/ZutJ YOUTH 



Tours of all descriptions will hold the 



spotlight on the Rural Youth calendar this 

 summer. Inspection tours of Producer 

 Creameries will be held during June as 

 follows: Mt. Sterling, June 20; Galesburg, 

 June 27; Peoria, June 26; Champaign, June 

 29. 



Kane County Rural Youth have sent in- 

 vitations to northern Illinois Rural Youth 

 to attend a reunion June 11 at Pottawatami 

 Park, St. Charles. Thirty-five Bureau County 

 youth made plans at their May meeting to 

 attend. 



Good Fellowship Across State Lines 



featured the first annual Henderson County 

 banquet program held May 9 near Hamilton. 

 A dozen Rural Youth from DesMoines 

 County, Iowa, were guests. Lee Carlson, 

 president of Rural Youth, C. E. Bergren, 

 president of the Farm Bureau, Otto Steffey, 

 lAA Director, and Mrs. Frank Anderson, 

 president of the Home Bureau did the 

 honors for Henderson County. Frank Ging- 

 rich, lAA youth leader, spoke. 



High School Seniors were guests of the 



Marshall-Putnam Rural Youth at their May 

 meeting reports Ford Fairbanks, president. 

 Their "variety" program appealed to many. 

 Topics were "services of Government," 

 "Grammatical Errors," "Cooperative Live- 

 stock Marketing Tour" and "Recreation." 



July 17th is Rural Youth Day at the 



Mid-West Farm Bureau Training School, 

 July 16-20 East Lansing, Michigan. Eleven 

 states will be represented. Illinois Rural 

 Youth are invited. 



"Everj'thing in Reverse" was the motif of 

 the Hancock Rural Youth meeting, April 

 21. "It was lots of fun at the BACKWARD 

 PARTY," writes President Virginia Hen- 

 drix. An unusual sight greeted those who 

 were present. Clothes were in reverse, 



fames were turned "round, and folks walked 

 ackward. State's Attorney William Angel 

 was the only person not required to follow 

 the backward custom. He gave a "forward" 

 talk on "Pertinent Facts Concerning A States 

 Attorney's office." 



Cost of Trucks 



Four new trucks were purchased by 

 Farmers Creamery Company, Bloomington, 

 the latter part of April. They replaced 

 trucks that had been in service in the 

 counties of Macon, DeWitt, Logan, and 

 McLean and are of the J^-ton pick-up type 

 found to be economical for cream routes. 



Cost studies made by the University of 

 Illinois, in cooperation with the Creamery 

 show that the average per mile cost of 

 operating the co-op's 14 trucks during 1938 

 was 3.14 cents. This figure does not in- 

 clude labor, but does include all other 

 chargeable costs. 



Gasoline made up 46.6 per cent of the 

 total cost; while tires, repairs, and lubri- 

 cation amounted to 26 per cent of the total. 



The number of miles driven and the num- 

 ber of units hauled influence the per mile 

 cost; and the report shows that the 14 

 trucks averaged 36,800 miles in the 11- 

 month period studied, and hauled an aver- 

 age load of 158,677 pounds of cream. 



A Good Cooperative Creamery 



The Glidden Cooperative Creamery, 

 Glidden, Iowa, manuactured 1,035,800 

 pounds of butter last year from 833,- 

 201.5 lbs. of butter fat and returned 

 patrons 29.74c per lb. butterfat after 

 putting .27c per lb. in reserve reports 

 Manager M. P. Junker. Out of this 

 29.74c the producer had to pay 

 2lAc per lb. for hauling which cuts the 

 net to 27.24c unless he delivered his 

 own cream. 



The average price received per 

 pound of butter was 26.23c, manufac 

 turing expense was 1.75c, and ad- 

 ministrative expense .57c. The per cent 

 of over-run was 24.31. 



Manufacturing expense per pound 

 of butterfat was 2.17c, administrative 

 expense .71c, buttermilk dryer expense 

 .35c, or a total expense per pound 



of butterfat of 3.23c which left 

 30.01c available for distribution. This 

 compares favorably with returns made 

 by the top Producers Creameries plants 

 in Illinois. 



The cooperative handled 110,700 

 dozens of eggs which it sold for an av- 

 erage of 19.82c per dozen at an expense 

 of 2.44c per doz., leaving 17.38c for 

 distribution. A fleet of trucks pick up 

 cream and eggs at the farm over a wide 

 area. 



The company has an excellent finan- 

 cial statement with total assets of 

 $58,959.86 as of Dec. 31, 1938. 



How to get the best results from -grafting 



fruit trees is described in Cornell bulletin 

 E-387. A penny postcard to the New York 

 State College of Agriculture at Ithaca, New 

 York, brings a free copy. 



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