

AGDEEMINTS 

 AVMUBU ON 



New Corn 



BOTH loans and purchase agree- 

 ments will be available for the new 

 corn crop, according to announcements 

 from the Illinois Production and Mar- 

 keting Administration. Rates will be 

 90 per cent of parity as of Oct. 1, and 

 probably will be somewhat below the 

 $1.44 a bushel, the 1948 national aver- 

 age. 



The 1949 loans and purchase agree- 

 ments will be available except in desig- 

 nated areas from harvest through May 

 31, 1950, and will mature July 31, 1950. 



Corn placed under loan must grade 

 No. 3 or better or No. 4 on test weight 

 only, and meet moisture requirements 

 for safe storage. 



Another change in this year's pro- 

 gram is that 1949 corn placed under 

 loan may be stored in warehouses as 

 well as on the farm. 



A PMA official has figured that it 

 would take a row of CCC grain bins 210 

 miles long to store all the corn that 

 Commodity Credit Corporation is sched- 

 uled to take over from Illinois farmers 

 this fall. The bins in such a line would 

 be placed only four feet apart. 



A price support of $2.11 a bushel 

 for the 1949 crop of green and yellow 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



COUNTRY MUTUAL FIRE 



COMPANY 



Notice is hereby given that the an- 

 nual meeting of the members of 

 Country Mutual Fire Oimpany will 

 be held in the Sherman Hotel, Chi- 

 cago, Illinois, on Tuesday, the 15th 

 day of November, 1949 at 10:00 A.M. 

 to receive, consider and if approved, 

 ratify and confirm the reports of the 

 ofTicers and the acts and proceedings 

 of the Board of Directors since the 

 last annual meeting of members of the 

 Company; to elect three direoors for 

 a term of three years, to elect two 

 directors for a term of one year and 

 for the transaction of such further 

 business as may come before the meet- 

 ing. 



Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 15th 

 day of September, 1949. 



Geo. F. Hayes, Secretary 



Porchose ogreemenf corn moves info steel 

 bins of MtDonough County Orain and Milling 

 Company. These bins, 31 In number, are 

 loeofed at the cooperative's Blandlnsvllle 

 elevator, and will take care of some 60,000 

 bushels of corn. Tile cooperative took over 

 the bins when It purchased the elevator In 

 the fall of 1948. 



soybeans grading U. S. No. 2, and con- 

 taining not more than 14 per cent mois- 

 ture, has been established by the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Purchase agreements and loans both 

 on farm-stored and warehouse stored 

 soybeans will be available through Jan. 

 31, 1950. 



Peoria Team Will Be 

 Guests at Football 

 Game in Chicago 



GEORGE HALAS, president of the 

 Chicago Bears professional football 

 team, has invited members of the Peoria 

 county 4-H softball team, division 

 champions at the Illinois Farm Sports 

 Festival, to be his guests at the Bears- 

 Detroit Lions game Nov. 13 at Wrigley 

 Field. 



"This is a wonderful gesture on the 

 part of Mr. Halas," Roy P. Johnson. 

 lAA director of special services, said, 

 "and perhaps there are some Farm 

 Bureau football fans who would like to 

 see the game. It is suggested that you 

 send in ticket purchase requests to the 

 department of special services. Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, 43 East Ohio 

 Street, Chicago 11, 111. Perhaps ar- 

 rangements can be made to secure 

 tickets for this particular game in one 

 block so Farm Bureau folks can sit to- 

 gether." 



Johnson also reported that members 

 of the Will county baseball team, cham- 

 pions of the Illinois Farm Bureau Base- 

 ball League, were guests of the Chicago 

 White Sox management at the White 

 Sox-Cleveland game, Sept. 29. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



ILLINOIS WOOL MARKETING 



ASSOCIATION 



Notice is hereby given that the an- 

 nual meeting of the shareholders and 

 members of Illinois Wool Marketing 

 Association will be held on Tuesday, 

 the 15th day of November, 1949, at 

 the hour of 9:30 A.M. in the Sherman 

 Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, to elect di- 

 reaors for the succeeding year; to re- 

 ceive and if approved, confirm the 

 report of the Board of Directors of 

 the Association for the fiscal year end- 

 ing September 30, 1949; to consider 

 and if approved, ratify and confirm 

 all of the acts and proceedings of the 

 Board of Direaors done and taken 

 since the last annual meeting of the 

 shareholders and members of the As- 

 sociation; and for the transaaion of 

 such further and other business as 

 may properly come before the meet- 

 ing. 



J. King Eaton, Secretary 



'49 Harvest is Greatest 

 In Illinois History with 

 Corn Yield 62 bu. 



ILLINOIS' 1949 harvest will be the 

 greatest in the state's history, ac- 

 cording to the U.S. Agriculture De- 

 partment's crop reporting service. 



Corn and soybean yields in Illinois 

 are expected to top all other states. 

 The expected 62-bushel-an-acre yield 

 for corn will be the highest since 1948's 

 61 bushel yield. The soybean per acre 

 yield will be 25 bushels compared with 

 the previous high of 241/2 bushels in 

 1939. 



The crop reporting service predicted 

 last month that the Illinois corn crop 

 would be 559,000.000 bushels or 9,000,- 

 000 bushels higher than last year's 

 record crop and 40 per cent larger than 

 the average crop during the 1937-48 

 10 year period. 



The soybean crop is expected to total 

 77,700.0()0 bushels or one per cent be- 

 low last year's production. 



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