Stilts, Richards Named 



On IMPA Annual Program 



Dr. T. G. Stitts, chief of the dairy and 

 poultry section of the War Food Admin- 

 istration, Washington, D. C, and Owen 

 Richards, general manager of the Amer- 

 ican Dairy Association, Chicago, will be 

 two of the principal speakers at the U- 



Tom Stitts 



Ow«n Bichards 



linois Milk Producers Association annual 

 meeting which opens at 9:30 a.m. 

 Wednesday Nov. 29 in the Crystal Room 

 of the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. 



Dr. Stitts will address the meeting 

 Upon the present and prospective dairy 

 situation in the United States. "Tom 

 Stitts," as he is aflFectionately known to 

 the dairy industry, is a key man of the 

 dairy industry in the United States, due 

 both to his important position and also to 

 his broad and intimate knowledge of the 

 dairy industry throughout the United 

 States. 



Mr. Richards, general manager of the 

 American Dairy Association, will discuss 

 their program of promotion and mer- 

 chandising of dairy products for the 

 postwar period. 



■ ly Wilfred Shaw ' ' 



Seventh annual meeting and banquet of 

 the Kewanee Milk Producers was held 

 Thursday evening, Oct. 5, in St. Peter's Lu- 

 theran church, Kewanee. One hunderd and 

 forty-three members and their wives were 

 in attendance. Reports upon the past years 

 operations were submitted by President Henry 

 Couve and SciretaryTreasurer Dean Rad- 

 ford. Principal address was given by Mr. 

 Johnson of the Kewanee Daily Courier. 

 Short talks were given by H. K. Danforth, 

 Henry county farm adviser, and Wilfred 

 Shaw, lAA director of milk marketing. 

 The following retiring directors were re- 

 elected for three year terms: Frank Binno, 

 Dean Radford and Arthur Custer. Keith 

 Milnes was elected a director succeeding 

 Henry Couve. 



The WFA limitations upon the sales of 

 cottage cheese were removed effective Oct. 

 1. Previous to this action cottage cheese 

 sales were restricted by the WFA to 100 

 per cent of the amount sold during June, 

 1943. The WFA limitation of sales of butter- 

 milk and chocolate drinks still stands at 100 

 per cent of June 1943 sales. 



The government set aside requirements of 

 the manufacturers of cheddar cheese were 

 lowered from 50 per cent in September to 

 40 per cent in October. 



Five million pounds of butter, previously 

 set aside and held by the trade for govern- 

 ment war agencies, was scheduled to be re- 

 leased to hospitals at frequent intervals be- 

 ginning Oct. 16. Field representatives of 

 the dairy and poultry branch in the regional 

 offices of the WFA's office of distribution 

 in Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Dallas or 

 San Francisco. Butter release certificates may 

 be turned in to any creamery or authorized 

 receiver holding unsold "set aside" butter. 



The following are the blended prices re- 

 ceived by producers supplying the respec- 

 tive Illinois markets. All are September 

 prices for 3.59^ milk f.o.b. dealers platforms 

 (except Chicago) and are for milk meeting 

 the respective milk ordinances: 



Bloomington $2.47 



Canton 2.75 



Champaign ..._ _ 2.75 



Chicago (70 miles zone) 3.18 



Danville 2.45 



Decatur _— 2.75 



DeKalb 2.74 



Freeport 2.76 



Galesburg 2.65 



Harrisburg 2.65 



Jacksonville 2.85 



Kewanee ., 



LaSalle _...." 



Moline 3.00 



Peoria „ 2.89 



Pontiac _ _..- 2.406 



Ouincy 2.36 



Rockford _ 3.12 



Springfield 2.85 



St Louis 3.63 



.Streator 



Stocks of dried whole milk powder on 

 Sept. 1, according to the Xj. S. Bureau of Ag- 

 ricultural Economics, were 18,478,000 pounds 

 — up 68 per cent from a year ago. Stocks 

 of non-fat powder (formerly known as skim 

 milk powder) were reported at 63,594,000 

 — up 34 per cent from a year ago, and dried 

 buttermilk 9,671,000 — up 140 per cent. Au- 

 gust production of all non-fat powder to- 

 talled 51,300,000 pounds, an increase of 20 

 perttnt over August a year ago with spray 

 powder production up 5 per cent and roller 

 powder up 35 per cent. 



Butter holdings in die U. S. on Sept 1 



were 138,378,000 pounds, the lowest amount 

 on record and 93,000,000 pounds below that 

 of the same date the year previous. Current 

 butter production is running approximately 

 10% below a year ago. The foregoing may 

 explain the reasons for the current short- 

 age of butter, especially when it is estimated 

 that between 80-90% of present storage 

 holdings are held by government agencies. 

 All WFA set aside requirements for butter 

 were dropped for October. < -■ . ■ 



Northern Illinois evaporated milk plants 

 raised their producer price in September 

 from $2.55 per cwt. for 3.5% milk to $2.60 

 per cwt. f.o.b. plant. The previous price of 

 $2.55 had prevailed since April, 1944. . 



By H. G. iftner 



Don Edison, secretary-manager of the 

 Farmers Grain Dealer's Association of Iowa, 

 Fort Dodge, la., will be the principal 

 speaker at the annual meeting of the Illi- 

 nois Grain Corporation in the Hotel Sher- 

 man, Chicago. The meeting will convene at 

 5:30 p. m. Tuesday, No. 28. A free dinner 

 will be served to those sending in reserva- 

 tions. 



Illinois Grain Corporation has justified 

 the faith of its founders and supporters. It 

 will have distributed $100,000 in cash pa- 

 tronage dividends and nearly a third of a 

 million dollars in the form of patronage 

 stock this year. 



Frank Haines, manager; Arthur Burwash, 

 Fred Romine and Charles Schmidt, directors 

 of Illinois Grain Corporation; Eugene Hoer- 

 ner, manager of the Ludlow Farmers, Cham- 

 paign county, largest Illinois shipper to In- 

 diana Grain Cooperative, and G. H. Iftner, 

 lAA director of grain marketing, attended 

 the annual meeting of the Indiana Grain Co- 

 operative Sept 27 at Indianapolis. Indiana 

 Crain Cooperative has a net worth of nearly 

 one and one-half million doljars. 



The October issue of the Greene County 



Farm Bureau News Letter contained an arti- 

 cle, "Greene County Co-ops Topped State." 

 It went on to say that Greene county went 

 to town in grain marketing during July 

 by placing first in -the state in marketing to 

 the Illinois Grain Corporation. It listed 

 Champaign, second; Morgan, third; Christi- 

 an, fourth, and St. Clair, fifth. McLean 

 usually leads the list In August, Greene 

 county again led with shipments from 

 Greenfield, Carrollton and White Hall. 



William R. Butler, formerly employed 

 by the Stronghurst Grain and Merchandise 

 Co., Henderson county, has been hired to 

 manage the Brimfield Elevator Company. 



Stockholders of the Cissna Park Coopera- 

 tive Grain & Coal Co., Iroquois county, in 

 annual meeting Sept. 30, changed the name 

 to "Farmers Cooperative Company of Ciss- 

 no Park," and approved a plan of reorgani- 

 zation increasing the capital stock and re- 

 valuing the shares of stock, thus expediting 

 cooperative procedures. A. D. Goers is 

 manager. i 



J. O. Cain, manager of die Illinois Grain 



Jacksonville office, reports that in one 

 month his office shipped in 20 cars of 

 northern oats for feeders in the area. This is 

 the kind of service Farm Bureau members 

 around Jacksonville appreciate. 



More than 100 member elevators of Illi- 

 nois Grain will have rece«ved checks in final 

 settlement of old retains approximating 

 $20,000 by the time the lAA Record goes to 

 press. This liquidates the last obligation as- 

 sumed by Illinois Grain for operations prior 



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