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as follows: Base milk $2.08 per cwt. Excess 

 milk $1,125 per cwt. 



Pittsburgh, Penn. — The Dairymans Co- 

 operative Sales Company reports an October 

 average price to producer members of S2.00 

 per cwt. for 3.5% milk f.o.b. Pittsburgh. 



Madison, Wisconsin — The Madison Milk 

 Producers Cooperative Association report an 

 October weighted average price for 3.5% 

 milk of $1.94 f.o.b. Madison. 



Effective December 1 the retail price of 

 milk in Rockford was reduced one cent per 

 quart, reports Delos Langholf, Manager of 

 the Mid-West Dairymens Company. Cream 

 prices to the retail trade were also reduced. 

 No change in price to the members of the 

 association who supply the milk to Rock- 

 ford dealers was made. 



All records for attendance were broken at 



the annual meeting of the Champaign County 

 Milk Producers when 313 members attended 

 the December 1st meeting in Urbana. Man- 

 ager Hochstrasser reported that the associa- 

 tion sold 15 million pounds of milk for 

 $302,000 last year. 



H. D. Allebach, of the National Producers 

 Evaporated Milk Committee and Wilfred 

 Shaw, secretary of Illinois Milk Producers 

 Association, were speakers. Directors elected 

 were John McCabe, LudloW; H. V. Chaney, 

 Thomasboro; Howard Love, Sidney; Edgar 

 Frederick, Mahomet; Rassell Troutman, 

 Savoy; Dewey Prather, Urbana; and Wm. 

 Mueller, Urbana. ' 



"The annual meeting of our Dairy will be 



held Tuesday evening, January 24th in the 

 Farm Bureau office at Harrisburg," reports 

 Walter Mugge, Manager of the Producers 

 Dairy of Harrisburg. 



CREAM 



Oil Discevery Hits 



Butterfat Volume 



Into ten southern Illinois counties 

 served by the Producers Creamery of 

 Olney during 1937 and '38 came 15,- 

 000 oil prospectors and workers. They 

 demanded whole milk and sweet cream 

 and got them. Volume of butterfat 

 available for churning was reduced and 

 the cooperative faces some reduction in 

 volume in 1939, Manager George 

 Adams reported at the annual meeting, 

 Nov. 30. 



In spite of the swing from milk to 

 oil, the creamery made 552,000 pounds 



JANUARY. J 939 



of butter in 1938 of which 192,000 

 pounds were 90 score or better and 

 were packed in Prairie Farms cartons. 

 Low butterfat prices during the year, 

 resulting in indifferent care of cream 

 on farms, were largely to blame for a 

 reduction in quality of butter from 84 

 per cent 90 score or better in 1937 to 

 62 per cent in 1938. This reduction 

 cut creamery income about $3000. 



Approximately $00 producers attended the 



annual meeting of the Producer's Creamery 

 of Galesburg, Nov. 30, reports Forrest 

 Moberg, fieldman. 



Manager V. K. Johnson stated that 1938 

 was the largest on record from the stand- 

 point of volume when 950,969 lbs. of butter 

 were manufactured. 



J. B. Countiss, sales manager, Illinois 

 Producers' Creameries, gave a brief summary 

 of the year's business for the State Associa- 

 tion and also reported on the Dairy Pro- 

 ducts Marketing Association. He stated that 

 if the D.P.M.A. had not been on the market 

 to purchase butter at 75% parity, the market 

 would, no doubt, have gone to 18 or 20 

 cents a lb. for butterfat. 



Dr. M. Mortensen, who for 30 years was 

 head of Dairy Industry at Iowa State Col- 

 lege said that production of high quality 

 cream was extremely important to the suc- 

 cess of cooperatives and also if dairymen are 

 to hold their market. Loyalty to their own 

 cooperative creamery must be of first con- 

 sideration when marketing butterfat. 



Directors elected were as follows: Henry 

 County, L. L. Angevine; Knox County, Guy 

 Routh; Warren County, J. E. Simmons, Jr; 

 Henderson County, Walter Cochran; Bureau 

 County, Carl Neureuther; Mercer County, 

 Arthur T. Johnson; and Director at large, 

 Harry Gehring, Knox County, 



Farmers Creamery, Bloomington, made 



1,297,224 lbs. butter, paid Ic per lb. pa- 

 tronage dividend to Farm Bureau member 

 patrons, earned $15,771.39 during the past 

 year, increased its net worth to $53,592.18. 



During the past three years, Floyd 

 Anderson of Anna has been in charge 

 of a project to remove diseased fruit 

 trees that have been abandoned. From 

 November 1935 to November 1, 1938 



a total of 1,274,000 trees have been 

 destroyed of which 400,000 were ap- 

 ples, 823,000 peaches and 51,000 pear, 

 cherry and plum trees. WPA funds 

 paid for most of the work and a real 

 service was performed for Illinois 

 growers. 



Rainfall and soil erosion are important 



factors in the soil management program of 

 a fruit grower. Prof. R. L. McMunn, De- 

 partment of Horticulture at Urbana, reports 

 that Anna, Illinois has more rainfall than 

 any other point in the State except Golconda 

 which is slightly higher. At Anna during 

 the month of December in nine different 

 years during the past 53, the rainfall has 

 been 12 inches or more. Prof. McMunn 

 further cites that hard drenching rains re- 

 move much of our top fertile soil. Water 

 moving down a slope at the rate of one mile 

 per hour will carry away one ton of loose 

 top soil; at the rate of two miles per hour 

 32 tons, and at the rate of three miles per 

 hour, 240 tons of loose soil will be carried 

 away. Therefore it is highly essential that 

 fruit growers plant cover crops and terrace 

 to prevent extreme soil erosion. 



Early apples handled by the Illinois Fruit 



Growers Exchange in 1938 were shipped 

 mainly from Anna, Cobden, and Murphys- 

 boro. Shipments of early apples consisted of 

 21 carlots and 15,397 bushels in trucks or 

 the equivalent of 30 cars in trucks, making 

 a total of 51 cars of early apples. Prices 

 secured on good quality early apples were 

 generally good. The first car sold at $1.75 

 per bushel f.o.b. shipping point. Later the 

 market declined to around $1.15 per bushel. 

 Most sales were made at $1.20-1.25 per 

 bushel. 



Because of the short crop of late apples, 



most of the early fall varieties were sold 

 at harvest time and moved into immediate 

 use. Jonathans generally brought $1.25-1.40; 

 Red Delicious from $1.25-1.60, and Golden 

 Delicious $1.25-1.50 for better grades. Later 

 varieties such as Rome Beauty, Willow 

 Twigs and others were generally placed in 

 cold storage. Many were sold to pie manu- 

 facturers. The total volume of late apples 

 marketed by the Exchange was 24 actual 

 carlots and 18,588 bushels in trucklots, an 

 equivalent of 36 cars, or a total of 60 cars 

 of late apples. 



John Gage and Fred Hawkins of Texico, 



Jefferson County, are planting a block of 

 Golden Delicious and Black Jonathan apple 

 trees on their farm immediately south of 

 Dix. Messrs. Gage and Hawkins have been 

 producing fruit in the Texico area for a 

 number of years and are members of the 

 Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange. 

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