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Jllinoia delegates to the PMA streamlined 

 onnual meeting in Chicago, left to right 

 iront row, are: Chester H. Rasmussen, De- 

 Xalb county: Howard C. Elett. WilL- Frank 



WoUi, DuPage: Einor Peterson, Boone. 

 Back Row, A. J. Butz. Kankakee; Ronald 

 M. Paddock, Lake; loseph I. Lies, Kane, 

 and A. B. McConnell, Montgomery. 



PMA Holds Delegate Meeting 



LOWERED butter production result- 

 ing from the reduced price paid to 

 producers for butterfat is one of the 

 most disturbing war results to dairy- 

 men, according to A. H. Lauterbach, 

 manager of the Pure Milk Association. 



"Butter is the gold standard of the 

 •dairy industry," according to the PMA 

 manager. "When the war ends we may 

 find butter consumption very low, fol- 

 lowed by low butterfat prices, a^d the 

 final result will be low milk prices." 



Manager Lauterbach made these ob- 

 servations at the mid-March annual 

 meeting of the PMA in Chicago. Six- 

 teen delegates representing 13,000 dairy 

 farmer members and a resolutions com- 

 mittee composed of a member from 

 each of PMA's 16 districts took the 

 place of the large number of dairymen 

 from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin 

 who have attended annual meetings in 

 other years. 



Desiring to cooperate with the gov- 

 ernment directive on conventions, PMA 

 did not petition to be exempted from 

 the ruling against meetings of more 

 than 50 persons. 



This matter of decreased butter pro- 

 duction was recognized in one of the 

 resolutions adopted by PMA delegates 

 which favored a butter price increase of 

 not to exceed 10 cents per pound to 

 stimulate production. 



Manager Lauterbach asserted that 

 dairymen have to meet the continuing 

 threat of the oleomargine manufac- 

 turers' attempts to have the color tax 

 removed. 



"We have no right and no desire," 

 he said, "to prevent the American 

 housewife from purchasing what she 

 wants when she goes to market, but 



we do have a right to demand that 

 when she purchases food it be in its 

 own clothes and not masquerading as 

 some other food in order to receive 

 more favorable consideration." 



It was further pointed out that last 

 year filled cream was sold in Chicago 

 and used by consumers without the 

 knowledge that they were using a 

 product in which vegetable oil had 

 been substituted for much of the but- 

 terfat. 



In a resolution adopted by delegates, 

 PMA urged legislative representatives 

 to support and maintain legislation 

 which will prevent intended substitutes 

 from using the natural color of butter, 

 in order to mislead the public. "All 

 we ask," the resolution stated, "is that 

 so-called substitutes for dairy products 

 be sold for what they really are." 



Lauterbach also reminded delegates 

 that in the postwar period when milk 

 sales revert to the normal level, quality 

 will become of greater importance, than 

 ever and "we must continue in the van- 

 guard in this respect." He also warned 

 about the disastrous price effects of 

 the trend toward increasing the varia- 

 tion between spring and fall production 

 of milk. In the Chicago marketing area 

 last year 250 million pounds were pro- 

 duced in June and 175 million pounds 

 in October. 



PMA members produced a larger 

 volume of milk in 1944 than ever be- 

 fore in the association's history. Some 

 II4 billion pounds delivered by mem- 

 bers was sold to 74 milk dealers in the 

 Chicago marketing area and 83 dealers 

 in nine suburban markets of the asso- 

 ciation. Of the total milk marketed, 

 155 million pounds were handled 

 through PMA's own country plants. 



Net payments for milk delivered 

 through the association in 1944 totaled 

 4714 million dollars — or 13.104 per 

 hundred pounds, not including the gov- 

 ernment's "feed subsidy." 



Among the resolutions adopted by 

 delegates was one on the computing of 

 parity prices for milk and other dairy 

 products. This resolution stated: 



"The rightful interests of the milk 

 producers and the producers of other 

 dairy products have not been rightly 

 recognized or represented by the man- 

 ner in which parity prices for milk and 

 other dairy products have been com- 

 puted and publicly announced by the 

 United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



"We, therefore, insist that in accord- 

 ance with present law, the secretary of 

 agriculture immediately determine and 

 publicly pronounce prices for milk and 

 other dairy products that are comjJara- 



niinois members oi the resolutions com- 

 mittee of the Pure Milk Association who 

 served at the recent annual meeting oi 

 delegates, seated left to right: Louis Kes- 

 ler, Kankakee county; Arthur E. Anderson. 

 Kane; Andrew Vanderreen, McHenry, and 



Henry Roesslein, Ir., Lake. Standing, A. 

 C. Geuther, WUl; Fred W. Pfingston. Cook; 

 Harry Vandeburg, DeKalb, and Roscoe N. 

 Glenn, McHenry. A delegate meeting was 

 held in place oi o regular annual meeting 

 oi members. 



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