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FARM PRODUCTS ^^ 



Sales of the Jacksonville Producers 



Dairy increased 84.7 per cent last year, 

 according to reports made at the an- 

 nual stockholders' meeting, June 30, 

 in the Morgan County Farm Bureau 

 offices by Irwin Aufdenkamp, presi- 

 dent; Chas. Alexander, manager; and 

 Chas. Williamson, treasurer. 



Third week in June, 6,000 physicians 



attending the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation convention, San Francisco, 

 voted to restore the privilege of using 

 their seal of acceptance on butter of 

 suitable standards. The privilege had 

 been revoked two years before. Action 

 of the doctors was brought about 

 through requests of creamery and milk 

 associations throughout the U. S. Fur- 

 thermore, the A.M.A. council on foods 

 promised to watch butter substitute 

 advertising lest consumers be misled 

 concerning comparative nutritional 

 values of butter and oleomargarine. 



To Illinois farmers in May went 



highest milk prices in the U. S. Mem- 

 bers of Sanitary Milk Producers, St. 

 Louis got $1.58 per cwt. F.O.B. coun- 

 try plants. To members of Pure milk, 

 Chicago, $1.54, weighted average. 

 Dairymen's League members. New 

 York, $1.26; Twin City Milk Produc- 

 ers, St. Paul, $1.43; Michigan Milk 

 Producers of Detroit, $1.65 for base 

 and $1.26 for surplus; New England 

 Milk Producers, Boston, $1.28. 



CREAM 



Nearly 8,000 pounds of whole milk 

 is being handled daily by the Producers 

 Creamery of Olney. The skim milk 

 is dried and the cream used to increase 

 the volume of high grade butter, writes 

 C. W. Simpson, manager. 



Steak and Beans 



Cream route salesman for the Farm- 

 ers Creamery of Bloomington re- 

 cently chose up sides, vied for the 

 most new patrons. The team cap- 



AUGUST. 1938 



tained by Fieldman C. N. Atwood was , 

 first to score a win. To them went a 

 steak dinner. To the losers, a plate of 

 beans and a view of the steaks as they 

 disappeared. 



"The beans must have been partic 

 ularly energy-giving for the next month 

 found our boys on the bean-side with 

 Manager Forrest Fairchild's gang en- 

 joying the steak," Atwood alibis. 



Leaders in the contests were Bill 

 McFarland, Livingston county; Art 

 Kumler, McLean; Burnett DeGrush, 

 Grundy; and Fred Lawler, DeWitt. 



Colorful posters of a picnic scene, 



urging folks to eat more Prairie Farms 

 butter for better health next winter, 

 appeared in all leading stores in the 

 Bloomington creamery territory in July. 



When the Producers Creamery of 



Carlinville began operations early in 

 May, it took a large share of the Bloom- 

 ington Creamery's territory and volume. 

 When Manager Fairchild of The Farm- 

 ers Creamery of Bloomington balanced 

 his books for June he found that the 

 lost butterfat volume had been made 

 up and increased by 300 pounds. 



Member creameries of Illinois Pro- 

 ducers Creameries have approximately 

 5000 stores, restaurants, and other re- 

 tail outlets for Prairie Farms butter in 

 Illinois. Approximately one-half of 

 all Prairie Farms butter is sold in the 

 communities where produced. 



Illinois Producers Creameries made a 



profit of approximately $24,000 from 

 an investment of $4,000 the first year 

 it operated the butter cutting and 

 printing plant in Chicago. 



FRUITS and 



VEGETABLES 



Illinois peaches are being harvested 



earlier this year than usual. The El- 

 berta crop in the Centralia area will 

 be available until about August 20. 

 Folks who plan to can Illinois peaches 



should not wait too long for their 

 Supplies. Fruit of good size and ex- 

 cellent quahty has been available since 

 July 25 in the extreme .southern part 

 of the state. 



Troy Bilbrey, Franklin county, in- 

 stalled a new peach sizing machine and 

 brush to handle his 1938 crop of about 

 10,000 bushels of Elbertas. Other grow- 

 ers, following the program of the Illi- 

 nois Fruit Growers Exchange for im- 

 proved packing and grading, are using 

 more tub bushel baskets for peaches 

 this year than ever before. Many in- 

 stalled better packing and grading 

 equipment. The nationally famous 

 ILLINI brand of the Exchange goes 

 on only the best pack of fruit. 



Peach harvesting and marketing 



problems were discussed in a series of 

 growers' conferences s{H)nsored by the 

 state agricultural extension service and 

 southern Illinois County Farm Bureaus. 

 Meetings were held at Anna, Union 

 county, July 13, at New Burnside, John- 

 son county, July 14 and at Centralia, 

 Marion county, July 15. 



Speakers were F. H. Simpson, Flora, 

 Prof. M. J. Dorsey, R. L. Munn and 

 H. W. Newell of the University and 

 Harry W. Day, manager of the Illinois 

 Fruit Growers Exchange. 



R. B. Endicott, Pulaski county, says 



that peach production in Alexander 

 and Pulaski counties is declining. Rea- 

 sons : Reduced acreage and lack of care 

 of trees. The 1938 crop which matured 

 in that section about July 25, was es- 

 timated at 50 per cent normal. 



Albert Landreth and Win Venerable 

 of Alto Pass, Union county, report 

 that peaches there matured about July 

 25. Quality was excellent. 



Harry Allen, Fruit Exchange Supply 

 Company, says the Jackson county 

 peach crop is spotted, averaging 50 per 

 cent normal. Quality generally was 

 good as harvest started on July 25. 



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