M«mb«rt of iIm American Form Bureau Federation board of director! look over a tabulcrt- 

 Ing machine during their tour of the offices of the IllinoU Agricultural Association last 

 month. Front row, left to right: President Charles ■. Shuman, lAA; Wilfred Shaw, AFBF 

 secretary; President Ralph Gillespie, Washington FB; President Warren Hawiey, New 

 York FB; President George Putman, New Hampshire FB; President Waiter H a mmond, Texcu 

 FB; President Edward A. O'Neal, AFBF; President H. L. WIngate, Georgia FB; and Presi- 

 dent Perry Green, Ohio FB. Between Clllespie and Hawiey Is President Hossli Sclienck, 



Indiana FB. 



PIDCOCK HEADS CO-OP 

 LOCKER ASSOCIATION 



T L. PIDCOCK of the Indiana Fai» 

 *^" Bureau Cooperative Association, In- 

 dianapolis, has been employed as man- 

 ager of the Illinois Cooperative Locker 

 Service. 



The Illinois Cooperative Locker Serv- 

 ice is an associated company of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association and has 100 

 member plants throughout the state. 



Pidcock succeeds Cecil Musser who 

 will become manager of the Illinois 

 Farm Bureau Serum Association, anodier 

 lAA associated company. 



Pidcock has been in charge of the In- 

 diana cooperative's locker service for the 

 past two years. He was scheduled to 

 start work in Illinois on Oct. 1. 



He is a graduate of the University of 

 Kentucky and served as a farm adviser 

 in that state. He is 39, married and has 

 two children. 



Roik /stand Drops Tax 

 Against Milk Produters 



SOYBEANS HOLD OIL 



Contrary to a commonly held belief, 

 no oil is lost from beans during their 

 storage before processing, recent research 

 by the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 has proven. 



PRESIDENT L. A. Schnekloth of the 

 Quality Milk Association, Moline, 

 announced last month the withdrawal 

 by the Rock Island city council of an 

 amendment to the Grade A milk or- 

 dinance which would provide an as- 

 sessment of 214 cents per hundred- 

 weight of milk delivered by each pro- 

 ducer. 



Following the enactment of the 

 amendment, the Quality Milk Associa- 

 tion, representing over 700 producers 

 in the Quad city area, voiced its ob- 

 jections and asked the city council for 

 a hearing to reconsider the matter. 

 Over 4'00 producers attended the coun- 

 cil meeting. 



The objections of the Quality Milk 

 Association were based on the grounds 

 that the Grade A ordinance was en- 

 acted to protect the supply of milk for 

 the consumers, and that the producers 

 were in no way represented in the city 

 council, the taxing body. 



Following this hearing the matter 

 was reconsidered, and the city council 

 rescinded its previous action Aug. 25. 



The Quality Milk Association point- 

 ed out that, although it objected 

 strenuously to the assessment against 

 producers, it supported the Grade A 

 ordinance in principle as a progressive 

 step toward improving the Rock Island 

 milk supply. 



METAMORA, a small town, about 20 

 miles northeast of Peoria in Woodford 

 county, is the scene of the eighth of 

 our series of cover pictures illustrating 

 picturesque and historical Illinois 

 scenes. Here stands the Metamora 

 Court House, beautiful in the simplicity of the 

 lines of its Greek architecture. 



It was here in the 1840's that lawyers and 

 judges of later renown in Illinois histor) 

 gathered to try cases and discuss important 

 issues of the day. Among them were Abra- 

 ham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Robert 

 Ingersoll, and Adlai Stevenson. 



The courthouse, substantially the same to- 



Front 



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day as when built in 1845, is a two-story bride 

 and walnut timber structure of Greek Revival 

 design; the bricks were burned in the village. 

 Four fluted Doric columns support the pedi- 

 ment, and an octagonal cupola, encircled with 

 an iron railing, overshadows the portico. 



A hall, with offices on either side, runs the 

 full length of the first floor. On the second 

 floor is the old courthouse, restored as nearly 

 as possible to its original condition, in which 

 are pioneer relics of the Woodford County 

 Historical Society. Just south of Metamora, 

 in a locust grove, a marker designates a site 

 where Lincoln spoke in 1858. 



OCTOBER. 1947 



