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FOR FARM BUREAU 



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

 outstanding Form Bureau and Service Company cooperotor in Jefferson county. Grand- 

 daughter Joyce McDonald is on hand to greet the new truck. Note odvertisement for the 



Service Company on the barn. 



I THEY L\cr award a prize for tlit 

 ^tate's most participating" Farm 

 Bureau member, Foster McDonald, 

 Icffcrson county chapter member, 

 ou^'ht to win it liands down. 

 McDonald not only uses every service 

 that his I'arm Bureau and associated com- 

 panies have to offer, 

 but he spends his 

 >pare time urging his 

 neighbors to do the 

 same. It's not only 

 good business, h c 

 says, but it helps to 

 build the organiza- 



C~ n^il^^^^p^B tion. Back in 193^ 

 "^ ^^^ Ml Donald even had 

 j^ ^^B an ad%ertising sign 

 rL ^Hi l')OOSting his local 

 Foster McDonold ^"vice c o m pa n y 

 painted 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 5>eal 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 tounty to install an under 

 ground tank. 



McDonald also carries ('ountry Lite 

 insurance on himself, wile and son. His 

 auto and farm truck are insured with the 

 Country Mutual Casualty Company. He 

 says he saved S2 per ton on the rock 

 phosphate he purchased through his 

 F'arm Bureau affiliate. He also got a 



relund on his ^eed corn, and he pur 

 thased his alt alt a and clover seed through 

 his Farm Bureau affiliate. 



' Tlie butter used on the McDonald 

 dinner table bears the label of Prairie 

 I'arms. He wouldn't have any otiier 

 Incidentally. McDonald was a charter 

 stockholder in the ( ari-K)nd.ilc Pr.iirn. 

 Farms Creamer)-. 



Active in Farm Bureau organizaticii] 

 work. McDonald recalls hauling solicitors 

 about Jefferson county when they wert 



By CRESTON FOSTER, Editor, iaa record 



tr\nii; to get ttn larni Bureau started 

 He had his way paid to the lAA annual 

 meeting in 10} 7 as the result of signing 

 the highest number of members m flu 

 ikanup drive of the summer lampaign 

 111 Jefferson. 



McDonald was elected to the board of 

 directors of the ligyptian Servae Com 

 pany in lOss when it was organized and 

 served through the year of 1')>J. He was 

 elected secretary in IVs*) and ser\ed in 

 that capacity until the Hgyptian Ser\iii 

 ( ompaiiy was divided into the lour se[> 

 .irate county ser\icc companies m Dc- 



c-miK-r. I'Ml. The four counties ser\'ed 

 liy Egyptian were JefTcrson. Marion, f la\ 

 md Franklin. 



McDonald is one of the most progres 

 si\e farmers in his county and his farm 

 is a must on soil conservation tours. He 

 IS verv proud of Ins modern stock ponci 

 and the f.ict that he was among the first 

 signers lor RI;A in his county. He uses 

 electricity heavily in his farm chores, for 

 I hick and pig brooders and for Ins com 



pletc water svsti-m on his KKI-acri tariii 



BR AH AM LINCOLN slept here In 

 fact he livcci here for a numlxr of 

 years. This is the tenth in our series 

 of cover pictures showing historical 

 and picturcscjue scenes in Illinois. 

 It seems appropriate on this 139th anni- 

 versary month of tiie birth of Illinois' tnost 

 famous citizen that our cover picture presents 

 the Lincoln home at the corner of Eighth and 

 Jackson streets in the state capital at Spring- 

 field. 



Record" — 



This is the only home Lincoln ever owncci 

 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 183". Lincoln bought this home in 1844 

 and moved in with his wife and infant son. 

 Robert Todd. When purchased it was a stC)r\ 

 and a half high. In IS'if. Lincoln increased 

 it to two full stiiries 



His son. Robert, presented the home to the 

 state in 188" as a shrine The interior is 

 furnished as when the Lincolns lived there 

 It is open to the public. 



FEBRUARY, 1948 



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