Illinois Dairymen Get 

 More Cash for Less Milk 



TEN per cent less milk marketed 

 by Sanitary Milk Producers in 

 1935 compared with the year be- 

 fore , brought approximately $100,000 

 more money, so reported Manager A. 

 D. Lynch at the annual meeting of the 

 Association at St. Jacob, Madison 

 County, Illinois, March 5. 



Total milk production of members 

 sold to demers was 403,327,515 pounds. 

 The weighted average price was 21 

 cents greater per cwt. than the aver- 

 age for 1934. At the close of the year 

 11,464 dairymen were shipping to the 

 St. Louis market. The weighted aver- 

 age price during the year varied from 

 S1.57 in May to $1.94 in November. 

 For the year it averaged 18.8 cents 

 over the condensery price at Green- 

 ville, Illinois. 



The Class I price under the new 

 AAA order effective Feb. 1 is $2.10. 

 Class two milk under the present order 

 is figured at the 90 score butter mar- 

 ket plus 30 per cent plus 15 cents 

 per cwt. f.o.b. the marketing area. 

 Producers received an increase of 8c 

 per cwt. as a result of the new order 

 secured by the Association. 



Check Testing 



The Association made 348,321 check 

 tests during the year. A total of 71 per 

 cent of all active shippers on the mar- 

 ket last year were members of the 

 Sanitary Producers. Last year 2,276 

 new members were signed. 



In his report President E. W. Tiede- 

 man asserted that in his opinion the 

 market had profited as a result of the 

 AAA marketing agree- 

 ment. He urged vigor- 

 ous enforcement of the '■;•-' .' ,'. . 

 new order, and also re- 

 quested the Association 

 to study and develop a 

 plan to reward the 

 "even" producer of milk 

 as compared to the "fair 

 weather" milker. 



John A. Montgomery 

 of Dexter, Missouri, 

 vice-president of the 

 P r o d u c ers Livestock 

 Commission Associa- 

 iion, was the principal 

 speaker. He lauded the 

 1 1 li n o i s Agricultural 

 Association as the out- 

 standing state farm or- 

 ganization in the coun- 

 try and urged that 



farmers insist that their co-operatives 

 and general farm organizations work 

 closely together for their mutual bene- 

 fit. 



George E. Metzger, field secretary of 

 the lAA, conducted the election which 

 resulted in selection of the following 

 directors for the coming year: 



Robert E. Brown, Ethlyn, Mo.; J. 

 King Eaton, Edwardsville. 111.: V. B. 

 Baxter, Shipman; M. E. Bone, Vanda- 

 lia: C. Monte Craft," Pevely, Mo.; Mar- 

 tin Ehmler, Orchard Farm, Mo.; Fred 

 Gaebe, Addieville, 111.: Chas. Harp- 

 strite, Jr., New Baden; Bliss E. Loy. 

 Effingham: Orville Plocher, Highland: 

 B. J. Schumacher, Altamont; Chas. 

 Whitlock, Litchfield; H. P. Wicklein, 

 Evansville; E. W. Tiedeman, Belleville, 

 and Frank B. Tracy, Jerseyville. 



Officers Re-elected 



At a meeting of the board Mar. 12, 

 Tiedeman was re-elected president, 

 Brown vice-president, and Eaton treas- 

 urer. 



The Executive Committee selected 

 by the Board to act for the coming year 

 included V. B. Baxter, chairman; Rob- 

 ert E. Brown, B. J. Schumacher. Or- 

 ville Plocher, and Frank B. Tracy. 



Those elected to the Finance Com- 

 mittee were Charles Whitlock, chair- 

 man; C. Monte Craft, and H. P. Wick- 

 lein. 



The Budget Committee includes the 

 Finance Committee and Fred Gaebe, 

 and Bliss E. Loy. making five in all 

 with Charles Whitlock as chairman. 



The Sales Committee, which has the 



important duty of bargaining for the 

 $7,000,000.00 mUk crop of the territory 

 with the dealers in St. Louis, includes 

 Bliss E. Loy, chairman; Robert E. 

 Brown, and Charles Harpstrite. The 

 Board authorized the chairman to ap- 

 point four other Board members to 

 serve with the three who were elected. 

 St. Louis milk distributors at a gov- 

 ernment hearing held on March 16 re- 

 quested a decrease of 10c per cwt. for 

 all milk for the high production months 

 of April, May and June, stating that 

 they would refuse to take the milk of 

 all producers if a reduction of 10c per 

 cwt. was not ordered. The evidence 

 was received and taken under advise- 

 ment by governiVient officials attend- 

 ing the hearing. 



CREAM PRODUCERS PROFIT 



Country Ro«d 



Well on the way to its goal of 1,750,- 

 000 pounds of butter in 1936, Farmers 

 Creamery Company of Bloomington 

 completed its most successful year in 

 1935 with a record make of 1,391,775 

 pounds of butter — a gain of 11 per cent 

 over 1934. 



Value of product handled increased 

 31 per cent— to $404,901. Of the 1935 

 income, Manager Forrest Falrchild re- 

 ported, 76 per cent was paid to mem- 

 bers for butterfat. The cream actually 

 processed by the co-operative repre- 

 sented only 15 per cent of the total 

 supply in the territory. 



Would Cut Costs 



"With our present setup we could 

 manufacture 3,500.000 pounds of but- 

 ter with a 10 per cent increase in in- 

 vestment," Fairchild said. "Such a pro- 

 gram would substantially lower the 

 cost of hauling cream, cut the manu- 

 facturing cost and administrative ex- 

 pense per unit, and save an additional 

 $20,000 to be paid back to producers in 

 dividends. Our goal for 

 1936 is 1,750,000 pounds 

 of butter." 



The company dis- 

 tributed $7,759.00 of 

 dividends, 68 per cent 

 of which was in cash. 

 This distribution repre- 

 sented an additional 

 three-fourths cent per 

 pound butterfat or a 

 total of l-'-i cents paid 

 during the year in ad- 

 dition to the prevailing 

 price at time of de- 

 livery. 



Farmers Creamery 

 Company won the cup 

 for the highest percent-, 

 age (53.5 per cent) of 

 A^'iiichiuov 92 score butter made 

 (Continued on page 23) 



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