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I. A. A. RccMTd— April, 1934 



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St. Louis Milk Market f^^ 

 License Is Effective 



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Fred Shipley Appointed Admin- 

 istrator, Producers To Get 

 Better Prices 



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FRED 8HIFLET 



V Fred Shipley, recently appointed 

 milk market administrator at St. 

 Louis, is a former University of Illi- 

 nois boy. He has been assisting E. W. 

 Tiedeman and A. D. Lynch of the 

 Sanitary Milk Producers in market 

 problems on the smaller milk markets 



in the St. Louis 



milk shed, 



Shipley came to 

 Illinois from Ten- 

 nessee as a cow 

 tester in Knox 

 county about 

 1925. He worked 

 for the milk test- 

 ing commission at 

 Peoria from 1927 

 to 1929. Later he 

 was selected with 

 Vv ; ;; the help of A. D. 



Lynch, then dairy marketing director 

 ; of the I. A. A., as manager of the 

 Champaign County Milk Producers 

 Association. In 1931 he went with the 

 Sanitary Milk Producers where he had 

 charge of the milk markets in south- 

 ern Illinois, including Benton, Harris- 

 burg, DuQuoin, Murphysboro, Mt. Ver- 

 non, West Frankfort, and Carbondale. 

 ^ ^Mr. Shipley's duties will be to act 

 as general supervisor of the provisions 

 of the license relating to producers' 

 prices and the adjustment fund for 

 all distributors; to examine the books 

 and records of distributors and their 

 subsidiaries when necessary, and to 

 represent the Secretary of Agriculture 

 in general matters connected with the 

 license for the St. Louis area. 



., License March 2 : ^: ^ 

 The license which became effective 



Farm Supply Refund 



(Continued from page 16) 

 over $500,000 for the third consecutive 

 year. Average refund received by 

 member patrons was 14 cents on each 

 dollar spent for Service Company 

 products. '^' r- 



According to L. R. Marchant, man- 

 ager of Illinois Farm Supply Com- 

 pany, the prospects of 1933 are 

 brighter than in years. The addition 

 of two new companies, one in Pike 

 County and the other in Rock Island 

 County now brings the total affiliated 

 companies to 56. New bulk plants are 

 being built throughout the state to fa- 

 cilitate service, around 40 new tank 

 trucks are being added to the fleet 

 now covering the state. ^^;^^: 



March 2 establishes a price for Class 

 I milk of $1.85 per cwt. for 3.5% milk 

 delivered to distributor plants. The dif- 

 ferential per 1/10% butterfat is 3c. 

 Class II milk (fluid cream) is to bring 

 3% times 92 score Chicago butter, 

 plus 20%, plus 30c per cwt. Class III, 

 manufactured, is priced at 3% x 92 

 score butter plus 15c per cwt. all f. o. 

 b. plants. Farmers will control their 

 own hauling and get the benefit of 

 economies there. More equitable dif- 

 ferentials in price for producers in the 

 different zones based on distance from 

 market likewise have been established. 

 The close-in producers will get a 

 higher price than those located farther 

 away from St. Louis. 



Producers will secure a blended 

 price for Classes I and II to be de- 

 termined by the market administra- 

 tor. The base and surplus plan is in 

 force on this market so that the price 

 to each producer will depend on the 

 amount of base milk he delivers. 



:. The checkoff is 4c per cwt. paid by 

 all producers except the producer-dis- 

 tributors who are exempt up to 250 

 lbs. per day on their own milk. The 

 members of the Association will con- 

 tribute 3c to the Sanitary Milk Pro- 

 ducers and Ic to the market adminis- 

 trator. Non-members will pay 4c all of 

 which will be retained by the admin- 

 istrator, 3c of which will be put into 

 a special fund to provide testing and 

 quality-improyement services. 



Farmers Creamery Co. 5^ 

 5 Makes Splendid Showing 



Dairy producers supplying the 

 Bloomington market with milk wanted 

 to be assured of a satisfactory market 

 for their surplus milk. They knew of 

 no better assurance than to have a 

 creamery where they might separate 

 their milk and churn it into high qual- 

 ity butter. Therefore, a plant was 

 equipped and made ready to operate 

 ;: February 9, 1933. Since then they 

 have had no trouble in disposing of 

 their surplus milk, yet none of it has 

 gone through the plant. 



After the plant was equipped, cream 

 producers were organized in LaSalle, 

 Livingston, McLean, DeWitt and Lo- 

 gan Counties. From February 9th to 

 November 30th the plant churned 834,- 

 571 pounds of excellent Prairie Farms 

 Butter. To the patrons of that cream- 

 ery and the community, it has meant 

 approximately two . cents per pound 

 butterfat and to members 3%c per 

 pound butterfat. Here is the evidence. 

 ; For the corresponding months the 

 butterfat price at Bloomington in 

 1933-.34 on a 2c lower butter market 



was raised 2.11c per )b. nearer the 

 Chicago butter market tli«n the av- 

 erage for the two preceding years. In 



addition to this, members were given a 

 one cent per pound credit on a share 

 of preferred stock and patronage re- 

 f 'nds of nearly a cent per pound fat. 

 Recently eight additional coianties 

 have been allocated to the Blooming- 

 ton plant, therefore, this year the 

 plant should process near 2,000,000 

 pounds of butter. 



Producers Creamery of 



Peoria Big Success 



Prom May 1 to December 81, 1933, 

 the Producers Creamery of Peoria 

 made 834,371 pounds of fine Prairie 

 Farms butter. Competitive prices 

 were paid for butterfat and after pay- 

 ing all expenses at the end of five 

 months, the association had g^iven 

 members credit on Class "A" pre* 

 ferred creamery stock, totaling $4,-. 

 524.31, and made patronage dividends 

 amounting to $3,393.10, or a total of 

 $7,917.41. , _. 



From May to December every 

 month showed an increase in member- 

 ship. On the basis of the first eight 

 months' operation, it is certain that 

 the plant will make more than a mil- 

 lion and a half pounds of butter when 

 the plant has operated one year. 



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Creamery Districts Busy 

 ; Financing New Plants 



It's just a guess which plant will 

 be ready to start operating first, Pro-' 

 ducers Creamery of Champaign, (M- 

 ney or Mt. Sterling. Each district has 

 one county that has raised its quota. 

 All other counties are working tooth 

 and nail. Douglas county in the 

 Champaign district was the first to 

 raise its cash quota and on March 8 

 the following wire was roeeivod: 

 ''Have our $2,500 on the barrel bead 

 —What shall we do with it?" 



Lawrence county in the Olney dis- 

 trict has raised its quota. There the 

 producers cream committee has re- 

 ported all stock sold, but that no re- 

 port will be made to headquarters at 

 Olney until the cash is in the office. 

 Eight counties in the district have 

 volunteer workers out soiling stock 

 and each group of workers is de- 

 termined to have its "cash on the bar- 

 rel head" at an early date. The Olney 

 district may set the pace for the other 

 districts. 



In the Mt. Sterling district, Scott 

 county is the first to raise its cash 

 quota. All other counties except one 

 have county and township coramittoes 

 selling stock. .•■'''- ?•••' -■■' -J"U' ^^'v'^'--:- - 



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