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Number 4 



APRIL, 1929 



Volume 7 





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iDAIRY 

 MarMiiig 



By Art Lynch 



QUALITY MILK is the basis of a 

 good sale. So much can be said 

 about the appeal of a cold bottle of 

 sparkling, clean flavored milk that it is 

 no wonder that folks today 

 are drinking 27 per cent 

 more milk than they did 

 five years ago. 



ington get a premium for Grade A, the 

 amount depending upon how many are 

 in Grade G who are docked. The 

 money accruing through these dis- 

 counts is divided into a premium for 

 the Grade A producers. The Bloom- 

 ington producer who grades B is 

 neither docked nor premiumized. 



Farmers sell steers on grade, com 

 according to grade, wheat according 

 to grade — now they sell milk accord- 



This is due largely to 

 the fact that dairymen are 

 appealing to consumers' de- 

 mands with a standard 

 high quality article. Chi- 

 cago dairymen produce a 

 quality of milk that sets 

 the pace for large cities 

 throughout the world. 

 Bloomington, Illinois, pro- 

 ducers market more of 

 their product as Grade A 

 than anyvrhere in the state. 



Why? Well, fir$t of all, 

 a real dairyman won't sell 

 any milk he wouldn't want 

 his own family to consume. 

 Secondly, he knows the 

 better the milk the more 

 they will buy. Thirdly, the 

 higher the standards he 

 creates on his own market 

 the less the danger of com- 

 peting dairymen from oth- 

 er sections coming in to 

 share his market. Fourth, 

 modern sales plans provide 

 for cash premiums for the 

 higher quality milk. 



Grain, 

 Marketing' 



By Harrison Fahrnkopf 



"■pHE Bureau of Agricultural Econom- 

 -*- ics, Washington, reports that for 

 the United States as a whole, there 

 were 74,411,000 bu. of wheat stocks 

 in country rtiills and ele- 

 vators Marq^ 1, 1929, 

 as compared ,to 75,428,000 

 bu. March 1, 1928, and 85,- 

 928,000 bu. the same date 

 1927. 



HE'S LEARNING 



Courlmt/ Chicago Daily Neva 



The farmers' elevator at 

 Cerro Gordo, Piatt County, 

 has been in operation a lit- 

 tle more than 25 years. T. 

 J. Shambaugh has been a 

 director of the company 

 since it opened for busi- 

 ness. In commenting on 

 the support given the ele- 

 vator, Mr. Shambaugh re- 

 cently, remarked that — 

 "One of the things which 

 makes it hard is that so 

 many men don't know 

 what it. means to have the 

 advantages offered by a 

 farmers' elevator. When 

 our elevator opened for 

 business," he continued, 

 "corn went up three cents 

 per bushel within three 

 days at our station; al- 

 though the Chicago market 

 was steady." 



Organized producers at Peoria get 

 25 cents per cwt, extra in hot weather 

 and 15 cents per cwt. in cold weather 

 extra over the pool price if they make 

 Grade A milk. In unorganized days 

 if these men took pride in their work 

 and made extra good milk they got no 

 more than the fellow who didn't care. 

 Now some are getting premiums that 

 run $50 to $75 in just one month. 



Organized dairymen at Champaign 

 get a 25 cent per cwt. premium and 

 none of them turn down any premium 

 check*. Organized dairymen at Bloom- 



ing to grade. Nothing strange about 

 grading milk with the quick and easily 

 verified tests now in use in the dairy 

 industry. 



Organized farmers will not think of 

 selling their dairy products on a "mine 

 run" basis. They will set up standard 

 grades that take brains and effort to 

 attain and collect for this effort the 

 cash premium to which they are justly 

 entitled. The employees who check 

 weights and tests can just as well see 

 that the grading is done right. 



Wm. A. Komnick, man- 

 ager of the Emden Farmers Grain 

 Company, assumed the role of a 

 playwright long enough to prepare a 

 short play which was presented by 

 local people at the annual meeting of 

 the Emden Company. 



It depicted scepes that might trans- 

 pire during an|~hour or two in any 

 farmers' elevator office — with the usual 

 loafer present to help make them real- 

 istic. The play went over big and con- 

 tributed immeasurably to the success 

 of the program. i 



Illinois will be a g^ade A state be- 

 fore we know it. 



A number of County Grain Market- 

 (Continued on page 4, column 2) 



