ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY DELIVERS 



3,000,000th 



GALLON OF SOYOIL PAINT . 



WW7HEN the 3,000,000th gallon of 

 I V the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 ■i ■ Pony's Soyoil paint was delivered 



■ I to the farm of President Charles 



■ ■ B. Shuman of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association the other day, it further 

 emphasized the complete acceptance of 

 Soyoil paint as a high quality product 

 made from beans produced on our farms. 



Three million gallons is enough to 

 paint every building on every farm of 

 every one of Illinois' 146,000 Farm 

 Bureau members. 



Soyoil paint has come a long way since 

 those days 16 years ago when the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association in cooperation 

 with the Agricultural Experiment Station 

 at the University of Illinois decided to 

 find new uses for soybeans. 



At that time Illinois was producing 

 and marketing one-half of all the soy- 

 beans in the United States. Supply ex- 

 ceeded demand and a low market price . 

 resulted because of the limited uses for 

 soybean products then. 



Assigned to the job of research and 

 formulation of a paint manufactured with 

 soybean oil as the chief ingredient, G. 

 W. Bunting of the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company contacted 17 paint manufac- 

 turers before one was found willing to 

 spend the time and money to give spy- 

 bean oil the proper treatment and proc- 

 essing so it could be used satisfactorily 

 in the making of paint. 



President Charles B. Shuman of the llllnoi* 

 Agricultural Association lost no time in 

 putting the 3A)00,000Hi gallon of Soyoil 

 paint to work at his farm home In Moultrie 

 county. 



Bunting is emphatic in pointing out 

 that the move by the lAA and its affiliate," 

 the Illinois Farm Supply Company, was 

 not done in the hope of promoting busi- 

 ness, but for the sake of "bettering the 

 lot of Illinois farmers." 



Since then the uses for soybeans have 

 become wider — soybean flour, soybean oil 

 meal for feeding, other edible uses, and 

 for plastics. The demand for soybeans 



President Charles B. 

 Shuman (right) of 

 the illineis Agricul- 

 tural Association re- 

 ceives the 3,000,000tli 

 gallon of Soyoil point 

 at his farm near Sul- 

 livan. Maicing the de- 

 livery are Trucic Sales- 

 man Roy Jennings 

 (left) and Karl KIric, 

 Moultrie Service Com- 

 pany manager. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOOAnON 



Notice is hereby given thort th« 

 annual meeting of the members oi 

 Illinois Agricultural Association will 

 be held in the Opera House ol the 

 Municipal Auditorium, St Louis. Mis- 

 siouri, on the 19th day ol November, 

 1947, at 9:30 o'clock A.M. lor the fol- 

 lowing purposes: 



To receive, consider and if ap- 

 proved, to rali.'y and confirm the re- 

 ports of the officers and the acts and 

 proceedings of the Board of Direc- 

 tors and officers in furtherance of 

 the matters therein set forth since 

 the last annual meeting of members 

 of the Association; 



To approve, ratify and confirm the 

 several purchases heretofore made 

 by this Association of stocks and 

 evidences of indebtedness of cor- 

 porations whose activities will di- 

 rectly or indirectly promote agricul- 

 ture or the interests of those en- 

 gaged therein; 



To secure consent and authoriza- 

 tion to acquire on behalf ol the As- 

 sociation by purchase certain stocks 

 and evidences of indebtedness of 

 corporations whose activities will di- 

 rectly or indirectly promote agricul- 

 ture or the interests of those en- 

 gaged therein; 



To elect seven (7) members of the 

 Board of Directors to serve for a 

 term of two years; 



To elect a President and Vice- 

 President who shall also serve aa 

 directors lor a term of one year; 



To consider and act upon sudi 

 proposed amendments of the Arti- 

 cles ol Incorporation or ol the By- 

 Laws ol Illinois Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation as may be properly sub- 

 mitted; 



For the transaction of such other 

 business as may properly come be- 

 fore the meeting. 



Paul E. Mathias, Secretary 



thereby has become greater assuring Illi- 

 nois farmers a better price and a sounder 

 market. 



But the development of Soyoil paint 

 was no overnight affair. Many problems 

 had first to be overcome. For instance, 

 one of the main problems was the slow- 

 drying property of soybean oil which had 

 to be speeded up. 



To the credit of many Farm Bureau 

 people who bought the first Soyoil paint 

 on faith. Bunting said: "I would like 

 to shake the hand of every one of those 

 farmers who bought Soyoil paint, be- 

 cause these men laid the foundation for 

 much that Illinois Farm Supply Company 

 has done since — in other fields as well 

 as the paint field." 



Successful performance of Soyoil p>alnt 

 on millions of Illinois farm buildings 

 also has proved the soundness of the 

 vast amount of research and experimenta- 

 tion originally done by Illinois Fann 

 Supply Company. 



OCTOBER. 1947 



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