How Are Your 



Business Manager Danforth, seated, shows 



Organization Director Stackhouse incorporo- 



tion papers for their new marketing co-op 



in neighboring Henry county. 



salcN office ot till.- lIliiioiN Lixtstoik 

 Marketing Association. 



All hogs are sold on a graded basis 

 and they are sold direct to packers who 

 place their orders directly with the 

 Detatiir sales office which in turn 

 phones in the bids to lountry yards. 



(Currently more than 30 packers arc 

 buying through Decatur. It is direct, 

 lompetitive ami simple. 



In Business 30 Years 



News tra\els fast. Neighboring 

 Mercer. Rock Island. Hancock. Henry 

 and Adams counties, spurred by Hen- 

 derson's success, will start their own 

 county-wide marketing associations as 

 soon as thev 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 



ll was reorganizetl this year in 

 January as the Henderson Live.stock 

 Marketing Association. Hartijuist has 

 been with both agencies tor 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 S3, 000. 

 When they reorganized thev raised 

 Sfi.OOO without campaigning. I-.ventual- 

 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 

 Hartcjuist finds more hogs trucked in 

 than he agreed to take. 



But time and maybe a little under- 

 standing should cure that. 



What impr()Vi:mi:nt does your 



*' township or road district plan for 

 the farm-to-market roads you ha\e 

 driven over this winter.'' 



Many miles of rural roads ha\e be 

 tome impassable troughs of ruts and 

 mud during the last few nn)nlhs. 



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. ^'ou should 

 know what the program is for voiir 

 district. 



In many counties improvements jiu 

 thorized by the SI *>, 000,000 farm-to 

 highway appropriation ha\e not been 

 completed. What has vour tciwnsliip 

 done.' 



It additional state assistance for 

 farm-to-market roads is to be expected, 

 then wise use ot the money locally is 

 im|->ortant. It must be made a good in 

 \estment. 



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 axailable. Find out 

 what kind and how much road eijuip- 

 ment is owned by the district, what the 

 road and bridge income is annually, 

 and how much debt the district has. 

 It you li\c on a county road, ask the 

 same tiling c)t your townshij^ super- 

 visor or county comiuissioner. This 

 information vc ill help you understand 

 tiu j^resent condition ot your roads 

 and what you can expect in the future. 



Around 11.000 miles of rural roads 

 Were scheduled to be improved with 

 tlu Sl'S,0(K),oo<i 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 

 ,icti\itv he plans this season for the 

 road on vchiclt \Ciu li\e 



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



series of cover pictures illustrating picturescjue and historic Illinois 



scenes. It is the sixth Capitol Isuilding occupied bv the Illinois 



General Assembly since the state was admitted to the I'nion in ISls 



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



centur}' which by today's standards is neither 



beautiful nor etiicient. 



dround was broken tor the present Cap- 

 itol March II. ISOS. rorm.il laving of the 

 cornerstone tcmk place Oct. *> of the same vear. 

 Still unfinished, the building was cKCupied in 

 18"'6. In ISSS it finally was completed. The 

 state planned to spend S3,00(),<)<)() on the 

 structure but it cost Si. ">()(). 000. 



Tlie building is in tin- form of a cross 

 .ind is 3"'-' feet from north to south and 20S 

 from east to west. I'mm the ground to the 

 tiagstaff's tip it is Id's feet The circular tOun- 

 dation upon which the great dome rests is 

 921 2 feet in diameter and is built upon 

 solid rock. 

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

 polished granite and floors, corridors, ni.iin stairwav. and inner columns 

 are of vari-colored granite and marble The ceilings .ind w.ills are dec- 

 orated with paintings and art work. 



When the state Capitol was completed it was thought adequate for 

 ail possible growth but since then gre.it changes have been made in its 

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

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

 Archives building earn on state functic)ns vvhich could not Ix- housed 

 in the Capitol. 



MAY. 1947 



