oats and 8-10 of alfalfa, some pigs, 

 and maintains a herd of 16 Holsteins. 

 He started liming in 1914 and has 



Son Wilbert hands his Dad a window shut- 

 ter as they work together repainting and 

 hanging shutters on Eggerding hontesteod. 



limed the place twice since that tmie 

 and expects to begin using Raw rock 

 phosphate in the near future. 



During his tenure on the lAA board. 

 Farm Bureau membership has increased 

 from 54,000 to 130,000 members. He 

 believes that the Farm Bureau and the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association is in a 

 strong position and will continue to in- 

 crease its membership to still greater 

 numbers as well as its services rendered 



splendid participation. The new film strip, 

 "Hold That Membership", is now ready for 

 distribution and will be shown at many of 

 these meetings this fall and winter. 



The second annual Farm Bureau Institute 



held during the last of August at tfie Uni- 

 versity of Illinois attracted 151 Farm Bu 

 reau employees from }5 states. Ten coun- 

 ty organization directors from Illinois. pliK 

 another new Farm Bureau employee at- 

 tended the Institute. 



Employee training meetings are going 

 forward in ever}' section of the state with 



Leo Lybarger, past president of the Clay 

 County Farm Bureau, and more recently em- 

 ployed as county organization director for 

 Douglas County Farm Bureau, became 

 county organization director for his home 

 county on Oct. 1. 1946. Walter Specht hav- 

 ing resigned as COD so that he might spend 

 more time on the insurance program. 



OCTOBER 1946 



