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1,143,000,000 pounds of milk weretAar- 

 keted by the Association in 1938, an 

 increase of some 25,000,000 pounds over 

 a year ago. Ekhoflf pointed out that large 

 quantities of excess milk had been mar- 

 keted through channels other than for 

 fluid consumption. "Milk has consis- 

 tently been offered to our co-operating 

 buyers at prices twenty-five to forty cents 

 per hundred below our prices," he said. 

 "Large numbers of prodiKers outside the 

 organization are now asking for member- 

 ship in the PMA." 



The Association owns and controls 

 plants which handled approximately 80,- 

 006,000 pounds of milk during the past 

 y^r. 



Interested were members in the treas- 

 urer's report and statement of income and 

 expense. Retrenchments in market ad- 

 justment payments in the coming year is 

 inevitable in view of a thumping loss of 

 1262,094.10 in the troublesome Market 

 Adjustment Fund. This fund was created 

 years ago to pay members who thru no 

 fault of their own suddenly lose their 

 market outlet. Total income from check- 

 offs, bond interest, etc. was $363,686.82. 

 A Tough Year 



Thanks to earnings from pknt and 

 facilities operations the Association came 

 through the year (not considering the 

 market Adjustment Fund) with 'a nice 

 excess of income over expense of $25,- 

 412.07. PMA's finances continue in a 

 satisfactory condition under the able and 

 conscientious administration of Treasurer 

 E. E. Houghtby of DeKalb county. Net 

 worth as of Dec. 31, 1938 was: $342,- 

 843.43. 



The year 1938 was one of the most 

 rigorous in history In the milk business 

 as a result of declining consumption, 

 price-cutting, dealers going out of busi- 

 ness, and general market disturbance 

 which left an unusually large number 

 of producers high and dry without a mar- 

 ket. This situation called for heavy with- 

 drawals from the Adjustment Fund 

 whose income is limited by contract to 

 a 10c per cwt. checkoff. PMA had to 

 dip into its surplus for some $232,000 

 but farmer members received the benefit. 



Principal speaker Cliff Gregory, as- 

 sociate publisher of Wallace's Farmer and 

 Wisconsin Agriculturist told his audi- 

 ence that any solution of the national un- 

 employment problem was dependent on 

 coordinated effort between agriculture, or- 

 ganized labor and industry. Labor was 

 standing in its own light, he said, by 

 pursuing a policy of unreasonably high 

 wage scales far beyond the point of di- 

 minishing returns. Cost of distribution 

 has grown to such an extent, he pointed 

 out, that if farmers gave their milk and 

 other produce away, housewives would 



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An increase in the St. Louis Class I milk 



price from $2.10 per hundredweight to $2.20 

 per hundredweight, has been tentatively ap- 

 proved by Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of 

 Agriculture, according to A. D. Lynch, secre- 

 tary-manager of the Sanitary Miljc Producers 

 This increase in Class I price came as a 

 result of a hearing, requested by Sanitary 

 Milk in December, 1938, at which time 

 producer association representatives and 

 dealers aopeared before the hearing com- 

 mitiee and gave their reasons why such an 

 increase was necessary, or why it should not 

 be made. 



NEW ILLINOIS LIVESTOCS MARKETING BOARD 

 Directors elected at the recent annual meeting in Peoria cue, seated, left to right: 

 Dan Smith, Shelbyville, president; Harvey Hemdon, Adair, vice-president; Lee Harris, 

 Vermont, Treas.; Sam Russell, sec'y, Chicago; ]. R. Fulkerson, lerseyville. Standing are 

 Fred Phillips, Ewing; John Roth, Fairbury; William Temple, Serena; F. H. Sheldon, Sharps- 

 burg; M. Ray Ihrig, Golden; and Durham Lucas, Monmouth. 



find that they still had to pay nearly as 

 much for food. 



Resolutions were adopted approving 

 among other things an additional Ic per 

 cwt.-dieckoff for plant development, in- 

 sisting that buyers of milk pay producers 

 not later than the 1 2th day of the follow- 

 ing month, approving anti-filled milk 

 legislation, directing officers and direc- 

 tors- to slice in half the annual $55,000 

 contribution to the Milk Foundation and 

 that the money thus made available be 

 used to advertise Pure Milk Association 

 products and, the retail dealers who buy 

 their fluid milk exclusively from PMA. 

 Only one change was made in the 

 board of directors. Ole Stalheim of 

 Harvard, McHenry county. 111., one of 

 the oldest directors in point of service 

 j-etired and was replaced by A. W. Waldo 

 of the same county. 



Officers Re»elected 

 Following the annual meeting, direc- 

 tors held a harmonious meeting and re- 

 elected all officers by a unanimous vote, 

 namely, G. H. Ekhoff, president; C. W. 

 Schmaling, 1st vice-pres. ; G. L. Morgan, 

 second vice-pres., E. E. Houghtby, treas- 

 urer, and C. M. Cosgrove, secretary. Re- 

 elected were directors Markham, Schmal- 

 ing, Swayer, Wennlund, Klett, Meyer, 

 Brucker. 



A thrilling account of life and ad- 

 ventures in the Arctic by Anuata, Baffin 

 Bay Eskimo woman featured entertain- 

 ment at the luncheon for wives and 

 daughters of PMA members. An in- 

 structive talk illustrated with slides on 

 beautifying the farm home was given 

 by Prof. Franz A. Aust. The women 

 were invited to participate more 

 actively in Association affairs by mana- 

 ger Lauterbach. 



According to C. G. Huppert, Mgr. Quality 



Milk Association, Moline, 19-23% more millc 

 was handled by the Association in 1938 than 

 was handled in 1937. The average weighted 

 price in 1938 was $1.56 per hundredweight 

 or 34c below the 1937 average. Class I sales-, 

 in 1938 were slightly lower than those of, 

 1937. ^ 



Howard Sheesley, Moline, member of the 

 Quality .Milk Board for many years was 

 replaced by Albert Johnson of Coal Valley. 



Milk production in the United States on 



March 1, according to the U. S. Dept of 

 Agriculture, was considerably above that of 

 a year ago and 5% above the 10 yr. average. 



Retail milk prices in Bloomington were 



recently reduced from lie to 10c per quart. 

 Cream and other dairy products also were 

 reduced in price, Forrest Fairchild, man- 

 ager of the McLean County Milk Producers 

 Association reported. No change was made 

 in the price received by producers for their 

 milk on this market. 



Watch the next issue of the lAA 

 Record for announcement of 1939 

 Wool Marketing Program. 



APRIL, 1939 



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