Page Eight 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Cream Improvement "Plan 

 Profitable To Producers 



INDIANA dairymen and creamery men are 

 co-operating in a cream improvement pro- 

 gram. Thar plan is known as the "four-day 

 delivery plan" which mean^ that a producer 

 who delivers cream not over four days old gets 

 a premium of three cents per lb. butterfat above 

 the price paid for regular (^ream. 



The plan has been in operation 21 months 

 and in that time 5,222,205J lbs. of butterfat 

 were handled. Of this amount more than half, 

 or 2,872,677 lbs., was premiiim butterfat which 

 netted the producers $86,180.31 more than they 

 would have received had thie "four-day plan" 

 not been in operation. 



"There are tremendous p<)ssibilitics for im- 

 proving the quality of butterfat in Illinois," 

 says Frank Gougler, director of produce market- 

 ing. "We should extend oilr organized effort 

 as rapidly as possible and develop field service 

 for the co-operative produce units now 

 marketing." j 



Cream. Stations Grow 



Co-operative cream stations in Illinois are 

 handling more butterfat in J 1929 than they 

 handled in 1928. Twelve stations in April last 

 year sold 72,028 lbs. of butterfat, says Frank 

 Gougler. These same in April this year handled 

 84,960 lbs. or an increase in [volume of 18 per 

 cent. 



The greatest gain in volume was made by the 

 Bloomington station. In April, 1928, this sta- 

 tion handled 4,567 lbs., while this year the 

 volume was 7,719 lbs. which represents a 69 

 per cent gain. 



This increase is voluntary on the part of 

 producers and not a result ojf a campaign to 

 drum up business, declares Gougler. It shows 

 that producers are pleased to market through 

 their own association. 



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Child Health Conference 



The first national conference! since the Roose- 

 velt administration to consider ithe health of the 

 children of the nation has beeit called by Presi- 

 dent Hoover to meet in the White House early 

 next year. 



The subjects to be covered Embrace problems 

 of dependent children, regular (nedical examina- 

 tion, school or public clinics fbr children, hos- 

 pitalization, adequate milk supplies, community 

 nurses, maternity instruction abd nurses, teach- 

 ing of health in the schools, facilities for play- 

 grounds and recreation, voluntary organiza- 

 tion of children, etc. 



Federal Farm Board 



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and an officer in one of the large banks in Los 

 Angeles. 



William F. Schilling of Minnesota, president 

 of the Twin City Milk Producers' Association, 

 the latest addition to the Board, will represent 

 the dairying interests. The selection of Mr. 

 Schilling came after the place assigned the dairy 

 interests had been offered W. S. Moscrip of 

 Lake Elmo, Minnesota. Schilling has been close- 

 ly identified with the develop: nent of co-op- 

 erative dairy marketing in his home state. 



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Chantpion Ice Cream Eater 



WILBUR LAWRENCE of Bloomington is 

 McLean county's champion ice cream 

 cater. He devoured a quart brick of frozen 

 cream in six minutes and 10 seconds in a con- 

 test conducted by the McLean County }A\\V. 

 Producers' Association. He claims the cham- 

 pionship of Illinois and will meet all comers. 



Fred Shipley, manager of the Champaign 

 County Milk Producers is reported to have 

 challenged Manager Forrest Fairchild of the 

 McLean County Producers' to an ice cream 

 eating contest between teams of three men to 

 be chosen from each county. 



Lawrence defeated Charley Baker, McLean 

 dairyman who consumed a quart brick in six 

 minutes and 40 seconds. 



How To Order Limestone 



T^ARM Bureau members are 

 A entitled to a 10c per ton dis- 

 count from the regular retail 

 price of agricultural limestone if 

 they comply with the conditions 

 set forth in the contract which 

 the I. A. A. has with some twenty 

 different Limestone Producers. 

 See your Farm Adviser for de- 

 tails. In general, however, these 

 conditions are, as follows: 



Order must be placed by the 

 Farm Bureau member through a 

 Farm Bureau (not direct or with 

 a dealer) ; 



Order must be on regular or- 

 der form which the I. A. A. has 

 provided the Bureaus and must 

 be sent to one of the contract 

 companies; 



Member must pay his bill 

 within 30 days from date the 

 shipment was made by the Com- 

 pany. 



If all of these features are 

 complied with, the member may 

 deduct 10c per ton (not 10%) 

 from the face of his bill when he 

 sends in his remittance. 



If your land needs limestone, 

 it is the best investment you can 

 make. Consult your Farm Ad- 

 viser for detailed advice on how, 

 where, when and how much to 

 apply. Last year Illinois farm- 

 ers used 741,000 tons of agri- 

 cultural limestone. Large as 

 these figures are, in the future 

 they will be much larger. 



^AIRY 

 MarMiiig 



I By Art Lynch ^ 



ORGANIZED dairymen do a better job of 

 selling because they have information and 



facts concerning their markets. 



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EVERY month they know to a pound how 

 much the market used. They know the 

 intake. They know how much the folks drank. 

 They know how these figures compare with 

 the previous month and with previous seasons. 



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r I ■'HIS information tells them whether to add 



-I- a good cow or sell a "star boarder." It 



tells them whether to raise that heifer calf or 



make her into veal for restaurants to sell for 



'chicken sandwiches." 



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THE live milk selling cooperatives get out 

 regular news bulletins to the members. 

 They give a picture of the market as it is — 

 not as it ought to be — but the "low down." 



The member is in a position to read and heed. 

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MARKET facts show when more milk is 

 needed to supply the consumers. The 

 dairymen know when to give the cows a little 

 extra salad of silage with bran and cottonseed 



dressing. ^| .. 



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IF THERE'S too much milk the market facts 

 will tell us to fool the cows by putting 

 shavings in front of them and let them wear 

 green goggles. They'll think it's silage, will 

 partake and be merry — but won't milk such a 



surplus. 



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K ND another thing. Facts will tell us when 

 -^*-to give these old-fashioned cows some 

 birth control pamphlets to read. 



Speed T. B. Program 



In May, 1929 more tuberculin tests were ap- 

 plied to cattle throughout the United States 

 than in any previous month, according to the 

 Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington. 



Slightly more than a million tuberculin tests 

 per month have been applied eight times since 

 the work began in 1917, but at no time was 

 the number so great as during May of this year 

 when 94,517 herds, containing 1,193,660 cattle 

 were tuberculin tested. 



Roadside Markets 



(Continued from page f) 

 be offered for sale through these roadside mar- 

 kets. Such products as are grown in the vicinity 

 of the markets will be furnished by the local 

 growers. Those products which are not grown 

 locally, such as peaches, apples, pears, and 

 melons, will be delivered to the markets by 

 trucks or shipped in by rail. 



"Prices charged at the roadside markets will 

 be wholesale prices growers are receiving at 

 shipping points plus cost of transportation and 

 necessary operating expenses." 



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"At the circus there was a girl who rode 

 beneath the horse, on the horse's neck, and al- 

 most on his tail." 



"That's nothing. I did all that the first 

 time I rode a horse." 



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