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Show ILLINOIS COUNTY IS RICH IN LIMESTONE Farm Bureau Members Have Established Es-tablished Co-operative Crusher for Making Fertilizer. Farm bureau members in Stephenson Stephen-son county, Illinois, have taken advantage ad-vantage of the fact that the county is rich in limestone and have established a co-operative crusher which is turning turn-ing limestone into fertilizer for the farmers of that county. Stephenson county is provided by nature with abundant limestone which tests high in lime content, and is found in a disintegrated condition that makes is very easily quarried. . A few farmers of the county got together on the subject and borrowed the necessary money at a local bank and purchased equipment to quarry and crush the rock. The equipment consists of a pulverizer, a tractor, four delivery trucks with a dump bottom, a portable limestone bin mounted on posts and a limestone spreader. Limestone is sold on a delivered basis of $2.50 per ton, or $2.25 at the quarry, if hauled by the farmer himself. him-self. Each farmer who orders limestone lime-stone gives a note for it. which Is used t' - - - - . Liading Crushed Limestone. by the company for collateral in securing se-curing operating capital.' The price now asked for limestone enables the company to pay all operating expenses and will retire the initial investment in two years. The operating crew consists of a manager, a truck driver and two helpers help-ers who use picks and shovels in the quarry. This crew has been averaging iiimst 20 tons of limestone a day. Aleves from one quarry to another take up considerable time. Usually from 200 to 500 tons of limestone are crushed at one stand. Approximately 1.400 tOiiS have been crushed this season sea-son and a'ork will continue until late in the fall. |