Two Ifrinofs man are among the 1949 officers of fhe Nofionof Association of County 

 Jkgrltultural Agents and are shown at a recent meeting In Washington, left to right: 

 (front) Hoar, Colo.; Keller, Mo.; logon, flo.; Carter, Pa.; Stirling, N. M\; and td Bay, 

 Sangamon (III.) farm adviser; f back I Young, S. O.; William*, O.; Roberts, Mont.; Keller, 

 Md.; Babbitt, N. J.; Truman W. May, Madison (III.) farm adviser; Bralley, Tex.; and S. C. 



Bohannan, Ky. 



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(Continued jrum page I 1 ) 



$100,000 worth of this stock. Elevator 

 companies and other organizations have 

 taken $126,400. The balance, or a 

 total of $2,448,500 of class "A" pre- 

 ferred stock, was sold to individuals. 



Two counties, namely. Champaign 

 and Christian, did not endorse the pro- 

 gram or authorize the sale of stock in 

 those counties. Boone County Farm 

 Bureau board of directors through 

 proper action did endorse the program, 

 but when iucame to the sale of stock, 

 through resolution of their board of 

 directors, laid the whole matter on the 

 table. Three counties, therefore, did 

 not participate in the stock selling 

 campaign. 



Every county Farm Bureau board in 

 the state was visited by a representative 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 on this project. After the county Farm 

 Bureau had endorsed the project, they 

 usually designated the county organi- 

 zation director or some other individual 

 in the county to be responsible for 

 stock sales. Much credit must be given 

 the paid personnel in the cooperating 

 counties for putting over this stock 

 sales campaign. 



Several counties succeeded in raising 

 their entire quota by mail and a num- 

 ber of these counties were counties with 

 sizeable quotas. In other counties the 

 letter apparently had no pulling' power 

 and it had to be done by solicitation. 



Credit should also be given to the 

 following men, representing the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, for the work 

 in supervising and directing this cam- 

 paign, and particularly for their good 

 work in carrying it to the county Farm 

 Bureaus: 0. D. Brissenden, C. S. May- 

 field. L. B. Hornbeck, J. C. Howlett, 

 H. B. Claar, W. B. Peterson, G. H. 

 Iftner. L. L. Colvis. Carl Johnson, Carl 



Robinson. D. E. Kuntz. J. C. Moore. 



Sixty-five county Farm Bureaus ex- 

 ceeded their quotas. The total stock 

 subscription in these 65 counties over 

 and above their quotas is $401,800. 



The accompanying map shows dis- 

 tinctly the counties that made or ex- 

 ceeded their quotas. The counties that 

 did not make or exceed their quotas in 

 mo.st instances purchased very substan- 

 tial amounts of stock in the company. 



The accompanying table sets forth 

 the quotas assigned to the bounties and 

 the amount of class "A" preferred stock 

 purchased in each of the counties. 

 These quotas were arrived at by multi- 

 plying the number of bushels of grain 

 marketed in a year's time in each of the 

 counties by one cent a bushel. Some 

 adjustments were made upward in some 

 of the heavy livestock counties that 

 market very little grain. 



In conducting the campaign, the first 

 county Farm Bureau board was met by 

 a representative of the Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Association on March 17. The 

 campaign was closed on August 17, 

 exactly five months after the date of 

 beginning with the total quota of stock 

 oversubscribed by $21,500. A number 

 of counties should have special mention 

 because of the oversubscription of their 



quotas, as shown in the total. Other 

 counties, even though they failed to 

 make their quota, also should be com- 

 mended because of the large amount of 

 money that was subscribed by those 

 counties i.T financing this program. 



Illinois Grain Terminals Company 

 started operations on June 1 in the ele- 

 vator that was taken over from the 

 Norris Grain Company. The amount of 

 grain handled in June was 1,254,476 

 bushels, and in July nearly 2.000.000. 



RURAL YOUTH 



(Continued from page 20) 



maintain contact with its members in 

 school? Monthly reports record that 

 parties are given especially for these 

 young people upon their return during 

 the holidays. Why not also ask these 

 students to share their school experi- 

 ences? 



Activities of Rural Youth provide 

 abundant opportunities for growth for 

 the alert young person who desires to 

 become a better leader in his communi- 

 ty. Varied activities under proper 

 group organization and a willing mind 

 in an atmosphere where cooperation 

 prevails will assure fertile soil for 

 growth of individual personalities and 

 community leadership. In a group 

 where these factors prevail, groups will 

 move toward the great goals of Illinois 

 Rural Youth. 



What About Prices? 



(Continued from page 22) 



(22) Grundy, Douglas, Clinton, Henry, 



Monroe. 

 (23). Livingston, Coles, Greene, Bureau, 



Randolph. 



(26) Champaign, Gallatin. 



(27) DeWitt, Johnson. 



(28) Vermilion, Piatt, Pulaski, Alex- 

 ander. 



(29) Edgar, Macon, Williamson, Frank- 

 lin, Hancock. 



(30) Ford, Hamilton, Jefferson, Mc- 

 Donough. 



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Randolph County farm Bureau folks point with pride to this fine new home on the south 

 edge of Sparta which houses most of the county's agricultural offices. It is 40 feel by 



93 feet and has a full basement. 



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