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PROGRESSIVE cooperatives are giving 

 considerable thought these days on 

 how they can improve their marketing 

 machinery so that members can have a 

 more stable market when the war ends. 



At the annual meeting of the Pure 

 Milk Association, which has a member- 

 ship of 12,500 farmers in Illinois, In- 

 diana and Wisconsin supplying milk to 

 the Chicago milk shed, Arthur Lauter- 

 bach, manager, recommended that the 

 cooperative build up its reserves so that 

 it could own country cooling plant facil- 

 ities and have control of the country 

 end of the milk business. 



Lauterbach also pointed out that the 

 cooperative should have enough money 

 put aside so that it could have spray 

 f)Owder units to handle the surplus milk, 

 especially if there is a demand for whole 

 powdered milk in the post-war period. 

 Milk powder, he said, might become a 

 real competitor with fluid milk unless the 

 distribution cost on fluid milk is re- 

 duced. 



"We don't want to own plants just to 

 have something to play with," the PMA 

 manager said, "but to handle our own 

 surplus in the country." He pointed out 

 that the Kansasville roller plant saved 

 $40,000 by running a short time last 

 year and making milk powder out of the 

 surplus. "And if we had handled all 

 our surplus last summer we could have 

 saved $700,000," he added. 



Main value of such facilities, Lauter- 

 bach said, is their worth as standby 

 equipment. "When we can make more 

 money by selling fluid milk in the Chi- 

 cago milk shed, then we want to sell 

 fluid milk, and that is what we are doing 

 today." 



PMA has already taken some steps in 

 the direction of owning its marketing 

 facilities. During the last year, the as- 

 sociation operated six milk receiving 

 plants, a small milk bottling plant in 

 Chicago which supplies one-wagon dis- 

 tributors, and the skim milk powder 

 plant at Kansasville. 



As another means of providing market 

 stability for producers in the post-war 

 period, Lauterbach urged serious con- 

 sideration of the surplus holding plan 

 long advocated by the National Co-opera- 

 tive Milk Producers Federation — a com- 

 bination of the practical principles of the 

 old McNary-Haugen bills and of the 

 ever-normal granary theory of the AAA. 



"We must not be fooled into believ- 

 ing that Europe will need food long after 

 the war is over; we will face an over- 

 supply of food, possibly within two years 



Ownership 

 PMA Manager 



after the war, and then prices will again 

 decline unless there are rigid controls," 

 he said. 



"It is with deep regret," he added, 

 "that I see Number One Post-War Plan- 

 ner Barney Baruch - — whose post-war 

 plans in World War I forgot about agri- 

 culture — has again come out with a re- 

 port which ignores the need for under- 

 standing and planning for agriculture. 

 This is discouraging to farmers." 



Treasurer Walter Winn reported a new 

 high in savings in the operations of PMA 

 for 1943. Nearly $300,000 savings were 



Release of protein concentrates to per- 

 mit farmers to mix dairy rations on their 

 own farms; removal of impediments to 

 obtaining fertilizers; opposition to na- 

 tionwide subsidies for consumers, and 

 calling for public assistance for low in- 

 come groups only upon basis of need ; 

 reduction of ration points for butter; op- 

 position to efforts to destroy safeguards 

 against fraud in marketing of butter sub- 

 stitutes ; continuance of federal milk mar- 

 keting orders to stabilize large fluid milk 

 markets. 



The following directors were unan- 

 imously elected to serve on the asso- 

 ciation board for the 1944-46 term: Lee 

 Cartier. Whitewater, Wis., district 2; 

 John Voelkering, Burlington, Wis., dis- 

 trict 4; Walter Winn, Richmond, 111., 

 district 6; Harvey Norem, Newark, 111., 

 district 8; John P. Case, Naperville, 111., 

 district 10; W. M. Kimmelshue, Man- 



When Pure Milk Association members' 

 wives come to the annual meeting they 

 brought cake and cookies for the ^icago 

 USO and Service Men centers. Three 

 service men sample the wares before load- 



'made in plant operations, in sales of ex- 

 cess milk, skim milk powder manufac- 

 ture, and in central office administration. 

 The result is a year-end figure of $972,- 

 252 for the Association's net worth, 

 after patronage refunds of $181,921 for 

 the years 1929, 1930, and 1931. 



Secretary Charles M. Cosgrove reported 

 that Pure Milk members produced 1-, 

 439,353,827 pounds of milk duing 1943, 

 for which they received net returns, after 

 association deductions for marketing fee 

 and plant investment — of $44,359,888.- 

 83, or an average of $3,082 p)er cwt. for 

 milk containing 3.65% butterfat. This 

 was an increase of $9,210,437.36 over 

 returns for 1942. 



Two resolutions calling for specific ac- 

 tion to increase membership services were 

 approved by delegates at the business ses- 

 sion: (1) study of group medical and 

 hospitalization insurance; and (2) study 

 of revised membership agreement and of 

 revised by-laws to simplify accounting 

 procedure and to make possible accumula- 

 tion of greater association reserves. 



Other resolutions called for: 



ing them for delivery to the centers. They 

 are Pfc. Harry Tilbury, Pvt. Hudy E. Barton, 

 and S 2/C Alvin H. Behrer. Cutting the 

 cake is Mrs. Archie Crichton. Kane county 

 PMA meoiber. who originated the ide<L 



teno. III., district 14; Fred Hiigli, Union 

 Mills, Ind., district 16; Earl Whitaker, 

 Elkhart, Ind., district 17; and W. E. 

 Kline, Culver, Ind., district 18. 



Jnnior Maxket Lamb Show 

 Set Fox June 16, Chicago 



Illinois and midwest farm boys and 

 girls will exhibit market lambs, raised 

 as 4-H and FFA projects, in the sixth 

 annual Chicago Junior Market Lamb 

 Show and Sale, Friday, June 16, at the 

 Chicago Stock Yards. 



The competition will be open to any 

 boy or girl who is a member of a 4-H 

 club or enrolled in vocational agricul- 

 tural work in the rural schools. 



Sixty cash pizes, totaling $250, are of- 

 fered by the Union Stock & Transit Com- 

 pany. 



Entry cards and prize lists may be se- 

 cured by writing the Chicago Junior 

 MLarket Lamb Show, Exchange Building, 

 Union Stock Yards, Chicago. Entries 

 will be accepted up to June 12. 



\. RECORD 



APRIL 1944 



