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In Response To: You can never get enough info rofl

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No, actually you CAN get enough information:

All you need to know about Illinois Farm Supply Co. (sigh), photos omitted:

But anyone who wants to see a photo of a Blue Seal Fly Spray can is welcome to contact me.

GROWMARK - ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY COMPANY .. BLUE SEAL OIL MAGIC ALLADIN GASOLINE [ working papers 1 June 2015 ]Monday, June 1, 2015 1:25 AM Mark as Unread

From: "Robert Stephens" To: "Robert Stephens" "James Freedner" Full Headers Printable ViewGROWMARK formerly ILLINOIS FARM SUPPLY COMPANY .. BLUE SEAL OIL MAGIC ALLADIN GASOLINE

Photographs

S. East Avenue Amboy Illinois

COUNTY FARM BUREAU on left
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Magic Aladdin Gasoline Truck, Heatonville, Mo

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6254952

looks like COUNTY SERVICE CO...... painted on side

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Advert
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/1261044/Stark+County+Farm+Bureau++Stark+Locker+Service++Rahmeyer++Tucker++Stark+County+Service+Co/

Ad image shows white trucks and tankers similar to photograph above
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Collectibles
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Bullet Pencil

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Can

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Fan

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A FARM BUREAU SERVICE

advertising fans from the early 1930's. Peoria County Service Company advertising Magic Aladdin Gasoline and Penn Bond or Blue Seal Motor Oil

Peoria County Service Company - 14" H by 7.5"W.

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Maps

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1945

COUNTY SERVICE CO, affiliate
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Sign

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Snippets
Illinois Central Magazine - Volume 30https://books.google.com.au/books?id=l4szAAAAIAAJ1941 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions
... from the Amboy Township High School in 1939, and is now employed as a welder for the Illinois Oil Supply Company at Rock Island. His bride is daughter of Mrs. Blanche Wasson of Franklin Grove. She was graduated from Franklin Grove ...

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associated links
Illini FS Historywww.illinifs.com/Documents/Illini%20FS%20History%20Final.pdf Magic Aladdin Gasoline. • Blue Seal Fly Spray. • Blue Seal Motor Oil. Products Marketed by Illini FS in the 1930's. FS Agri-Finance/Accounting Department ...

http://www.illinifs.com/Documents/Illini%20FS%20History%20Final.pdf

mentions HI - BALL , GREEN ROCKET (67 octane} , MAGIC ALADDIN gasolines
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Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 — Farmers' Weekly ...idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=FWR19500104.2... MAGIC ALADDIN GAS MAGIC ETHYL GAS KLEER MOTOR ( White ) GAS FS-50 TRACTOR FUEL IFS DIESEL FUEL FOR WINTER WARMTH USE. No .
Farmers' Weekly Review, 4 January 1950

http://idnc.library.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/illinois?a=d&d=FWR19500104.2.30.2#

mentions MAGIC ALADDIN and MAGIC ETHYL gas on pdf also next to a LION advt
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COTM OLDGAS
Welcome to this month’s installment of Company Of The Month !
This month’s feature will cover the Illinois Farm Supply Company, which later changed to FS and is still operating under Growmark . I’ll start off with a brief history, a timeline, and then we’ll start posting pictures of signs, globes, cans, pumps, maps, and everything else that we can find.

COMPANY HISTORY:

The Illinois Farm Supply Company has its roots in the early 1920s. In the 1920s, Farm Bureau members in Illinois invested money and efforts into forming local cooperatives as a means to ensure a reliable supply of farm inputs and to maintain ownership and control of their own business. In 1927, nine local cooperatives formed Illinois Farm Supply Company.

Edward J. Mikula was recruited to design the Illinois Farm Supply logo. Mikula, a native of Chicago, was born Jan. 3, 1916 and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago; he was experienced in the graphic arts and had created logos for the Methodist Church and the Associated Church Press. Edward J. Mikula passed away at the age of 88, on June 20, 2004.

More than $10 million in farm supplies were sold in 1935 by 60 locally owned service companies associated with Illinois Farm Supply Company, up by about 25 percent from 1934. Bulk of the sales were petroleum products, which generated$1.4millionfor Illinois from gasoline and sales taxes.
About 68-million gallons of petroleum products - including gasoline, kerosene, distillate, lubricating oil and grease were sold by member co-ops in 1935. Sales of soyoil paint jumped 65 percent, to 175,000 gallons. Farmers' investment in the 60 companies reached $981,595. They had a combined accumulated surplus of almost $1.2 million for use as working capital.
Nearly half of the companies operated service stations for petroleum products. Three-fourths of the business in 1934 was with 80 percent of the members. Each company set aside part of its earnings for working capital purposes. Cash dividends to members totaled $805,000. This all coming from a company who wasn’t even in existence ten years earlier.

Coming out of the depression into the war era, these were trying times for a lot of companies, but Illinois Farm Supply knew what needed to be done. Because of gas rationing and the shortage of rubber they switched from an on-demand delivery system to a route system. Instead of delivering supplies whenever a farmer member ordered them each farmer customer was placed on a route. Depending on the farmer's needs he would be serviced about once a week or once every two weeks. Farmers were asked to empty drums for fuel storage so additional fuel could be delivered with fewer stops.
Drums for lubricating oil were recycled back to Illinois Farm Supply for use again.

Feed bags were also in short supply. Jute used to make burlap feed bags was no longer available from India and the Maylay Peninsula. To deal with this shortage Illinois Farm Supply created a feed bag recycling program. Farmers were paid to turn back in their Blue Seal feed bags – eight cents for each burlap bag and five cents for each cotton bag. Equipment was set up at the Iroquois Service Company in Watseka to sort, clean, recondition and fumigate bags that were being recycled. The number of different size feed bags was reduced from 30 down to only six. The feed inside these recycled bags was probably not the feed name printed on the outside so a new tag system was implemented to identify the actual contents of each recycled bag.

Illinois Farm Supply started a tire recapping service for its own vehicles, due to the rubber shortage, those of member companies and for Farm Bureau members when possible.
Major rubber and scrap iron drives were also initiated and run in 1942 by the 575 truck salesmen of Farm Supply that sold the Blue Seal label. Farm Supply collected 2.25 million pounds of scrap iron and one million pounds of scrap rubber. An interesting side note – included in the rubber drive were four solid rubber tires weighing 34 pounds each from the Christian County Farm Supply Company. Solid rubber tires were used on Great Western autos from 1900-1910.

In 1955 Illinois Farm Supply adopted the FS trademark. Through a series of mergers in the early 1960s, FS Services, Inc. was formed serving Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

In 1980, FS Services and Illinois Grain Corporation consolidated to form GROWMARK. During 1994, GROWMARK purchased the major assets of United Co-operatives of Ontario. UPI, Inc., a joint venture between GROWMARK and Suncor Energy Products, Inc., supplies rural Ontario with petroleum, diesel, and propane.

As of 2005 there were roughly 200 FAST STOP stores, which it services using a combination of a private fleet, dedicated contract carriers and common carrier operations. Growmark was expected to add roughly 30 more sites within the next coming year the cooperative had interest in almost doubling the size of the network by bringing in new retailers in the Midwest with fuel volumes of 60,000 gallons per month or better. (Marketers within the GROWMARK system pump anywhere from a low of 40,000 gallons per month to a high of 250,000 gallons per month.)
As of 2005 Growmark had FAST STOP stores in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin. The cooperative had hopes to soon branch out into Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Oklahoma to pursue new growth opportunities. Growmark offers a branded fuels program through an arrangement with ConocoPhillips, giving marketers the option to fly the Phillips 66 flag, if desired.

In conclusion,even still today FS operating under Growmark still offers services to the customer, with the standards set forth by the Illinois Farm Supply back in 1927.

http://www.oldgas.com/shoptalk/ubb/Forum4/HTML/001853.html link has some images

http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/336/494/380152/ court case

HISTORY :
1920: Farm Bureau members organize local cooperatives in the United States.

1927: Nine local cooperatives organize to form Illinois Farm Supply Company.

1955: Illinois Farm Supply Company adopts the FS trademark.

1961: The corporate office of Illinois Farm Supply Company moves from Chicago to Bloomington, Ill.

1962: FS Services, Inc. organizes through the merger of Illinois Farm Supply and Farm Bureau Service Company of Iowa.

1965: Wisconsin Farmco Service Cooperative merges with FS Services, Inc. Producers Seed Company merges with FS Services, Inc.

1969: FS Services Inc. and Illinois Grain Corporation enter into a “Combination of Efforts” agreement.

1980: The consolidation of FS Services, Inc. and Illinois Grain Corporation establishes GROWMARK, Inc.

1985: The integration of Midwest grain terminals and merchandising operations between GROWMARK and Archer Daniels Midland Company creates ADM/GROWMARK.

1994: GROWMARK acquires the assets of United Co-operatives of Ontario, and more than 30 member cooperatives in the Canadian province join the System.

GROWMARK purchases half of UPI, Inc., a joint venture with Suncor Energy Products, Inc.

1996: GROWMARK acquires ownership in maltaCleyton, a Mexican feed manufacturer.

2000: GROWMARK begins marketing products directly to additional cooperative customers throughout the Midwest and in eight western states.

2001: GROWMARK adds the Asgrow® and DEKALB® brands from Monsanto® to its seed offerings.

2002: GROWMARK acquires agronomy and seed businesses in the northeastern U.S. which are operated as GROWMARK FS, LLC and SEEDWAY, LLC.

2003: GROWMARK and TruServ Canada Cooperative Inc. create an alliance to provide retail products to Ontario member cooperatives and Country Depot locations.

FS Preferred Insurance Company is created.

2004: GROWMARK and Decision Commodities form an alliance to deliver grain risk management products and services.

2005: GROWMARK, Inland Co-operative, Inc., and Simcoe District Co-operative Services form a joint venture called FS PARTNERS in Ontario, Canada.

2006: GROWMARK acquires the assets of McCollister & Co., and creates GROWMARK Lubricants, located in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

GROWMARK adds retail subsidiaries New Century FS, Inc., AgVantage FS, Inc., and New Horizon FS, Inc.

Illini FS, Inc. becomes the Illini FS Division of GROWMARK.

GROWMARK and FS member companies partner to create Ag View Grain LLC and Total Grain Marketing, LLC (TGM).

2007: GROWMARK acquires the assets of STAR Energy, LLC.

The services of AgriVisor®, LLC are incorporated into GROWMARK as a joint venture with Illinois Farm Bureau.

GROWMARK, Two Rivers FS, Inc., RIVERLAND FS, Inc., and West Central FS, Inc. partner to create WESTERN GRAIN MARKETING, LLC (WGM).

2008: GROWMARK acquires the Menard County refined fuels terminal near Petersburg, Ill.

GROWMARK acquires a facility in Waterloo, Iowa, to serve as a second Tank & Truck Center

2009: The GROWMARK internship program celebrates its 50th anniversary. Nearly 700 students from the Midwest, East Coast, and Ontario, Canada, have participated in the program.

NORTHERN GRAIN MARKETING, LLC (NGM) is formed by the acquisition of Harmon Grain, LLC and merger with Ag View Grain, LLC.

FS PARTNERS becomes a division of GROWMARK.

Great Lakes Grain becomes a partnership between GROWMARK and AGRIS Co-operative, Ltd.

2010: AgVantage, STAR, New Century, Servco, and Frontier FS become retail divisions of GROWMARK.

Servco FS, Frontier FS, and GROWMARK partner to purchase the assets of SemFuel in Wisconsin.

Eight FS member cooperatives and GROWMARK partner to purchase the assets of Tri-County Petroleum.

http://www.growmark.com/ourbusiness/pages/our-history.aspx History Timeline
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Board Members

Chairmen of the Board

M.G. Van Buskirk - 1927-29

Ernest D. Lawrence - 1929-31

Fred E. Herndon - 1931-59

Melvin E. Sims - 1959-80