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Evansville, Ind. — The Evansville Milk 

 Producers Association report an October 

 price for 3.5% milk f.o.b. Evansville of 

 $1.40 per cwt. 



A. H. Lauterbach, manager. Pure 



Milk Association, Chicago, recently 

 addressed the annual meetings of the 

 New England Milk Producers at Bos- 

 ton and the Michigan Milk Producers 

 Association of Detroit. 



The Sangamon Farmers Milk Coop- 

 erative, newly organized milk bargain- 

 ing association composed of 500 pro- 

 ducers in the Springfield milk shed, 

 reports that they are dealing with the 

 Producers Dairy Company and five 

 other Springfield dairies. Frank Rob- 

 erts secretary of the Association reports 

 that their members supply approxi- 

 mately 85% of the milk consumed in 

 Springfield. The Association is with- 

 holding their milk from several of the 

 large Springfield dairies pending their 

 recognition of bargaining association 

 reciuests. The dealers from whom milk 

 is being withheld, are reported to be 

 importing milk from distant points to 

 fill their bottles. 



The need for even production among mem- 

 bers of the Peoria Milk Producers was the 

 principal topic of discussion at an advisory 

 council meeting held Friday, Nov. 4. Ryland 

 Capron, president, pointed out that milk 

 receipts in the fall months were inadequate 

 to supply market needs. 



Miss Julia Dearchs of Algona, Iowa, has 

 been employed by the new dairy council of 

 the Davenport, Moline, Rock Island, milk 

 market, reports C. G. Huppert, manager of 

 the Quality Milk Association. Miss Dearchs 

 is a graduate of Iowa State College. 



CREAM 



The volume of butterfat delivered 



to the Producers' Creamery of Gales- 

 burg during the month of September 

 was 25% higher than a year ago. Part 

 of this increase was due to larger pro- 

 duction per patron which is 17% above 

 last year, says Forest Moberg, fieldman. 

 There are 200 more patrons marketing 

 their butterfat the cooperative way than 

 there were last year. 



DECEMBER, 1938 



September 30 marked the close of 



the third year of operation for the 

 Producers' Creamery of Galesburg. 

 This unit has processed over 3,000,000 

 lbs. of Prairie Farms Butter since it 

 began operating. 



Checks for preferred stock dividends 

 will soon go to stockholders of the 

 Producers Creamery of Moline. This 

 payment is possible, writes Manager 

 "Cliff" Huppert, through larger volume 

 of butterfat handled during the last 

 ten months which reduced costs and 

 increased earnings. The increase 

 amounted to 94,845 pounds and was 

 due to larger purchases of both milk 

 and cream. 



Preferred stock is accumulative. The 

 present payment includes earnings for 

 the last six months of 1935 and the 

 entire years of 1936 and '37. 



The Adrain Cooperative, Hancock 



county, recently became a member of 

 the Producers Creamery of Mount 

 Sterling. Members of the Adrain co-op 

 produce about 50,000 pounds of butter- 

 fat annually. The organization owns 

 a cooperative store and operates a truck 

 route for picking up cream, poultry 

 and eggs at members' farms. 



Fruits and 

 Vegetables 



Chester R. Boland, president, re- 

 ports that the Edgar County Growers 

 Association, Paris, has secured two lots 

 in the south part of town where they 

 will build a new strawberry sales plat- 

 form for receiving the 1939 crop. 



The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 

 handled approximately 22,000 cases of 

 strawberries this year. In the Anna 

 and Cobden district, over 6,000 cases 

 were handled, in the Paris area nearly 

 10,000 cases, while in Tennessee ap- 

 proximately 10,000 cases were marketed 

 for non-members. 



The University of Illinois and the State 



Department of Agriculture have cooperated 

 with the Exchange and the Edgar county 

 growers to secure a high class pack of ber- 

 ries thru pan-grading. These pan-graded 

 berries, sold under the various labels of the 

 Fruit Growers Exchange, made the Paris 

 berries sell higher than any other berries in 

 the state. The Fancy, pack sold under the 

 ILLINI blue label, averaged $5.90 per case 

 f.o.b. Paris for the season. The next best 

 grade No. 1, sold under the regular ILLINI 

 label averaged $3.20 per case; the next grade 

 or the Illinois utility grade averaged $2.97 

 and the unclassified grade averaged $2.61 

 per case. All berries were sold on grade 

 and the money received for each grade is 

 pooled and divided among the growers in 

 the pool for the day. State and federal in- 

 spectors determine the grade. 



Recently high winds with some rain thru- 

 out southern and western Illinois has helped 

 remove the leaves from the peach trees early. 

 This will enable the peach growers to start 

 their fall spray program at once and they 

 may be able to finish the entire program 

 while the weather is good. Harry Allen of 

 the Fruit Exchange Supply Company reports 

 that a great many growers have already se- 

 cured their oil supply to apply this spray 



Harry Crawshaw, Crawford Maddox, John 

 Wilson and W. E. Springer of Jackson coun- 

 ty, Troy Bilbrey of Franlclin county and Joe 

 Hale of Marion county are among the jjeach 

 growers who have made applications of 

 nitrogen fertilizers, purchased thru the Fruit 

 Exchange Supply Company, to their peach 

 orchards this year. 



While most apple growers do not consider 



the apple bud set for next years crop is ex- 

 tremely heavy, they do consider it sufficient 

 for affording promises for a good crop. 



The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange sold 



at harvest time this year more than 95% 

 of the total volume of apples handled during 

 the season. This is quite different from the 

 season of 1957 when it was impossible to 

 sell near all the crop at harvest time and 

 much of it had to go to cold storage. 



During the last jMirt of Oaober, Logan 



N. Colp of Carterville pumped the water 

 from his spray pond in order to destroy 

 water lilies that had soured the water. After 

 the water was pumped from the pond it 

 passed thru a young four year old apple 

 orchard causing some apple trees to come 

 into full bloom. 



Several members of the Illinois Fruit 



Growers Exchange are buying other mem- 

 ber's apples thru the Exchange to sell and 

 distribute thru their own roadside markets 



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