This Is what's left of 

 fhe Montgomery 

 Service Company 

 warehouse and feed 

 mill at Butler after a 

 fire thought to have 

 been caused by spon- 

 taneous combustion. 

 An adjoining elevator 

 (right, background) 

 was saved. Sensible 

 Insurance coverage 

 prevented a disas- 

 trous financial loss. 



of at least $400 a year. Farmer member- 

 ship in Farm Bureau therefore is 108 per 

 cent higher than the number of farms 

 in the county. In addition Wabash has 

 78 non-voting associate members. 



Speaking at Wabash's new member 

 meeting, O. D. Brissenden, lAA director 

 of organization, praised the excellent 

 record of the county saying that only 

 through fine organization work like theirs 

 could Farm Bureau speak in Springfield 

 and Washington for all the farmers. 



Brissenden told the new members to go 

 to the Farm Bureau office at the first 



Insurance Survey 

 Saves Service 

 Company $18,500 



11 ARLY one morning about two 

 |i months ago flames burst from the 

 ^ Montgomery County Service Company 

 feed mill and warehouse at Butler. By 

 dawn the building, equipment, and stock 

 valued at $59,000 were a total loss. 



Fortunately for the Montgomery Ser\'- 

 ice Company a chain of events had been 

 forged several months before the fire 

 broke out ... a chain of events that as- 

 sured the company recovery of $52,000 of 

 the loss in insurance. 



Credit for softening the financial blow 

 which would have resulted from the fire 

 losses goes to the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation's insurance service for coopera- 

 tives department under the direction of 

 Albert R. Grauer. 



The lAA set up the department Jan. 1, 

 1948 to advise Illinois farm cooperatives 

 on their iifturance needs. 



Last September Grauer made a survey 

 of the insurance carried on the feed mill 

 and warehouse at Butler. Based on pres- 

 ent-day values, he found that coverage 

 was inadequate. As a result, the insur- 

 ance on building, stock, and equipment 

 was raised from $33,500 to $52,000. 



Credit also goes to Manager Charles 

 Votsmier for seeing the need for more 

 insurance based on Grauer's survey and 

 to the service comnany board for having 

 the foresight to follow the manager's rec- 

 ommendation that the insurance be in- 

 creased. 



In a recent letter to the lAA's insur- 

 ance service for cooperatives department 

 Votsmier says: "The type of service you 

 are rendering member companies has cer- 

 tainly been of great value to our com- 

 pany, and I want to express the apprecia- 

 tion of our board of directors and my- 

 self for the time and effort you spent in 

 our behalf. I am sure we all have a 

 greater appreciation of the insurance serv- 

 ice being rendered by your department." 



Wabash is Only Southern 

 County With Farm Bureau 

 Member for Every Farm 



THE FIRST county in the southern 

 Illinois region to have one farmer 

 member for every farm in the county 

 — that's the proud boast of the Wabash 

 County Farm Bureau. 



A year ago County Organization Di- 

 rector J. E. Moyer and his organization 

 workers set their goal for 1949. It was 

 to be at least 100 per cent of all the 

 farms in the county. 



In the recent membership drive 32 

 volunteer workers brought in 52 new 

 members and total membership in the 

 county soared to 715 farmer members. 

 Wabash county has 662 farms listed by 

 the 1940 federal census as having income 



Typical of the young farmers easily sold 

 on the advantages of belonging to farm 

 Bureau Is Warren Gumbrell, 30, (second 

 from right) of West Salem, Wabash coun- 

 ty, shown with his 17-year-old wife chat- 

 ting with O. D, Brissenden, lAA director of 

 organization. At right Is Wabash Organ- 

 ization Director J. t. Moyer. Married a 

 year Gumbrell told Brissenden: "I've 

 known all along that the smart farmers 

 belong to Farm Bureau.'* 



opportunity and tell the farm adviser and 

 officers who you are." 



As a member of Farm Bureau, he con- 

 tinued, ask yourself these three questions: 

 (1) Is my community a better place be- 

 cause of Farm Bureau.' (2) Has it helped 

 develop leadership in the county? (3) 

 Has it increased the farmer's bargaining 

 power? The answers must be "yes". 



"My last plea to you," Brissenden said, 

 "is to use Farm Bureau in every way you 

 can. Get everything out of it you can. 

 It is your privilege." 



CENTER of Indian life in pre-historic 

 times when it was called "The Habitation 

 of the Great Spirit," the site of a great 

 gaping hole in the bluff on the Ohio 

 River in Hardin county is the 24th in our 

 series of historic and picturesque Illinois pic- 

 ture covers. 



The cave gives Give- in-Rock State Park its 

 name and principal feature. During the days 

 when pioneers began filtering into southern 

 Illinois, the cave became a rendezvous for 

 riVer pirates and later for robbers and counter- 

 feiters. The mouth of the cave is 55 feet wide 

 but averages 40 feet inside. It extends 108 

 feet into the river bluff. 



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