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pany for a new building which will cost 

 around $^3,000. Construction haS already 

 started. Some new equipment has been pur- 

 chased. A large boiler capable of develop- 

 in/? 300 H.P. with stoker is to be installed 

 and a double effect stainless steel milk 

 evaporator has been purchased at a cost of 

 nearly $25,000. Three new vats, glass-lined 

 storage tanks and a plate milk cooler will 

 also be purchased. 



Since priorities have been cleared for this 

 project, and the contracts have been let, it is 

 expected to start handling milk early this fall. 



By Wilfred Shaw 



During the first 15 days of June dairy- 

 farmers and dairy plant operators in Il- 

 linois and 32 other states will raise a fund 

 of approximately one million dollars to 

 finance the activities of the American Dairy 

 Association for the coming year. The Amer- 

 ican Dairy Association is the national dairy 

 industry's advertising, merchandising and re- 

 search organization. The Illinois member 

 unit of ADA is Dairy Products Promotion. 



The 1944 collections in Illinois for this 

 program amounted to $44,000 and was the 

 largest amount collected in Illinois for this 

 program during the four years of operation. 

 The dairy farmers' cost of cooperating with 

 this program is Ic per pound of butterfat 

 marketed between June 1 and 15. This 

 amounts, roughly, to 10c per cow in the 

 average herd. The 1945 Illinois June collec- 

 tions of American Dairy Association are ex- 

 pected to reach approximately $50,000. 



Frank Binno, president of the Kewanee 



Milk Producers, and his wife were killed in 

 a tragic automobile accident on April 29. 

 Killed in the same accident were Mr. Bin- 

 no's son and daughter-in-law. Frank was 

 one of the organizers of the Kewanee Milk 

 Producers and a director of that organiza- 

 tion since its formation in 1937. He had 

 only missed one meeting of that organiza- 

 tion's board of directors and that by mis- 

 understanding. His interest and contribu- 

 tion to cooperative milk marketing will be 

 greatly missed by his organization and by 

 the cooperative milk marketing associations 

 throughout the state. To the one son sur- 

 viving is extended the deepest sympathy of 

 Illinois milk marketing cooperatives. 



production payments to be paid by the gov- 

 ernment to producers of milk and cream are 

 to be as follows in the Middlewest area : 

 May and June, 25c per cwt. on milk and 10c 

 per pound on butterfat in cream ; July, Au- 

 gust and September, 45c per cwt. on milk 

 and 13c per pound on butterfat in cream; 

 October, November and December, 1945 

 and January, February and March, 1946, 60c 

 per cwt. on milk and 17c per pound on but- 

 terfat in cream. 



The following are the blended prices re- 

 ceived by producers supplying the respec- 

 tive Illinois markets. All are April prices 

 for 3.5% milk, f.o.b. dealers' platforms (ex- 

 cept Chicago) and are for milk meeting 

 the respective milk ordinances: 



Bloomington $2.40 



Canton 2.75 



Champaign 2.70 



Chicago 3.02 



Danville 2.45 



Decatur 2.75 



DeKalb 2.74 



Freeport _ 2.73 



Galesburg 2.65 



Harrisburg 2.60 



Jacksonville 2.85 



Kewanee 2.55 



LaSalle 2.69 



Moline 2.856 



Peoria 2.89 



Pontiac 2.406 



Quincy „ 2.36 



Rockford 3.00 



Springfield , 2.85 



St. Louis 3.24 



Streator 2.40 



The following are the gross blended prices 



paid to producers for milk in the follow- 

 ing cities throughout the United States, and 

 are quoted on a 3.5% butterfat basis, de- 

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

 ceptions noted) as reported by the respec- 

 tive milk cooperatives. These prices are for 

 March, unless otherwise noted: 



Baltimore $3.85 



Boston 3.69 



Chicago (70 mile zone) (April) .. 3.02 



Cleveland 3-38 



Denver 2.87 



Detroit 3.50 



Indianapolis (April) 3.15 



Kansas City 3.40 



Louisville (April) _ 3.08 



Memphis _ 3.58 



Milwaukee (April) 3.00 



New York Qty 3.78 



Omaha 2.96 



Pittsburgh _ 3.44 



Seattle ..._ _.3.10 



St. Louis (April) _ ... 3.24 



St. Paul and Minneapolis (April) .. 3.05 



Toledo 3.31 



Washington, D. C. (April) 3.99 



By S. F. Russell 



P. O. Wilson, secretary-manager of the 



National Livestock Producers Association, 

 says that the new six point meat program 

 announced by Judge Fred M. Vinson, di- 

 rector of war mobilization, will only add 

 to the confusion already existing in the live- 

 stock producing industry as a result of de- 

 tailed and complicated government controls. 

 He adds that the new program leaves 

 feedlot operators in much the same position 

 — where cattle cannot be fed and finished 

 with any assurance of a profitable margin. 

 However, Wilson points out that Judge Vin- 

 son should be commended for his assurance 

 that no downward revision in ceiling or 

 maximum compliance prices will be made 

 without six months advance notice. 



Results of a survey made among 8000 feed- 

 ers in the St. Louis market territory by the 

 Producers Livestock Commission Associ- 

 ation shows that : ( 1 ) The production of 

 meat animals is under that of a year ago; 

 (2) Marketings will be fairly evenly di- 

 vided over the next several months. 



The decided trend toward light-weight 

 steers was shown by the fact that more than 

 one-half of the cattle reported on feed were 

 under 1075 pounds against 17.7 per cent of 

 medium weights and only 2.8 per cent heavy 

 steers. The report said present price ceil- 

 ings encourage a short rather than long- 

 time feeding program. 



One of the largest individual shipments of 



wool received by a county wool pool to 

 date is from J. A. Bauer & Sons, Pearl, Pike 

 county. He marketed 8,292 pounds through 

 the Morgan county pool, according to R. 

 J. Ash, manager. Last year, Bauer marketed 

 5,100 pounds through the wool pool. 



If you have wool to market, contact your 

 County Farm Bureau. Don't send it to the 

 Illinois Wool Marketing Association at 

 Chicago. One shipment of wool already 

 has been shipped to Chicago by mistake. 



The War Food Administration has an- 

 nounced that the supplementary dairy feed 



The necessity for keeping the rows of 



clean-tilled crops on the true contour often 

 is not appreciated. Each ridge acts as a 

 dam and holds water in a long narrow pond. 



A recent outbreak of buffalo gnats in Wil- 

 liamson county, attacking livestock, espe- 

 cially horses, has encouraged the federal bu- 

 reau of entomology to release a special or- 

 der of 25 pounds of the new chemical in- 

 secticide DDT to the department of animal 

 pathology and hygiene, U. of I. College of 

 Agriculture. Experiments are going to be 

 carried on with DDT to see how effective 

 it is in combating the buffalo knat. 



JUNE. 1945 



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