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ones and to care for increasing business. 

 More than 140,000 pounds of butter 

 were made by the plant in May. 



FLETCHEH GOUHLEY 

 Manager of the new Producers Cream- 

 ery at CarlinTille. 



May volume handled by the Pro- 

 ducers Creamery of Mt. Sterling in- 

 creased 23 per cent more than April. 



George Anderson, fieldman for the 

 Rockford Milk Producers Association, 

 sailed recently for a two months' visit 

 with his parents who reside in Den- 

 mark. Upon his return in August he 

 will resume his work with the Mid- 

 West Dairymen's Association, accord- 

 ing to Delos Langholf, manager. 



Milk producers and dealers of the 

 Rockford area recently inaugurated a 

 radio program over WROK to adver- 

 tise milk. The program will be on 

 the air from 9:30 to 9:45 a.m. six days 

 a week during a full year. One-half 

 of the expense is borne by the Mid- 



West Dairymen's Company and the 

 other half by the milk dealers who buy 

 their milk of the producers' organiza- 

 tion. 



A. D. Lynch, secretary-manager of 



Sanitary Milk Producers, reports that 

 the St. Louis Dairy Council and the 

 St. Louis Health Department sponsored 

 a banquet and program at the Statler 

 Hotel, St. Louis, on June 15th to cele- 

 brate the inauguration of Grade A pas- 

 tuerized milk in St. Louis, under the 

 U. S. Public Health Service Milk Or- 

 dinance. 



A revision of the present milk mar- 

 keting agreement for the Quad City 

 market is under consideration by the 

 organized producers and dealers in that 

 area, according to C. W. Huppert, 

 Moline, manager of the Quality Milk 

 Association. The revised agreement is 

 to conform with the revised AAA li- 

 censing law. The present AAA milk 

 marketing agreement has been in satis- 

 factory operation on other markets for 

 several years. 



Seventy-two members of the McLean 



County Milk Producers advisory com- 

 mittee met last month in the Farm 

 Bureau building for dinner, which was 

 served by the ladies of the Money 

 Creek Home Bureau. Directors and 

 Manager Forest Fairchild reported on 

 Association business. The group voted 

 for individual producer ownership of 

 milk cans instead of relying upon dealer 

 owned milk cans for their milk ship- 

 ments as they have in the past years. 



Milk production in Illinois during 



the past month has continued at higher 

 than normal levels, reports John Case, 

 manager of Pure Milk Association, 

 Chicago. The average production per 

 head for the 12,500 Pure Milk Asso- 

 ciation members May 25th of each year 

 is as follows: 1938, 423; 1937, 412; 

 1936, 350; 1935, 369; 1934, 355. Milk 

 production in the U. S. was four per 

 cent higher on June 1 than it was a 

 year ago. 



FRUIT and VEGETA- 

 BLE MARKETING 



Fruit Crop Prospects 



Practically all fruits in the state have 

 matured approximately two weeks 

 earlier than usual, says Harry W. Day, 

 director of the fruit and vegetable 

 marketing department. It appears that 

 the Elberta peach crop in the extreme 

 southern part of Illinois including Car- 

 bondale, Anna and other points will 

 be ready for harvest around the 20th to 

 25th of July, and in the Centralia area 

 about August 1. This is fully two weeks 

 earlier than normal. 



A summary of growers' reports in- 

 dicate that the crop has been reduced 

 about 50 percent in the extreme south- 

 ern part of the area, while in the Cen 

 tralia district most orchards will have 

 65 to 100 per cent of a crop. The total 

 peach production for the entire state 

 is likely to equal the 1937 crop, Day 

 said. 



The Illinois apple crop is reported 

 to be 65 to 75 per cent less than normal. 

 The amount of crop in the individual 

 orchards varies considerably. Talmage 

 Defrees, Bond county, reports about 

 one third of a crop on Ben Davis, a 

 few Grimes, very few Jonathans. 



O. V. Cummins, Jefferson county, 

 reports a crop of approximatey three 

 cars of Duchess, four cars of Jonathans, 

 two cars of Red Delicious, two cars of 

 Romes, one car of Grimes and one 

 car of Winesaps. In Western Illinois, 

 Arthur Foreman in Pike county reports 

 a light crop of Romes, Willows and 

 Grimes and a lesser crop of the other 

 varieties. 



Les Anderson, Pike county, reports a 

 part crop of Willows and Ben Davis 

 with very light crop of Grimes, Jona- 

 thans and Black Twigs, and Anly a few 

 Red or Golden Delicious. On the 

 other hand Rising Springs orchard in 

 Pike county rep>ort$ crop of approxi- 

 mately 6,000 bushels, mostly Grolden 

 Delicious, Red Delicious, and some 

 Jonathans and Romes. 



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