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ceeded by Ernest Atchison who has been 

 working in the milk department. 



September 1, IPC will be located at 2101 

 W. Pershing Road, in the U. S. Cold Storage 

 building. At this location better facilities 

 will be available for handling both butter 

 and milk powder. The plant is now 

 equipped with an automatic butter cutting, 

 wrapping and cartoning machine. This 

 machine is capable of handling one car load 

 daily. 



Manager Virgil Johnson of the Gales- 

 burg Creamery reports that he has replaced 

 his old rotary can washer with a straighta- 

 way can washer. This new addition will 

 assure patrons that their cans will be re- 

 turned in better condition and cans can be 

 handled more rapidly. 



The board of directors has authorized the 

 management to solicit non-stock holders to 

 subscribe for one share of class "A" pre- 

 ferred stock. The purpose is to get wider 

 distribution of stock and to increase pro- 

 ducer interest. Every patron should share 

 in the Creameries' financial structure. 



The architect for Producers Creamery of 

 Peoria has completed plans and specifica- 

 tions for the new creamery at Henry. Bids 

 will soon be called for from several con- 

 tractors, and when approved by the board 

 of directors, work will be started on its 

 construction. 



Hot weather according to Forest Fair- 

 child, Manager of Farmer Creamery Co., 

 Bloomington, brings the dairymen added re- 

 sponsibility. Some dairymen have learned 

 the art of cooling milk and cream to 50 or 

 60 degrees soon after it is milked. Others 

 have not. It's the "have-nots", who have 

 had to take lower prices or have their milk 

 or cream rejected. 



He says further: "Everybody knows that 

 pails, strainers and milking machines should 

 be scrubbed with brush and cold water, fol- 

 lowed by warm water and finally rinsed with 

 hot water or chlorine solution. 



"Bacteria, the gremlins in the dairyman's 

 life, multiply so fast that if you don't take 

 precautionary measures, well : rejected 

 milk is a loss to everyone — except maybe 

 the pigs. 



"Bacteria multiply very slowly in milk 

 at 50 degrees F. but in milk at 60 degrees 

 F. there will be 15 times as many in 12 

 hours. 



"The little devils really appreciate milk at 

 70 degrees, because for each rascal at the 

 beginning you will find 700 at the end of 

 12 hours. Who cares where they come 

 from. Let's get rid of them quickly." 



Manager Frank Mleynek, Producers 

 Creamery of Olney, reports that a faithful 

 employee after nine years of service as a 

 cream hauler, Louis Englebright, has been 

 forced to resign due to ill health. He has 

 been succeeded by Delbert 'Von Almen, who 

 will operate cream routes in 'White, Wabash 

 and Edwards counties. 



Collections made from producers during 

 the first 15 days of June in the Olney terri- 

 tory amounted to $304.17. This has been 

 paid to ADA and will be used with thou- 

 sands of other like payments to sustain "TJie 

 Voice of the Dairy Farmer" radio program 

 telling the consuming public about the good- 

 ness of dairy products. 



, By Wilfred Shaw 



Pure Milk Association of Chicago reports 



that by the use of mail alone 10,100 of their 

 members have already signed and returned 

 to their ofTice the newly revised Pure Milk 

 Association membership agreement. Art 

 Lauterbach, manager of Pure Milk, states 

 that practically all of the remaining 2,600 

 members will have signed and returned 

 the agreement to their oflFice within the next 

 60 days. This is the fourth revision of the 

 membership agreement for the purpose of 

 adapting it to current needs. 



A meeting of the officers with the advisory 



committeemen of Sanitary Milk Producers 

 was held Wednesday, Aug. 23, in St. John's 

 Methodist Church, Edwardsville, 111. Matters 

 discussed at the meeting included : member- 

 ship acquisition; the St. Louis milk price 

 situation; association finances; milk trans- 

 portation problems and milk inspection un- 

 der the St. Louis Milk Ordinance. 



A special membership meeting of the 

 Quality Milk Association was held in the 

 Lend A Hand Club Building, Davenport, 

 la., Monday evening, Aug. 28. This meeting 

 was called to discuss with the membership 

 current milk marketing problems in the 

 Quad City market and also association 

 policies and activities for the future in the 

 Quad City area. 



A Federal Milk Marketing order for the 



suburban Chicago marketing area was ap- 

 proved by referendum vote of producers in 

 July and becomes operative eflective Sept. 

 1. The order will be administered by H. 

 H. Erdmann, acting milk market administra- 

 tor of the Chicago Milk Marketing order 

 No. 41. 



The Illinois territory included in the order 

 includes Dundee, Elgin, St. Charles, Geneva, 

 Batavia and Aurora Townships in Kane coun- 

 ty, Du Page and Will Counties; the City of 

 Barrington in Lake County; excepting any 

 portion of these areas already covered by the 

 Chicago Milk Marketing order No. 41. 



The order provides for an individual deal- 

 er handlers' pool or for a pooling of prices 

 paid within these areas by a Producers Co- 

 operative Association. The classification of 

 milk sales to dealers is similar to that pro- 

 vided for in the Chicago order. The pricing 

 arrangement is also similar to the Chicago 

 order except that pricing is provided for up- 

 on two grades of milk instead of upon grade 

 A only, as in the Chicago order. 



Quotas have been established by the War 



Food Administration limiting the sales dur- 

 ing August to 100% as much fluid milk as 

 in June 1029, 909}- as much by-products, and 

 75% as much cream. , 



Effective Sept. 1 the War Food Admin- 

 istration's supplementary feed subsidy pay- 

 ments to producers upon the sales of fluid 

 milk is raised to 60c per cwt and to 10c per 

 pound upon butter fat sold in cream. 



The following are the blended prices re- 

 ceived by producers supplying the respective 

 Illinois markets. All are July prices for 3.5% 

 milk f.o.b. dealers' platforms (except Chi- 

 cago) and are for milk meeting the respec- 

 tive milk ordinances: 



Bloomington $2.47 



Canton 2.75 



Champaign 2.75 



Chicago 3.08 



Danville _ 2.45 



Decatur 2.75 



DeKalb 2.74 



Freeport 2.70 



Galesburg 2.65 



Harrisburg ..._ 2.65 



Jacksonville 1.85 



Kewanee 2.55 



LaSalle 2.68 



Moline 2.88 



Peoria 2.89 



Pontiac 2.406 



Quincy 2.36 



Rockford 3.05 



Springfield 2.85 



St. Louis 3.56 



Streator 2.40 



The following are the gross blended prices 

 paid to producers for milk in the following 

 named cities throughout the United States, 

 and are quoted on a 35% butterfat basis de- 

 livered f.o.b. dealers' platforms (with ex- 

 ceptions noted) as reported by the respective 

 milk cooperatives. These prices are for June 

 unless otherwise noted : 



Baltimore $3.85 



Boston (191-200 mile zone) (July) 



3.32 



Chicago (70 mile zone) (July) .. 3.08 



Cleveland 3.29 



Denver (July) 2.84 



Detroit - 3.31 



Evansville 2.80 



Indianapolis (July) 2.89 



Kansas City (July) 3.23 



Milwaukee 3.00 



New York (201-210 mile zone) 



3.68 



Pittsburgh 3.30 



Seattle Ouly) 3.10 



St. Louis Quly) 3.56 



St. Paul, Minn. (July) 3.03 



Washington, D.C. (July) 4.01 



By John R. Spancar 



With truck . tires getting thinner, every 

 effort should be made to reduce the num- 

 ber of trips and the size of loads. In the 

 handling of fertilizers, the use of more con- 

 centrated materials will accomplish this 

 along with a great many other economies. 

 For example, the 480 pounds of phosphoric 

 acid and potash contained in a ton of 0-L2- 

 12 can be supplied by only 1200 pounds of 

 0-20-20. This reduces the weight, the stor- 

 age requirement, and the sacks to only six- 

 tenths of that needed for the 0-12-12, accord- 

 ing to L. B. Miller, assistant chief, soil ex- 

 periment fields. University of Illinois Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. , . 





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