Milk Wagon Drivers 



Want Wage Increase 



As we go to press organized milk 

 wagon drivers in Chicago were threaten- 

 ing to strike for a base salary of $45 a 

 week with the commission system re- 

 vised upward for sales in excess of their 

 regular quotas. The Union's contract 

 with the dealers expired on April 30. It 

 provided for $40 a week wages, plus 

 commissions. 



"The drivers have instructed us to get 

 an increase," said Ray Bryant, business 

 representative of the Union. "If we can't 

 get it by negotiations we will have to 

 adopt other measures." Dealers state 

 that if the increase is granted the retail 

 price must be raised from 11 to 12 cents 

 a quart. 



Investigators of the Federal Trade 

 Commission recently moved into Chicago 

 to spend five or six weeks studying the 

 milk market. A committee of five leg- 

 islators also began a series of hearings 

 seeking to formulate some basis of legis- 

 lation to regulate the Chicago milk in- 

 dustry. 



It is reported that the Driver'! UbIoh hu lett 

 ro&ny of its old memben who have been replaced 

 by younger men, many of whom are college 

 rraduateit. The younger men are aaid to be not in 

 sympathy with a strike because they feel that the 

 stores and milk depots will take more business away 

 from the routes, during the strike and after, if the 

 prioe of milk is advanced tc 18c, 



Milk Producers About 



St. Louis Aided By AAA 



Incomes of dairy farmers in (he St. 

 Louis milk shed have increased $1,341,- 

 876.23 from higher" milk prices during 

 the eleven months' operation of the 

 federal milk license ending April 30. 

 1935, Fred L. Shipley, market adminis- 

 trator, reports. 



Value of production from June 1934 

 through April 1935 was $6,427,102.36— 

 an average of $584,282.03 per month. 

 This compares with an income of 

 $5,085,226.18 for the same eleven 

 months of the previous year. Thus the 

 federal license has added an average of 

 $121,988.75 per month to milk producers' 

 income. 



In March 1933 the average price on 

 the St. Louis market for milk was $1.00 

 per cwt., whereas in March this year, 

 one year after the license became ef- 

 fective, the average price was $1.84. 



"Soybeans" In AAA 



While in Washington following the 

 Peoria mass meeting. President Earl C. 

 Smith met with a committee of congress- 

 men from the Illinois delegation regard- 

 ing the inclusion of "soybeans" as a 

 non-basic commodity in the Agricultural 

 Adjustment Act. 



NEW HOME or DEWITT COUNTT FAKM BUREAU IN CLINTON 



The committee as well as Chairman 

 Marvin Jones agreed to support the 

 amendment before the House Agricul- 

 tural Committee. 



Whiteside County Starts 

 Clean-Up, Paint-Up Drive 



The Whiteside County Farm Bureau 

 recently launched a paint-up and clean- 

 up contest known as "The Whiteside 

 Farmstead Improvement Campaign." 



The contest is organized by townships 

 with every farmer eligible to participate 

 and receive prizes. Local committees 

 were appointed in all of the 22 town- 

 ships whose duts it will be to designate 

 the farmsteads on which the most im- 

 provements have been made during the 

 summer and fall seasons. 



The winner of each will be given a 

 selection of desirable trees and shrubs. 

 The contest closes October 31. 



The county committee is composed of 

 George Woessner of Sterling, chairman; 

 Ralph Johnson of Prophetstown ; C. F. 

 Reed of Sterling; Rachel Lemon, county 

 4-H club leader; and F. H. Shuman, 

 farm adviser. 



The Farm Bureau has adopted the 

 slogan "Even One Building Painted 

 Raises Neighborhood Property Values." 

 Described once as "The county with all 

 the paint on it," Farm Adviser Shuman 

 states that during the depression years 

 a tremendous deterioration has taken 

 place in Whiteside county with many 

 homes and buildings unpainted, barns 

 without necessary repairs and neglect of 

 home surroundings in general. 



The score card adopted for the cam- 

 paign follows: 



Buildings — 60% (50% — Painted this 

 year, new siding or shingles; 10% for 

 repaired roofs, windows, porches, steps, 

 windows and doors properly hung.) 



House Yard — 10% (Lawn kept mowed. 

 Weeds mowed. Fences in good repair.) 



Barn Yard — 30% (Remove all tin cans, 

 old wire, worn out machinery, etc.; Haul 

 manure away from barn; Eliminate 

 undesirable advertising on and near 

 buildings; Mow fence rows and corners; 

 Fences and gates in good repair; Wood 

 piled neatly and attractively: Keep ma- 

 chinery properly housed.) 



Good Work at Danville 



Danville Milk Producers Dairy which 

 operates a chain of milk depots paid 

 their members 641/)% of the consumers 

 milk dollar during the past fiscal year, 

 raised the price of milk to members 25c 

 per cwt., lowered the price to the con- 

 sumer 3c per qt,, and made 25% interest 

 on their invested capital, according to 

 J. B. Countiss, director of dairy market- 

 ing. "How's that for cutting down the 

 cost of distribution," says Jackj. At Dan- 

 ville the depot price is being raised from 

 7 to 8c per qt. and dealers h^'e agreed 

 to give up their milk depots. 



The Illinois Home Bureau Federation 



is planning to hold its annual state picnic 

 at Old Salem near Springfield on Wed- 

 nesday, July 31. 



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 ments because most folks try to live up 

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