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period, April 1-Aug. 31, constituted 

 more than 50 per cent of the company's 

 motor oil sales. Total motor oil sales 

 for the year amounted to 2,435,378 gal- 

 lons, the largest gallonage for any single 

 year since the company was organized. 



Becker reported that another highly 

 successful division of the company — 

 General Purchasing — came through the 

 year with a record business, sales amount- 

 ing to $2,450,816.02. Outstanding in 

 this Division's activities for the year were 

 tire sales which exceeded 61,000 or 

 $1,000,000 wholesale value. This is al- 

 most double the volume of any previous 

 year. 



Plant Food Division Has Successful 

 Year 



The progress of the newest division — 

 Plant Food — was also cited by Becker. 

 He said that tonnage of plant food 

 amounted to 111,118 tons, which is more 

 than three times the amount sold the 

 previous year. However, this fell far 

 short of the demand, Becker pointed out, 

 because supplies for the year were cur- 

 tailed by the general conditions of short- 

 ages and stoppages. 



"Our objective," stated Becker, out- 

 lining the plans for the newest program 

 of the company, "is to make plant foods 

 widely available in proper forms to Illi- 

 nois farmers at the lowest possible cost 

 per unit. In doing this we expect to 

 supply a high percentage as straight ma- 

 terials, to obtain a proper balance of ele- 

 ments in the soil, and then use mixed 

 fertilizers as supplements. Our long- 

 term objective is the development and 

 utilization of high analysis fertilizer ma- 

 terials." 



Feed Production Short of Needs 



The past year was marked by severe 

 shortage, the worst in its history, in the 

 Feed Division. The total tonnage manu- 

 factured and marketed during the year 

 amounted to 39,894 tons, including 

 30,628 tons of Blue Seal feeds, 4,562 

 tons of feed ingredients, and 4,704 tons 

 of Service Brand feeds manufactured by 

 five authorized Service Brand distribu- 

 tors. Becker emphasized in his report 

 that at no time was quality of feeds sac- 

 rificed in order to gain quantity, high 

 standards being maintained without ex- 

 ception. 



$1,094,336.06 Patronage Refunds 

 Declared 



Becker announced that patronage re- 

 funds in the amount of $1,094,336.06 

 had been declared. This money will be 

 returned to member service companies 

 who, in turn, will pass these savings on 

 to their farmer patrons. Ultimately, 

 therefore, this amount will reach the 

 pockets of patrons during the 1946-47 

 season through their local Farm Bureau 

 cooperatives. 



RICHARDSON 



and 



WILCOX 



HEAD lAA 



INSURANCE 



COMPANIES 



AE. RICHARDSON, manager of 

 ■ Country Mutual Casualty Company 

 since 1938, has been named head of 

 Country Life Insur- 

 ance Company. 



Frank V. Wilcox, 

 assistant superinten- 

 dent of claims for 

 Country Mutual Cas- 

 ualty Company, has 

 been appointed suc- 

 cessor to Richardson. 

 Both took over their 

 new duties Nov. 1. 



Richardson r e - 

 A. i. Richardson pla^s Dave Mieher, 

 who resigned to be- 

 come first manager of the newly-organ- 

 ized Southern Farm Bureau Life Insur- 

 ance Company with headquarters at Jack- 

 son, Miss. 



Richardson leaves Country Casualty 

 with 164,500 insurance policies in force 



of which 144,748 are on automobiles. 



This is the largest 

 number of Illinois 

 automobile insurance 

 policies held by any 

 insurance company 

 operating in the 

 state. 



Under the man- 

 agement of Mieher 

 the Country Life In- 

 surance Company 

 had $276,066,174 of 

 Frank V. Wilcox life insurance in 

 force at the fiscal 

 year ending Sept. 30. 



Before going to Country Casualty in 

 1927 as a field man, Richardson did or- 

 ganization work for the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association and several coopera- 

 tives including Pure Milk Association 

 and U. S. Grain Growers, Inc. 



Wilcox has been assistant superinten- 

 dent of claims for Country Casualty since 

 March 1. He came with the company 

 in 1942 as claims examiner in the Chi- 

 cago office and later served as a staff 

 adjuster working out of Kankakee and 

 Galesburg. 



Last August he was appointed claims 

 supervisor for the northwest area of Illi- 

 nois and in March returned to the Chi- 

 cago office as assistant superintendent of 

 the claims department. 



Wilcox was born July 31, 1905 on a 

 farm in Henderson county, attended pub- 

 lic schools at Stronghurst and graduated 

 from Monmouth College in 1929. 



After graduation from Monmouth, he 

 became director of athletics and taught 

 science at the Media high school for five 

 years, then taught at Bradford high 

 school until June, 1942. 



Illinois Farm Supply Company's District 8 is shown in caucus. During this session District 



8, the extreme southern Illinois area, named J. P. Redntan to the board of directors. 



He is the only new face on the board this year. 



DECEMBEH 1946 



