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is making as good butter as the cream 

 warrants. If not, then the next step is 

 to find out why not. The grades of cream 

 above mentioned should produce butter 

 scoring as follows: 



Cream Grade AA — 93 score or better 

 »» ft A— 92 '' " " 



w » B— 90 " " " 



» 99 Q OQ 9t » » :. , 



'S:>> " D — under 89 score 



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This method of grading cream and 

 scoring the butter gives a definite basis 

 for making a higher quality product. If 

 the butter does not score as high as the 

 quality of the cream indicates, then the 

 plant must be put in order. On the other 

 hand, if the butter is as good as the qual- 

 ity of cream delivered, then the next job 

 is to get the producer to take better care 

 of his cream. -</ ; v 



One point in connection with a co-op- 

 erative creamery cannot be over-em- 

 phasized and that is this: All the butter 

 made in producer-owned creameries is 

 still the property of the producers until 

 it is finally sold, hence each producer 

 has a financial interest in the manufac- 

 tured butter. Better butter brings more 

 money. For an average over a four year 

 period on the Chicago market, 93 score 

 butter sold for 4.754c more per pound 

 than 88 score butter. The old cream sta- 

 tion method of assembling cream will not 

 make much better butter than 88 score. 

 Trucking from farm to plant twice each 

 week is a great help, but there still r'e- 

 mains much for the producers to do if 

 their butter in their own plants scores 

 high so it will bring more money. .:^ . 



On The Market, Dec. 1 



Since July 15, Federal Inspector Tuttle 

 has been devoting one-half of his time in 

 the Peoria, Bjoomington and Champaign 

 plants to boost the quality of the product 

 so we can put on the market a 92 score 

 or better product. He is satisfied that 

 the three plants, Peoria, Bloomington and 

 Champaign, will be making a sufficient 

 quantity of 92 score butter or better to 

 warrant putting out a Federal CERTI- 

 FIED butter. This means that churnings 

 scoring 92 or better will be set aside and 

 put into our regular Prairie Farms Car- 

 tons except they will have CERTIFIED 

 printed across the face of the carton, and 

 -' on one panel it will show printed evi- 

 dence of federal inspection. 



In addition, a "Certificate of Quality" 

 will be inserted within the carton. This 

 certificate will also be perforated with 

 the date of the churning, number of 

 grading and the score of the butter when 

 graded. Such carton and certificate can 

 only be used in butter scoring 92 or 

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St. Louis Milk License 



Attacked By Dealers 



St. Louis milk distributors have filed 

 an injunction in the federal court at East 

 St. Louis attacking the new milk license 

 which raised the base price from |1.70 

 to $2 per cwt. 



A hearing on the injtinotion set for Nov. 10 was 

 continued to grive attorneys additional time to pre- 

 pare their argruments. The I. A. A. leyal depart- 

 ment is/assistingr Sanitary Milk Producers and the 

 government in upholding the price increase. — Editor. 



I^oclcford Milk Market 



By Wilkie Lee, Manager 



Our price for Class I milk in Rock- 

 ford was $1.85 per hundred for 3.5% 

 milk for the month of October. For sur- 

 plus milk sent to the condensery, we re- 

 ceived $1.18 per hundred for milk con- 

 taining 3.5% butter-fat. 



For the first 8 months of 1934, we had 

 a gain of approximately three quarters 

 of a million pounds of Class I milk com- 

 pared with the same period of 1933. Of 

 course no one knows what it might have 

 been if we had done no local advertising, 

 but we do give our National Dairy & 

 Food Bureau program most of the credit 

 for maintaining our Class I sales above 

 the 1933 level. i. r 



We are expecting considerable sedi- 

 ment trouble this fall and winter as soon 

 as our producers begin to keep their 

 cows in the barn, because of a shortage 

 of straw for bedding. We are asking our 

 members to clip hind-quarters of their 

 herd so they can be more easily cleaned. 



Feed conditions in Winnebago County 

 and adjacent territory from which we re- 

 ceive milk are possibly above the av- 

 erage for this year. This condition is due 

 largely to getting some nice rains dur- 

 ing the latter part of June that few 

 others got. • > ^ • • --■ ->--•■•■-■ • ' •■ ' v.. • • • .■ :;■ •;■' . • 



Decatur Milk 



The pool price for October was $1.44 

 for 4% milk f. o. b. plant, which is a 

 12c increase over September, reports 

 H. W. Rotz, Manager Decatur Milk As- 

 sociation. The increase was partly due 

 to increased Class I sales, also the in- 

 crease in the butter market. We have 

 been promised a milk license to become 

 effective December 1, but we have heard 

 nothing definite. 



Country Life Radio Program 



Country Life Insurance Company will 

 sponsor a half-hour program on station 

 WLS-WENR between 8:30 and 9:00 P. 

 M. Thursday, December 6. The program 

 ^ill mark the wind-up of the company's 

 year-end campaign for $67,000,000 of life 

 insurance. The half hour will be devoted 

 to short talks and reports by company 

 officials, and entertainment.; • v 



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Bloomington Milk Market 



By Forrest Fairchild, Manager 



. Production of milk for the nftihth of 

 October compared with last October has 

 increased 9.21 per cent. Weather condi- 

 tions have been favorable for milk pro- 

 duction this fall. Sales have shown a 

 substantial increase compared both with 

 September this year and October a year 

 ago. Average production is the highest 

 we have had for the month of October. 

 The price of 3.5 per cent milk delivered 

 to Bloomington averaged $1.19. 



Mr. Irwin, economist with the A. A. A. 

 recently called on the distributors and 

 producers* association in Bloomington to 

 ascertain the attitude of both parties to- 

 ward issuing a license on this market. 

 The Association was assured that a li- 

 cense will be issued at an early date, 

 possibly December 1. 



With corn selling in the neigliborhood 

 of 75c, hay from $15.00 up, and i)rQtein 

 supplements $38.00 to $42.00 a ton, milk 

 prices are decidedly unfavorable. Prices 

 paid for cream are now the highest since 

 December, 1931. The is due to the in- 

 creased price of butter and the coopera- 

 tive method of marketing butterfat. 



During October, McLean county sent 

 more pounds of butterfat to Farmers 

 Creamery than any other county. Ma- 

 coupin was a close second, Total volume 

 was 83 per cent greater than for October, 

 1933. Volume from five original coun- 

 ties for October 1934 was 34.2 per cent 

 greater than for October, 1933. Quality 

 has improved fully 45 per cent in the 

 past two weeks, says Clyde Hamlin, 

 plant superintendent. This is due large- 

 ly to cooler weather, but it is significant 

 in that producers could produce cooler 

 temperatures for cream in warm weather 

 by liberal use of cool water. Proper cool- 

 ing and frequent delivery will add to 

 farmers' profits if they will take advan- 

 tage of their opportunities. 



Farmers Creamery is getting substantial quan- 

 tities of cream from the northern part of Pike 

 county. A delegation of producers from that coun- 

 ty recently drove up to Bloomington in three cars 

 to inspect the plant. They were favorably impressed 

 reports C. N. Atwood, field representative. 



Peoria Producers Dairy 



By Wilfred Shaw, Manager 



Our price for October to members was 

 11.08 net for 3.5% milk delivered. Retail 

 prices here are supposed to be 10c but 

 milk is being sold all the way from 5c to 

 10c a quart. It would be difficult to pre- 

 dict what will happen on this market in 

 the next 30 to 60 days. Our receipts are 

 unusually low, due, no doubt, to the low 

 price of milk, higher butterfat, and high 

 cost of feed. At the Creamery we are 

 paying 28c delivered for butterfat and 

 26c at the farm. Sales of our three but- 

 ter routes to stores have never been 

 higher in spite of the recent advance in 

 price (30c) to stores. :yy/'-:--'\y'y^y:r'-'i.: 



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