Farm Outlook 



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 high of about 47 million bushels or 14% 

 larger than in 1937. 



Miscellaneous 



Supplies of red alsike and sweet clover 

 are much larger this year than last, prices 

 are lower and the outlook immediately 

 ahead is for greatly increased seedings 

 which will tend to improve prices above 

 present levels. Alfalfa-seed production 

 in 1938 is estimated at about 17% lower 

 than that of 1937, but in spite of this 

 prices are lower because clover seed is 

 more abundant. 



Farm production expenses may average 

 lower in 1939. Farm machinery prices 

 are down slightly and the combined level 

 of farm wage rates and prices of supplies 

 used in farm production probably will 

 average a little lower than in 1938. 

 Farm machinery prices this year have 

 been the highest since 1920. 



Government reports show that three- 

 fifths of all farm families now have ra- 

 dios and that proportionately more farm 

 than city families have automobiles. 

 Eight years ago only 13% of the farms 

 had electricity, now 18% have electricity 

 and this trend is expected to continue. 



Electric Co-ops Gain 



(Continued from page 20) 



2. Coles-Moultrie Cooperative, Mattoon. 



333 miles, 995 customers. 



3. Corn Belt Electric Cooperative, Bloom- 

 ington. 



1146 miles, 3481 customers. 



4. Eastern Illinois Power Cooperative, Pax- 

 ton. 



1225 miles, 4,000 customers. 



5. Edgar Farm Electric Service Co., Paris. 



277 miles, 808 customers. 



6. Farmers Mutual Electric Company, Gen- 

 esee. 



100 miles, 323 customers. 



7. mini Electric Cooperative, Champaign. 



676 miles, 1894 customers. 



8. Illinois Rural Electric Company, Win- 

 chester. 



1222 miles, 4126 customers. 



9. Jackson Project. 



250 miles, 750 customers. 



10. Jasper Project, Newtoa 



200 miles, 600 customers. 



11. Macoupin Project, Carlinsville. 



300 miles, 900 customers. 



12. McDonough Power Cooperative, Ma- 

 comb. 



271 miles, 930 customers. 



13. Menard Electric Cooperative, Petersburg. 



506 miles, 1408 customers. 



14. Monroe Electric Cooperative, Waterloo. 



482 miles, 1600 customers. 



15. Pulaski Project, Mounds. 



300 miles, 900 customers. 



16. Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative, 

 Divernon. 



553 miles, 1750 customers. 



17. Saline Project, Harrisburg. 



200 miles, 600 customers. 



18. Shelby Eleoric Cooperative, Shelbyville. 



181 miles, 363 customers. 



19. Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Can- 

 ton. 



200 miles, 600 customers. 



NOTICE 

 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION 

 ELECTION OF DELEGATES 



Notice is hereby given that in con- 

 nection with the annual meetings of all 

 County Farm Bureaus to be held during 

 the months of December, 1938 and Jan- 

 uary, 1939, at the hour and place to be 

 determined by the Board of Directors of 

 each respective County Farm Bureau, 

 the members in good standing of such 

 County Farm Bureau, and who are also 

 qualified voting members of Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, shall elect a 

 delegate or delegates to represent such 

 members of Illinois Agricultural Associ- 

 ation and vote on all matters before the 

 next annual meeting or any special 

 meetings of the association, including 

 the election of officers and directors as 

 provided for in the By-Laws of the 

 association. 



During December, annual meetings 

 will be held in Bureau, Clark, Clinton, 

 Coles, Cook, Crawlord, DuPage, Ed- 

 wards, EUingham, Franklin-Hamilton. 

 Grundy, Henry, Iroquois, Jackson-Perry, 

 Jersey, Johnson. Kane. Kankakee, Ken- 

 dall, LaSalle, Lee. Livingston, McLean, 

 Massac, Morgan, Moultrie, Piatt. Pope- 

 Hardin, Randolph, Richland. Saline, 

 Stephenson, TazeweU, Union. Vermilion. 

 and Wabash Counties. 



During January, annual meetings will 

 be held in Carroll. Champaign. Cum- 

 berland. DeWitt. Edgar. Fulton, Greene. 

 Knox, McDonough. McHenry. Mason. 

 Mercer. Peoria. Rock Island. Sangamon. 

 Winnebago and Woodford Counties. 

 (Sgd.) Paul E. Mathias, 



Corporate Secretary 

 Nov. 21, 1938 



20. Tri-County Electric Cooperative, Mt. 

 VerooiL 



250 miles, 750 customers. 



21. Wayne- White Counties Eelectric Coop- 

 perative, Fairfield. 



589 miles, 2314 customers. 



22. Western Illinois Electric Cooperative, 

 Carthage. 



200 miles, 600 customers. 



Beg Your Pardonl 



The Corn Belt Electric Cooperative 

 includes DeWitt county as well as 

 Woodford, McLean and Tazewell coun- 

 ties. At least 300 of the prospective 

 3000 customers live in DeWitt county, 

 according to Farm Adviser H. N. 

 Meyers. The map appearing in con- 

 nection with the article published in 

 the November RECORD was prepared 

 before the final plans of the project 

 were complete. 



One kilowatt hour of elearical en- 

 ergy will light a 40-watt bulb for 25 

 hours, or run a flat iron for two hours, 

 or pump 1000 gallons of water from a 

 shallow well, or wash 70 pounds of 

 clothes, or refrigerate food for 18 

 hours, or cook a meal on an electric 

 range, or toast bread for eight morn- 

 ings, or make 30 waffles, or heat three 

 gallons of water from 65 degrees to 

 boiling. 



Patrons of the Producers Creamery of 



Carlinville are discovering that with little 

 extra work they can produce sweet cream 

 which brings then a 2-cent premium. Re- 

 cently, 20 per cent of the plant's route cream 

 has been sweet. Manager F. A. Gourley re- 

 ports. 



First annual meeting of the Producers 



Creamery of Carlinville will be held in the 

 Elks' Hall, Carlinville, December 10, at 10 

 A.M. J. B. "Jack" Countiss, sales manager 

 for Illinois Producers Creameries, will be 

 principal speaker. 



Walter Scott, Scott county, recently turned 



his farm business over to his son and re- 

 signed as a director of the Producers Cream- 

 ery of Mount Sterling. He has accepted the 

 position of county organization director in 

 Grundy county. A pioneer in cooperative 

 cream marketing, Mr. Scott became a direc- 

 tor of the Illinois Produce Marketing As- 

 sociation when it was organized in 1929. 

 He has been a director of Illinois Producers 



Creameries since 1932. ' 



i 



Illinois Producers Creameries closed its 



fiscal year, September 30, with an increase of 

 8.4 per cent in butterfat receipts. 



A. D. Lynch, secretary-manager of Sanitary 

 Milk Producers, and L. D. Granger, of Pure 

 Milk Association, addressed the National 

 Cooperative Milk Producers Annual meet- 

 ing at Cincinnati, November 14th, upon the 

 subject "Experiences in Pricing Class I Milk 

 By Formula." L. W. Kosanke, manager of 

 the Peoria Producers Dairy, addressed the 

 same meeting upon "The Advantages of 

 Cooperative Distribution of Milk." Twenty- 

 five directors and officials of Illinois Milk 

 Producers Assn. Cooperatives attended. 



On October 25, the Tazewell County 



Farm Bureau gained 35 new members 

 exceeding its annual quota of 80 by a 

 comfortable margin. 



Spreading half enough limestone to 



sweeten sour soil does about as much 

 good as using half enough water to put 

 out a fire. 



The volume of cream delivered to the 



Producers' Creamery of Galesburg during 

 October, 1938, was 30.1% above that (W 

 October, 1937. Part of this increase is due 

 to a 3 lb. increase in production per patron. 

 15.9% more producers are delivering cream 

 this year than last. 



A contest sponsored by the Producers' 



Creamery of Galesburg for their drivers dur- 

 ing the month of September resulted in a 

 trip for all drivers to the Cutting Plant and 

 lAA Offices at Chicago. They also at- 

 tended a football game while there. 



A dispersal sale Oct. 24 of a herd of 



purebred Holsteins started by a father and 

 his son near Waterloo, Iowa after the world 

 war brought an average of $512.00 includ- 

 ing calves and young stock. 



More livestock is needed to correct the 

 lack of balance between feed and livestock 

 caused by the drouths of 1934 and '36. 



Egg prices can be expected to rise rapidly 

 when severe winter weather cuts production 

 and fall just as fast when production picks 

 up, says the USDA. i 



I. A. A. RECORD 



