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Tka Cratcant Ctfy** <t*cJu ar» anvelopAtr 

 (n grain cfwsf as flllnela Oroln TermliMlc' 

 Iremlala afe voter pourt IIO/WO bwalh*fs 

 of corn into tha kik* trulglttar't 

 tor sMpmanf fe Bwffale. 



Carl Joftosoa, Marthal-Piitnam covntjr 

 fiaftj and Jim HoMarmon, GrwiKfy 

 cog wl y, mambars of tba Illinois Grain 

 rarmlnoli Company board of diractors, 

 watch loading of flraf f rate. 



ILLINOIS GRAIN TERMINALS COMPANY has made its first ship- 

 ment of grain by lake fi-eighter from the company's terminal elevator 

 at 107th street and the Calumet river in South Chicago. 

 The ship left v^ith 110.000 bushels of number two yellow corn 



loaded at the 2V2 million bushel Irondale elevator and bound for 

 Buffalo, N. Y. It was sold to Leval and Company. Buffalo grain dealers 

 and exporters. Leval and Company indicated that the Illinois grain 

 eventually would be shipped to Belgium. 



The 250.000 bushel capacity lake freighter Crescent City also carried 

 140,000 bushels of wheat loaded at the nearby Calument elevator and con- 

 signed to Buffalo. By the time you read this issue of the lAA RECORD, 

 further grain shipments will have been made from the Irondale elevator 

 which is owned and controlled by Illinois farmers. 



Illinois Grain Terminals Company is affiliated with the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association, the State Farm Bureau organization. It bought the 

 Irondale elevator June 1 from the Chicago Grain Corporation, a sub- 

 sidiary of the Norris Grain Company. 



Shipment of the first grain from the Irondale elevator heralds a new 

 era in grain merchandising for Illinois farmers. The Irondale elevator 

 furnishes a terminal outlet for an Illinois network of farmer-owned inland 

 and river sub-terminal elevator companies affiliated with Illinois Grain 

 Terminals Company. 



The marketing facilities include 24 county grain companies, 10 local 

 elevators, and sub-terminal elevators on the Illinois river at Havanna, 

 Lacon. and Hennepin, and at Dallas City on the Mississippi river. 



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