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August Milk Prices 



Detroit: Class I $1.90, Class II $1.31, 

 f.o.b. Detroit for }.5% milk. Net base price 

 to members $1.60. Excess price $1.24 f.o.b. 

 Detroit. Butterfat diflFerential 4c Retail 

 10-1 Ic. 



Milwaukee: Class I $2.71, Class II $2.48, 

 Class III $1.18, Class IV .93. Average net 

 price to members $1.82 f.o.b. Milwaukee for 

 3.5% milk. Butterfat diflferential 3c. Re- 

 tail 12c per quart. 



Columbus, Ohio: Class I $1.72, Class II 

 $1.20, f.o.b. Columbus. Average weighted 

 price $1.63 for 3.5% milk. Butterfat dif- 

 ferential 2.6c. Retail 10c, at stores 9-lOc. 



New York: $1.27 per cwt. for 35% milk 

 f.o.t. 201-210 mile zone. Federal Milk 

 Marketing Agreement in operation and will 

 apply on September prices. Retail 13^c 

 per quart delivered, at stores 12-13C per 

 quart. 



Baltimore: Class I, $2,414 per cwt.. 

 Class II .884c per cwt. for 35% milk f.o.b. 

 receiving stations. Retail 13c per quart. 

 Stores 13c per quart. 



Kansas City: Base price $1.95. Excess 

 price $1.21 f.o.b. Kansas City. Retail 13c 

 per quart delivered, at stores 12c. 



Minneapolis-St. Paul: $1.45 for 3.5% 

 milk f.o.b. Minneapolis, St. Paul. Retail 

 Uc per quart. 



Representatives of the dairy industry in 



mid-west states agreed at a recent meeting 

 in Chicago, that the problem of the heavy 

 supplies of butter and other dairy products 

 could be lessened through a campaign. 



Managers and directors of the Pro- 

 ducers Dairies met October 13 in the 

 Lincoln-Douglas Hotel, Quincy to dis- 

 cuss problems of distributing coopera- 

 tives. Next meeting will be held in 

 Danville where the host will be the 

 Danville Producers Dairy. 



A special stockholders meeting of the 

 Champaign County Milk Producers Asso- 

 ciation was held Monday evening, October 

 3, to consider increasing the number of di- 

 rectors from five to seven. Lacking a 

 quorum, no action was taken. 



On October 1, the Peoria Producers 



Dairy took over the five milk routes 

 of the Peoria Creamery Company 

 which discontinued its milk business. 



The Producers now operates over twen- 

 ty large milk routes. 



The regular quarterly meeting of directors 



of the Illinois Milk Producers Association 

 was held Friday, October 28, at the lAA 

 offices in Chicago. 



Sanitary Milk Producers, St. Louis have 

 requested an AAA hearing in the near fu- 

 ture in an effort to bring about changes 

 in the present AAA marketing order which 

 will improve conditions of dairymen in the 

 St. Louis milk shed, reports E. W. Tiedeman, 

 SMP president. The order has been in ef- 

 fect about three year^ and is deemed in- 

 adequate to cope with present market con- 

 ditions. 



CREAM 



"Producers' Creamery of Olney is 



the proud possessor of a new 15-inch 

 gilt letter sign across the front of the 

 building. 



The quality of cream received by Pro- 

 ducers' Creamery of Olney is much im- 

 proved, so much so that in a two weeks 

 period, the amount of ofiF-trade butter mar- 

 keted dropped to only a few tubs. 



A truck salesman for Producers' 



Creamery of Olney reports that an 

 Indiana customer came forty miles to 

 Palestine, Illinois, to purchase Prairie 

 Farms Butter from a store there. 



The volume of butterfat delivered to the 



Producers Creamery of Galesburg during 

 the month of September was 29.7 per cent 

 greater than a year ago. Part of this in- 

 crease is due to a larger production per 

 patron which is 17 per cent above last year. 



There are 202 more patrons marketing 

 their butterfat the cooperative way to the 

 Producers Creamery of Galesburg. Every 

 county in the district has shown an increase. 

 Prospects for winter production are good, 

 which means higher volume and low oper- 

 ating costs. 



A gain of 32 new patrons who mar- 

 ket 4,000 pounds of milk monthly 

 through the Producers Creamery of 

 Mount Sterling is reported by Manager 

 F. A. Tourtelloutt. The milk, purchased 

 on a butterfat basis, is separated in 



the creamery. The cream is made into 

 Prairie Farms butter and the skim milk 

 sold to patrons. 



Fruits and 

 Vegetables 



The Southern Illinois (district) Hor- 

 ticultural Society will hold its annual 

 meeting for fruit growers and others 

 interested in horticulture at Harrisburg 

 on November 21 -22nd. 



Ace Egelston, an employee of the 



Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange, has 

 fully recovered from an operation and 

 is back on his job. 



Illinois apple harvest is practically com- 

 pleted at this time. Most early varieties 

 of apples were sold at harvest time and 

 were placed into immediate consumption. 

 Continued hot weather during September 

 and the early part of October has retarded 

 apple movement so that the demand for the 

 later varieties has not been equal to the de- 

 mand for the early varieties. However, a 

 large percentage of these apples have been 

 sold to pie manufacturers who have stored 

 them and will draw the apples from cold 

 storage as they are needed. Apples suited 

 for pies must be firm, good condition, free 

 from major defects, but color is not im- 

 portant. Most of the best colored apples or 

 those strictly number one grade have been 

 packed in bushel baskets and placed in cold 

 storage for later sale. 



The Rising Springs Orchards near 

 Pittsfield in Pike county left two trees 

 of Golden Delicious apples after har- 

 vest in order that "LIFE MAGAZINE" 

 could photograph for their publication. 



Les Anderson of Pike county reports 



that there is a heavy apple bud set on 

 all varieties in his orchards. 



In 1937 the national total apple crop was 



approximately 211,000,000 bushels. Estim- 

 ates for October 1, 1938, indicate that 

 the '38 crop will be somewhere near 130,- 

 000,000 bushels. In Illinois the 1937 crop 

 amounted to 9,000,000 bushels while the 

 crop for 1938 looks like it will total a little 

 over 3,000,000 bushels. 



NOVEMBER, 1938 



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