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Illinois Farm Supply Co. 



(Grows and Expands 



THE Illinois Farm Supply Company 

 observed its 21st birthday on March 

 4. It has reached the age of ma- 

 turity. And with this maturity 

 comes added growth and expansion. The 

 company has had a long and successful 

 history in serving the Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers of Illinois. Now, however, it is 

 entering a new era. This new era means 

 entering the field of processing and 

 manufacturing in order to provide greater 

 assurance of supplies and increased secur- 

 ity to more than 100,000 Farm Bureau 

 patrons of its 104 Member Companies. 



The plans for the growth and expan- 

 sion of the Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany include the production and manu- 

 facture of needed plant foods and feeds 

 as well as the petroleum products nec- 

 essary for farming. To this end, each of 

 the member companies, with their many 

 hundreds of volunteer Farm Bureau work- 

 ers, has been actively engaged in a state- 

 wide campaign for the sale of additional 

 shares of their respective preferred stock. 



A portion of these funds will remain 

 with each member company as additional 

 working capital and for necessary required 



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facilities. A portion will be invested in 

 the preferred stock of the Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company. 



Through these efforts, farmers them- 

 selves are strengthening their own or- 

 ganizations and making definite plans to 

 meet the many challenges of the future. 



What are the plans for the growth and 

 expansion of the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company ? 



Fuels 



The most dramatic move into the field 

 of production and manufacture was the 

 recent purchase of the Pana Refining 

 Company. This purchase involved all of 

 the outstanding capital stock of the Pana 

 Refining Company as well as the facili- 

 ties mcluding inventories, pipe lines, 

 stocks of crude oil, and buildings. 



The annual production capacity of the 

 Pana Refining Company is about 35,000,- 

 000 gallons of fuels. At the time of pur- 

 chase, approximately 50 per cent of this 

 output was under contract to other firms. 

 Thus, Illinois Farm Supply Company, this 

 year, will have about 

 50 per cent of the 

 total output of the 

 Pana Refining Com- 

 pany available for 

 Illinois Farm Bureau 

 patrons. 



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