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Sanitary Milk Producers directors, in 



a meeting at St. Louis, Sept. 12th, 

 studied systems for promoting even 

 production. Such a plan may be started 

 in 1939, says manager Art Lynch. 



"Archie" McPhedran is recuperating 



following a serious operation per- 

 formed in a Chicago hospital and is 

 again at home near Oglesby, LaSalle 

 county. Mr. McPhedran, until recent- 

 ly, was president of the Illinois Milk 

 Producers' Association and also presi- 

 dent of the LaSalle-Peru Milk Pro- 

 ducers Association. 



Since the middle of August all Dan- 

 ville milk distributors have been selling 

 milk for 8c a quart, cash and carry, 

 and 10c a quart, delivered, reports 

 Frank Bott, manager of the Danville 

 Producers Dairy. This cooperative is 

 a pioneer in cash and carry milk sell- 

 ing downstate and have been outstand- 

 ingly successful in their operations. 



R. W. "Doc" Bartlett U. of L college 



of agriculture, is again at his desk 

 after a vacation on his home farm at 

 Orleans, Vermont. "Doc" is an out- 

 standing authority on cooperative milk 

 marketing problems and is the author 

 of several books on the subject. 



Dave Wells, Niantic, Illinois, Secre- 

 tary of the Decatur Milk Producers 

 Association, has never missed helping 

 milk his dairy herd in 800 consecutive 

 milkings. 



CREAM 



Barney McDufFee, truck salesman for 

 the Producers Creamery of Champaign, 

 reports on returning from a trip 

 through the West that a creamery com- 

 pany was paying 16 cents a pound for 

 butterfat in Kansas where there was 

 no competition from cooperatives. In 

 the Champaign territory the same com- 

 pany is paying 24 to 26 cents a pound 

 for fat delivered at the door and some- 

 what less at cream stations. 



Another company in Kentucky has 

 been paying 16 and 17 cents for fat 



all summer. At its stations in the 

 Champaign district the price has been 

 21 to 24 cents. 



Butterfat volume at the Producers 



Creamery of Champaign was higher 

 in August than a year ago. Truck 

 salesmen expect an increase in Septem- 

 ber due to fall freshening on many 



farms. 



Students returning to the University 

 of Illinois will increase the demand 

 for Prairie Farms butter in Champaign- 

 Urbana. 



August was the largest month of the 



year at the Producers Creamery of Car- 

 bondale with 54,343 pounds of butter 

 manufactured, says Manager Harold 

 Brackett. 



The University of Illinois recently 

 placed a second large order with the 

 Producers Creamery of Olney for dried 

 milk solids, a new product that is in- 

 creasing in popularity. 



The Producers' Creamery of Gales- 

 burg is broadcasting every morning at 

 7:00 o'clock from Monday through 

 Friday over WGIL. This is the Inter- 

 national News broadcast, and at this 

 time consumers as well as producers 

 have a chance to hear about Prairie 

 Farms Butter. 



A Galesburg grocery store recently 



changed to the self-serve system and 

 Prairie Farms butter sales jumped from 

 4 lbs. a week to 125 lbs. The slogan 

 on each carton, "The Butter That Must 

 Please," is a representative statement 

 of the product inside. 



Fruits and 

 Vegetables 



The peach harvest in Southern Illi- 

 nois started late this year — in the 

 lower district about July 25 and was 

 completed in the Centralia district 

 about August 15. Quality in the south- 



ern section was unusually good. In 

 the Centralia area, quality in some or- 

 chards was disappointing. Good peach- 

 es sold from $1.50 to $2.00 per bushel, 

 f.o.b. shipping point in the South end. 

 In the Centralia area prices ranged 

 from 75c to $1.50 on best packed 

 brushed peaches. 



This season it was forcefully brought 



out that growers must produce quality 

 fruit, brush the peaches, pack them in 

 the best containers available (tubs with 

 all the trimmings) and market them 

 thru a good sales agency. Throughout 

 the harvest, good quality fruit properly 

 graded, brushed, and packed in tubs 

 with trimmings were sold from 10c to 

 as high as 50c per bushel premium 

 over other fruit. 



In our opinion the peach grower 



who in the future years will produce 

 quality fruit, practice brushing, good 

 packing, and offer his goods through 

 a competent sales agent has an oppor- 

 tunity to make money in the Illinois 

 peach industry. However, the grower 

 who is satisfied to grow just ordinary 

 quality and pack carelessly, who does 

 not brush his fruit and just offers 

 "peaches" for sales might as well pull 

 his trees. 



A number of apple growers in Pike 



county have recently secured REA elec- 

 tric service furnished from the plant 

 at Winchester. Les Anderson of Sum- 

 mer Hill in Pike county and Arthur 

 Foreman of Pittsfield, both directors 

 of the Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange, 

 have recently installed electric motors 

 and lights in the apple packing houses. 



The apple crop throughout southern 



and western Illinois is unusually short 

 this year, possibly averaging around 

 20% of normal. Jonathans have gen- 

 erally been harvested while Grimes 

 Golden and Golden Delicious and 

 Romes are now being picked. The 

 harvest of Willow Twigs and other 

 late varieties will continue throughout 

 October. The Kieffer pear crop in 

 Southern Illinois is practically a failure. 



OCTOBER. 1938 



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