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year was $1.89 cents per cwt. com- 

 pared with 11.80 in 1936. Directors 

 for the coming year are: Oscar Nord- 

 feldt, Hugh Mainland, president, Geo. 

 Pepper, Edwin Holmes, Harry Barrick, 

 W. A. Newman, secy.-treas., H. A. 

 Stevens, vice-pres., A. E. Nelson, A. 

 Hanson, R. M. Greenlee, Harold Cran- 

 dall. 



H. D. AUebach of the National Pro- 

 ducers Committee on Evaporated Milk, 

 and Wilfred Shaw, were the speakers. 



The Kewanee Milk Producers Asso- 

 ciation have applied for membership 

 in the Illinois Milk Producers Associa- 

 tion. Officers and Directors are: 

 Arthur J. Kuster, D. H. Radford, Har- 

 vey Bates, Ben Kirman, Wm. Pyle, 

 Wm. Bailleu, Henry Linstrom, Frank 

 Binns, Albert Owart, Walter W. Char- 

 let, Charles T. Little. 



E. W. Gaumnitz, Chief of the Dairy 



Division of the AAA, and T. G. Stitts 

 who is head of the Dairy Division of 

 the Farm Credit Administration visited 

 the lAA offices on April 6. Mr. Gaum- 

 nitz is in charge of purchasing dairy 

 products to stabilize prices. 



Pres. E. W. Tiedeman, Sanitary Milk 

 Producers of St. Louis, reports that 

 the Association is now engaged in ne- 

 gotiations with the Teamsters' Union 

 of the American Federation of Labor, 

 relative to the transportation of milk 

 of their members to the St. Louis mar- 

 ket. Milk haulers transporting milk 

 to the Peoria market are members of 

 the Teamsters' and Chauffeurs' Union. 

 Most of the other markets in the state 

 have no union affiliated milk haulers. 



CREAM 



Forty new patrons sent cream and 



milk to the Producers Creamery of 

 Moline during March, reports Manager 

 Clifford G. Huppert. Every cream sales- 

 man added new patrons. 



A sufficient number of new cream 



patrons have been secured in south- 

 eastern Rock Island county and north- 

 western Henry county to form a new 

 cream route thus expanding the service 

 of the Producers Creamery of Moline, 

 according to Ken Shields, fieldman. 



Mrs. Mollie Fleshner, Moultrie coun- 

 ty, says, "I have been a lespedeza fan 

 for eight years and have more lespedeza 

 hay than I need for my own use. I wish 

 every cream producer could learn more 

 about growing this crop." She thinks 

 it is the best hay for dairy cows. She 

 is a patron of the Producers Creamery 

 of Champaign. 



Free Sediment 



Sediment testing in cooperation with 

 the state division of foods and dairies 

 is a new service offered farmers by 

 Illinois Producers Creameries, accord- 

 ing to General Manager Frank A. 

 Gougler. The cream is thoroughly 

 mixed in the can as it comes to the 

 plants. A two-ounce sample is filtered 

 through a dollar-sized cotton pad. Sedi- 

 ment on the pads reveal the care with 

 which each producer handles his cream. 

 When the sediment test shows con- 

 sistent lack of care a cream salesman or 

 fieldman offers to help producers get 

 cream of higher quality for which pre- 

 mium prices are paid. 



Cream salesmen for the Producers 



Creamery of Champaign allege that it 

 is a frequent practice of some competi- 

 tors to raise the price of butterfat 

 about two cents and to get it back by 

 deducting from the weight and test. 



9.}c More to Farmers 



Cooperative cream marketing in Illi- 

 nois has resulted in securing 9.3 cents 

 more of the consumers' butter dollar 

 for farmers in ten years, says Ted Ha- 

 fer, manager of the Producers Cream- 

 ery of Mt. Sterling. Ted compared 

 1928, '29 and '30 cream pool records 

 with the present price schedule, found 

 producers were getting 70.7 cents of 

 the consumers' butter dollar then and 

 80 cents now. 



Fruits and 

 Vegetables 



Apples Frost Damaged 



E. D. McGuire, Jackson county 

 member of the Illinois Fruit Growers 

 Exchange, reports considerable frost 

 damage to Duchess, Winesap and Jon- 

 athan apples. Peaches on low ground, 

 too, suffered. Arthur Foreman, Pike 

 county, reports heavy bloom on Willow 

 Twigs and Romes, uneven bloom on 

 Jonathans. Chris Mast of the Adams 

 County Shipping Association says that 

 cold weather only slightly damaged 

 the apple crop in the Quincy section. 



Stratvberry Crop Cut 



The strawberry crop in Pulaski, 

 Union, Jackson, Williamson, Johnson, 

 and Massac counties was reduced 50 

 per cent by temperatures ranging from 

 26 to 30 degrees, April 1, 2, and 3, 

 reports Harry W. Day, lAA director 

 of fruit and vegetable marketing. Ma- 

 turity of the crop will be delayed until 

 May 10 to 15. 



Frost reduced the Union county 



strawberry crop 50 per cent, according 

 to Floyd Anderson, director of the 

 Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange. 



Karl Merkel, sales manager for Illi- 

 nois Fruit Growers Exchange is at 

 Hammond, Louisiana, shipping straw- 

 berries for the Merkel Bros. Company. 

 He will be back with the Exchange in 

 June. 



Fays to Thin Peaches 



"It takes 960 peaches, II/2 inches 

 in diameter, to fill a standard bushel 

 basket which can be filled with 90 

 three-inch peaches. Since larger peach- 

 es bring the best prices and size can be 

 governed by thinning, it pays to thin 

 your crop properly, " says Logan Colp, 

 Williamson county orchardist. 



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