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Milwaukee (October) 

 Minn.-St. Paul (October) 

 Louisville (October) 

 Seattle (Oaober 1-15) 



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"Retail milk prices were advanced 

 from lie to 12c per quart by Decatur milk 

 distributors effective November 1st," reports 

 Ray Miller, president of the Decatur Milk 

 Producers Ass'n. "The price to producers 

 for milk since the retail increase has not 

 been agreed upon between dealers and pro- 

 ducers as yet," he said. 



Walter Mugge, manager of the Producer! 

 Dairy of Harrisburg, reports that they re- 

 cently purchased the building which they 

 have rented for the past five years. 



Three hundred and sixty-two members 

 of the Quality Milk Association of the Quad- 

 Cities recently attended eight local unit meet- 

 ings. Attendance included more than 50% of 

 the entire membership. Requirements for 

 producers under the new Grade "A" milk 

 ordinance was the principal subject of dis- 



TWENTV-ONE member MILK COOPERATIVES 



were represented at a directors meeting of the 

 Illinois Milk Producers Assn. November 14 

 in the lAA office at Chicago. Guest speakers 

 at the meeting include Earl Smith, president 

 of the lAA, O. M. Reed, Washington. D. C, 

 Chief of the AAA Dairy Division and N. J. 

 Cladakis, Chicago milk market administrator. 



■^"Peoria retail milk prices were advanced 

 one cent per quart by Peoria dealers effective 

 November 1," reports Ryland Capron, presi- 

 dent Peoria Milk Producers. The new prices 

 are, 12 and 13 cents per quart for milk de- 

 livered to consumers in single quarts. The 

 price to producers is 60 cents over the month- 

 ly evaporated milk price or Sl-94 per cwt. 

 for October. 



J. F. Greenwood, Mechanicsburg, pres- 

 ident of the Producers Dairy, Springfield, was 

 recently injured in an automobile accident. 

 After confinement in a Springfield hospital he 

 is now at home recuperating. Mr. Green- 

 wood is a director of the Illinois Milk Pro- 

 ducers Association. 



Alex McPhedran of Oglesby uas a recent 

 caller at the lAA office. Mr. McPhedran 

 was the first president of the Illinois Milk 

 Producers Association and was also president 

 of the La Salle-Peru Milk Producers until he 

 retired because of poor health. 



The annual meeting of the Cham- 

 paign Milk Producer Association will be held 

 December 7th in the Methodist Church, Ur- 

 bana, reports John McCabe, president. "We 

 expect an attendance of 500 at this meeting," 



he said. A. H. Lauterbach, Chicago, man- 

 ager Pure Milk Ass'n. will be the principal 

 speaker. 



According to A. D. Lynch, secretary- 

 manager of Sanitary Milk Producers, St. 

 Louis, 73.5% of the producers shipping milk 

 to that market are members of this coopera- 

 tive. A membership campaign is now under 

 way to sign as members the 333 non-members 

 producer shippers to the St. Louis market who 

 do not belong to any cooperative. 



E. W. Tiedeman, president of Sanitary Milk 

 Producers. St. Louis, addressed the annual 

 meeting of the Michigan Milk Producers As- 

 sociation held early in November at the State 

 College, East Lansing. 



CRElkM 



By Frank Gougler 



(lARLINVILLE — Producers Creamery of 

 Carlinville will pay dividends of seven per 

 cent on preferred stock at its second a.nnual 

 meeting, Dec. 8, Manager F. A. Gourley re- 

 ports. 



Employees of the Carlinvilie cream- 

 ery laid down their butter ladles and cream 

 testers and celebrated Hallowe'en in tradi- 

 tional style with witches, goblins, black cats 

 and pumpkins. 



MOLINE — Hugo Clausen is the most 

 recent addition to the sales staff. His route 

 is in northern Rock Island and Whiteside 

 counties where he handles milk and cream. 

 Until recently Hugo helped Plant Supt. 

 Haller. Said Hugo: "1 did a lot of work 

 helping start this creamery in days gone by 

 and I'm happy to have an opportunity to 

 continue serving its members. " 



Volume of cream coming to the plant 

 in company-owned trucks is increasmg, says 

 Ken Shields, field manager. The reason: 

 new patrons. Volume increased 20 per cent 

 in September and the number of patrons also 

 increased 20 per cent. 'Farmers are en- 

 thusiastic about our service and with their 

 continued support our volume will increase 

 just as it has in the last few months," Ken 

 says. 



MT. STERLING — Salesmen's pockets 

 are bulging cash prizes. They won the $50 

 offered by Illinois Producers Creameries for 

 having the least decrease in volume during 

 August and September as compared to June 

 and July. This the second $50 IPC prize 

 won by Mt. Sterling salesmen. Herman Lewis 

 copped the first $50 purse a year or so ago 

 (Continued on page 12) 



FRUIT and VEGETA- 

 BLE MARKETING 



By Harry Day 



The Administration of the Ilunois 

 Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act has 

 been placed in the hands of the Illinois Bu- 

 reau of Markets. Bonds are being filed and 

 licenses are being issued to operate under this 

 Act. The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 

 holds License Number 1 issued under this 

 Act. 



The annual meeting of the Southern 

 District Horticulaural Society will be held at 

 Hardin, Calhoun County on November 27 

 and 28. The annual meeting of the Central 

 District Horticultural Society will be held 

 at Quincy December 14 and 15. The North- 

 em District Society will holds its meeting 

 at Rockford December 12 and 13. The Illi- 

 nois State Horticultural Society annual meet- 

 ing is set for Champaign January 3, 4 and 5. 



A recent inspection trip of apples in 

 cold storage plants in Central Illinois indicates 

 that the storage holdings of Illinois apples 

 are about 50% of tlie amount in storage two 

 years ago. Only a few cars of apples stored 

 in these plants were produced outside the 

 state. The Valley City cold storage located 

 west of Jacksonville probably has more ap- 

 ples than any other warehouse. Mr. Watson, 

 manager indicates that there are about 350,- 

 000 packages stored there. 



During the current shipping season, the 

 Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange has marketed 

 the equivalent of }98 carlots of commodities. 

 The equivalent of 340 carlots has been han- 

 dled in trucks. Apples, peaches, pears, straw- 

 berries and miscellaneous vegetables supplied 

 most of the tonnage. 



Joseph Thompson of the C. M. Thompson 

 Orchards at Flora reports that they are plant- 

 ing an additional thousand Elberta peach 

 trees. The Thompson Orchard Company 

 south of the C. M. Thompson Orchards, also 

 near Flora, has a young planting now three 

 years old consisting of 4.000 Elberta trees. 



During the present apple picking and 

 packing season, the packing house of the 

 Grafton Fruit Growers Association was man- 

 aged by K. W. Blair. Some 32.216 orchard 

 aates of apples were packed including Jona- 

 thans, Willows, Red Delicious. Gano, Wine- 

 sap, Black Twigs, Grimes Golden, 'Vorks. 

 Champion, Golden Delicious and Rome 

 Beauty. 



/Continued on page 16) 



DECEMBER, 1939 



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