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milk 



By Wilfred Shaw 



Twentieth annual meeting of the McLean 



County Milk Producers was attended by 325 

 members and their wives in the McLean 

 County Farm Bureau building and dinner 

 was served by the Home Bureau. A mam- 

 moth birthday cake having 20 .candles was 

 cut by Manager F. C. Fairchild. 



Guest speaker at the meeting was Victor 

 Gordon Lennox, London correspondent of 

 the Chicago Daily News, who was intro- 

 duced by Frank Bill, farm editor of the 

 Bloomington Pantagraph. 



Prof. N. E. Peterson of the dairy depart- 

 ment of the Minnesota College of Agricul- 

 ture, discussed, "What Makes the Dairy Cow 

 Tick." 



Manager Fairchild reported a substantial 

 increase in membership in 1943 with the 

 number of active shippers varying from 459 

 to 508 during various months of the year. 

 Total milk production was 24V2 million 

 pounds with a value of $750,000. Milk 

 production declined in 1943 for the first year 

 since 1939. 



Clarence Ropp, Normal and Dwight 

 Hemenover, Shirley, were re-elected to the 

 board for three year terms and Ross Wills, 

 Saybrook, was elected to succeed Roy Gil- 

 more, Arrowsmith. . 



William Mays, Bloomington, was re- 

 elected president; George Pitts, McLean, 

 vice-president; Elmer Orendorff, Randolph, 

 secretary ; and Frank Mason, Bloomington, 

 as treasurer. 



Directors of Illinois Milk Producers' As- 

 sociation recently elected officers for 1944 

 are as follows: president, Ryland Capron, 

 Peoria; vice-president, B. J. Schumacher, St. 

 Louis; and secy .-treasurer, Wilfred Shaw, 

 Chicago. 



The following were elected members of 

 the executive committee: Ryland Capron, 

 Peoria; B. J. Schumacher, St. Louis; W. J. 

 Swayer, Chicago; Arthur Meyer, Quad 

 Cities; Glen Tombaugh, Streator; Edwin 

 Gumm, Galesburg; and O. H. Ryan, LaSalle- 

 Peru. 



Twenty-three cooperative milk marketing 

 associations are members of Illinois Milk 

 Producers' Association and each member has 

 one director on the board. 



The following milk marketing coopera- 

 tives will hold their annual meetings in Feb- 

 ruary on the following dates: 



Feb. 8 — Producers Dairy Company, City 

 Hall, Harrisburg 



Feb. 14 — Producers Coop. Dairy, Adams 

 County Farm Bureau, Quincy 



Feb. 15 — Peoria Milk Producers, Peoria 

 Producers Dairy, American Legion Hall, 

 Peoria 



Feb. 16 — Producers Dairy Company, 

 Abraham Lincoln Hotel, Springfield 



Feb. 22 — Decatur Milk Producers, Macon 

 County Farm Bureau, Decatur 



Feb. 26 — Quality Milk Association, Con- 

 sistory Bldg., Moline 



prices paid to producers for milk in the 

 following named cities throughout the 

 United States, and are quoted on a 3.5% 

 butterfat basis delivered f. o. b. dei^lers' 

 platforms (with exceptions noted) as re- 

 ported by the respective milk cooperatives. 

 These prices are for November unless other- 

 wise noted: 



Boston $3.93 



Chicago (70 mile Zone) Dec. 3.19 



Detroit 3.46 



Milwaukee 3.00 



New York (201-210 mile zone) 4.05 



Pittsburgh 3.67 



Seattle (Dec.) 3.10 



St. Louis (Dec.) 3.49 



St. Paul, Minn 3.00 



Washington 4.06 



The following prices are the blended 

 prices received by producers supplying the 

 respective Illinois markets. All are Decem- 

 ber prices for 3.5% milk f.o.b. dealers' 

 platforms (except Chicago) and are for 

 milk meeting the respective milk ordinances: 



Bloomington $2.45 



Canton 2.55 



Champaign 2.80 



Chicago 3.19 



Danville 2.275 



Decatur .- 2.70 



DeKalb 2.74 



Freeport 2.83 



Galesburg 2.65 



Harrisburg 2.55 



Jacksonville 2.40 



Kewanee 2.55 



LaSalle-Peru 2.50 



Moline 3.21 



Peoria 2.89 



Pontiac 2.406 



Quincy 2.40 



Rockford 3.13 



Springfield 2.60 



St. Louis 3.49 



Streator 2.40 



lockers 



By Frank Cougler 



Board of directors of the Illinois Co- 

 operative Locker Service is again making 

 available to member locker companies the 

 services of John L. Bodine as consulting 

 engineer. Every locker conipany that used 

 his services last year has again subscribed 

 for his services during 1944. 



Most of the organizations that have plans 

 for building new plants are contracting 

 for his services to aid them in developing 

 plans, in securing priorities, and in the in- 

 stallation of equipment. 



During December three communities have 



started to raise funds for locker plants. They 

 are Anna, Paris, and Saybrook. The total 

 number of new cooperative plants now 

 being promoted in Illinois is 16. 



The following are the gross blended 



A new ruling issued by government offi- 

 cials in regard to new locker plant construc- 

 tion still requires that first year rentals be 

 paid in advance by 60 per cent of the pros- 



pective locker renters. Those who may be 

 counted are as follows: (1) Farm operator* 

 who reside on their farms; (2) A city own- 

 er who operates his farm with tenant, hired 

 help, and (3) Those not classified above, but 

 who grow food of the type normally 

 stored in lockers in sufficient quantities to 

 justify the use of a locker. In general this 

 shall mean at least 200 pounds of meat or 

 poultry, or 150 pounds of fruits or vege- 

 tables which would be stored in the lockei. 



Homer England, an operator of a 359- 

 locker plant, and a branch plant with 125 

 lockers, and who does curing and smoking 

 for five other plants, lists the following 

 factors as essential for successful plant 

 operation: 



"A man's personality, the convenience 

 of his plant, plant sanitation, and the ap- 

 preciation shown to patrons will always be 

 the big factors involved in weathering 

 storms which we are bound to have." 



OPA Annonnces Plan To 



Mail Gasoline Coupons 



A new plan of mailing gasoline ra- 

 tion coupons to individual motorists 

 from carefully guarded central issuing 

 stations located in population centers 

 throughout the country is now being 

 established, the OPA has announced. 



Elimination of thefts of ration cou- 

 pons from local rationing boards, 

 which last year cost the nation 142 

 million gallons of gasoline, is an im- 

 portant purpose of the plan. Another 

 is to eliminate a great load from local 

 boards and increase the efficiency of 

 gasoline ration coupon issuance. 



NOTICE ! 



Illinois Agricultural Association 

 Election of Delegates 



Notice is hereby given that in 

 connection with the annual meetings 

 of all County Farm Bureaus to be 

 held during the months of February 

 and March, at the hour and place to 

 be determined by the Board of Di- 

 rectors of each County Farm Bureau, 

 the members in good standing of 

 such County Farm Bureau and who 

 are also qualified voting members 

 of Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 shall elect a delegate or delegates 

 to represent such members of Illinois 

 Agricultural Association and vote on 

 all matters before the next annual 

 meeting, or any special meeting of 

 the Association, including the elec- 

 tion of officers and directors, as pro- 

 vided for in the By-Laws of the 

 Association. 



During February, annual meetings 

 will be held in Coles, DeKalb, Doug- 

 las, Lake, McHenry, Wayne, White- 

 side and Will Counties. 



During March, annual meetings 

 will be held in Boone and Monroe 

 Counties. 



PAUL E. MATHIAS, 



Corporate Secretary 



January 22, 1944 



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