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COUNTY-WIDE SERVICE 



WOULD you be interested in 

 getting better prices for your 

 grain and also in buying quali- 

 ty feeds at lower cost? Sounds 

 like a good deal, doesn't it? 

 It's the kind of a deal that patrons of 

 the McDonough County Grain and Mill- 

 ing Company are enjoying through their 

 county-wide cooperative grain market- 

 ing and feed distribution setup. 



A farmer in McDonough county can 

 market his grain at any one of four 

 elevators — whichever one is conven- 

 iently located for him. He can have 

 feed hauled to his place from any one 

 of the elevators. If he needs some extra 

 corn, it will be delivered to his farm 

 for five cents per bushel trucking 

 charge. He can get his corn shelled, 

 grain ground, and feed mixed at the ele- 

 vators. If he needs coal, that will be 

 trucked to his farm. 



High quality Service Brand feeds are 

 available to McDonough county 

 farmers through their own cooperative. 



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Here Is A Modern Cooperative Elevator and Feed Distribution 

 Program That Can Serve Every Farmer In The County. 



These are manufactured at the Bushnell 

 mill, main headquarters of the Mc- 

 Donough Grain and Milling Company. 

 An operating elevator and a storage 

 elevator are also located there. 



Service Brand is a locally and eco- 

 nomically manufactured feed using Blue 

 Seal pre-mixes and locally grown 

 grains. Some freight costs are saved 

 through this local manufacturing pro- 

 gram. (A number of similar county 

 grain companies are distributing Blue 

 Seal feeds and performing a similar 

 service to their members.) In addition 

 Blue Seal pellet feeds which are manu- 

 factured by the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company's new mill at Mendota are 

 also available. Rigid specifications of 



By CRESTON FOSTER 



Editor, lAA RECORD 



quality and manufacture setup by the 

 Farm Supply Company must be met 

 when the Service Brand label is used. 



Thus the patrons of the McDonough 

 cooperative enjoy the advantages of a 

 statewide feed program that was de- 

 signed for just such benefits to Farm 

 Bureau members. 



Patrons of the cooperative also bene- 

 fit by the new state-wide grain merchan- 

 dising program as a portion of their 

 grain is trucked to the Havana River 

 Grain Company. In this way, Mc- 

 Donough county farmers share in the 

 favorable waterway freight rates. This- 

 part of the program will be of increas- 

 ing importance as the river operating 

 companies secure more barges. This 

 year about 50.000 bushels or approxi- 

 mately one-fourth of the wheat delivered 

 to the McDonough cooperative was 



L A. A. RECORD 



