Sanitary Miik Ass'n. 



...... Re-elects Officers 



Livestock Buyer Fleeces 



Farmers On Cattle 



A. D. LYHCH 



A price increase of 25 cents per cwt. 

 on Class I milk to |2.25 was obtained 

 by the Sanitary Milk Producers effec- 

 tive March 4 under the AAA license. 

 Under the amended license the cost of 

 milk to each distributor will be figured 

 according to usage of Class I, Class II 

 and Class III. 



More than 1,000 

 m e m b ers attended 

 the fifth annual 

 meeting in St. Jacob 

 on March 5. Speak- 

 ers included George 

 E. Metzger, field 

 secretary of the 

 I. A. A.; Chas. W. 

 Holman of the Na- 

 tional Milk Pro- 

 ducers Federation ; 

 and Prof. Tyrell 

 Williams of the St. 

 Louis Milk Commission. 



E. W. Tiedeman of St. Clair county 

 was re-elected president and A. D. 

 Lynch, secretary-manager. 



The board of directors elected at the 

 meeting include Victor Baxter, Shipman, 

 111.; Ward Bridgewater, Greenfield; Or- 

 ville Plocher, Highland; H. P. Wicklein, 

 Evansville; M. E. Bone, Vandalia; Fred 

 Gaebe, Adflieville; B. J. Schumacher, Al- 

 tamont; Bliss E. Loy, Effingham; Chas. 

 Whitlock, Litchfield; Martin Ehmler, 

 Orchard Farm, Mo.; Charles Harpstrite, 

 New Baden, IlL; and C. Monte Craft, 

 Pevely, Mo. 



The net price for all milk delivered by 

 members of Sanitary Milk Producers in 

 February was ?1.76 per cwt. During the 

 year 1934 the Association sold $6,854,- 

 999.88 worth of milk f . o. b. St. Louis. 

 The record shows an increase of $928,- 

 020.08 for the year over and above the 

 amount of money milk would have 

 brought if sold on the same basis as in 

 the 25 year period prior to the organiza- 

 tion of Sanitary Milk Producers, Man- 

 ager A. D. Lynch reported. During the 

 year, 209,346 check tests were made. The 

 treasurer's report showed net worth at 

 the end of the year of $23,907.87. 



The State of Minnesota, first of the 



48 states to enact a farm mortgage mora- 

 torium law halting foreclosures, handled 

 more than 4,000 farm foreclosure cases 

 in the past 12 years. During this period 

 the state has acquired more than 4,000 

 farms and now carries on its books 3800 

 properties comprising 650,000 acres and 

 valued at $24,000,000. Of the farms 

 , taken over more than 75 per cent are 

 operated on a crop share basis by their 

 original owners. 



APRIL, 1935 



Forty-one livestock co-operatives in 

 1934 sold around 15,000,000 head of cat- 

 tle, calves, hogs and sheep for 750,000 

 livestock growers, reports J. D. Harper 

 of the National Live Stock Marketing 

 Association. Cash savings of approxi- 

 mately $10,000,000 to livestock producers 

 through refunds and reduced commission 

 charges were recorded. 



"Farmers are losing hundreds of thou- 

 sands of dollars every week by failing 

 to market their livestock through the 

 co-operatives," said Charles A. Ewing, 

 president of the Association. "Stockmen 

 have failed to recognize that the live- 

 stock situation has changed. The farmer 

 is now operating in a seller's market in- 

 stead of a buyer's market as he has been 

 doing almost continuously for the past 

 five years." 



The past few weeks farmers have sold 

 cattle to speculators and commission 

 men in the country, declares the Asso- 

 ciation, and the same cattle have come 

 into the market and brought, in many 

 cases, from $1.00 to $2.00 per cwt. more 

 than was paid the farmer. One commis- 

 sion man buyer boastingly declared that 

 he had "the price of a new Ford in net 

 profit on each carload of cattle he had 

 bought." 



J. B. Turner Is New 



Adviser In Fayette 



Fayette County Farm Bureau, the last 

 county to be organized in Illinois, re- 

 cently employed Jonathan B. Tiimer as 

 farm adviser. Born at Butler, 111., in 

 1901, Turner attended the University of 

 Illinois where he graduated in 1923. He 

 served as 4-H club 

 leader in Mont- 

 gomery county, was 

 Emergency Agricul- 

 tural Assistant in 

 Christian County in 

 1934, also district 

 fieldman for AAA 

 Forage Conserva- 

 tion, contracting for 

 com fodder and soy 

 beans for the gov- 

 ernment. From 

 January 1 to March 

 1 this year he was Emergency Agricul- 

 tural Assistant in Fayette county and 

 on March 1, was appointed Farm Ad- 

 viser for Fayette County Farm Bureau 

 which has 370 members. Mr. Turner is 

 married and has two children. 



Since March 1 a 4-H club has been 

 organized, soybean hay shipped, corn- 

 hog signup carried forward, and a gen- 

 eral insurance agent selected. 



J. B. TtntHEX 



Wilkie Lee To Manage 



Carbondale Creamery 



Wilkie A. Lee, manager of the Mid- 

 West Dairymen's Company, Rockford, 

 will assume his new duties as manager 

 of the Producers Creamery of Carbon- 

 dale on or about April 1. In going to 

 his new post in southern Illinois Mr. 

 Lee will carry with him the good wishes 

 of the officers, directors and members 

 of the Winnebago 

 County Association 

 whose work he has 

 handled successfully 

 since he went there 

 in October, 1932. 



Prior to January, 

 1933, the Mid-West 

 was selling five out 

 of the 10 dairies 

 operating in the 

 Rockford area. Ef- 

 fective January 1 

 all 10 distributors 

 agreed to purchase their milk from the 

 Association. Since that time the Associa- 

 tion and the distributors have worked 

 harmoniously with the result that pro- 

 ducers secured a fair price, distributors 

 had a reasonable margin of profit and 

 consumers were not overcharged for 

 their milk and dairy products. 



The Association has a net worth of 

 approximately $28,000. It markets ap- 

 proximately 4,000,000 pounds of milk 

 per month valued at $70,000 to $75,000 

 monthly. As a result of the drouth in 

 the south it shipped substantial quan- 

 tities of milk to New Orleans and 

 Baton Rouge and other points through- 

 out the winter at a Class I price. The 

 average weighted price of all milk sold 

 during the month of February, was 

 $1.75 per cwt. for 3.5 per cent milk less 

 five cents per cwt. for operating ex- 

 penses. \jf- 



WILKIE LEE 



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Edgar County Signs 108 



New Bureau Members 



The Edgar County Farm Bureau com- 

 pleted a three-day membership cam- 

 paign the first week in March and 

 signed a total of 108 new members. 

 "We believe this is very good under 

 present conditions," writes Farm Ad- 

 viser H. D. Van Matre, . "and we are 

 confident that more new members will 

 join during the next few weeks." Field 

 Secretary George E. Metzger spoke to 

 approximately 115 men at the organ- 

 ization meeting March 5. Sixty-five re- 

 turned for the report meeting on March 

 8 and reported 108 new members." 



