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Mrs. Gladys Lulay, assistant in the Pro- 

 ducers Creamery of Peoria, office, was 

 thrilled at the Illinois Farm Sports Festival 

 when her husband helped win the champion- 

 ship in the All County Softball division. 



Lester Koch, buttermaker, vacationed in 

 Canada. 



For the print room of the creamery last 

 month, a new coat of Soyoil paint. 



MT. STERLING — Back to a banquet of 

 beans was the fate of Manager F. A. 

 Tourtellott and his cream procuring crew 

 when they failed to bring in more cream 

 during July than their opponents. To the 

 victors — steak. 



About half of Brown county's cream is 

 marketed through the Producers Creamery. 



Sales of Prairie Farms butter by the Pro- 

 ducers Creamery of Mt. Sterling increased 

 66 per cent between April 1 and August 31, 

 Manager Tourtellott told Farm Bureau presi- 

 dents and farm advisers who met at the 

 creamers September 5. Plans were discussed 

 to further increase sales. A lunch of Roque- 

 fort, Edam and Swiss cheese was served. Farm 

 Bureau presidents attending were Ben Bro- 

 decker, Hancock county; Frank Shriver, 

 Adams; H. H. Kilver, Scott. With them 

 were Farm Advisers E. H. Garlich, Brown 

 county; L. L. Norton, Hancock; George Whit- 

 man, Adams ; George Reid, Scott ; Ray Nichols, 

 Schuyler. Frank Gougler and George E. Metz- 

 ger represented the lAA. 



Illinois Producers Creameries — Cream 

 salesmen of the Producers Creamery of Mt. 

 Sterling challenged salesmen in all other dis- 

 tricts to beat their record for August and 

 September. IPC is offering $50 in prizes to 

 salesmen of the winning creamery having lar- 

 gest percentage of increase in volume during 

 August and September over June and July. 

 Help your salesman win by getting a new 

 patron or two. 



By Wilfred Shaw 



Average weighted milk prices per cwt. 

 on major markets for July, 1939. All quota- 

 tions are delivered prices per cwt. f.o.b. deal- 

 ers plants in cities (with exceptions noted) 

 as reported by the respective milk co-opera- 

 tives. 



New York City (201-210 mile zone) 



4l.48-$1.50 



Chicago (70 mile zone) 1.407 



Boston (191-200 mile zone) .-. 1.557 



Pittsburg 1.47 



St. Louis 1.82 



Philadelphia 2.14 



Baltimore , 2.19 



Detroit _... 1.54 



Milwaukee 1.40 



Minn.-St. Paul 1.46 



Louisville .'. 1.50 



Seattle 1.34 



The Sanitary Milk Producers of St. 

 Louis have requested an immediate AAA milk 

 hearing for consideration of changes in the 

 present order, reports A. D. Lynch, Sec'y-Mgr. 

 The method of pricing milk sold by dealers 

 outside the marketing area and the method of 

 handling importations of milk from out of 

 the milk shed are the two points which pro- 

 ducers want changed. 



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Chicago. Effective September 1, an AAA 

 milk marketing order was made operative 

 here. The Federal order came as a conclu- 

 sion to the successful efforts of the Pure Milk 

 Association to bring Federal regulation into 

 the chaotic Chicago milk market. 



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Sec'y.-Mgr. Jack Cornell of thre Sangamon 

 Farmers Milk Cooperative announces 

 Thursday. October 12, for their annual meet- 

 ing in Springfield. A. H. Laulerbach, Mgr. 

 of the Pure Milk Association and Wilfred 

 Shaw of the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 are to speak. 



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Illinois had 25,000 less milk cows on 

 farms in 1938 than in 1937, but the average 

 production per cow increased from 173 pounds 

 butter fat in 1937 to 180 pounds in 1938. 

 This accounts for a larger milk production 

 that year, reports the USDA. 

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The oty of Champaign recently adopted 

 the Standard Milk Ordinance says I. C. Hock- 

 strasser, manager Champaign County Milk 

 Producers. Urbana is expected to adopt a 

 similar ordinance soon. Producers are to be 

 given 12-18 months time to get into com- 

 pliance. 



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Wayne Miller plant superintendent of the 

 Peoria Producers Dairy since 1933. has re- 

 signed effective September 18, to accept a 

 position in the sales department of A. E. 

 Staley Company, Decatur. Mr. Miller will 

 specialize upon the sale of corn sugar for ice 

 cream manufacturing. 



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"Bottled milk and cream sales in the 

 Quad Cities of Davenport, Moline, Rock Is- 

 land and East Moline were 5% higher last 

 month than they were in August a year ago," 



reports C. W. Huppert, manager. Quality 

 Milk Association. August sales were also 

 lVi% higher <han those of July. 



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Bottle and bulk milk sales in St. Louis 

 were 10.4% higher this August than they were 

 in August. 19S8, and 3% lower this August 

 than in July, according to Fred Shipley, 

 Federal Milk Market Administrator at 

 St. Louis. 



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FRUIT and VEGETA- 

 BLE MJIRKETING 



By Harry Day 



During the entire month of August, the 

 staff of Illinois Fiuit Growers Exchange was 

 busy marketing some 240 carloads of Illinois 

 peaches. The size of the crop was up to 

 expectations and quality was good. Price 

 levels ranged from 75c — $1.50 per bushel 

 fob shipping point. A high percentage of 

 the crop was moved by truck which tended 

 to decentralize any marketing program. 



During early September the harvest of 



fall varieties of apples such as Jonathans, 

 Red Delicious, Starkings and Grimes 

 Golden, was started. Hot weather has in- 

 creased the amount of wastage of the crop 

 and has retarded demand. 



The Kieffer pear crop in Illinois this )'ear 



is exceedingly short and it is doubtful if 

 there will be over 50-75 cars harvested and 

 shipped thruout the entire district. 



Lower freight rates are helping in the sale 



of apples from Western Illinois. These ap- 

 ples, normally would have been brought 

 from other producing districts. 



The Grafton packing house in Jersey 

 County is being operated by the Grafton 

 Fruit Growers Association and the Illinois 

 Fruit Growers Exchange. 



Early in September, Prof. J. W. Lloyd, 



chairman of the Illinois Surplus Apple 

 Purchasing Committee, called a meeting at 

 Centralia to discuss the possibilities of a 

 federal apple pur.chasing campaign this year. 

 Request was filed with the Surplus Com- 

 modities Corporation at Washington that ap- 

 ples be purchased in Illinois. 



A bounteous crop of Golden Delicious 



apples will be harvested in Western Illinois 

 counties this year. We have never seen 

 more beautiful Golden Delicious than those 

 from the orchards of Les Anderson, Rising 

 Springs and Arthur Foreman in Pike County. 



OCTOBER. 1939 



