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AGREEMENTS 

 AVAILABLE 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. Hates will be 

 ')0 per cent of parity as of Oct. 1. and 

 probably will be somewhat below the 

 Sl.H a bushel, the 1913 national aver- 

 ajre. 



The 1919 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 

 oidy, 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 F'MA 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 sup))ort of S2.ll 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 Company will 

 be held in the Sherman Hotel, Chi- 

 cago, Illinois, on Tuesdav, the I5th 

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

 to receive, consider and if approved, 

 ratify and confirm the reports of the 

 officers and the acts and proceedings 

 of the Board of Directors since the 

 last annual meetin;; of members of the 

 Company; to elect three directors for 

 a term of three years, to elect two 

 directors for a term of one year ard 

 for the transaction of such further 

 business as mav come before the meet- 

 ing. 



Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 15th 

 day of September, 1949. 



Geo. F. Hayes, Secretary- 



Purchase agreement corn moves info steel 

 bins of McDonough County Grain and Milling 

 Company. These bins, 31 In number, are 

 located at the cooperative's Blandinsvllle 

 elevator, and will take care of some 60,000 

 bushels of corn. The cooperative toofc over 

 the bins when It purchased the elevator In 

 the fall ot 1948. 



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

 taining not more than 14 per cent mois- 

 ture, has been establi>hed 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 



GKOHGF. 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 Vi riglev 

 Field. 



■"This is a wonderful gesture on the 

 part of Mr. Halas." Hoy P. Johnson. 

 1 \A 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 vou 

 seiul in ticket i)urchase requests to (lie 

 dcparlinent of special services. Illinois 

 Aiirieultiiral Association. 13 Fast Ohio 

 Street. (^Iiicago 11. III. Perhaps ar- 

 rangements can be made to secure 

 tickets for this particular game in one 

 blork so Farm Bureau folks can sit to- 

 gether." 



Johnson also reported that members 

 of the \\ ill county baseball team, cham- 

 ])ions of the Illinois Farm Bureau Base- 

 ball I.rasue. were guests of the Chicago 

 V^'hile Sox management at the \Miite 

 Sox-Cleveland game. Sept. 29. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



ILLINOIS WOOL MARKETING 



ASSOCIATION 



Notice is hereby gi\en that the an- 

 nual meeting of the shareholders and 

 members of Illinois Wool Marketing 

 Association will be held on 1 uesday, 

 ihe ISth day of November, 1949, at 

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

 Hotel, C^hicago, Illinois, to elect di- 

 rectors 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 Directors done and taken 

 since the last annual mettin<^ of the 

 shareholders and members of the As- 

 sociation; and for the transaction of 

 such further and other business as 

 may properly come before the meet- 

 ing. 



J. King Faton, Secretary 



'49 Harvest is Greatest 

 In Illinois History with 

 Corn Yield 62 bu. 



ILLINOIS' 1919 hanest will be the 

 greatest in the state's history, ac- 

 cording to the L.S. Agriculture De- 

 |)artmeiit"s crop reporting service. 



(^orn and soybean yields in Illinois 

 are e\j)e(ted to top all other slates. 

 The expected ri2-bushel-an-acre yield 

 for corn will be the highest since 194o's 

 ()! bushel yield. The soybean per acre 

 yield will be 25 bushels comjiared with 

 the previous high of 21'';; bu>hels in 

 19!'). 



Ihe crop reporting service predicted 

 last month tliat the lllinoi> corn crop 

 would be .559.(M>0.onO bush<-ls or 9.(X)0.- 

 000 bushels higher than last year's 

 record crop aiul 40 per cent larger than 

 the a\erage crop during the 1937-48 

 10 year jieriod. 



The •soybean crop is expected to total 

 77.700.00(1 bushels or one jier cent be- 

 low last year's production. 



OCTOBER, 1949 



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