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The purchase of this refinery represents 

 a step forward by the Illinois Farm Sup- 

 ply Company to improve its supply po- 

 sition in an all-out effort to provide Farm 

 Bureau members of Illinois with essential 

 fuels needed for farming. The acquisi- 

 tion of this property will serve to alleviate 

 the supply problem 

 to a certain extent 

 but will not be the 

 complete solution of 

 the problem. 



And now a word 

 about the suppliers 

 of petroleum fuels. 

 Farm Bureau mem- 

 ber patrons should 

 know that the princi- 

 pal suppliers, who 

 have served the Illi- 

 nois Farm Supply 

 Company in the past 

 10 to 15 years, are 

 continuing to do a splendid job. How- 

 ever, they are not able to increase the sup- 

 ply to the organization since the acute- 

 ness of the present situation has been 

 brought on by the tremendous increase 

 in demand. 



Plant Foods 



The second big field into which the 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company is expand- 

 ing is that of Plant Foods. This repre- 

 sents an effort to provide Illinois Farm 

 Bureau members with an increased sup- 

 ply of those plant foods needed to main- 

 tain soil fertility and crop production. 



The construction of a new fertilizer 

 acidulating and mixing plant was author- 

 ized by the I.F.S. company board of di- 

 rectors in their special meeting March 10. 

 The contract bid, submitted by the James 

 Stewart Company, Chicago, was approved 

 with construction of the fertilizer plant to 

 commence on March 15. ,. .. 



The new plant will be located at Fair- 

 mount City, 111., on U. S. Highway 40. 



This plant, when completed, will have 

 an annual capacity of 40,000 tons of 

 superphosphate and 40,000 tons of mixed 

 goods. It will serve the southern two- 

 thirds of Illinois utilizing both truck and 

 rail service. 



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Transportation 



The third important decision made by 

 the Illinois Farm Supply Company board 

 of directors is that of further expansion 

 in the held of river petroleum transporta- 

 tion. 



The petroleum division of the company 

 supplied 171,000,000 gallons of petrole- 

 um products during the past fiscal year. 

 Most of these supplies moved through 

 facilities owned by the company and were 

 transported up the river to terminals by 

 tow boat and barge. Any further increase 

 in supplies, with its resulting savings in 

 transportation, depends upon an enlarge- 

 ment of the company's river transport. 



To realize this two-fold objective, the 

 board of directors has authorized the pur- 

 chase of a third tow boat to go into serv- 

 ice with our present owned Blue Seal and 

 Wabash. This proposed new boat will be 

 twice as large as the Blue Seal. Its engines 

 will develop over 1500 H.P. while the 

 Blue Seal is rated at 800 H.P. capacity. 



In addition, authorization has been 

 made for the purchase of four new 

 12,000 barrel barges. These barges, each 

 of which holds 504,000 gallons of fuel, 

 have 50 per cent more capacity than those 

 now owned by the company. 



Illinois Farm Supply Company is ex- 

 panding and growing — to better the Farm 

 Bureau membership of our great state. 



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