Farmers Give Generously 

 To Feed Fiwope's Hungry 



FARM families in Illinois gave generously to foreign aid through 

 their support of the Abraham Lincoln Friendship Train. Farm 

 Bureaus helped collect $350,000 in cash or crops to be given 

 for food to Europe's hungry. 



In Illinois 60 counties gave toward the Friendship train. Most of 

 the gifts were from farm families and most of the money collected by 

 Farm Bureaus. 



One county gave only CARE packages. Others gave carloads of 

 food stuffs produced by Illinois farmers: corn, condensed milk, powdered 

 milk, flour, seeds, lard, corn syrup, fats and oils, honey, soybeans. Many 

 gave money. 



A number of counties whose donations are not listed on the ad- 

 jacent map had already given to a previous train. These counties are 

 designated by three stars. Final returns from some counties have not 

 yet been completed. 



Overseas all food stuffs will be distributed by efficient, well-or- 

 ganized church agencies to persons of all religious faiths. 



Contributions reportod to dote ore as follows: 



Adonu _ _ _ S 5,367.31 



Bend _ _ 3.660.13 



Boon* _ _ 4.000.00 



Brown _ _ _.... 4,100.00 



BurMu _ 3.095.89 



Carroll 



Champaign 

 Cfariation .... 



Clark 



ClOT ._ 



Clinton 



ColM 



Cook 



DoEalb 



D»WiH 



Douglas 



Edgar _ 



Effingham 



Ford -... 



Fulton - 



Crroono 



Gnindy 



Hancock 



lorsoy _ _ _ _ _. 



lo Doriou 



Johnson _ _ 



Kono _ _ _ 



Kankokso _ _ 



KondaU _ _ 5,195.23 



Inox _ _ _ •6,600.00 



Lako _ 4,700.00 



la SaU* - _ -_ 5,500.00 



•3,200.00 



U* - _ _ 6,816.34 



Liringston _ _ _ 14,068.60 



•Donelos First Train Contributions 



Logan _ _ 8,749.04 



Macon - - - S 4.070.60 



Macoupin _ _ 6,533.47 



Madison _ _ 1.839.29 



Marion _ _ _ _ 4,822.07 



First Train Marshall-Putnam - - 4,263.00 



9,600.00 •i.oooun 



2,710.90 Mason ._ S.127.95 



3,471.06 McDonough - 2,634.57 



1.595.66 McLean _ 21.163.16 



3,427.60 Msnard ._ _ 8,168.51 



2,917.12 Msrcsr 6,100.00 



4.979.67 Montgomorr - - - - 750.50 



7,672.78 Morgan _ _ 5,824.01 



6,423.30 Moultrio _ _ 3,323J0 



4,772.89 Pooria - _ 120.00 



4,980.66 •Corlead wbool 



4,763.66 Perry 3,500.00 



5,059.81 Piatt _ _ _ 5,564.70 



3.537.69 Pike 3,450.00 



6.219.41 Randloph 5,07SJI0 



5,344.78 Rock Island - 4,750.00 



7,880.92 Sangamon _ — 21,500.00 



2,800.00 Si. Clair 5,225.24 



1J31.75 Schuyler _ _ 2,000.65 



629.00 Stark _ _ 2.819.00 



380.87 Stephenson - - - 7.622.00 



2,390.85 •300.00 



2.699.C3 Taiewell 8.306.07 



Vermilion _ _ Separate 



Contributions by indiyiduol Communities 



Warren 1,874.70 



Washington _ 2,343.46 



White 1.200.00 



Whiteside - _ - •14.000.00 



Winnebago _ - 7,500.00 



Woodlord - — 7.328.00 



WIAVEIR. T© HEAD D©WA 

 FA^M LOFi ONSUI^AiNICE 



JOHN WEAVER, assistant manager of 

 Country Life Insurance Company, took 

 over his new job as manager of the Iowa 

 Life Insurance Company on May 1. 

 Weaver has been with Country Life for 

 the past 18 years. 



Weaver's duties will include super- 

 vision of all Farm Bureau insurance 

 agents in the second largest state Farm 

 Bureau in the nation. Iowa's recent 



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rapid growth and increasing demands by 

 farmers for insurance services presents a 

 worthy challenge for Weaver's ability. 

 Just out of college, Weaver started 

 with Country Life in 1930 as a sta- 

 tistician. During the recent war he 

 served 3^/2 years with the navy and was 

 discharged with the rank of lieutenant 

 commander. Iowa Farm Life has S70,- 

 000.000 of life insurance in force. 



Burridge D. Butler, 80, 

 Prairie Farmer Owner, 

 Dies in Phoenix 



BURRIDGE D. BUTLER, 80, publish- 

 er of Prairie Farmer and president of 

 radio station WLS, died March 30 at his 

 winter home in Phoenix, Ariz. 



Since the turn of the century he had 

 been an energetic champion of agriculture 

 through the columns of the Midwest's 

 great farm paper and later through the 

 channels of his radio station. 



Butler was born at Louisville, Ky., and 

 sold newspapers on the street corner as 

 a boy. From then on he worked at 

 many jobs — steelworker, printer, report- 

 er, editor, and owner of 15 different 

 newspapers before buying Prairie Farm- 

 er in 1909. 



Services were conducted in Phoenix 

 April 2. Mrs. Ina H. Butler survives 

 her husband. 



Sorreils Is Named 

 Assistant to lAA 

 Secretary of Marketing 



SAM SORRELLS, southern Illinois 

 livestock marketing fieldman, since 

 1940, has been transferred to the lAA 

 division of marketing as assistant to Sec- 

 retary L. L. Colvis. 



In his new duties he will work on the 

 new wool acquisition program now in 

 progress, with locker companies in need 

 of assistance in their new finance cam- 

 paigns, and with other branches of the 

 marketing department as the need arises. 



Sorreils is a Montgomery county farm- 

 er who is a former member of the 

 lAA board of directors, the St. Louis 

 Producers board of directors, a former 

 president of the Farm Bureau Serum 

 board, and a former president of the Il- 

 linois Livestock Marketing Association 

 board. ; 



Get Soils Agreement 

 Af Your Farm Bureau 



A new aid to soil conservation is now 

 available in the form of a soil conserva- 

 tion agreement for rented farms. Agree- 

 ment forms may be obtained at the 

 county farm adviser's office or direct from 

 the University of Illinois, Urbana. Dis- 

 tribution is made in pairs, one form for 

 landlord and one for tenant at ten cents 

 a pair. 



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