May, 19} 1 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Seventeen 



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Volume of Cream Handled Affects . ; ; ^ 



' Per Pound Costs in Produce Associations 



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Farm Bureau Members C5J)tinue Patronage to Co-Operatives, 



, , Figures Show , :' 



THE influence of volume on costs of following records taken from the books 

 handling cream by local co-operative of the Schuyler County Produce Asso- 

 associations is clearly illustrated in the ciation: 



■•THREE YEARS' RECORDS ON COUNTY PRODUCE ASSOCIATION 



1928 

 Lbs. Butterfat from Farm Bureau Members 44,091.S 



Lbs. Butterfat from Non-Farm Bureau Members 26,059.5 

 Lbs. Butterfat from Floaters (signed no agree- 

 ment) ...... , . . .... .,..,. . . . ... . 8,277.6 



Total . . ; . ......... . ; . . i ■ . V. . . 



Total Trading Income.............. 



Total Expenses , • , . , v . . . . . 



Net Profit . 



Expenses per lb, fat . . . , . , > . . . . . , . , 



The figures above coupled with ob- 

 servations of the market situation in 

 that and other counties justify th; con- 

 clusions that: 

 I. Produce co-operatives invariably 

 raise local butterfat prices to the 

 farmer and reduce the spread 

 between the country butterfat 

 price and the Chicago butter 

 market, 



II. Farm Bureau members who join 

 local co-operatives patronize 

 their asso:;iations in the face of 

 adverse conditions more loyally 

 than do non-Farm Bureau mem- 



- " • bers who have signed contracts. 



III. Reduced volume of produce re- 

 ceived rapidly increases the per 

 lb. or unit cost of handling. 



78,428.6 93,914.5 62,810.7 

 $5,383.14 $5,219.28 $3,611.15 

 3,314.35 3,169.53 3,254.01 



$2,068.79 $2,049.75 

 3.5c 2.5c 



$ 



357.14 

 4.3c 



IV. Directors of co-operatives should 

 act promptly in cutting over- 

 head expenses as volume de- 

 clines. 

 V. Low butterfat prices have caused 

 receipts of cream pools and pri- 

 vate cream stations to decline 

 approximately 20 per cent dur- 

 ing the past two years. 



In LaSalle county the operating costs 

 of the co-operative jumped from 1.6 

 cents per lb. butterfat to 4.8 cents per 

 lb. when the volume declined from 

 1,200 lbs. daily in June, 1930, to 8,000 

 lbs. for the month in November. By 

 February, 1931, the cost had been low- 

 ered to 2.4 cents per lb. by reducing 

 overhead expenses and increasing vol- 

 ume. 



CANADIAN WHEAT POOL 



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producer will receive the maximum 

 share of the selling price of his product 

 only through his own efforts to market 

 in an orderly manner as actual demand 

 arises. 



The spirit behind the pool will never 

 be stamped out. It has succeeded in cre- 

 ating a new conception of self-respect 

 among western Canadian farmers; and 

 they will never go back to the knuckle- 

 down-and-grin days. Composed of 

 144,000 members striving to drag their 

 daily labors from the despair of mere 

 sweating for a livelihood, the Canadian 

 wheat pool can be said to share the sen- 

 timents of Ramsay MacDonald: "We 

 want to bring back light into the vil- 

 lages and farms; and to make men feel 

 that agriculture is not a drudgery and 

 derelict process. We want to put into 

 it new energy, skill and science, a 

 higher motive, better wages and houses, 

 and closer friendships." ...,.> 



tvestock 



The Iroquois County Livestock Mar- 

 keting Association, which began oper- 

 ating last December, up to May 1 had 

 shipped more than $115,000 worth of 

 livestock, over 100 carloads. ,>•,.. 



Every load of livestock from Knox 

 county except one went to the Chicago 

 Producers Commission Association in 

 the week ending May 2, announces the 

 Knox County Farm Bureau. V ;' 



Sangamon county led all others with 

 an increase to the Indianapolis Pro- 

 ducers of 15 cars in April over last 

 year. Macon county was second with 

 an increase of 1 1 cars, Vermilion third 

 with an eight-car increase, Piatt coun- 

 ty fourth with an increase of four cars, 

 and Effingham fifth with three more 

 cars. 



The percentage of live stock at the 

 Cincinnati market handled by the Pro- 

 ducers Commission Association in- 

 creased from 11.5 per cent in 192 5 to 

 28.4 per cent in 1930. 



Radio publicity and advertising 

 played an important part in this sub- 

 stantial increase in business. The Cin- 

 cinnati Producers broadcasts every day 

 from WLW. 



The range hog of the south is recog- 

 nized ^s dangerous in spreading hog 

 cholera. 



Pipe Line Co. Gets 



Permission to Build 



Kane County to Have 



Big Meeting June 16 



The Kane County Farm Bureau an- 

 nounces that it will hold its fifth an- 

 nual mid-summer meeting on June 16. 

 The meeting will b^gin at 6:30 P. M. 

 and will be devoted to an evening of 

 business and entertainment. 



Farm Adviser Harry Kelley is plan- 

 ning a program that will bring out 

 members from all sections of the county. 



Iroquois Considers 



Credit Corporation 



Directors of the Iroquois County 

 Farm Bureau met with representatives 

 of the Iroquois County Bankers' Asso- 

 ciation at Watseka on May 8 to con- 

 sider the organization of a credit cor- 

 poration for Iroquois and adjoining 

 counties. 



Mr. Gulledge of the Federal Inter- 

 mediate Credit Bank, St. Louis, met 

 with the group. ....-.,,. ' ;, * 



The Illinois Commerce Commission 

 on April 30 granted the Panhandle Illi- 

 nois Pipe Line Company a certificate of 

 convenience and necessity to build and 

 operate a natural gas pipe line from 

 Pleasant Hill in Pike county, across cen- 

 tral Illinois to Chrisman in Edgar 

 county. 



According to reports more than 100 

 cities will be served by the new line, 

 which is a subsidiary of the Panhandle 

 Eastern Corporation. The natural gas 

 will come from the Texas fields. It is 

 estimated that the cost of gas, both for 

 illumination and fuel, will be reduced 

 nearly 50 per cent. 



A total of 1,275 loans aggregating 

 $169,284 were made to Southern Illi- 

 nois farmers from the drouth relief ap- 

 propriation recently voted by Congress, 

 according to a report by T. Weed Har- 

 vey, federal representative at 315 No. 

 10th Street, St. Louis. The loans were 

 nearly all small and were made chiefly 

 for seed, fertilfzcr, etc. - i 



