January, 1931 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Eleven 



Chicago Milk Shippers 



Take Reduction in Price 



Quart Charge Drops to 13 c, Pro- 

 ducers Realize Necessity for 

 Checking Production. 



CHICAGO milk shippers will re- 

 ceive a cut in price from $2.67 

 to $2.32 per 100 pounds f. o. b. coun- 

 try points for all fluid milk sold in Chi- 

 cago, according to a decision announced 

 by Dr. Clyde L. King of Philadelphia 

 who was called in by officials of the 

 Pure Milk Association and the organ- 

 ized dealers. 



Dr. King, who is official arbitrator 

 recognized by the Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion and Chicago dealers announced 

 his decision following a reduction from 

 14 to 13 cents per quart for retail milk. 

 Pint bottles remain at 8 cents. It is 

 calculated that the reduction, effective 

 on New Year's day, will result in a loss 

 of more than $15,000 a day to the 

 milk industry at Chicago. 



"Surplus jnilk" will be computed on 

 the basis of current Chicago butter 

 quotations with an allowance for skim 

 milk as heretofore announced. 

 Labor Takes No Cut 



No portion of the expense of reduc- 

 ing the Chicago milk price is assumed 

 by the wagon drivers, according to 

 Union officials, since their contract pro- 

 viding for a minimum wage scale of 

 $51 a week does not expire until May, 

 1932. It is reported that other cities 

 close to Chicago are following the re- 

 tail price cut of one cent a quart. 



The spread between what the farmer 

 gets and what the consumer pays on 

 the Chicago market is greater than at 

 most markets of the country. Part of 

 this is due to the fact that union labor 

 in Chicago is highly organized, also to 

 the fact that Chicago is a high-priced 

 city with proportionate high costs for 

 service. 



Misleading newspaper reports stated 

 that at the Milwaukee market farmers 

 receive $2.50 per 100 pounds for their 

 milk, although the retail price dropped 

 on January 1 to 10 cents a quart. The 

 $2.50 price, according to officials of the 

 Pure Milk Association, is a delivered at 

 Milwaukee price for only about 50 per 

 cent of the milk going to market. The 

 country price for this portion is $2.25 

 per cwt., and the surplus is computed 

 on its butterfat content. Thus the pool 

 price to the Milwaukee shipper is con- 

 siderably less than $2.25, lying some- 

 where between $1.60 per cwt. and 

 $2.25. 



Members of the Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion are accepting the cut realizing that 

 it was necessary to take drastic measures 

 to reduce the ever-growing surplus. 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL MUTUAL 



INSURANCE COMPANY 



Take notice that the annual meeting of 

 the members of Illinois Agricultural Mu- 

 tual Insurance Company will be held on 

 Wednesday, the 28th day of January, 1931, 

 at the hour of 1 o'clock p. m., at the 

 Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Springfield, Illinois, 

 to elect directors, receive, and, if approved, 

 confirm the report of the board of directors 

 of the company fpr the fiscal year ending 

 December 31, 1930; and to consider and, if 

 approved, ratify and confirm all the acts 

 and proceedings of the board of directors 

 done and taken since the last annual meet- 

 ing of the members of the company; and 

 for the transaction of such further and 

 other business as may projjerly come before 

 the meeting. 



Dated at Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 1, 1931. 



George F. Tullock, Secretary. 



A Reply to Dr. Poole 



"I note in the December number of 

 I. A. A. RECORD a letter from Dr. 

 Poole of Missouri which has some very 

 good suggestions in it. Farmers have 

 purchased too many tractots, it is true, 

 but Doctor, do you think you got the 

 best diagnosis of your case? Don't you 

 think you should have given the high- 

 powered salesman the combing he de- 

 serves, and manufacturing brains credit 

 for the construction of machinery that 

 has relieved millions of doing hard la- 

 bor. If farmers follow your advice we 

 will soon be back to tallow candles and 

 mud roads, and we all say never again. 



"If you are an up-to-date physician, 

 as I am sure you are, you have changed 

 with progress, as we have. 



"You speak about our Farm Supply 

 Co. advertisement, 'Know Your Oil as 

 Well as Your Soil.' All our petroleum 

 products are purchased direct from the 

 refinery in such quantities as to get 

 very lowest prices consistent with high 

 quality. Now here is the point I want 

 you to get and I am sure you will 

 think we are doing just what should 

 be done for Farm Bureau members. 



"Every dollar of net profit made 

 from co-operative purchasing of petro- 

 leum products belongs to the Farm Bu- 

 reau member, and this is retained in 

 the county and placed in circulation at 

 home. Most other companies take their 

 profits out of the state. We procure 

 home men as manaeers, and truck driv- 

 ers, and while many counties now op- 

 erating are making 100 per cent net 

 profit on capital stock each year, we 

 keep this profit at home. 



"You mentioned you were asked to 

 buy our preferred stock. Those who 

 have purchased know they always get 

 their interest promptly and now prefer 

 it to bank stock or even stock in Wall 

 Street, and so our preferred stock is al- 

 ways at par." . r 

 C. E. Carrier, 

 Piatt County, 111. 



Soybean Ass'n. to Hold 



Annual Meeting in Feb. 



THE annual meeting of the Soybean 

 Marketing Association will be held 

 Wednesday, February 25, at Decatur, 

 announces President John W. Arm- 

 strong. 



In a recent letter to leaders in the 

 soybean co-operat.ve, Mr, Armstrong 

 requested the various county units to 

 hold their local annual meetings where 

 the advisory councilmen (five council- 

 men to be elected by the members, and 

 two appointed by the County Farm 

 Bureau) and the delegate or delegates 

 to the annual meeting should be elected. 

 The Committee on Arrangements for 

 the annual meeting of the Soybean As- 

 sociation is composed of J. F. Probst, 

 chairman; Harry E. Pickrell and V. C. 

 Swigart, The Credentials Committee 

 consists of Dwight Hart, chairman; 

 John Albright and M. D. Tomlin. 



Ask for Boys' and 



Girls' Club Building 



"Because of the constant growth and 

 interest in 4-H boys' and girls' club 

 work in the State of Illinois, whose 

 members are the future farmers of to- 

 morrow," the Macon County Farm Bu- 

 reau Executive Committee recently 

 voted their endorsement of the follow- 

 ing resolution: 



"We, the officers and members of the 

 Macon County Farm Bureau, would ^-i- 

 like to see a permanent structure erected 

 at the State Fair Grounds to take care 

 of the housing of these members and 

 their live stock exhibits. . 



"As it now is, they have no perma- 

 nent quarters for their animals or per- 

 manent living quarters for themselves. 

 They are, therefore, greatly inconven- 

 ienced from the standpoint of housing 

 animals, from showing, from the social 

 and educational activities which accom- V 

 pany 4-H club work at the State Fair. ■, 



"In the past ten years the 4-H clubs - 

 have shown a most remarkable growth 

 in the State of iHinois and we feel 

 that due to the fact that they have 

 not had permanent quarters, that in 

 the coming year consideration should 

 be given to the erection of permanent 

 housing quarters for this fast growing 

 division of the Illinois State Fair. .^—-^ 



"Respectfully submitted by the 



"Macon County Farm Bureau, :. 

 "Signed, A. P. Mcintosh, Sec'y." 



Wisconsin dairy herd improvement ... 



association members mark the cows ' 



that prove unprofitable in their herd? > 



by a triangular ear mark. They want v^ 

 to avoid buying the animals back when 

 the cow should be slaughtered. 



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