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TbH barge tewbeots "Blue Seal" and "Wabash 



Tilt purchase ol tins rciiiKry rtprt!,cnt> 

 a .stc|-' lorwanl hy the Illinois Farm Sup- 

 ply Company to imjirovc its supply po- 

 sition in an ail-out ctfort to proMiic I"arm 

 Bureau mt-mlxrs ot Illinois with essentia! 

 tuels needed lor tarmint;. 'Die a^auisi- 

 tion ot tills property will serxc to alleviate 

 tile suppi) prolilerr 

 to a certain extent 

 |-iut will not l^e the 

 lumpletc solution o! 

 the proiMem. 



And nou .i woro 



ai^out the suppliers 



ot petroleum tueK. 



I'arm Hureau menv 



her patron^ should 



Q'.-r''^'..'Z,C/ know that the prinu 



■*"'" ' pal sup]^liers. who 



lia\e served tlie llli 



tj'jV""'"' nois Farm Supply 



V> Company in the past 



10 to l'> years, are 

 ^ontinuin^' to do a splendid job. How- 

 ever, they are not able to increase the sup- 

 ply to the organization siiue the aiute- 

 ness ot the present situation has been 

 brought on by the tremendous uurease 

 in demand. 



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Plant Foods 



Ihe second bi^ I'leld into which the 

 Illinois Farm Supply C ompany is expand 

 m^ is that ot Plant Foods. This repre- 

 sents an effort to provide Illinois larni 

 Bureau members with an increased sup 

 ply ot those plant toods needed to main- 

 tain soil fertility and crop production. 



The construction of a new fertilizer 

 acidulating and mixint; plant was author- 

 ized bv the Fl'.S. company board ot di- 

 rectors m their special meeting March 10. 

 The contract bid, submitted by the James 

 Stewart Company. C hicago. was approved 

 with construction of the fertilizer plant to 

 commence on March IS. 



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 lO.OOO tons of 

 superphosphate anil -40.000 tons of mixed 

 goods. It will serve the southern two- 

 thirds of Illinois utilizing both trritk and 

 rail serviee. 



Proposed new fertilizer plant 



Transi^ortation 



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the Illinois I'arm Supply Company Ixurd 

 ot directors is that ol lurther exp.uisKin 

 in the tielci ol rivcr petroleum transpuri.i- 

 tion. 



1 he jK-troleum cIivimcjii ol tlic lonip.iin 

 .-upi^lied 1^1,000.000 gallons of petrole- 

 um jToduels during the past Ii-.i.d vear. 

 Most ol these supj^iies moved throiigll 

 ladiities owned by the company and were 

 transported up the river to terminals in 

 tow boat and barge. Any lurther increase 

 in supplies, with its resulting savings in 

 transportation, depends upon an enlarge- 

 ment ot the company s river transport. 



lo realize this two-told objective, the 

 board of directors has authorized the pur- 

 chase ot a tliird tow boat to go into serv- 

 ice with our present owned Blue Seal and 

 ^X'abasll. riiis proposed new boat will be 

 tw ice as large as the Blue Seal. Its engines 

 will develop over 1 "^00 H.P. while the 

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



In addition, authorization has been 

 made tor the purchase of lour new 

 12,000 barrel barges. These barges, each 

 of which holds >0).000 gallons of fuel. 

 have 50 per cent more capacity than those 

 now owned by the company. 



Illinois Farm Supply Companv is ex- 

 panding and growing— to better the Farm 

 Bureau membership of our great state. 



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Loboratory at Naperville tests n>any proe 

 ucts including feed and petroleum. 



Marine Terminal at Shawneetown, on tlj 

 Ohio river. 



Marine Terminal at Kingston Mines, on the Illinois r4v*r. 



