Wrzim V *JJ5i.'^36 BROUGHT 

 NEARLY 13 MILLIOW MORE 

 THAN IN 1934 



NO. CARS » or 

 MARKCT 



TOTAL SALCS 



6 181815 14.04 » 31,398.228.62 

 5 IS1406 t3.85 24.937.98273 

 4 191074 12.93 18.439.835.13 



•VG PHICE _ 

 PtACAR • 



St668 



1618 



967 



MORE MONEY FOR LIVESTOCK 

 Thk chart tells how farmers benefited by better prices 

 in '36. 



AT THE LUNCHEON. COLLEGE INN 

 The Male Chorus Made A Hit. 



Credit for these advances is largely due 

 to the consohdated effort of farm organ- 

 ization. 



"Until we have world recovery in 

 foreign trade, we must confine our pro- 

 duction to our domestic needs. Industry 

 made these adjustments long ago. We 

 must do likewise. Let us continue to pre- 

 serve and maintain federal machinery for 

 the use of co-operating farmers in bal- 

 ancing production with domestic needs 

 and foreign commerce." 



Mr. Parke sees a bright outlook for 

 livestock farmers in increased purchasing 

 power of consumers. 



The suggestion that livestock growers 

 go into processing business, he labeled 



as "fine, laudable and well-intentioned, 

 but in this case probably untimely." 

 Objections given were: 



1. Our main job is marketing live- 

 stock and obtaining fair price levels. 



2. Processing nationally would require 

 vast finances. 



3. G>mpetent personnel would have to 

 be acquired and trained or the 

 strategic position of the seller would 

 be lost. 



4. Our status would be changed from 

 bargainers to competitors of the 

 processors. 



5. Could producers as processors set 

 prices that would satisfy livestock 

 producers on the one hand, and 



(Continued on page 33) 



Sanitciry Milk Producers 

 In Seventh Annual Meeting 



"We have gone through the organ- 

 ization step, through the recognition pe- 

 riod and we are now in the third step — 

 that of administration. Our job in the 

 future is to keep the machine that we 

 have built in effective running order." 

 So spoke President E. W. "Ed" Tiede- 

 man of the Sanitary Milk Producers at 

 St. Jacob, March 2, where more than 

 1 200 dairymen gathered for their seventh 

 annual meeting. 



Dairymen about the St. Louis market 

 in the '20's and earlier had many a bat- 

 tle with the distributors in their efforts 

 to secure a fair share of the consumers' 

 dairy dollar. Eight years ago and more, 

 the Sanitary Milk Producers was set up 

 on the ruins of previous attempts at co- 

 operative selling which for one reason 

 or another had collapsed. With the help 

 of the County Farm Bureaus in the St. 



Louis area and the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, this new organization was 

 launched by fluid milk producers to give 

 them the power to bargain for fair prices. 

 The path of the Sanitary Producers has 

 been anything but smooth. But it per- 

 sisted in its program and with the aid of 

 the Triple A marketing agreement in re- 

 cent years, has brought a large measure 

 of stability to the St. Louis market and 

 has represented producers effectively in 

 their struggle for equitable prices for 

 milk. 



Secretary-Manager A. D. Lynch re- 

 ported that 374,054,586 pounds of milk 

 were marketed last year for a total of 

 $7,172,494.35. During 1936, produc- 

 tion declined seven per cent, but income 

 from milk was 1173,409.47 higher. The 

 average price was $1.92, which repre- 

 sents a preniium of 15 cents more tfian 



was paid by condenseries. Percentage of 

 milk handled by the association increased 

 from 62 per cent in 1934 to 72 per cent 

 in '36. March '37 figures show a further 

 gain to 78 per cent of the milk sold in 

 St. Louis. 



The Association checks weights and 

 tests, watches carefully the credit rating 

 of buyers, represents the producers in 

 price conferences and gives the dairyman 

 a powerful voice in the St. Louis milk 

 market. 



The association last year increased its 

 net worth from $26,420.70 to $30,- 

 694.22, Treasurer J. King Eaton re- 

 ported. All directors were re-elected. 



Many a speaker contributed toward 

 making it a full day. C. V. Gregory, E. 

 W. Gaumnitz, Prof. A. C. Ragsdalc, 

 Dr. R. W. Bartlett, George E. Metzger, 

 Fred L. Shipley, and others were on the 

 program. More than 1100 producers 

 were served at the expense of the as- 

 sociation at luncheon. 



Directors representing Illinois districts 

 re-elected are: J. King Eaton, Edwards- 

 ville; Orville Plocher, Highland; Charles 

 Harpstrite, Jr., New Baden; E. W. 

 Tiedeman, Belleville; H. P. Wicklein, 

 EvansviUe; C. L. Whitlock, Litchfield; 

 V. B. Baxter, Shipman; M. E. Bone, 

 Vandalia; B. J. Schumacher, Altamont; 

 Bliss E. Loy, Effingham; R. E. Brown, 

 Ethlyn, Missouri; Martin Ehmler, Orch- 

 ard Farm, Missouri; and C. Monte 

 Craft, Pevely, Missouri. Two new di- 

 rectors, completing the board of 15, 

 were elected, namely; Theodore Mies- 

 sner, Hoyleton; and Ward Bridge- 

 water, Greenfield, who formerly served 

 on the board. 



The association asked for a 35 cent 

 per cwt. increase on both Class I and 

 Class II milk in the AAA public hear- 

 ing Mar. 6 to compensate dairymen for 

 much higher feed costs. .. , . 



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