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Members of Canton Milk Producers As- 

 sociation and their families held an evening 

 meeting and ice cream social August 16th 

 near Canton. A musical program was pre- 

 sented by children of members followed by 

 short talks by Jesse Fidler, state representa- 

 tive and former president of the Associa- 

 tion, and by Wilfred Shaw of the lAA. 

 Pulaski Denny, association secretary ar- 

 ranged the program. 



Directors and managers of cooperative 

 dairies at Danville, Peoria, Springfield, 

 Quincy, Jacksonville and Harrisbiirg attended 

 a meeting of the Illinois Milk Producers As- 

 sociation in the Grier Lincoln Hotel, Dan- 

 ville. August 24. C. E. Strand and C. C. 

 Chapelle, managei and tax consultant respec- 

 tively of the Illinois Agricultural Auditing 

 Association discussed accounting and tax mat- 

 ters affecting cooperatives. 



E. W. Tiedeman, president of Sanitary 

 Milk Producers of St. Louis, Arthur Lauter- 

 bach, general manager and F. J. Knox, sales 

 manager, both of Pure Milk Association, 

 and Wilfred Shaw, secretary of Illinois Milk 

 Producers spoke at fluid milk marketing ses- 

 sions during American Institute of Coopera- 

 tion, August 7-12, the University of Chi- 

 cago. Representatives of the following Il- 

 linois milk marketing cooperatives attended : 

 Pure Milk Association, Chicago; Mid West 

 Dairymen's Co., Rockford ; Seoria Milk 

 Producers, Peoria; Sanitary Milk Producers, 

 St. Louis; Quality Milk Association, Mo- 

 line; Champaign Milk Producers, Cham- 

 paign; LaSalle-Peru Milk Producers, La- 

 Salle; McLean County Milk Producers, 

 Bloomington. 



Milk production in the United Stales uas 

 one to two percent lower on August 1, 2939 

 than on August 1. 1938. This is the first 

 time in 18 months that milk production for a 

 given period has been lower than for the 

 same period of the previous year, reports the 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 



Retail milk prices were raised at St. Louis, 



August 7, from 10c per quart to 12c per 

 quart delivered. The retail milk price sev- 

 eral weeks previously had been reduced 

 from 13c per quart to 10c per quart by St. 

 Louis dealers, according to Art Lynch, man- 

 ager. Sanitary Milk Producers. He reports 

 no change in producers' Class I price of 

 $2.20 per cwt. 



Pure Milk Association of Chicago spon- 

 sors a radio program, the "Singing Milk 

 man" over radio station WLS at 8 A.M. 

 Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. "This 

 program is arranged to present the story of 

 Pure Milk to city people and is designed to 

 give them a better understanding of the as- 

 sociation's program," reports Art Lauterhach, 

 Manager. 



Scores of Chicago housewives visited 



farms of winners in the Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion "Neat Farms" Contest, Aug. 27. Judges 

 of the contest were H. A. Ruehe, University 

 of Illinois; H. W. Gregory, Purdue Uni- 

 versity; and L. C. Thomsen, University of 

 Wisconsin. They selected winners from 150 

 entries in the Pure Milk territory. 



"Butterfat tests durinc the month of June 

 were the lowest received for any month 

 since June of 1934," reports Delos Lang- 

 holf, manager, Mid-West Dairymen's Com- 

 pany of Rockford. Similar reports have 

 been received by the Illinois Milk Producers 

 Association from several other markets 

 which indicate that this complaint is gen- 

 eral. Milk marketing cooperatives check 

 their members' butterfat tests for accuracy 

 with valuable results to members. 



CREAM 



CARLINVILLE — In a 45 day contest 

 among cream salesmen, all except one 

 showed a net gain of 25 or more patrons, 

 says Manager F. A. Gourley. Wyman Sooy 

 led. All quota makers received $7.50 bon- 

 uses. Because of their achievement, the 

 Board of Directors voted to send them to a 

 big league baseball game at St. Louis, ex- 

 penses paid. 



"A local cream station offered me 2c more 

 for butterfat than the Producers' Creamery of 

 Carlinville," says R. L. Fenton, Medora "but 

 he didn't get my cream. This station is now 

 out of business." 



Married — Francis 'Buster' Norris, 

 Green county cream salesman with the best 

 wishes and congratulations from the Cream- 

 ery board and staff. 



Hundreds of Prairie Farms butter consum- 

 ers tell us that our butter is preferred be- 

 cause it retains its excellent flavor until the 

 last bit is used, says Manager F. A. Gourley. 



BLOOMINGTON — Joe South and 

 Harry Lemons, cream haulers in Logan 

 County recently invited their patrons and 

 families to a picnic at Chatauqua Park, 

 Lincoln. More than 500 attended. Speakers 

 were Director Harry Martin, Farmers' 

 Creamery Manager "Doc" Fairchild and 

 Farm Adviser N. H. Anderson. 



Cream haulers Long, Lawler. Kumer and 

 Lemons achieved new low procurement costs 

 during May which gave the Farmers Cream- 

 ery its lowest per unit cost since starting. 



Mrs. Wanda Lehman, four years a patron 



of Farmers Creamery, claims she receives 

 more for her cream than she can get locally, 



not including dividends, says Salesman 

 Packy McFarland. 



Farmers Creamery, with an e^-e co the 



future, is influencing patrons to purchase 

 bulls from high producing herds. Bull 

 calves from dams with records of 400 lbs. 

 of butterfat or more in a year are located 

 in tested herds and placed with patrons. 

 Twenty-five such bull calves have been 

 placed. 



GALESBURG — "Oleomargarine con- 

 sumption has taken a nose-dive, says Virgil 

 Johnson, Manager." "Oleo consumption 

 during April 1939 was 27% less than in 

 April 1938 which automatically means in- 

 creased butter sales.'" 



CARBONDALE — Manager Bracket re- 

 ports that during the recent heavy distribu- 

 tion of relief butter in this district, local 

 sales of Prairie Farms butter dropped notice- 

 ably. 



ILLINOIS PRODUCERS CREAMERIES 



— The cutting plant received 438,573 

 pounds of butter from the nine member 

 creameries during May. This was about 

 half the volume manufactured by the cream- 

 eries. In addition, it cut and printed 50 

 carloads of relief butter for the Federal 

 Surplus Commodities Corporation. 



CHAMPAIGN — Cream haulers recently 

 had a chicken dinner at the creamery. Haul- 

 ers furnished the chicken and the creamery 

 the remainder. Mrs. Francis Jackson, field- 

 man Jackson's wife, prepared the meal in a 

 very excellent manner. 



Manager 'V. R. Kiely reports that his 

 bookkeeper Mr. Speers had a tonsil opera- 

 tion which left him short handed in the of- 

 fice temporarily. 



OLNEY — A cream improvement cam- 

 paign in this district during the past nine 

 months shows that the amount of 90 score 

 or better butter has been increased from 

 60% to 90% compared to the same period 

 last year. 



During the past month, cans have been 

 re-tinned for 30 patrons. Most patrons are 

 using every practical means for protecting 

 the quality of their cream, says Manager 

 George Adams. 



MT. STERLING — F. A. Tourtellolt. 



manager, and his sales team ate steak instead 

 of beans for the first time in six months as a 

 reward for hauling in more butterfat during 

 June than an opposing crew. 



A tubular cooler for milk, cream and 

 dari-rich was recently installed at the cream- 

 ery. 



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