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•y Wilfred Show 



Tan. 3 (he Chicago OPA regional office 

 authorized milk dealers in Bloomington and 

 Normal to increase their producers milk 

 price upon milk for bottling purposes to 

 $2.90 per cwt. for 3.5% milk, f.o.b. dealers 

 platform, and to pay a butterfat differential 

 of 5c for each l/lO of a per cent butterfat 

 above or below 3.5%. This permissive in- 

 crease in producers price was granted retro- 

 active to Dec. 15, 1944, in response to a 

 request filed with OPA by the McLean Coun- 

 ty Milk Producers Association of Blooming- 

 ton. Milk dealers in Bloomington are buy- 

 ing the milk upon the basis of prices pro- 

 vided for in this order. 



The previous Bloomington price to pro- 

 ducers for 3.5% milk was $2.48 per cwt. 

 with a butterfat differential of 7.8c per tenth 

 of a per cent added above or subtracted be- 

 low 3.5%. 



A state government commission headed by 

 Sen. Simon E. Lantz, chairman of the senate 

 agricultural committee, and Harold D. Kel- 

 sey, chairman of the house agricultural com- 

 mittee, has been' holding a series of hear- 

 ings over the state. These hearings were 

 held for the purpose of obtaining first-hand 

 comments from livestock producers regard- 

 ing the present livestock laws and regula- 

 tions and their adequacy, particularly with 

 reference to Bangs disease eradication and 

 control. 



It is anticipated that, based upon the in- 

 formation and suggestions obtained at these 

 hearings, recommendations may be made by 

 this commission to the General Assembly 

 for additions or changes in the present laws 

 and regulations. 



WFA announced the following set aside 



orders upon dairy products, effective Feb. 1. 



Butter, 20% for February, 25% for 

 March ; cheese, 30% for February ; non-fat 

 spray powder, 50% for February and March. 



Urgent military requirements were the 

 reasons for these set aside orders for these 

 products. 



Board of directors of Illinois Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association, in a meeting Jan. 10, 

 elected Edwin Gumm president, and B. J. 

 Schumacher vice-president, of the Illinois 

 Milk Producers' Association and the Illinois 

 Milk Producers' Supply Company for the 

 coming year. Gumm has been a director of 

 Illinois Milk Producers' Association for 

 many years and is president of the Gales- 

 burg Pure Milk Association. Schumacher 

 has been the director on the board from 

 Sanitary Milk Producers of St. Louis since 

 Sanitary became a member of Illinois Milk 

 Producers' Association. Wilfred Shaw was 

 re-elected secretary-treasurer of the Illinois 

 Milk Producers' Association and Illinois 

 Milk Producers' Supply Company. The fol- 

 lowing were elected by the directors to serve 

 upon the executive committee for the year 

 ahead : Edwin Gumm, Galesburg ; B. J. Schu- 



macher, St. Louis: W. J. Swayer, Chicago; 

 Glen T,ombaugh, Streator; O. H. Ryan. La- 

 Salle-Peru; A. E. Meyer, Moline; Chas. 

 Cameron, Peoria. 



Annual meetings are scheduled by the 



following milk marketing cooperatives and 

 will be held if permitted under the new 

 ODT regulations recently announced : Feb. 



12, 10:00 a.m.. Producers Co-Op Dairy, 

 Adams County Livestock Shipping Assn. 

 Bldg., Quincy; Feb. 23, 10:00 a.m., Peoria 

 Milk Producers and Peoria Producers Dairy, 

 American Legion Building, Peoria; March 



13, 10:00 a.m.. Pure Milk Association, Sher- 

 man Hotel, Chicago; March 27, 10:00 a.m., 

 Mid-West Dairymen's Company, Shrine Tem- 

 ple, Rockford. 



The following are the blended prices re- 

 ceived by producers supplying the prospec- 

 tive Illinois markets. All are December 

 prices for 3.5% milk f.o.b. dealers' plat- 

 forms (except Chicago) and are for milk 

 meeting the respective milk ordinances: 



Bloomington $2.45 



Canton 2.75 



Champaign 2.75 



Chicago 3.14 



Danville 2.45 



Decatur 2.75 



DeKalb 2.74 



Freeport 2.76 



Galesburg 2.65 



Harrisburg 2.55 



Jacksonville _ 2.85 



Kewanee 2.55 



LaSalle 2.69 



Moline .3.01 



Peoria 2.89 



Pontiac 2.406 



Ouincy 2.36 



Rockford 3.09 



Springfield 2.85 



St. Louis 3.39 



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 3.5% butterfat basis, 

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

 ceptions noted) as reported by the respec- 

 tive milk cooperatives. These prices are for 

 December unless otherwise noted : 



Boston (191-200 mile zone) 



(Nov.) $3.88 



Chicago (70 mile zone) 3.14 



Cleveland (Nov.) 3.52 



Dayton 3.09 



Denver 2.90 



Detroit (Nov.) 3.64 



Evansville (Nov.) 2.% 



Indianapolis 3.58 



Kansas Cit>- 3.53 



Milwaukee 3.00 



New York City (201-210 mile 



zone) (Nov.) 4.06 



Omaha (Nov.) 3.03 



Seattle 3.10 



St. Louis 3.39 



St. Paul and Minneapolis 2.<>8 



Wadiington, D. C 4.00 



cream 



By Frank Gougler 



LXiring 1944, total income from the sale 



of milk amounted to $2,050,000,000 while 

 during 1943 total milk sales amounted to 

 only $1,874,000,000. Butterfat sales during 

 1943, equaled $572,000,000, but dropped to 

 $540,000,000 in 1944. Since 1940, receipts 

 from wholesale of milk has more than 

 doubled. In 1940, the value was $840,000,- 

 000 compared to a value of $2,050,000,000 

 during 1944. Combined sales of milk and 

 cream during 1944 amounted to $2,94"",- 

 000,000. 



Less than four years ago, the board of 

 directors of Farmers Creamery Company of 

 Bloomington decided that a new home 

 should be had to house the creamery. Ac- 

 cordingly, an appropriate location was se- 

 cured where about an $80,000 building was 

 constructed and another $30,000 was spent 

 for new equipment. Saturday, Jan. 27, 



Soldiers at Scott Field. 111.. Army Air 

 Force* Training Command Radio School 

 literally "milked" the accumulated divi- 

 dends and profits stored by the Exchange. 

 Hali-pint bottles of milk were sold at all 

 Exchanges on the base for one-cent each 

 ior one week. Pints of ice cream formerly 

 sold at IS cents were 10 cents. These less- 

 than-cost sales were made possible by an 



accumulated dividend built up from the 

 profits of the more than average sales 

 made during the last period. The sale of 

 dairy products do'es not exceed the quotas 

 established ior Scott Field. The Exchange 

 absorbed a 4-cen< loss on each half pint 

 of milk, r dij, 



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