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Delos M. Chalcraft, teacher of voca- 

 tional agriculture in Valmeyer, Monroe 

 county, for ten years, succeeded E. C. 

 Foley as farm adviser in Boone county, 

 August 1. Foley resigned to devote 

 full time to a seed company of which 

 he is the head. Delos is a brother of 

 Lloyd W. Chalcraft, farm adviser in 

 Menard county. 



Illinois has been allotted $1,242,544 

 by the Farm Security Administration 

 for 1940 to be loaned tenants for the 

 purchase of farms under the Bankhead- 

 Jones Farm Tenant Act. This will take 

 care of approximately 124 loans at an 

 average of $10,000 each. W. J. Car- 

 michael, Urbana, is farm security ad- 

 ministrator for Illinois. 



The recent session of Congress ex- 

 tended the life of the Civilian Con- 

 servation Corps until July 1, 1943. 



New York and the New England 

 states recently experienced one of the 

 worst drouths in history. Only .67 of 

 an inch of rain fell in Boston in July 

 compared with a normal of 3.49 inches. 

 It was the driest summer in 121 years. 



The AAA loan program for rye is 



confined to eight major rye producing 

 states. Illinois is not included. Loans 

 will average about 35 cents per bushel. 



The Farmers Creamery Company, 

 Bloomington, will hold its annual meet- 

 ing on Friday, Dec. 15. 



The first terraces built 14 years ago 

 on the farm of O. L. Ferguson, Carroll- 

 ton, Greene county are still in good 

 condition says R. C. Hay, U. of I. agri- 

 cultural engineer. The terraces have 

 eliminated most evidences of erosion 

 present at the time they were built. 



The Consumers Cooperative Associa- 

 tion of North Kansas City, Mo. is build- 

 ing a new $600,000 cooperative oil re- 

 finery at Phillipsburg, Kansas. The cor- 

 nerstone was laid by fohn AiacKenzie, 

 director of the Scottish Co-op Wholesale 

 Society Aug. 2. 



A feed mill purchased by the Cen- 

 tral Cooperative Wholesale, Superior, 

 Wis., at a cost of $25,000 last year 

 saved the entire purchase price the first 

 year of operation according to the 

 management. 



Motor vehicle users supplied more 

 than 98 per cent of the $89^,132,000 

 spent on state roads in the United States 

 in 1938. Auto and truck drivers paid 

 $1,177,010,000 in taxes of which more 

 than $158,000,000 was spent for other 

 than road purposes. In Illinois taxes 

 paid by motorists last year amounted to 

 $59,093,000. 



The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company will be 

 held at the Pere Marquette Hotel in 

 Peoria on Wednesday, October 18. 



Charter members of the LaSalle 

 County Farm Bureau will be honored 

 at a banquet, September 21. Next day 

 the county will celebrate the 25th an- 

 niversary of the Farm Bureau at a pic- 

 nic in historic Shabbona Park. 



Stolen: 75 young turkeys from the 

 J. O. McNeff farm, Schuyler county 



early Sunday night when no one was 

 at home; 65 quarts of canned meat 

 from the George Martin farm, near 

 Maquon, Knox county. The thieves 

 returned the empty jars which led to 

 the discovery. . 



Fire destroyed the large dairy and horse 

 barn together with its contents of hay, 

 grain, and machinery on the farm of 

 George Freund, Monroe county, Aug. 

 8. The local fire department responded 

 and helped save other buildings by 

 pumping water from a nearby pond. 



The Lake County Farm Bureau has 



90 members who have held member- 

 ships continuously for 20 years. 



The Spoon River Electric Coopera- 

 tive, Lewistown has let a contract to 

 build 412 miles of lines in Fulton, 

 Peoria and Knox counties. The REA 

 has alloted $447,000 for the project. 



ILLINOIS MILK PRODUCERS' ASSOCIATION 



Wilfred Shaw, Secretary 



JUNE 1939, MILK PRICES 



3.5% Paid by Member Associations to Producers 



Market 



Bloomington _ ( 1 ) 



Canton (*) 



Champaign (2) 



Chicago (3) 



Danville (4) 



Decatur (4) 



DeKalb 



Freeport 



Gaiesburg (5) 



Harrisburg 



Jacksonville (*) 



Kewanee 



LaSalle-Peru 



Moline (6) 



Peoria-D 



Peoria-M (7) 



Pontiac 



Quincy 



Rockford 



Springfield-D 



Springfield-M (*) 



St. Louis (8) 



Streator (9) 



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Reports not received in time to include in report. 



An additional average premium of 4.8c per cwt. was paid for quality. 



Class percentages and prices: Class I 35% @ J1.84, Class II 10% @ $1.47, Class III }4% 



@ $1.06, Class IV 21% @ .86. Base price paid $1.61 per cwt. Excess price $1.06 per cwt. 



An additional average quality premium was paid amounting to 7c per cwt. 



Chicago prices are all quoted t.o.b. dealers plants Chicago. To obtain country plant prices 



deduct approximately 27c per cwt. from the prices quoted. 



Flat price of $1.40 per cwt. for all milk. 



Flat price for all milk. An additional payment of 10c per cwt. was paid on milk grading "A". 



Class prices and percentages: Class 1 34% ® $2.10, Class II 12% @ $1.19. Class III 24% 



@ $1.12, Class IV 30% @ $1.0}. Base price paid $1.^6. Excess price $.94 p«r cwt. 



59.5% of all milk sold by the Peoria Milk Producers was milk in compliarKe with the 



Peoria Ordinance and this brought $1.71 per cwt. 40.5% of the milk handled for varying 



prices and manufacturing usages and this varied in price from $1.25 per cwt. to $1.04 per cwt. 



with the bulk at $1.11 per cwt. 



All prices quoted are f.o.b. St. Louis. Country plant prices would be 20c per cwt. lower 



than those quoted. 



Class percentages not reported. 



Actual Condensery Code Price 

 Average Fluid E.N.C. States 

 Average 92 score Butter Chicago 

 Average 90 score Butter Chicago 



$1,119 per cwt. 



(not reported for June) 



.2365 



.2328 



SEPTP4BER, 1939 



