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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Nine 



.1 



CO-OPERATIVE marketing is a modern 

 r development of co-operative farming. 

 Farmers have co-operated for years with 

 great success in threshing, haying, corn shell- 

 ing, butchering, etc. Now they are co-operat- 

 ing in merchandising and selling their produce. 

 You can measure the value of co-operative 

 marketing in dollars and cents. Selling butter- 

 fat and eggs co-operatively in McLean county 

 added an average of $24 to the patrons' income 

 in 1928, Butterfat prices gained an average of 

 three cents per pound throughout the entire 

 county when produce marketing units were 

 organized at Bloomington and Belleflower. A 

 gain of three cents per pound applied to 

 McLean county's average annual production 

 of 1,023,091 pounds of fat, means an increase in 

 income of $30,692.73 per year. 



This Is ^Worth Having 



This seems like only a drop in the bucket. Yet, if the 

 price paid to farmers who produce the 60,000,000 

 pounds of butterfat sold annually in Illinois was in- 

 creased by three cents per pound, it would total $1,800,- 

 000. That's worth having, is it not? 



The 35 co-operative cream stations now operating in 

 Illinois handle approximately 2,450,000 pounds of 

 butterfat annually. These co-operatives have stabil- 

 ized the butterfat price upward from three to five cents 

 per pound wherever they operate. 



Organization Paid Here 



On April 3, 1928, the co-operative cream station at 

 Albion in Edwards county, sold its year's output of 

 butterfat under a contract for 8.5 cents per pound more 

 than was being paid the same day at Ullin in Pulaski 

 county. A preliminary meeting to organize a co-oper- 

 ative produce association at Ullin was held on April 5. 

 The next day private cream stations increased their 

 prices two cents per pound butterfat. Does organiza- 

 tion pay? 



The business-like way is to sell your farm produce 

 on your own weights and tests. How much are you 

 getting for cream and butterfat in your community? 

 How does this price compare with the 90 score Chicago 

 butter market? 



Fill out the coupon below and get the facts i 



Produce Marketing Department 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION 



608 So. Dearborn Sti 

 I CHICAGO 



.CUT HERE.. 



.]. 



nilnoU Acrienltvral AMOclatton, 

 *•• So. D«arkora St., 

 GUeac^t nUaoU 



I am receiving cents a lb. for butterfat in L- 



(town). 



Our cream is usually (check) sweet, slightly tour, vieiy sour when 

 delivered. 



Write and tell me whether or not this is a fair price and send me com - 

 plete informaticxi about how I can market cream, poultry, and eggs at a 

 better price. 



