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By WILFRED SHAW 



Illinois dairymen should obtain from their 



County Farm Bureau a copy of the recently 

 issued University of Illinois Bulletin No. 

 511 entitled, "Cost of Producing Milk in 

 Northern Illinois," by R. H. Wilcox and 

 C. S. Rhode. 



In this bulletin are the cost of milk pro- 

 duction figures in 99 dairy herds for the 

 year 1937. The importance of good cows, 

 g'ood management and feeding are translated 

 into their influence upon cost of production 

 of milk in this bulletin. 



R. J. Mutti, of the agricultural economics 



department of the University of Illinois, 

 recently reported that of all milk produced 

 in Illinois in 1943, 25% was utilized in the 

 manufacture of butter; 13% ^^s made into 

 cheese; 11% was manufactured into evap- 

 orated and condensed milk; and 6'/2% was 

 manufactured into ice cream. 



Illinois butter production in 1943 was 

 72,164,800 pounds and was manufactured in 

 150 plants. Our cheese production was 

 69,745,051 pounds and was manufactured in 

 138 plants. Our Illinois evaporated and 

 condensed milk production was 272,199,391 

 pounds, produced by 32 plants, and our ice 

 cream production in Illinois for 1943 was 

 25 million gallons, produced by 1,194 

 plants. 



E. W. Tiedeman, manager of the Central 



Grade "A" Cooperative, Appleton, Wis., 

 W. O. Perdue, manager of the Pure Milk 

 Products Cooperative of Fond du Lac, Wis., 

 and A. H. Lauterbach, general manager of 

 Pure Milk Association of Chicago, were 

 members of a panel discussion upon dairy 

 marketing at the Illinois Milk Producers' 

 Association directors' meeting July 31 in the 

 lAA offices, Chicago. "Ed" "Tiedeman was 

 president of Sanitary Milk Producers of St. 

 Louis before going to Wisconsin three years 

 ago and "Bill" Perdue was market admin- 

 istrator at Quad-Cities before accepting his 

 Wisconsin cooperative work. 



The newly appointed American Farm Bu- 

 reau Federation's dairy marketing committee 

 held its first two-day meeting in Chicago, 

 July 26 and 27. The committee is composed 

 of three representatives selected by the 

 Farm Bureaus in each of four regions of . 

 the United States, plus four AFBF directors. 

 This committee is to act as an advisory 

 committee to the AFBF board of directors 

 upon dairy problems in the United States. 



Frank White, president of the Minnesota 

 Farm Bureau, and vice-president of Land 

 O'Lakes Creameries, was selected chairman 

 of the committee, and P. C. Turner of 

 Maryland was selected vice-chairman. Mid- 

 West regional members of the dairy com- 

 mittee are Frank White, Minnesota, E. W. 

 Tiedeman, Wisconsin, and Wilfred Shaw, 

 Illinois. 



The following are the blended prices re- 

 ceived by producers supplymg the respective 

 Illinois markets. All are July prices for 

 3.5% milk, f.o.b. dealers' platforms (except 

 Chicago) and are for milk meeting the re- 

 spective milk ordinances: 



Bloomington $2.46 



Canton 2.75 



Champaign^ 2.65 



Chicago 3.04 



Danville 2.45 



Decatur 2.75 



DeKalb 2.74 



Freeport 2.76 



Galesburg 2.65 



Harrisburg 2.65 



Jacksonville 



Kewanee 2.55 



LaSalle 2.68 



Moline 2.794 



Peoria 2.89 



Pontiac 2.406 



Quincy 2.36 



Rockford 3.02 



Springfield 2.85 



St. Louis . 3.58 



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 3.5% but- 

 terfat basis, delivered f.o.b. dealers' plat- 

 forms (with exceptions noted) as reported 

 by the respective milk cooperatives. These 

 prices are for June unless otherwise noted : 



Baltimore $3.82 



Boston 3.32 



Chicago (70 Mile Zone) (July) .. 3.04 



Cleveland 3.18 



Detroit 3.24 



Indianapolis 2.82 



Kansas City 3.14 



Louisville 3.04 



New York City 3.44 



Seattle 3.04 



St. Louis (July) 3.58 



St. Paul and Minneapolis (July) .. 3.04 



Toledo 3.12 



Terre Haute, Ind 2.80 



Washington, D. C 3.94 



Pure Milk Association, Chicago, had a 



total membership of 13,023 in July, a new 

 high in membership. 



Sanitary Milk Producers, St. Louis, re- 

 ported that its check testers had run the 

 3,000,000th test on members' milk. Check 

 testing, re-testing, and scale checks are 

 among the services rendered members during 

 its past fifteen years of marketing. 



A "Carlinville Milk Producer" asks if 



butter cannot be obtained in exchange for 

 milk without payment of points. The Chi- 

 cago Regional Office of Price Administra- 

 tion advises us the answer is "no ", or, as 

 they state it, "Consumers may not acquire 

 butter without the surrender of points with- 

 out exception." 



The Chicago Regional Office of Price 



Administration, in an order effective July 

 30, 1945, authorizes an increase in the butter- 

 fat differential paid for milk sold in Rock- 

 ford from 4c per tenth of a per cent to 5c 

 above or below 3.5% milk. The Mid-West 

 Dairymen's Company, the cooperative milk 

 marketing association, had filed a petition 

 and a request to obtain an increase in the 

 amount of the butterfat differential. 



By S. F. RUSSELL 



A 1944 cost report recently compiled by 

 R. H. Wilcox and J. R. Hams, U. of I. Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, throws some light on 

 why we have so many empty feed lots. 



"The farm cost data analyzed by Wilcox 

 and Harris from a group of farms in east 

 central Illinois show that for 1944 the 

 average cost of producing 100 pounds of 

 pork, including feed, labor, use of equip- 

 ment, and other costs, was about $14. Re- 

 turns for each 100 pounds of pork aver- 

 aged about $13. That's a loss of $1 per 

 hundred. 



And here's more. It cost $177 a head to 

 produce feeder cattle which returned J155 

 a head. That's a loss of $22 for each steer 

 fed. Poultry and dairy figures showed a 

 similar trend. 



Annual fall outlook meetings got under- 

 way during August throughout the state and 

 will continue through September. The 

 meetings cover a discussion of the eco- 

 nomic situation and information on stocker 

 and feeder cattle and feeding lambs. Repre- 

 sentatives of the U. of I. College of Agri- 

 culture, livestock marketing department of 

 the lAA, and cooperative marketing agen- 

 cies are appearing on the programs. Consult 

 your farm adviser for the time and place 

 of the outlook meeting being held in your 

 area. 



Some of the outlook meetings were held 

 in August and the first part of September. 

 Remainder of the meetings starting with 



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