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ble to the parity prices announced for 

 basic soil crops. . . 



"That in making determination and 

 pronouncements, due consideration be 

 given to all current costs entering into 

 the production of milk and other dairy 

 products, including farm labor costs 

 and increased costs in the delivery of 

 milk to distributors by producers.'" 

 Other resolutions included : 

 PMA declared in favor of making 

 every effort to cooperate with approved 

 methods for control of Bangs disease in 

 cattle herds, especially calfhood vaccin- 

 ation. 



Urged PMA to take the initiative in 

 presenting to the current session of the 

 state legislature a bill to bond milk 

 dealers and that it be made as simple as 

 will accomplish the object of guaran- 

 teeing the producers payment for his 

 milk. 



Urged an increase in the promo- 

 tional expenditures of the national 

 dairy industry in an effort to hold the 

 increased market for dairy products 

 that has developed during the war. 



Recommended that the board of di- 

 rectors give consideration to stabilizing 

 the production of milk to even the 

 flow throughout the year. 



Offered cooperation and assistance to 

 all groups seeking the same common 

 objective as the PMA, and to all groups 

 whose purposes do not work against 

 the interests of agricultural associations. 



Former Creamery Manager 

 Killed in Plane Accident 



Lieut. O. H. Lauridsen, 28, former 

 manager of the Olney Producers Cream- 

 ery, was killed March 3 in a plane crash 

 at Alexandria, La. 

 Funeral services 

 were held March 11 

 in his home town, 

 Dedham, la. ■■:'■'//]-, 



Lieutenant Laurid- 

 sen began work with 

 the Olney Creamery 

 March 10, 1940, and 

 entered the armed 

 services in 1942. 

 Prior to his man- 

 agership at Olney he 

 had worked for three years as butter- 

 maker at the Rugby Creamery Company 

 in Rugby, N. D. He was graduated from 

 Iowa State College, Ames, la., in March 

 1937. He had considerable practical ex- 

 perience in the creamery business having 

 worked with his father, H. O. Lauridsen, 

 who operated a dairy farm and creamery 

 at Dedham, la. 



Lieutenant Lauridsen leaves his wife, 

 parents, one sister and two brothers. 



Lt. O. H. Lauridsen 



This is an outside view oi the Alhambra 

 Grain and Feed Company, Madison 



coxinty. It is one oi the first cooperotiTe 

 soybean processing units to be started. 



First Illinois Co-op Bean Mill 



IN MAY, 1918, when farmers of the 

 Alhambra community, Madison county, 

 organized the Alhambra Grain and Feed 

 Company, the thought never occurred to 

 them that 27 years later they would be 

 the first cooperative in Illinois to engage 

 in processing soybeans. 



However, this cooperative after a trial 

 run on Feb. 22, started operations with a 

 soybean processing unit on March 1 . 



Manager E. S. Apple got the soybean 

 processing bug before the protein short- 

 age actually occurred in 1942. He saw 

 the shortage coming and got busy. How- 

 ever, with difficulties in securing priorities 

 and other delays, the protein shortage had 

 become successively worse and then eased 

 up before operations were started. 



The manager and directors are pleased 

 with their plant facilities. The mill is 

 housed in a building 36 feet by 48 feet 

 with a height of 22 feet. The building 

 is of concrete and concrete block construc- 

 tion. All processing equipment is housed 

 in this building. 



Storage space for soybean meal is pro- 

 vided in a two-story building 24 feet by 



60 feet. Part of the structure is over the 

 manager's office. 



The soybean plant is located close to 

 the parent elevator and beans are carried 

 by gravity from the elevator to the mill. 



A good demand for soybean meal ex- 

 ists in the dairy section around Alhambra, 

 but some of the meal will be shipped 

 out. Oil is stored in outside rail tank 

 cars. The oil is in demand. 



The Alhambra Grain and Feed Com- 

 pany is a true cooperative. It was orig- 

 inally organized under the 1915 act, but 

 in 1934 it reorganized under the Co- 

 operative Act of 1923. 



In addition to handling around 200,- 

 000 bushels of grain a year, the cooper- 

 ative has developed a large business in 

 feed, coal, hardware, fence and fertiliz- 

 er. It provides a large grinding and mix- 

 ing service which is appreciated by dairy- 

 men for miles around. 



Directors of the cooperative are: Wil- 

 liam Dietz, A. J. Wet2el, "W. J. Dander- 

 man, C. Wisnasky, C. Uhe, E. A. Klaus 

 and E. H. Isenberg. 



Left to right: E. S. Apple, Alhambra Grain 

 company manager: Paul Bauer, plant 

 manager; Farm Adriser T. W. May, Mad- 



ison county; Arthur Suhre, and E. L Isen- 

 berg. company president. Full produc- 

 tion started March 1. 



APRE. 1945 



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