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Business Manager Danferth, seated, shews 



Orgonixatien Director Stackhouse incerpora- 



tien papers for their new marlceting co-op 



In neighboring Henry county. 



sales office of the Illinois Livestock 

 Marketing Association. 



All hogs are sold on a graded basis 

 and they are sold direct to packers who 

 place their orders directly with the 

 Decatur sales office which in turn 

 phones in the bids to country yards. 



Currently more than 30 packers are 

 buying through Decatur. It is direct, 

 competitive and simple. 



In Business 30 Years 

 News travels fast. Neighboring 

 Mercer, Rock Island, Ha^icock, Henry 

 and Adams counties, spurred by Hen- 

 derson's success, will start their own 

 county-wide marketing associations as 

 soon as they can buy, build or lease 

 yards. 



The Henderson county cooperative is 

 founded on a firm core of more than 

 200 patron farmers many of whom re- 

 member when the shipping association 

 was first organized in 1917 as the 

 Stronghurst Cooperative Shipping As- 

 sociation. 



Plan New Building 



It was reorganized this year in 

 January as the Henderson Livestock 

 Marketing Association. Hartquist has 

 been with both agencies for more than 

 20 years. A yard man works full time 

 for the association and a third helper, 

 a bookkeeper, works on a part-time 

 basis. 



They plan to build a new office 

 building and scale house, and to buy a 

 new scale, for a cost of about $3,000. 

 When they reorganized they raised 

 $6,000 without campaigning. Eventual- 

 ly this may be increased to $10,000. 



Any troubles.' Well, mostly the 

 troubles that come from a farmer be- 

 ing human. When a farmer sells his 

 hogs and the market drops Manager 

 Hartquist finds more hogs trucked in 

 than he agreed to take. ■ 



But time and maybe a little under- 

 standing should cure that. 



How Are Your Rural Roads? 



What improvement does your 

 " township or road district plan for 

 the farm-to-market roads you have 

 driven over this winter.' 



Many miles of rural roads have be- 

 come impassabfe troughs of ruts and 

 mud during the last few months. 



Have the roads which were resur- 

 faced in your neighborhood last sum- 

 mer held up satisfactorily? 



Now is the time to be concerned 

 about the road which goes past your 

 farm. Road construction and mainte- 

 nance will begin soon. You should 

 know what the program is for your 

 district. 



In many counties improvements au- 

 thorized by the $15,000,000 farm-to- 

 highway appropriation have not been 

 completed. What has your township 

 done? 



If additional state assistance for 

 farm-to-market roads is to be expected, 

 then wise use of the money locally is 

 important. It must be made a good in- 

 vestment. 



If you live on a township or road 

 district road and are still in the dark 

 about what is being done in your dis- 

 trict, you should contact your road 

 commissioner. Ask him what improve- 

 ments are to be made and how much 

 money will be available. Find out 

 what kind and how much road equip- 

 ment is owned by the district, what the 

 road and bridge income is annually, 

 and how much debt the district has. 

 If you live on a county road, ask the 

 same thing of your township super- 

 visor or county commissioner. This 

 information will help you understand 

 the present condition of your roads 

 and what you can expect in the future. 



Around 11,000 miles of rural roads 

 were scheduled to be improved with 

 the $15,000,000 appropriation. Did 

 you get full value from the amount 

 spent in your township? 



Now is the time to ask your road 

 commissioner what road improvement 

 activity he plans this season for the 

 road on which you live. 



Our Cover 



THE Illinois state Capitol building at Springfield is the fourth of our 

 series of cover pictures illustrating picturesque and historic Illinois 

 scenes. It is the sixth Capitol building occupied by the Illinois 

 General Assembly since the state was admitted to the Union in 1818. 

 It was built in the gaudy, over-elaborate style of the late nineteenth 

 century which by today's standards is neither 

 PH ^JK- - , -pf beautiful nor efficient. 



Ground was broken for the present Cap- 

 itol March II, 1868. Formal laying of the 

 cornerstone took place Oct. 5 of the same year. 

 Still unfinished, the building was occupied in 

 1876. In 1888 it finally was completed. The 

 state planned to spend S 3,000,000 on the 

 structure but it cost $4,500,000. 



The building is in the form of a cross 

 and is 379 feet from north to south and 268 

 from east to west. From the ground to the 

 flagstaff's tip it is 405 feet. The circular foun- 

 dation upon which the great dome rests is 

 921/2 feet in diameter and is built upon 

 solid rock. 

 The exterior of the building is of Niagara limestone. Pillars are of 

 polished granite, and floors, corridors, main stair\^■ay, and inner columns 

 are of vari-colored granite and marble. The ceilings and walls are dec- 

 orated with paintings and art work. 



When the state Capitol was completed it was thought adequate for 

 all possible growth but since then great changes have been made in its 

 interior. For instance, the old water-powered elevators have been replaced 

 by modern lifts. Two new buildings — the Centennial building and the 

 Archives building — carry on state functions which could not be housed 

 in the Capitol. 



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Record 



MAY, 1947 



