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INSURANCE 

 HITS ALL 

 TIME PEAK 



PROSPERITY on the farm is boost- 

 ing insurance purchases among 

 farmers to the highest peak in his- 

 tory according to year-end reports 

 presented at the 19th annual insurance 

 roundup of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association last month in the Edge- 

 water Beach Hotel in Chicago. 



More than 700 Illinois Agricultural 

 Association insurance agents and Farm 

 Bureau ofTicers representing every 

 county in the state, attended the meet- 

 ing. The three lAA associated insur- 

 ance companies whose business is con- 

 fined largely to Illinois farmers are 

 Country Life Insurance Company. 

 Country Mutual Casualty Company and 

 Country Mutual Fire Company. 



Although ordinary life insurance pur- 

 chases in the United States for 1947 

 declined 3.4 per cent from 1946, Illi- 

 nois farmers bought 11.4 per cent more 

 life insurance through Country Life in 

 1947 than in 1946, A. E. Richardson. 

 Country Life manager and director ot 

 insurance service for the lAA, reported. 

 J. H. Kelker, manager of the Coun- 

 try Mutual Fire Company said, "It has 

 been necessary for farmers to increase 

 their fire, wind, and extended cover- 

 age and crop hail insurance by more 

 than 163 million dollars in 1947." 



Frank V. Wilcox, manager of Coun- 

 try Mutual Casualty Company reported 

 that Country Casualty has more than 

 160 thousand vehicles of Illinois Farm 

 Bureau members insured. 



Charles B. Shuman, lAA president, 

 speaking at the evening banquet em- 

 phasized the fact that farmers need 

 adequate insurance service more than 

 any other group. The farmer. Presi- 

 dent Shuman said, needs every practical 

 means of reducing the hazards of his 

 \aried operations. 



- Donald Kirkpatrick. AFBF and lAA 

 general counsel, told the insurance 

 roundup audience, that he believed "we 

 are entering the golden age of agri- 

 culture" and predicted that there would 

 tie a great growth in Farm Bureau in- 

 surance. He said he believed there 

 would be a continued high demand for 

 agricultural products because of the in- 

 crease in our population, the shifting 

 of 11/2 million people from the farms 

 to the city, thus creating more con- 

 sumers of farm products, and the in- 

 creased standard of living, plus normal 

 exports. 



Officers and members of the Illinois Farm Bureau boseboli league meet in Hotel Slierman, 

 Chicago, to discuss rules and regulations for the coming season. At table (far left) are 

 Roy Johnson, secretary, and Otto StefFey, president of the league. At far right is Ebb 

 Harris, vice president. Standing is Floyd Phillips, DeKalb county, chairman of the rules 

 and regulations committee. Insert is Orval Grove, Chicago White Sox pitcher, who ad- 

 dressed the meeting. 



Bigger Farm Bureau Baseball 

 Season Predicted for 1948 



SteflFey, Stronghurst. was reelected presi- 

 dent, and Ebb Hams. Gr.iyslake. was 

 reelected vice-president of the league. 

 Representatives of 1 2 counties were 

 present. 



The Farm Bureau Baseball League is 

 expeded to be bigger than last ye.ir wlien 

 J''-) counties took part. Three new countic-s 

 have signified their intention of taking 

 part next season — - H.unilton. Macoupin, 

 .md Lake. Counties were retjiiested to 

 make known their intention of joining 

 the I'arm Bureau B.iseb.dl I.e.icue bv 

 .May 1. 



They Can join bv lune I \v ith the 

 consent of other le.vgue members. The 

 baseball for next season was adopted and 

 prices of equipment were discussed. 

 Principal spe.iker was Orval drove, 

 pitther for the Chicago White Sox. 



In his talk he made two pijints: one. 

 more and more major leagues are turning 

 to amateur Ic.igues sucli as the 1 arm 

 Bureau Baseball League for pros[xcts; 

 and two. any young man with ambition to 

 become a baseball plaver should realize it 

 is a long step from high school to the 

 major leagues, and that it would be a 

 good idea to work up the ladder gradually 

 rather than to jump all the way at once. 



A movie. "The VCorld Series of 194""." 

 was shown through the courtesy of the 

 American and National Baseball Leagues. 



TBT O MAJOR changes in rules and 



■ regulations resulted from the annual 



■ meeting of officers and members 

 ll of the Illinois Farm Bureau Base- 

 ball League in Chicago, Feb. 5. Otto 



URGE EXPANSION 

 IN HORTICULTURE 



Further expansion of the horticul- 

 tural department of Southern Illinois 

 University was urged recently by the 

 Southern Illinois Horticultural Society. 



In asking for added state funds the 

 horticultural society said that horti- 

 culture is centered in the southern 

 third of the state and that lack ol 

 personnel and facilities at Southern 

 Illinois University makes it impossible 

 to teach students there adequately in 

 this science. 



The horticultural society took tiie 

 stand that this proposed expansion 

 would make possible better teaching ot 

 horticulture to many young persons 

 living in Southern Illinois unable to 

 attend school elsewhere. It would also 

 make possible better services to farmers 

 producing fruit and \egetables in this 

 area. 



MARCH. 1948 



