The Crescent Cffy's decks are enveloped 

 In grain duti a% llllnoli Grain Terminals' 

 Irondale elevator pours 110,000 bushels 

 of corn into the lake freighter's hold 

 for shipment to Buffalo. 



Carl Johnson, Marshal-Putnam county 

 (left) and Jim Holderman, Grundy 

 county/ members of the Illinois Grain 

 Terminals Company board of directors, 

 watch loading of first grain. 



ILLINOIS GHALN TLKMLNALS CO.MI'A.W ha> ma.lf ii.- fii>t slup- 

 merit of grain by lake freigliter from the company"? terminal elevator 

 at I07tli ^^treet and the ("alnmel river in South Chicago. 

 The ship left with lin.OOO hushels of number two yellow corn 



loaded at the 21/2 million bushel Irondale elevator and bound for 

 HulTalo. i\. \. It was sold to Leval and Company. Huffalo ^rain dealers 

 and exporters. Leval and Company indicated that the Illinois grain 

 e\entuaily would be shipped to Belgium. 



The 250.000 bushel capacity lake freighter Crescent (iity also carried 

 1 HI, 000 busluK of whc.it io.ulcd .tt the iicirby Calumcnt clc\'.Uor .ind ton- 

 signed to HulTalo. By the time you read this issue of the lAA KF'COHD. 

 further grain shipments will have been made from the Irondale elevator 

 which is owned and controlled by Illinois farmers. 



Illinois Grain Terminals (iompanv is afliliated w itli the Illinois Agri- 

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

 Iroiulale elevator June 1 from the Chicago (»rain ( 'orporation. 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 fariner-owiied iidand 

 atid river -ub-terminal ele\ator companii's alTiliated with Illinois Grain 

 Terminals Company. 



The marketing l.Kilitics intiiKlc 2l u)unty lirain uimpanic., 10 local 

 elevators, and sub-terminal cic\ators on ilic illiaojs river at ila\anna. 

 Lacon. and Meiuu-pin. and at Dallas ('ity on the Mississippi river. 



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