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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



April, 1931 



tvestock- 

 iMad^eting 



THE first annual meeting of the Illi- 

 nois Live Stock Marketing Associa- 

 tion will be held at Bloomington on 

 Thursday, May 28. The board of direc- 

 tors of the new co-operative met in the 

 I. A. A. offices, Chicago, on Friday, 

 April 3, to plan the future work of the 

 association. The association was incor- 

 porated on March 4. 



Three hundred and fifteen county 

 live stock marketing committeemen, 

 live stock producers and farm advisers 

 attended six district live stock market- 

 ing conferences held throughout the 

 state during the week of March 23. 

 These men represented 62 counties. 

 County marketing committees out- 

 lined educational programs for the re- 

 spective counties in accordance with 

 suggestions presented by Ray E. Miller, 

 director of livestock marketing for the 

 I. A. A. The program of the state 

 organization was discussed with par- 

 ticular reference to the new state live 

 stock marketing association, its pur- 

 pose and plan of operation. 



During the first three months of 

 1931 the Indianapolis Producers han- 

 dled 2,638 carloads of live stock, repre- 

 senting approximately 34% of the mar- 

 ket receipts. 



Illinois counties showing an increase 

 in the business consigned to the Indian- 

 apolis Producers over the first three 

 months last year were Vermilion with 

 an increase of 33 cars, Ford with 16, 

 Edgar 10, Dewitt 9, Iroquois and 

 Woodford 6 cars each. 



Mrs. C M. Stephens, Dnvenport, 

 Chnirmnn, Quud-City Milk Council 



Mrs. Stephens and other members of 

 the Consumers Committee have taken 

 an active part in working out an or- 

 derly marketing quality improvement 

 program between the organized dairy- 

 men represented by the Quality Milk 

 Association about Rock Island, Daven- 

 port, Moline, and East Moline, and the 

 organized dealers. ;, ;. iv v 



The Consumers Committee consists 

 of Mrs. C. M. Stephens, Mrs. J. W. 

 Casto, Rock Island; Mrs. W. R. Wood, 

 Moline; and Mrs. J. F. Ryan, East 

 Moline. r ;: 



Milk Producers-Dealers 



Progress' iat Rock Island 



A THREE cent per cwt. check-off 

 on all milk delivered by members 

 of the Quality Milk Association to dis- 

 tributors at Rock Island, Davenport, 

 Moline, and East Moline was agreed 

 upon at a meeting on March 3 1 , where 

 the largest dealers and milk producers 

 were represented. '■ 



The producers consented to pay two 

 cents and the dealers one cent to pro- 

 vide personnel and equipment for 

 checking weights and tests, improving 

 quality, and advertising dairy products 

 in the Quad-Cities. 



Following the meeting a new scale of 

 prices was announced. Milk will sell 

 for 1 1 cents a quart and 6 cents a 

 pint on these markets. A proposed cut 

 in the price to the producer will he 

 given further consideration. The old 

 retail price was 12 cents a quart. - v :. 



R. W. Bartlett of the University of 

 Illinois and Wilfred Shaw of the Illinois 

 Milk Producers' Association commended 

 the Quad-City milk council for its ef- 

 forts in establishing an orderly market- 

 ing system and a higher quality prod- 

 uct for the consumer. Farm Adviser 

 John Spencer of Rock' Island county 

 has taken an active part in getting the 

 Quality Milk Association under way. 



Decatur Milk Producers 



Announce Price Schedule 



Sanitary Milk Producers 

 Endorse Health Ordinance 



lUinois shipping association managers 

 who increased their business to the In- 

 dianapolis Producers over the first three 

 months of last year are Fred Gumm, 

 Paris, with a gain of 9 cars; W. E. 

 Leischner, Deland; W. F. Kurtz, Ta- 

 bor; George M. Hudson, Hindsboro; 

 Abner Wood, Redmon; Clarence Pous- 

 ler, Shumway; R. C. Boatman, Sheldon; 

 William Fulk, Cerro Gordo and De- 

 catur; D. H. King, Dundas; H. H. 

 Richards, Parkersburg, and G. W. El- 

 bert, Clarksburg. Managers who shipped 

 the same number of cars as last year 

 were: C. M. Weller, Tuscola; O. C. 

 Fisher, Windsor, and W. H. Bingaman, 

 Neoga. 



For the first three months of 1930 

 approximately 78.5% of the receipts at 

 Indianapolis arrived by truck. • 



THE Decatur Milk Producers Asso- 

 ciation, following a recent meeting 

 with dealers at that market, reports 

 that the price of base milk for April, 

 May and June will be $2.06 per cwt. 

 delivered at Decatur. 



Class II milk will bring a price com- 

 puted on the basis of Chicago 92 score 

 butter plus 12% cents per pound fat 

 in 100 pounds of milk. Thus if the 

 Chicago 92 score price is 30 cents per 

 pound and the milk tests 3.5 per cent, 

 the price would be computed at $1.49 

 per cwt. 



Class III milk, of which there was 

 only 13,000 pounds on the market in 

 March, will bring a flat price based on 

 Chicago 90 score butter price for the 

 butterfat content in 100 pounds of 

 milk. 



At present approximately 70 per cent 

 of the milk delivered at Decatur is 

 base milk. During February and March 

 the price received by the Producers was 

 $2.27 per cwt. for base milk. Previous 

 to February the price was $2.65. 



Since the first of the year the retail 

 price on this market dropped from 

 12'/4 cents to 10 cents per quart. 



Secretary Gep. E. Metzger attended 

 the price conference and assisted the 



At a meeting of the directors of the 

 Sanitary Milk Producers, in St. Louis, 

 April 6-7, the Board endorsed the re- 

 cent ordinance passed by the City 

 Health Department requiring all pro- 

 ducers supplying that market to build 

 a dairy and milk house according to 

 sanitary specifications laid down by the 

 city health office. 



The Sanitary Milk Producers has ad- 

 vised its 8,800 members to comply with 

 the ordinance and to that end is fur- 

 nishing them with blue prints of a 

 dairy house that will meet all require- 

 ments. 



Among other requirements the milk 

 house must have three windows in it, 

 and a cooling tank with a capacity of 

 four gallons of water for each gallon 

 of milk. 



Secretary Geo. E. Metzger of the I. 

 A. A., who met with the Board, reports 

 that the organization is making fine 

 progress, that all the larger dealers are 

 co-operating except the Pevely Dairy 

 Company. 



Producers in their negotiations. The 

 price obtained by the Producers is in 

 line with the price of milk on similar 

 Illinois markets. 



