FRUIT AND VtCETAB 

 MARKETINC 



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Floyd Webster of DeKalb was re-elected 

 a director of the DeKalb Milk Producers As- 

 sociation to succeed himself at the 1 5th 

 annual meeting of the Association held 

 July 6. Wm. O'Malley was re-elected presi- 

 dent and James Montavon secretary. Rep. 

 Dennis Collins, DeKalb, Roy Johnson, farm 

 adviser, and Wilfred Shaw of the lAA ad- 

 dressed the meeting. 



Frank Bott, manager of the Danville 

 Producers Dairy reports the recent purchase 

 of a new refrigerated body International 

 truck to help meet increasing sales needs. 



"Our new ice cream store at the dairy 

 is attracting an increasingly larger patron- 

 age and as a result we are selling more milk 

 and ice cream," reports Chas. Alexander, 

 manager, Jacksonville Producers Dairy. A 

 new $1500 homogenizer was recently pur- 

 chased. 



C. W. Huppert, manager. Quality Milk 

 Association, Moline reports that Aug. 2 is 

 the tentative date for an AAA milk hearing 

 to consider changing the present Quad-city 

 agreement. The Federal milk marketing 

 agreement in operation there for the past 

 five years has been of great benefit to pro- 

 ducers and the market. 



All members of the Peoria Milk Producers 

 who are complying with the city milk or- 

 dinance were invited to a meeting July 7 

 in the Farm Bureau Building. "The Associa- 

 tion has sufficient compliance milk to meet 

 our dealers' needs at present," reported Presi- 

 dent Capron, "but our members will need to 

 increase their fall milk shipments." Pro- 

 ducers pledged to increase their fall milk 

 shipments to meet the needs of Association 

 buyers. Secretary Hagenstoz. Director 

 Stieglitz, Farm Advisers Whisenand of 

 Peoria, Iftner of Tazewell. Brork of Wood- 

 ford, and Wilfred Shaw of the I.A.A. spoke 

 briefly. 



An AAA milk hearing was held in Chi- 

 cago the last five days of June. The Pure 

 Milk AsscKiation and Chicago Milk Pro- 

 ducers Council favor a marketing agree- 

 ment. Chicago milk dealers and consumer 

 representatives opposed an agreement. The 

 recorded evidence and exhibits were taken 

 back to Washington and will be reviewed 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Cream 



By Frank Gougler 

 The Producers' Creamery of Peoria has 



entered into a six-months' trial agreement 

 with the County Farm Bureau in its terri- 

 tory to use county organization directors for 

 cream acquisition. The plan was explained 

 at a meeting in the Creamery June 28 by 

 Field Secretary G. E. Metzger of the lAA. 



Producers Creamery of Galesburg recent- 

 ly bought a new stainless steel condensing 

 pan and will produce its own condensed 

 buttermilk. Champaign and Bloomington 

 creameries have similar equipment. The 

 pan cost $3'500. It is expected to easily 

 double income from sale of buttermilk. 



Rural Youth Day at the Galesburg Cream- 

 ery was celebrated June 2"?. The young 

 people visited Johnson Bros, farm where 

 they judged Guernseys, also judged cream 

 and butter at the creamery. 



About 40 Rural Youth attended the tour 

 of Producers Creamery of Champaign, June 

 29, visiting the G. H. Baker farm operated 

 by O. M. Marriott where they judged Brown 

 Swiss cattle. V. R. Kiely, manager, talked 

 about quality cream and Frank Gougler 

 summarized the work of the day. Mr. Baker 

 who is vice-president of the Busey State 

 Bank, Urbana, talked about their famous 

 Brown Swiss cow. Beauty's Maiden, one of 

 29 at the New York World's Fair. Fresh- 

 ening September 26, 1934, she produced 14,- 

 206 pounds of milk and 613.1 pounds of 

 buttcrfat in 400 days to October 20, 1935. 

 Her record in 1965 days or about five and 

 one-half years, is 63,583 pounds of milk and 

 2,784.5 pounds of butterfat. 



A Rural Youth tour and meeting was 

 held at Producers' Creamery of Mt. Sterling, 

 June 20. Judging dairy cattle on the Casteen 

 Guernsey Farm, Versailles, a discussion led 

 by Farm Adviser Garlich on "Feeding, 

 Breeding and Weeding, " a tour through 

 the plant and grading cream and butter oc- 

 cupied the 35 young people throughout the 

 day. F. A. Gougler led a discussion on the 

 day's work. 



Producers' Creamery of Mt. Sterling has 

 given up some of its territory — about two- 

 thirds of Morcan County — to Producers' 

 Creamery of Carlinville. Two townships in 

 the southeast corner of Pike county also 

 will be served from Carlinville. The Mt. 

 Sterling creamery in May and June had two 

 of its best months. The plants new venture 

 — supplying the town with high-quality 

 pasteurized milk is providing a profitable 

 sideline. 



Producers' Creamery of Peoria butter vol- 

 ume this year is well over that of a year ago, 

 reports Manager Johnson. May production, 



1938, was 86,295 pounds, while in May, 



1939, the ou put was 108,455 pounds — a 

 gain of 20.4 per cent. During the first five 

 months of this year only 3 per cent more 

 butterfat has been produced in the U. S. 

 than was produced during the same time 

 last year. 



A. P. Taylor, former butter salesman for 

 Illinois Producers' Creameries in the terri- 

 tories around Joliet, is now selling in 

 Peoria. Marshall, Putnam and Fulton 

 counties, while the regular salesman is on 



a vacation. 1938 local sales were 94,395 

 pounds, 19.39 sales 106,640. 



During cream pool operations prior to 



1933, there were pools located at Granville 

 and McNabb, Marshall-Putnam coun y. The 

 famous bank moratorium tied up their funds. 

 Recently $350 was salvaged and because the 

 old pool records had been kept, dividends 

 were paid to old pool patrons. 



The Rural Youth creamery tour in co- 

 operation with Producers' Creamery of 

 Peoria was attended by more than 100 young 

 people. In the afternoon the delegation went 

 to the farm of W. T. Schwenk, northwest 

 of Peoria, where a fine herd of Holsteins 

 was divided into classes and judged. Mr. 

 Schwenk is a patron of Producers' Creamery 

 and did everything possible for the conven- 

 ience and comfort of the group. 



Fruits and 

 Vegetables 



By H. B". Day 

 This year early varieties of peaches such 



as Mayflower and Red Birds could not be 

 sold for the cost of harvesting and pack- 

 ing, say nothing about cost of production. 

 A number of years ago a great many grow- 

 ers set out- large orchards of early Trans- 

 parent apples. In some years these Trans- 

 parent apples bring good prices but this 

 .season was a disastrous one. The market 

 became so draggy and glutted with volume 

 that transparents could not be sold for 

 cost of packing. The Illinois Fruit Grow- 

 ers Exchange and other sales agents re- 

 quested their growers to stop picking. 



Prospects at this time are unusually good 



for the 1939 Illinois peach crop. A. J. 

 Surratt, State Statistician says that the crop 

 may be about 37% larger than last year- 

 More peaches in Illinois and the nation 

 this year than last is the outlook. The 

 fruit is exceptionally clean and free from 

 insect and disease injury and should be of 

 good size by harvest time. 



Elherlas will be ready from the extreme 

 southern part of the state around August 1st — 

 ith and in the Centralia district about 

 August lith. Central and Northern Illinois 

 patrons should plan to secure their canning 

 peaches from this good Illinois crop. 



Harry C. Allen has resigned from the 



Fruit Exchange Supply Company effective 

 July 15th. Mr. Allen will be affiliated with 

 the Paducah Box and Basket Company at 

 Paducah, Kentucky. 



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