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A price advance of 25 cents per hun- 

 dredweight for Class I milk at the Quad 

 Cities (Jlock Island-Moline) market was 

 recemtly made effective by the Agricul- 

 tural Adjustment Administration. The 

 new price is $1.85 per cwt. The larger 

 dealers have been retailing milk for nine 

 cents. The new minimum schedule for 

 distributors is eight cents retail and 

 seven cents wholesale for milk with less 

 than 3.9 per cent butterfat; eight and 

 one-half cents retail and seven and one- 

 half cents wholesale for four per cent 

 milk. V-' •>; :. ^.'^ v^;-yr"-^'S- ■■.:^* 



.The revised agreement establishes a 

 complete base and surplus plan effective 

 September 1 so as to make the total of 

 all bases of producers equal the total of 

 Class I (milk) and Class II (cream) 



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Reports state that distributors are vig- 

 orously opposed to the new price sched- 

 ule. The amended license gives distrib- 

 utors a ^puargin of about five cents a 

 quart on their retail sales at the nine 

 cent price, which they claim is not 

 enough. A 10 cent price would give dis- 

 tributors a margin of about six cents a 

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.: Producer distributors are selling ^aw milk at 

 eight cents. Also many consumers are buying milk 

 at the farm for 20 cents a gallon. This has cut 

 into the larger distributors' routes they claim, 

 hence their demand for a larger margin to make 

 a profit. — Editor. v--^*-.'' >.t ' v'-'-.-'*:'^-"':' '" '.".^ 7-''- • 



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$39,000,000 Corn-Hog^ > 



^^^^^^^^^^ ! Checks For Illinois 



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Illinois corn-hog signers will receive 

 about 139,000,000 in benefit payments, 

 according to recent estimates. 



The first payment will total nearly 

 $17,850,000. The second about |13,523,- 

 000 and the third and final payment 

 around $8,671,500, less local administra- 

 tive expenses. The last payment is 

 scheduled to be paid after Feb. 15, 1935. 



Corn-hog checks are being mailed out 

 of Washington at the rate of more than 

 $4,000,000 a day. By September 1 more 

 than $55,000,000 or considerably in ex- 

 cess of one-third of the first installment 

 of some $133,000,000 had been distrib- 

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Production Credit Assn. 

 Champaign One Year Old 



The Champaign (Illinois) Production 

 Credit Association, oldest in the United 

 States, marked its first anniversary Sep- 

 tember 12 by announcing that more than 

 one-fourth of amounts loaned has been 

 repaid, with no overdue accounts. Loans 

 are made from three t6 12 months and 

 bear five per cent interest. 



ONE OF TEK HTJOE SIGNS IN AND ABOUT 

 Rockford to Boost Consumption of Milk. 



Chicago Milk Producers 



Price Increase Halted 



Ask For 50c Raise in Class! And 

 New Basis of Payment 



Consideration of an increase in the 

 price to be paid producers in the Chicago 

 milk shed for Class I milk has been de*. 

 ferred to a lat^r date^ the AAA reports. 



The Pure Milk Association is working 

 hard to secure an increase of 50 cents 

 per cwt. for Class I milk over the pres- 

 ent $2.25 price. The fact that dairymen 

 throughout large areas of the Chicago 

 milk shed have been compelled to buy 

 high priced grain and hay because of 

 the drouth has greatly increased cost of 

 production. Farmers supplying the mar- 

 ket with its rigid requirements of mod- 

 ern equipment and sanitation believe 

 they are fully justified in demanding an 

 increase in price despite the compara- 

 tively low state of the butterfat market. 



The Association also proposed a plan 

 changing basis of payment to producers. 

 It would relate the total of Class I milk 

 sales on the market to the total of 100 

 per cent established bases of producers 

 so as to arrive at that percentage of 

 each producer's established base for 

 which he could receive the Class I price. 



Similarly total sales of Class II 

 (cream) also would be related to the, 

 total of 100 per cent established bases 

 so as to arrive at the percentage for 

 which producers would be paid a blended 

 price. 



All milk delivered in excess of the 

 combined Class I and Class II percent- 

 ages would be paid for uniformly at the 

 surplus (Classes II) price. The total 

 amount of money available to pay pro- 

 ducers would be determined as at pres- 

 ent. The Association believes that this 

 plan would make it possible for some 

 producers to reduce their production to 



RediiNre Milk Surplus 



By Educational Work 



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By Wilkie Lee 'V 



• Health Department statistics have 

 proved that per capita consumption of 

 milk, not in Rockford but everywhere, 

 is far below the amount needed for nor- 

 mal health and efficiency. With all the 

 scientific backing of its product which 

 the milk industry has, producers and dis- 

 tributors have been noticeably lax in the 

 merchandising of their product. 



With these facts in mind the Mid-West 

 Dairymen's Company, milk producers or- 

 ganization, and the distributors of Rock- 

 ford decided to conduct an educational 

 program. 



Workers were employed to go before 

 Women's clubs, schools, parent-teachers 

 associations, churches, playgrounds, fac- 

 tories, boys and girls clubs and newspa- 

 pers through the medium of plays, 

 demonstrations, talks, stories, projects, 

 recipes, window displays, posters, and 

 effective literature as well as other de- 

 vices. The giant ten foot porcelain milk 

 bottle above is one of ten located on 

 important highways and in the center of 

 the business district. It reminds thou- 

 sands every day of the importance of 

 milk to health as well as that milk 

 "Should Be Pasteurized." .- 



.The pro-am is supported by the Mid-W«it 

 Dairymen's Co. whose oAcers and directors are: 

 President, Hugh W. Mainland; Vice-President, 

 Oeorge H. Johns, Jr.; Treasurer. Harry Stevens; 

 Secretary, Harold C. CrandaU: Directors: J. Clay- 

 ton Hoisinrton, Xauritz W. Kystrom, Wesley A. 

 Newman, Wilbur E. Sawdey. William Nlcolson, 

 Dr. E. E. Walker, Frank Salley; and Manager 

 Wilkie A. Lee — and by the 11 milk pasteurizinr 

 plants of Rockford. namely: Pinehurst Farms* 

 MttUer's Union, Central, Ferm. King Farm. East 

 Side, Forest City, Ravetta, Xishwaukee, Uptown, 

 and Rockford Dairies, Inc. 



File Milk License Briefs 



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The Legal Department of the I. A. A. 

 has filed briefs on behalf of seveh down- 

 state milk producers' associations with 

 the Agricultural Adjustment Administra- 

 tion in support of marketing agreements 

 and licenses for the distribution of milk. 

 The deadline for filing was Sept. 10. "^^"^^^ 



Didtrihutors at all or nearly aM mirkets Hied 

 hriefs opposing licelnse*. Greatest 'ohjection of 

 desiers to license is their loss of power in domi- 

 natihgr market and dictatinflr prices, and dislike 

 of government officials examining their books.— Ed. 



Fred Lee, temporarily retained as 

 legislative adviser by the American Farm 

 Bureau Federation last year, is the man 

 who drafted the Agricultural Adjustment 

 Act. Mr. Lee is a Washington attorney 

 who was formerly head of the Legisla- 

 tive Drafting Bureau in the House of 

 Representatives. 



that quantity for which they can receive 

 the Class I price. This plan also would 

 greatly simplify the job of figuring the 

 value of milk delivered by individual 

 producers. * ! 



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