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set the amount of heat required to 

 melt 10 tons of ice per 24-hour period. 

 A compressor was required to run con- 

 stantly from 6 o'clock Monday morn- 

 ing till about noon the following Sun- 

 day. By changing the system and 

 making it more automatic, it is hoped 

 that the machine will extract more 

 heat per 24-hour period and will be 

 shut down a part of each night. 



Uncle Ab says those who play the 

 horses don't always get a good run 

 for their money. 



MILK 



"Art" Lauterbach began his duties 



as Manager of Pure Milk Association 

 September 1st. Illinois milk coopera- 

 tives welcome Lauterbach to Illinois as 

 manager of the largest milk coopera- 

 tive. 



Sanitary Milk Producers report that 

 August milk will return producers a 

 minimum price of 70 cents over Illi- 

 nois condensed milk price. "Art" 

 Lynch reports that this new price 

 which is an advance of five cents per 

 cwt. for August was secured by the 

 Sales Committee as partial premium 

 for even production and higher pro- 

 duction costs in hot weather. 



J. C. Morton, Secretary of the Dan- 

 ville Producers Dairy, reports "July 

 was the largest month of business ever 

 experienced by our dairy." 



Gallon jugs of milk are now being 



sold in St. Louis at 40c, reports A. D. 

 Lynch, Secretary of Sanitary Milk. The 

 retail price in St. Louis is 13c per quart. 



Manager "Les" Kosanke of the Pe- 

 oria Producers Dairy, recently returned 

 from a two weeks vacation spent at 

 Ely, Minnesota. "Les" reports fishing 

 good. He brought back his legal limit 

 as evidence. A coat of tan and a new 

 mustache were the other acquisitions 

 upon his trip. 



SEPTEMBER. 1938 



Dr. H. E. Van Norman, a frequent 

 visitor of the lAA Milk Marketing De- 

 partment, died at his home in Chicago, 

 July 28th. Dr. Van Norman had held 

 many high dairy positions with Agri- 

 cultural Colleges and national dairy or- 

 ganizations and was nationally known. 

 He addressed I.M.P.A. directors upon 

 several occasions. 



S. J. Mclnnes of St. Petersburg, Flor- 

 ida, was a visitor in the I.M.P.A. of- 

 fices this month. "Mac" for several 

 years was in charge of butterfat and 

 quality testing for the Peoria Milk 

 Producer and is now with Southern 

 Dairies Inc., as their plant superin- 

 tendent at St. Petersburg, Florida. 



G. H. Ekhoff, president of the Pure 



Milk Association, reports that effective 

 August 11th, the milk of 170 new Pure 

 Milk Association members of the Bur- 

 lington, Illinois Cooperative Milk 

 Company was returned to the Pure 

 Milk association. These producers were 

 formerly Pure Milk members but had 

 left the Pure Milk Association and 

 have again signed as members. 



"Retail milk prices in Peoria were 



reduced from 12c and 13c per quart to 

 He and 12c per quart on August 15th," 

 reports Ryland Capron, President of 

 the Producers Dairy. 



A milk strike closed all dairies in 



Springfield in August, reports J. F. 

 Greenwood, president of the Producers 

 Dairy. Labor demanded an increase in 

 wages and the dairies refused to grant 

 the increase. After a short period of 

 no milk deliveries by the dairies, the 

 Labor Union signed a six months con- 

 tract identical to the one which had 

 expired. 



— you ieed approxi- 

 mately SVt BUSHELS 

 OF CORN and 40 

 POUNDS OF BLUE 

 SEAL HOG BALANCER. 



Let Your Blue Seal Dealer Figure the Savings for Yoti. 



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