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Our base months are now the four 

 lowest productive months of the entire 

 Association. At the end of the year 

 when these months are adjusted to a 

 30-day month and determined, we take 

 each individual's average production 

 for those four months and average it 

 with his last year's base. If he has 

 had an increase in production during 

 those four months over his last year's 

 base, he only gains one-half of it in 

 base. If, however, he has had breed- 

 ing trouble or has lost part of his herd 

 in some manner, he only loses one- 

 half of his decline in production as 

 compared to his last year's Dasc. 



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:;**We have found some very mter- 

 esting facts in going over some of our 

 old price records for the year. For 

 instance, in December, 1931, 41 per 

 cent of the base milk was sold at Class 

 I price of $1.75 per hundred, 59 per 

 cent was sold at Class II price at 

 $1.07 per hundred, with an average 

 weighted price of $1.35. In October, 

 1932, our records show that 35 per 

 t >nt was sold at Class I price of $1.50 

 per hundred, 12 per cent at Class II 

 price of $1.05 per hundred, while the 

 balance was sold for 90 cents per 

 hundred, giving an average price of 

 $1.13 per hundred. In February, 1934, 

 with our new classification, we sold 

 60 per cent of our base in Class I at 

 $1.40, and the balance at $1.10, which 

 gives us an average weighted price of 

 $1.28 per hundred, which is not very 

 txT below our average of over two 

 years ago. In the final analysis the 

 average price received for milk is the 

 thing that tells the story instead of 

 an enormous Class I price, which may 

 b^ received for a small percentage of 

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The distributors buying from the 

 Association pay the organization for 

 all milk delivered by its members. The 

 Midwest in turn writes out and sends 

 the checks each month for milk de- 

 livered by each member. A five-cent 

 per hundred pound checkoff is de- 

 ducted and one cent of this is re- 

 funded as a patronage dividend to 

 members of the Association who be- 

 long to the I. A. A. and Winnebago 

 County Farm Bureau. , 



At the close of the last fiscal year, 

 February 28, 1934, the audit showed 

 a surplus of $17,731.19 which com- 

 pares with a balance of $4,338.20 the 

 year before. - 



Farm population reached an all- 

 time new high record on January 1, 

 1934 estimated at 32,509,000 persons. 



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— Cuui'ieiiy i.a£>aiie Couiiiy Jf^arm lIurMii 

 Sam Burke of LaSallo County it one of the ffo-ffetten who trucks in eream for the Farmen 

 Creamery Company, Bloomington. The Farmers Creamery has irrown rapidly sinoe its orgaaisatien 

 more than a year ago and is manufacturing Prairie Farms hutter at the xate of mere than a mil- 

 lion pounds annually* 



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Fayette County May 

 V ^ Have Farm Bureau 



Organization of a Farm Bureau in 

 Fayette county was unanimously sup- 

 ported at a meeting of 100 leading 

 farmers in the county court house in 

 Vandalia, Saturday, April 28. V. Vani- 

 man of the I. A. A. told the group 

 that the Association was ready to as- 

 sist and co-operate if farmers in 

 Fayette county really wanted an or- 

 ganization. " 



The meeting grew out of frequent 

 questions asked during the corn-hog 

 sign-up as to why the county was 

 without a Farm Bureau. F. E. Long- 

 mire, representing the University of 

 Illinois extension department, ex- 

 plained that extension service was 

 available only in those counties where 

 there is a local organization to co- 

 operate. ' '' '-'- - ' • ■ 



A canvass will be made of Fayette 

 county farmers and if there is suffi- 

 cient interest, another meeting will 

 be held and a p3rmanent organization 

 created. ,. -■ - ■ .-■..z- -..,>■.,_ ,.;: •• -■:■■:} :^,:-v 



As we iro to press some 800 members were 

 reported sigmed at a meeting in Vandalia May 

 20. The Fayette County Farm Bureau will be 

 the 95th in lUinois affiliated with the I. A. A. 

 W. C. Buzzard is acting as chairman of county 

 organization committee. — Editor. 



April Production Loans 



Exceed Two Millions 



Farmers of Illinois, Missouri and 

 Arkansas received $2,099,699.83 during 

 April in short-term production loans. 

 Chattel mortgages given as security 

 by borrowers were discounted by the 

 Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of 

 St. Louis. ■:.■:>-•■•■;.....;..... . ,:.;.... , , ■ JC:^-:--' -^ ': 



8ueb loans draw V^ per Mttt fiiterttt, ttmit riiiiii 

 frfm three tt 12 moatht. Berrewert revdiretf !• pur* 

 elMM ttodi cqufvalent tt 5 per cent ef loan In 

 IftJil credit attoelationt. alto pay latpeetlett aai UllPf 

 fets.— Edltar. 



Thoughts On The New Deal 



(Continued from Page 4) 



even grow intelligent enough to let 

 unemployed people work for their daily 

 bread instead of allowing them to de- 

 generate physically, mentally, and 

 morally in idleness. ; :: 



* We shall probably develop in this 

 country greater control over capital- 

 ism represented by organized mo- 

 nopolies. Such groups with the aid of 

 the tariff have made a farce of the 

 free competitive system under which 

 the farmer has been operating in the 

 production and sale of his products. 

 Labor unions have done the same. 

 Capital invested in the cities has de- 

 manded more and got more. Their 

 very success had something to do with 

 the breakdown of trade. 



The opportunity for honest initia- 

 tive, inventiveness, genius and thrift 

 can be preserved under controlled 

 capitalism. In fact these virtues will 

 be encouraged by a broader distribu- 

 tion of wealth. The farmer will be 

 better off under such a system for he 

 will be gouged less. We should pre- 

 serve the good things from the old 

 order, make reforms where experience 

 has shown them to be needed in spite 

 of the opposition. Organized farmers 

 are in a position to help shape the fu- 

 ture destinies of the country, to re- 

 store agricultural prices to their pre- 

 war exchange value. By so doing we 

 will benefit not only agriculture, but 

 the general welfare of all. 



The Sanitary Milk Producers is 

 supporting an amendment to the St. 

 Louis milk license increasing the Class 

 I price from $1.85 per cwt. to |2.20 

 unless the retail price is cut from 11 

 cents per quart to 10 cents. r- 



I. A. A. RECORD 



