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4. Feed cows liberally while cows are dry. 



5. Keep as many cows as feed will permit. 



6. Market whole milk whenever possible. 



7. Avoid waste by producing >;ood milk. 



8. Breed for better herd replacement. - > 



Manager Forrest Fairdiild, Fanners' 

 Creamery Company of Bloomin/;ton, reports 

 that his cream salesman, Geo. Mitchell, who 

 worked in Livin>;ston county, is stationed at 

 Camp Wolters, Tex. 



Also, Otto Schreiter, formerly field rep- 

 resentative of the Creamery and Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association, who was inducted into 

 the Army Feb. 17, 1943, is now in England. 



David W. Smith, plant superintendeat of 

 the IPC central butter cutting; plant, is re- 

 covering; from injuries sustained in a fall at 

 the plant. While working one Saturday near 

 the elevator shaft, he fell down the shaft 

 and suffered ankle fractures and serious 

 bruises. 



Financing Expansion Programs: Pro- 

 ducers' Creamery of Olney is being expanded 

 so that the increased volume of milk can 

 be bandied more efficiently. From 25 to 30 

 thousand dollars is needed for the additional 

 equipment. Nearly all of this has been se- 

 cured through the sale of stock by mail. 

 This additional money will be used to in- 

 stall a larger dryer, a larger boiler, can 

 washer, build a garage and storage room and 

 to enlarge the milk handling department. 



Tbe Producers' Creamery of Carlinville 

 through action of its board of directors re- 

 cently authorized its Manager F. A. Gourley 

 to solicit from patrons some $10,000 for 

 additional capital. The letter brought in 

 more than $21,000. TJie excess will very 

 likely be returned. 



Producers' Creamery of Mt. Carroll is now 

 considering bids for building a new plant 

 for its expansion program. The new build- 

 ing will probably be 60x100 feet. 



lockers 



, By Frank Gougler 



At a recent meeting of die business service 

 committee of the lAA, the board of directors 

 of Illinois Cooperative Locker Service and 

 locker managers, policy matters relative to 

 county cooperative locker associations were 

 discussed and the following policies agreed 

 upon: 



1. That Farm Bureau members be given 

 preference in renting lockers. 



2. That County Farm Bureaus in promoting 

 cooperative locker plants within a county 

 if more than one plant or branch plant 



■' is established, then all shall be under one 

 county board of directors and one man- 

 agement. 



3. That a county locker board should have 

 at least two board members nominated 

 from the Farm Bureau board, and in 

 order to be eligible as a director of the 

 locker board, that said members from the 

 County Farm Bureau board must at all 



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times be a regularly elected member of 

 the County Farm Bureau board. 



4. That all locker companies should provide 

 class "B" stock to the County Farm Bu- 

 reau. Before a locker company can be- 

 come a member of state company, it 

 should have County Farm Bureau ap- 

 proval and continued Farm Bureau ap- 

 proval. 



5. That class "A" preferred stock shall be 

 cumulative and the rate of dividends shall 

 be not less than five percent (5%) nor 

 more than seven percent (7%). 



6. That Farm Bureau members in good 

 standing who move from one county to 

 another county shall have the same con- 

 sideration with reference to renting a 

 locker in his new county as extended to 

 other Farm Bureau members of tilt new 

 county. 



Coostructioo of a $30,000 cooperative 

 locker plant at Paris in Edgar county seems 

 well assured with 450 Farm Bureau mem- 

 bers having rented lockers at $15 each and 

 720 shares of class "A" preferred stock sold 

 by mid-February. At a meeting Jan. 31 of 

 more than 100 township leaders in the 

 Edgar County Farm Bureau, the following 

 were selected to serve on the locker board: 

 Leo Swinford, president; O. W. Winans, 

 vice-president; John M. Tate, treasurer; 

 David Long, secretary; O. N. Brothers, Otto 

 Davis and Roy Henry. The new board has 

 adopted the policy of giving all Farm Bu- 

 reau members an opportunity to rent a 

 locker before making them available to non- 

 members. 



Contract has been let for a new $15,000 

 cooperative locker plant in Sibley, Ford 

 county. Tiie plant will be equipped with 

 modern curing and smoke ovens operated by 

 steam. There will be 312 lockers in the 

 plant and lard rendering services will be 

 made available. Directors of the Sibley Co- 

 operative Locker Service are Gene Radliff, 

 chairman; John Lanz, vice-chairman; Don- 

 ald Gentes, secretary and treasurer; Ray 

 Ward and H. J. Branz, Sibley. 



Co-op Locker of Champaign reports stock 

 sales of $13,500 for the building of a unit 

 in Sidney, and the locker signup goal was 

 just about completed in mid-February. Ap- 

 plication for remodelling of a building in 

 Fisher for another locker unit has been 

 approved in Washington. 



Prospects Still Good 



^ For State Peach Crop 



Prospects are still bright for an 

 Illinois peach crop despite some injury 

 to fruit buds from the sub-zero wave 

 of Feb. 10, reports L. L. Col vis, di- 

 rector of fruit and vegetable market- 

 ing for the lAA, and manager of the 

 Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange at 

 Carbondale. 



Colvis said that at a meeting of fruit 

 growers held during the week of Feb. 

 14 at Newton, Jasper county, growers 

 reported that the percentage of buds 

 killed ranged from 1 per cent on Red 

 Bird variety to 53 per cent on Elbertas. 

 At Centralia, growers said that 20 to 

 30 per cent of the buds were killed. At 

 Carbondale it was found that the kill 

 ranged from about 33 per cent down 

 to nothing. 



•y Jefcn R. Sp*nc*r 



The AAA program again made substantial 



contributions to the soil fertility of Illinois 

 farm land by furnishing large tonnages of 

 limestone and phosphates to their cooper- 

 ators during 1943. The total tonnages are 

 1,078,363 tons of limestone, 46,656 tons of 

 rock phosphate and 10,990 tons of super- 

 phosphate. 



According to Lee Gentry, chairman of the 

 state committee, these amounts were fur- 

 nished during the calendar year of 194} 

 including, however, a very small portion 

 during November and December of 1942. 



Jefferson county received the largest a- 

 mount of limestone of any county in the 

 state, over 43,000 tons. Wayne co. 42,000; 

 Marion co. 37,000; Randolph 31,500 and 

 Jasper 30,000 tons, all in southern- Illinois. 



In central Illinois, Vermilion and Kan- 

 kakee counties received approximately 40,000 

 tons each. 



In rock phosphate, McLean county farm- 

 ers were furnished 3,680 tons, LaSalle 3,040 

 tons, Livingston 2,000 tons, Marshall-Put- 

 nam 1,830 and Ford 1,520 tons. In super- 

 phosphate, DeKalb county farmers were fur- 

 nished 1,080 tons, Johnson 730 tons, Pope 

 Hardin 700 tons, Stephenson 600 tons and 

 Lake 460 tons. 



"Many years ago it had been ibcori2ed 



(not believed) that since nearly all Illinois 

 soils contained large amounts of total pot- 

 ash, the return of potash containing mate- 

 rials or fertilizer would not be necessary. 

 . . Testing this theory on the Illinois ex- 

 periment fields over a period of 20 years 

 has completely overthrown it. This theory 

 has been discarded. 



"Our first attack at the problem was to 

 study the replaceable potassium in the soil 

 and its need for potash. In general, soils 

 containing less than 100 pounds per acre 

 (two million pounds of soil) of replaceable 

 potassium (by the new test) gave good 

 responses to potash ; soils testing between 

 100 and 150 pounds gave medium responses, 

 mostly for corn and legumes; and soils 

 between 150 and 200 pounds gave some 

 response with corn but not with other 

 crops." 



From the Potash Problem in Illinois by 

 Dr. R. H. Bray. 



Three of the rock phosphate sales com- 

 panies state their same prices will continue 

 in 1944 while the fourth company's price 

 increased 15c per ton. 



"In Illinois the use of limestone has been 



emphasized by more than 30 years and its 

 need is understood by most farmers. As a 

 matter of fact, the liming program is gettinx 

 ahead of the use of legumes, phosphate and 

 potash. Limestone will not take the place 

 of phosphate or potash for clovers and 

 alfalfa." A. L. Lang. 



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