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 Such a condition could be eliminated in 

 Illinois Producers Creameries if producers 

 supplying butterfat would give serious con- 

 sideration to uniform production. It is 

 true that butterfat is worth more per pound 

 during November than in June; yet many 

 farmers market most of their butterfat dur- 

 ing the ft)w-price months. 



In spite of this varying volume, however, 

 the Bloomington cooperative has steadily 

 paid dividends to its producer-members. 

 Total dividends paid since its beginning in 

 February, 1933, through September, 1938, 

 amount to $86,488.00. 



Earnings have been made at the rate of 

 well over a thousand dollars a month under 

 all circumstances. Sales of Prairie Farms 

 butter have steadily increased, with last 

 year's total reaching 675,000 pounds. 



Milk receipts of the 23 member milk 



marketing cooperatives of the Illinois 

 Milk Producers' Association in No- 

 vember were 8.3% below those of 

 October and 1.08% below those of a 

 year ago. Milk production in the 

 United States as a whole on December 

 1, was 5% higher than a year ago. 



Twenty-three directors of the Illinois Milk 



Producers' Association, and representatives 

 of other groups of producers marketing 

 milk, considered state milk control at a 

 meeting in the lAA oflFices, January 20. 



Ralph Lundquist, manager of Stephenson 



County Milk Producers' Association, Free- 

 port, reports that their annual meeting was 

 held Friday, January 20th in the Y.W.C.A. 

 at Freeport. 



Representatives of the Kewanee Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association, together with Wilfred 

 Shaw of the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, met with the Kewanee milk dealers 

 in the Association of Commerce offices, 

 January 13, to obtain recognition of the 

 bargaining association by the dealers. A 

 later meeting of the same group was ar- 

 ranged where the dealers will report their 

 decision. 



An application for membership in the 



Illinois Milk Producers' Association was 

 received from the Sangamon Farmers Milk 

 Cooperative, Springfield, signed by J. C. 

 Allen, president. This cooperative bargain- 

 ing association has 500 members and is sell- 

 ing to seven Springfield dairies. 



Consideration is being given in London 



to a proposal by the Minister of Agricul- 

 ture to consolidate all milk routes to obtain 

 greater efficiency. Consumers do not like 

 the idea and feel that they should have the 

 right to choose their milk delivery man and 

 their dairy. 



Organized New York milk producers are 

 fighting efforts of newspapers and consumer 

 groups who are requesting suspension of 

 the State Order regulating producer prices. 

 Commissioner of Agriculture Noyes of New 

 York is reported to have said that he has 

 no intention of suspending the order. Milk 

 prices to farmers have been materially raised 

 by State and Federal marketing agreements. 



St. Louis Producers 



AT THE ST. LOUIS PRODUCERS I7TH ANNUAL MEETING 

 Seated, left to right are E. A. Beamer, president. National Liyestock Marketing Asao- 

 dation; Fred Daries, president, Springfield ProduceTs: Joe Fulkerscn, president, St. Louis 

 Producers; H. H. Paike. president, Chicago Producers. (Standing): left to right: . J. R. 

 Cosgrove. president. Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, St. Louis; S. F. Russell, manager 

 Illinois Livestock Marketing Association; P. O. Wilson, secretary-treasurer. National Live- 

 stock Marketing Association; Dave Swanson, manager, Chicago Producers, and L. O. 

 Grieser, manager. National Livestock Credit Corporation of St. Louis. 



R. W. Brown, president oi the Missouri Farm Bureau, R. C. Ashby, U. oi HI., E. A. 

 Trowbridge, Univ. oi Mo., A. C. Britton. federal statistician ior Missouri, Tom Douglas, 

 Deputy Commissioner oi Agr. ior Mo., and D. M. Hardy and Ray E. Miller oi the Bank 

 ior Cooperatives and Production Credit Bank respectively, oi St. Louis, were other guests. 



Approximately 4oo live- 



^ .XM, stock producers and county 



^^y ^ / agricultural advisers, from 

 41 counties in Illinois and Missouri, 

 heard H. D. Wright, manager of the 

 St. Louis Producers report at the an- 

 nual meeting January 17 that the co- 

 operative handled 19.1% of the total 

 receipts on the market during the year 

 1938. This represented an increase of 

 1.8% in livestock handled over the 

 year 1937. 



The Producers, during 1938 handled 

 a total of 12,241 carloads of livestock 

 with a gross value of $15,271,906.55, 



Approximately 400 attended the 83rd an- 

 nual meeting of the Illinois State Horti- 

 cultural Society in the Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change building, Carbondale, January 4-5-6. 

 Representatives were present from Michigan, 

 Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, 

 Washington, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



The annual meeting of the National Ap- 

 ple Institute set up to promote increased 

 use of apples, was held in Carbondale, Jan- 

 uary 6. The State of Washington levies a 

 tax on commercial apple production to ad- 

 vertise Washington apples. A similar tax 

 is being introduced in Michigan this year. 

 Such a law in Illinois would be advanta- 

 geous and the Illinois Apple Institute is 

 taking steps in an attempt to secure such 

 a law. 



Wright said. Illinois led in the num- 

 ber of carloads shipped with 6,592 cars 

 for the year ; Missouri was second with 

 a total of 3,836 cars. The Morgan 

 County, 111., Shipping Association 

 topped the shipping association list 

 with 154 cars for the year. 



Of the 42 firms on the National 

 Stock Yards market, the Producers 

 ranked first, selling 92,629 cattle, 53,- 

 263 calves, 412,276 hogs and 154,075 

 sheep. They were first in hogs and 

 calves and second sheep. 



L. B. Mann, senior agricultural econ- 

 omist of the Farm Credit Administra- 

 tion, was the chief speaker. "Due to the 

 complexities of present marketing, 

 problems little can be accomplished by 

 farmers through individual effort," he 

 said. "If real improvements are to 

 be put into effect, they will only come 

 about through organized action." 



Sam Sorrells of Raymond, 111., and 

 W. W. Fuqua of Columbia, Mo., were 

 re-elected to the Board of Directors. 



Low temperatures at this season of the 



year are likely to influence the tes- of milk 

 or cream unless care is taken to keep the 

 product above freezing temperature. 



Would you sooner have gullies or timber 

 crops on your rough land? When you de- 

 cide, — act. 



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