April, 1932 



THE I. A. A. RECORD 



Page Fifteen 



Pure Milk Ass'n. Pays 



$2,009 for 1931 Milk 





Capacity Crowd Attends Annual 

 Meeting 



THE latter part of 1932 should find 

 milk markets in a more healthy con- 

 dition with sales possibilities on the up- 

 grade, declared Don N. Geyer, secre- 

 tary-manager of the Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion, at the annual meeting of the or- 

 ganization in Chicago on March 15. 



Volume of milk sales, due to eco- 

 nomic conditions, dropped 2 5 per cent 

 in the Chicago area 

 last year, it was dis- 

 closed. The 19,000 

 dairy farmers pro- 

 ducing for the Chi- 

 cago market sold 

 1,464,439,532 lbs. 

 of milk for a total 

 of $29,413,572 

 through the associa- 

 tion during 1931. 



Geyer reported 

 that members of the 

 W. C. McQueen p^^^ j^^n^ Associa- 

 tion had received an average of $2,009 

 per hundredweight for all milk sold in 

 1931, a decrease of 66 cents since 1929. 

 He pointed out that other farm prod- 

 ucts are selling at one-third of their 

 1929 price, while dairy products as a 

 whole are two-thirds of the 1929 price. 



Must Restore Prices 



President W. C. McQueen speaking 

 of this said: "We believe that, in main- 

 taining our present standard of prices 

 to the farmers for their milk, we are 

 taking the course that must be taken 

 by all others who desire a return of 

 prosperous conditions and that all ef- 

 forts should be made to restore and 

 maintain for the farmers a return for 

 their products which will put them in 

 the buying class." 



Harry Hartke of Cincinnati, presi- 

 dent of the National Co-Operative Milk 

 Producers Federation, pointed out that 

 dairying was better organized than any 

 other branch of agriculture and was 

 also the best paying. He said that if 

 dairymen wished to continued selling at 

 a profit they must regulate their pro- 

 duction by culling out low producers 

 and sending them to the block. 



Equalization Fee Voted 



The by-laws of the association were 

 amended making possible a maximum 

 assessment of 5 cents a hundred pounds 

 on basic milk for reimbursing members 

 whose markets are destroyed by the 

 closing of plants after July 1. Such 

 farmers will dispose of their milk at 



any price they can get and collect the 

 difference between their receipts and the 

 basic price from the fund. 



A capacity crowd filled the old Chi- 

 cago Auditorium. More than 1,600 

 were served at luncheon on the top 

 floor of the Auditorium Hotel. Chicago 

 milk distributors and other farm or- 

 ganization officials were luncheon 

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inois and Indiana 

 Co-Operate in Wool Pool 



Sales of 1931 Clip Made at Satisfac- 



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Southern Illinois Producers 

 Pooling Egg Shipments 



COMMERCIAL egg producers in 

 southern Illinois are now pooling 

 their interests in the shipment of eggs 

 to New York. 



Some of the larger producers have 

 been shipping to New York by express 

 for several years, but they find that 

 they can get a much better rate by 

 using pick-up freight service rendered 

 by some of the main railroads passing 

 through southern Illinois to the eastern 

 market. 



Some 3 5 or 40 of the large producers 

 in Edwards county are shipping twice 

 a week and are loading around 8 5 cases 

 of eggs each shipping day. 



"With a little effort on the part of 

 these shippers," said F. A. Gougler of 

 the I. A. A., "it will easily be possible 

 to interest enough producers to ship in 

 carload lots. Shipments made during 

 the past month have netted the pro- 

 ducers from 3 to 6 cents a dozen more 

 than the local market, depending upon 

 the quality of the eggs." 



Flora is another shipping point from 

 which similar shipments will be under- 

 taken shortly. Altogether there are 

 nine counties interested in the project. 

 They are Edwards, Richland, Clay, 

 Wayne, Wabash, White, Lawrence and 

 Crawford-Jasper. Grading demonstra- 

 tions will be held in these counties from 

 time to time as they take up the project. 



A committee composed of the fol- 

 lowing members is developing the plan: 

 Lyman Bunting, Edwards county; H. 

 L. Eberhardt, Jasper county; L. E. 

 Stoutenburg, Clay county; Curt Garri- 

 son, Wayne county; George Greiss, Ed- 

 wards county; L. E. Boyd, White coun- 

 ty; C. E. Harper, Lawrence county; 

 C. Everett Wilson, Crawford county; 

 and J. C. J. McCord, Jasper county. 



Chicago stores prefer Pacific coast 

 eggs because western eggs are of bet- 

 ter quality and the supply is more uni- 

 form. To meet this western competi- 

 tion, Illinois farmers must produce eggs 

 of better quality and market them more 

 efficiently. This can be done best 

 through co-operative marketing. 



THE Illinois Livestock Marketing 

 Association will provide an oppor- 

 tunity for wool growers of the state 

 to market their 1932 clip co-opera- 

 tively through its wool department, the 

 executive committee decided March 9. 



A co-operative arrangement is being 

 effected with the Indiana Wool Grow- 

 ers' Association to reduce handling 

 charges and to cut overhead costs. Un- 

 der this arrangement it is planned to 

 ship Illinois wool to the warehouse at 

 Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where it will be 

 graded and stored until sold. , . ' 



Present plans provide for an advance 

 on 1932 wool marketed through the 

 pool amounting to approximately 75 or 

 80 per cent of eastern market prices. 

 Such an advance invariably equals, if 

 it does not exceed, prices offered by 

 local buyers. 



Illinois produced approximately 4,- 

 700,000 pounds of wool last year, of 

 which only a comparatively small per- 

 centage was sold through the co-opera- 

 tive, the National Wool Marketing Cor- 

 poration. Final settlement for- wool 

 pooled last year was expected to be 

 made by the end of March. When this 

 wool was delivered growers received an 

 advance of about 80 per cent of the 

 Boston market price. , ■ 



Due to the substantial advances made 

 by the co-operative during the past 

 two years, Illinois wool growers re- 

 ceived from two to four cents more 

 per pound than they would ^ave re- 

 ceived had the co-operative not been 

 operating. 



The U. S. production of wool in 1929 

 was 400,000,000 pounds. Approximate- 

 ly 27,000,000 of this was sold co-oper- 

 atively through 13 of the larger co- 

 operatives in existence at that time. 

 Subsequently the National Wool Mar- 

 keting Corporation was formed with 

 the aid of the Farm Board. The Na- 

 tional has 28 stockholder members and 

 33 wool growers' association co-operat- 

 ing with it. 



In 1930 the National handled ap- 

 proximataely 116,000,000 pounds of 

 wool which represented 38 per cent of 

 the country's production. In 1931 it 

 sold over 118,000,000 pounds of wool 

 during the fiscal year. Sales of the 1931 

 crop have been very satisfactory, and 

 growers who sold through this channel 

 last year invariably will receive greater 

 returns than farmers who sold to pri- 

 vate dealers. 



