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John Hunter mokes the first delivery in his new feed trucic to the form of Foster McDonald, 

 outstanding Farm Bureau and Service Company cooperater in Jefferson county. Grand- 

 daughter Joyce McDonald is on hand to greet the new trucic. Note advertisement for the 



Service Contpany en the bam. 



IF THEY ever award a prize for the 

 state's most "participating" Farm 

 Bureau member, Foster McDonald, 

 Jefferson county chapter member, 

 ought to win it hands down. 

 McDonald not only uses every service 

 that his Farm Bureau and associated com- 

 panies have to offer, 

 but he spends his 

 spare time urging his 

 neighbors to do the 

 same. It's not only 

 good business, h e 

 says, but it helps to 

 build the organiza- 

 tion. Back in 1935 

 McDonald even had 

 an advertising sign 

 boosting his local 

 Foster McDonald service Company 

 pamted on his barn. 

 And McDonald is the kind of a man 

 that every advertising man dreams about 

 when he is looking for a customer to 

 help sell a product. McDonald really 

 gives a product a real trial and he can 

 tell you why it pays him to use it. He 

 is thoroughly sold on Blue Seal feed 

 products, using 40 per cent hog supple- 

 ment and 20 per cent laying mash. He 

 cooperates with his truck salesman by 

 ordering early and always keeping his 

 tanks filled. McDonald was one of the 

 first in his county to install an under- 

 ground tank. 



McDonald also carries Country Life 

 insurance on himself, wife and son. His 

 • auto and farm truck are insured with the 

 Country Mutual Casualty Company. He 

 says he saved $2 per ton on the rock 

 phosphate he purchased through his 

 Farm Bureau affiliate. He also got a 



FEBRUABY. 1948 



refund on his seed com, and he pur- 

 chased his alfalfa and clover seed through 

 his Farm Bureau affiliate. 



'The butter used on the McDonald 

 dinner table bears the label of Prairie 

 Farms. He wouldn't have any other. 

 Incidentally, McDonald was a charter 

 stockholder in the Carbondaie Prairie 

 Farms Creamery. 



Active in Farm Bureau organization 

 work, McDonald recalls hauling solicitors 

 about Jefferson county when they were 



By CRESTON FOSTER, editor, iaa ricom 



trying to get the Farm Bureau started. 

 He had his way paid to the IAA annual 

 meeting in 1947 as the result of signing 

 the highest number of members in the 

 cleanup drive of the summer campaign 

 in Jefferson. 



McDonald was elected to the board of 

 directors of the Egyptian Service Com- 

 pany in 1933 when it was organized and 

 served through the year of 1934. He was 

 elected secretary in 1939 and served in 

 that capacity until the Egyptian Service 

 Company was divided into the four sep- 

 arate county ser^'ice companies in De- 

 cember, 1944. The four counties served 

 by Egyptian were Jefferson, Marion, Clay 

 and Franklin. 



McDonald is one of the most progres- 

 sive farmers in his county and his farm 

 is a must on soil conservation tours. He 

 is very proud of his modern stock pond 

 and the fact that he was among the first 

 signers for REA in his county. He uses 

 electricity heavily in his farm chores, for 

 chick and pig brooders and for his com- 

 plete water system on his 100-acre farm. 



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Front 

 Cover 



BRAHAM LINCOLN slept here. In 

 fact he lived here for a number of 

 years. This is the tenth in our series 

 of cover pictures showing historical 

 and picturesque scenes in Illinois. 

 It seems appropriate on this 139th anni- 

 versary month of the birth of Illinois' most 

 famous citizen that our cover picture presents 

 the Lincoln home at the comer of Eigjith and 

 Jackson streets in the state capital at Spring- 

 field. 



This is the only home Lincoln ever owned. 

 It is rivaled as an Illinois shrine only by the 

 Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge cemetery in 

 Springfield and the reconstructed village at 

 New Salem where Lincoln lived from 1831 

 to 1837. Lincoln bought this home in 1844 

 and moved in with his wife and infant son, 

 Robert Todd. When purchased it was a stor}' 

 and a half high. In 1856 Lincoln increased 

 it to two full stories. 



His son, Robert, presented the home to the 

 state in 1887 as a shrine. The interior is 

 furnished as when the Lincolns lived there. 

 It is open to the public 



