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trade at less than 10c a quart. One 

 company is selling milk to stores so 

 that it can be resold at 10c per quart. 

 The retail price in St. Louis is 13c 

 a quart and the store price has been 

 11-12C per quart. 



Fieldcrest Dairies, a subsidiary of 

 the Dean Milk Company, recently filed 

 a suit in the Chicago Federal District 

 Court, according to news reports, to 

 enjoin the City of Chicago and the 

 Board of Health, from interfering with 

 the use of paper milk containers in 

 Chicago. Such containers are now be- 

 ing used by this company in most sub- 

 urban areas around Chicago. 



FOLLOWING ARE MILK PRICES ON 



OTHER MARKETS AS REPORTED BY 



THE RESPECTIVE MILK ASSNS. 



Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Average price 



f.o.b. city for }.5% milk in December 



$2.08 per cwt. 

 Cincinnati, Ohio — Average price f.o.b. city 



for 3.5% milk in December $1.94 per cwt. 

 New York City — Price for milk in Decem- 

 ber f.o.b. 201-210 mile zone for 3.5% 



milk $2.01 per cwt. 

 Philadelphia, Pa. — Average weighted price 



for 35% milk f.o.b. city in December 



$2.33 per cwt. 

 Miiuieapolis-St. Paul — Milk price in Jan- 

 uary f.o.b.. Twin Cities for 3.5% milk 



$1.46 per cwt. 

 Evansville, Ind. — Average weighted price 



3.5% milk f.o.b. city in January $1.42 per 



cwt. 

 Dayton, Ohio — January average weighted 



price 3.5% f.o.b. city $1.73 per cwt. 

 Milwaukee, Wis. — January average weighted 



price 3.5% milk f.o.li. city $1.97 per cwt. 

 Madison, Wis. — December average weighted 



price 3.5% milk f.o.b. city $1.94 per cwt. 

 Omaha, Neb. — January average weighted 



price 3.5% milk f.o.b. city $1.46 per cwt. 



Anton Grawe was elected president 

 of the Quincy Cooperative Milk Pro- 

 ducers, at their annual meeting, Feb- 

 ruary 13. Mr. Grawe succeeded L. F. 

 Alison as president. Leo Humphrey 

 was elected a director, succeeding Wil- 

 bur Coe. The past year was reported 

 a very successful one by Mrs. Laura 

 Johnston, manager. 



B. F. Beach, Secretary of the Michigan 

 Milk Producers Association, Detroit, Mich- 

 igan, was the principal speaker at the Peoria 

 Milk Producers annual mee ing, Peoria, Feb- 



ruary 16. 330 attended the meeting, pre- 

 sided over by Ryland Capron, president. 

 Edward Heinz, Walter Neal, and Carl 

 Eisele, were reelected as directors for two 

 year terms, succeeding themselves. The 

 volume of milk handled by the association 

 this past year was higher than last year and 

 the value of the milk sold was 15% lower, 

 Mr. Capron reported. 



550 attended the ninth annual meeting of 

 the Quality Milk Association of Moline, 

 February 18th. The report of C. G. Hup- 

 pert, manager, showed increased milk re- 

 ceipts of 19.23% but dollars 2.26% fewer 

 than in 1937. 



Albert Johnson of Coal Valley replaced 

 Howard Sheesley, who declined reelection, 

 as director. W. H. Perdue, Market Admin- 

 istrator and Wilfred Shaw of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, were the speakers. 



CREAM 



The Producers' Creamery of Gales- 

 burg manufactured 55,000 pounds more 

 Prairie Farms Butter during the past 

 four months than for the same period 

 a year ago. 



One million pounds of Prairie Farms 

 Butter has been made by Producers' 

 Creamery of Galesburg during the 12 

 months ended Jan. 31. This is the 

 first time the creamery made a million 

 pounds in 12 consecutive months. 



Dale Olson, cream salesman, received 

 a back injury while picking up cream 

 for the Producers' Creamery of Gales- 

 burg and has been in the hospital for 

 about two weeks. Dale is coming 

 along fine and expects to be back on his 

 routes in a few more days. 



Pot luck supper meetings for patrons of 

 the Producers Creamery of Champaign are 

 scheduled to be held in every county in the 

 district this month, writes manager C. C. 

 Burns. He reports an increase of 3800 

 pounds of butterfat in January. 



Manufacture of butter in the Producers' 

 Creamery of Moline during the four months 

 October to January inclusive, is 93% over 

 the same period a year previous. The in- 

 crease is due to three reasons — increase 

 in number of cream patrons, increased pro- 

 duction per patron and processing of sur- 

 plus milk from the Quad City market. 



At the annual meeting of the Illinois 



State Horticultural Society in January, 

 Logan N. Colp of the Illinois Fruit 

 Growers Exchange, reported that 397,- 

 748 apple trees ranging from 5 to 70 

 years of age have been removed in 

 Illinois by WPA labor. This project 

 has been under the supervision of the 

 Illinois Department of Agriculture, 

 Division of Plant Industry. This num- 

 ber of apple trees removed will not 

 materially decrease the yield of apples 

 in Illinois because 51% of these trees 

 were 31 years and older according to 

 the records. 



Harry Allen of the Fruit Exchange 



Supply Company reports that greater 

 interest has been shown in the applica- 

 tion of early fertilizers for orchards 

 this year than in any previous season. 



Trade practices with relation to fresh 



fruits and vegetables moved in intra-state 

 commerce have come to the front for dis- 

 cussion. Sentiment seems to favor the en- 

 actment of an Illinois law similar to the 

 Federal law setting up certain trade prac- 

 tices. This sentiment is expressed by reso- 

 lutions in recent meetings held by the 

 Illinois State Horticultural Society, the Illi- 

 nois Fruit Growers Exchange and the Fruit 

 and Vegetable Conference held in Chicago in 

 connection with the annual meeting of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association. Growers, 

 shippers, receivers and handlers dealing in 

 intra-state commerce should have the same 

 protection or opportunity of handling com- 

 plaints as are afforded those dealings that 

 are inter-state in character. 



Discussions of the problems of fruit and 



vegetables growers were held in connection 

 with the annual Farm and Home Week held 

 at the Southern Illinois Teachers College 

 in Carbondale. H. P. Sauer, president of 

 the Murphysboro Fruit Growers Association, 

 discussed problems of the tree fruit grower. 

 Mr. Sauer said "One of the worst menaces 

 in fruit growing is damage to trees from 

 mice. Growers must take precaution to pre- 

 vent such damage." He also discussed dam- 

 age from scale and apple scab, the cost of 

 pruning, cost of fighting curculio, codling 

 moth. Oriental fruit moth and other insects. 

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