WABASH COUNTY QUOTA-MAKERS 



Left to right are George A. Wirth, chair- 

 man oi the Farm Bureau; George C. Ewald. 

 oldest member, and I. E. Moyer, county 

 organization director. In a one-day drive, 

 March 30, these men, heading 35 solicitors, 

 filled the county's quota oi 40 Farm Bureau 

 members. Since then, 21 hove been added 

 to the list. 



Mr. Ewald, 87, is a charter member and 

 has three sons who are members. G. A. 

 Wirth has been president for ten years and 

 has missed but one of 125 executive com- 

 mittee meetings in that time. The meeting 

 he missed conflicted with a meeting oi the 

 Wabash Valley Service Company board 

 oi which he has been vice-president since 

 its beginning seven years ago. I. E. 

 Moyer, recently appointed organization di- 

 rector, is a native of the county and has 

 been an active minister for many years. 



Wabash county is one of the smallest 

 in the state to support a Farm Bureau. 

 Of the 953 farmers in the county nearly 

 334 are members. 



Making the Farm Pay 



Interests 800 at Ottawa 



(Continued from page 31) 



When they see that a change is neces- 

 sary, they make it more readily than 

 the older fellows. " Mr. Smith has 

 kept records for 14 years. 



Prof. H. C. M. Case advised Dads to 

 study their farms carefully to find a 



Elace for their sons. Livestock might 

 e added to a grain farm, he said, to 

 provide something for the boy to work 

 with and at the same time increase the 

 farm income. But whatever the plan, 

 let the boy share in the farm income 

 and in the dignity of being a good 

 farmer. Let him share in planning the 

 work and have him keep the records. 

 Professor Young showed how corn 



E)rices follow the general wholesale 

 evel. The purchasing power of money 

 is also an important factor affecting 

 farm income. Although many eco- 

 nomic experts believe that we are in a 

 period of declining prices. Young said 

 that in his opinion we have just passed 

 through that period. — L. P. 



Farmers Creamery Company, Blooming- 

 ton will hold its sixth annual meeting on 

 Dec. 17th. last year the creamery made 

 1,297,224 lbs. of butter reports Manager 

 F. C. Fairchild. A patronage dividend of 

 .8c to members and Ic to members who are 

 also members of their respective County 

 Farm Bureaus, has been declared. Dividend 

 checks will be distributed at the meeting. 



in the territory had been reduced l3^ cents 

 a pound in October as compared to the same 

 month a year ago, and that the creamery 

 churned 10,000 pounds more butter during 

 the month than a year ago. He said that 

 sales of "Prairie Farms" butter averaged V2 

 a carload a month more than last year. 

 George E. Metzger, lAA field secretary, was 

 principal speaker. Two hundred persons .it- 

 tended the meeting. 



On November 3, sixty-five neighbors and 

 friends of the late Fred Copes, Malone town- 

 ship farmer, fatally injured in a combine on 

 October 24, gathered and harvested 67 acres 

 of corn. There were 22 wagons, 6 trucks, i 

 corn pickers and one com dump on the job to 

 perform this good neighbor act. 



C. L. Campbell, Massac county, and M. J. 

 Koch, Pope county, were elected directors of 

 the Producers Creamery of Carbondale at 

 the annual meeting, Carbondale, November 

 10. Retiring directors were Andy Zimmer, 

 Johnson county and Claude Cossey, Pope 

 county. Manager Harold Brackett reported 

 that ihe cost of picking up cream at farms 



The Moline Dispatch sponsored a banquet 

 for 164 4-H club members, their leaders 

 and the farm advisers of Rock Island, Henry, 

 and Whiteside counties in the LeClair Hotel, 

 Moline, Nov. 19. Short talks were made by 

 L. R. Blackman, editor and publisher of the 

 Dispatch, E. 1. Pilchard, state leader of 

 4-H clubs, George Theim, editor, Illinois 

 Agricultural Association RECORD, and Dick 

 Crabb, Dispatch farm editor. E. H. Regnier 

 of the University of Illinois was toastmaster 

 and song leader. The program was broad- 

 cast over Station WHBF. 



The 7th World's Poultry Congress «nd 

 Exposition Cleveland, Ohio, July 28 to 

 Aug. 7 will have one of the finest exhibits 

 of live birds ever assembled says Earl Price 

 of Yorkville, hatcheryman and former Ken- 

 dall County farm adviser who is on the 

 organization committee for Illinois. Earl is 

 working to get the full backing for the show 

 of all agricultural proups in the state. 



SEPTEMBER, 1938, MILK PRICES (3.5%) 



Paid By Member Association to Producers 



ILLINOIS MILK PRODUCERS' ASSOCIATION 



See Avg. B.F. 



Market Ft. Class I Class I Class n Class m Wtd. Differ- RetaU 



Note Percent Price Price Price Price ential Price 



Bloomington 54% 1.46 1.19 1.09 1.32 3.2 lie 



Canton 47% 1.85 1.21 1.53 3 10c 



Champaign (1) 1.52 3 12c 



Chicago (2) 91% 1.96 1.33 1.906 4 10-12c 



Danville W 1.40 4 8-lOc 



Decatur (•) 1,60 4 12c 



DeKalb 60% 2.00 1.19 IJ09 I.5S lie 



Freeport 85% 1.80 IJK 1.64 4 lie 



Galesburg (4) 93% 1.62 1.03 1.58 3.7 12c 



Harrisburg 54% 1.90 1J3 .87 1.49 2 12c 



Jacksonville 88% 1.08 .84 1.05 4 lie 



LaSalle-Peru 55% 2.25 1.14 1.79 4 12c 

 Moline (*) 



Peoria-M . (5) 65% 1.61 1.30 4 ll-12c 



Peoria-D 39% 1.61 .98 1.23 4 n-12c 



Pontiac 80% 1.69 10c 



Ouincy 49% 1.90 1.S8 1.12 1.55 5 10c 



Rockford 44% 1.72 1.16 141 4 lie 



Springfield (3) LM 4 lie 



St. Louis (6) 78% 2.10 1.36 I.9S 12-13c 



Streator (7) 2.05 1.85 1.14 4 12c 

 ( * ) Report not received. 



(1) Class percentages and prices: Qass I, 41% @ $2.2}, Qass II 10% @ $1.91, 

 Class III 25% @ $1.10, Class IV 23% @ $0.92. Base price paid producers $1.76. 

 Excess price $1.16. To the above price was paid an average quality premium of 9c 

 per cwt. 



(2) All prices reported f.o.b. dealers platforms in Chicago. To obtain prices f.o.b. 

 county receiving stations, deduct approximately 27c per cwt. Base price $1.96. 

 Excess price $1.}3. 



(}) Flat price for all milk. 



(4) Plus premium for milk grading A. 



(5) Price received for Class III milk varied from $1.30 per cwt. to 98c per cwt. 



(6) Price reported f.o.b. St. Louis. Prices f.o.b. country plants are 20c per cwt. lower. 

 Number of producers reported is for August. 



(7) Average weighted price and other information not received. 



Minimum Condensary Code Price $1,163 



Average Fluid Price East North Central States 2.04 



"Average Condensary Price East North Central States 



Average 92 Score Butter — Chicago 2550 



Average 90 Score Butter — Chicago 2500 



DECEMBER, 1938 



