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■y WILFRED SHAW 



Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. An- 

 derson, in a recent statement, reports in- 

 terest in the further increased use of fresh 

 whole milk in the United States because of 

 its unexcelled nutritional value. In this 

 connection lie urges the retention by the 

 dairy industry of the economies in milk 

 distribution developed during the war. One 

 of the wartime economies in milk distribu- 

 tion developed during the war was every- 

 other-day deliveries. This practice made 

 possible substantial savings in the cost of 

 milk deliveries, which practice, if discon- 

 tinued, would entail increased operating ex- 

 penses by plants. 



The 8th annual meeting of the Kewanee 



Milk Producers Association was held Tues- 

 day evening, Oct. 2, in the First Methodist 

 Church, Kewanee, with 150 in attendance. 

 Dean Radford, secretary-treasurer, reported 

 a 14% increase in production for the past 

 year, with an average per farm shipment of 

 140 pounds of milk per day, from the 60 

 active members. Wm. Breeden, Art Kuster, 

 Charles Little, Elmer Ouart and Harry Char- 

 let were reelected as directors. The prin- 

 cipal speaker at the meeting was Dr. Law- 

 ton, rector of the Episcopal Church of Ke- 

 wanee. Short talks were given by Edwin 

 Gumm, president of Illinois Milk Producers 

 Association, H. K. Danforth, Henry county 

 farm adviser, and Wilfred Shaw of the 

 lAA. 



Total collections of Dairy Products Pro- 

 motion in Illinois for the June 1-15 collec- 

 tion period now are approximately $49,000. 

 Eighty percent of these funds are turned 

 over to the American Dairy Association 

 for use in their national dairy promotional 

 activities, while 20% are retained by the 

 state unit of A.D.A. for their state use in 

 dairy promotion. 



Dairy farmers of 37 states are participat- 

 ing this year in the American Dairy Associ- 

 ation program and a fund of almost a mil- 

 lion dollars will be used by the association 

 to advertise and promote the sales, welfare, 

 and interests of the dairy industry under 

 the direction of the American Dairy Associ- 



The consumption of milk in the United 

 States in all products will average 200 quarts 

 per capita in 1945, or 26% more than the 

 per capita consumption in 1935-1939, accord- 

 ing to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 



Wni. Beard was employed Sept. 1 as check 

 tester for the LaSalle-Peru Milk Producers 

 Association. Beard succeeds Ben Allman, 

 LaSalle, who has served the organization for 

 the past 12 years as tester. Ben is moving 

 to his farm near LaSalle. Beard is a 

 local farm boy and an ex-serviceman with 

 three years overseas experience. 



Mrs. Emma Linbeck, who has been office 

 secretary of the Mid- West Dairymen's Com- 

 pany for the past 12 years, has resigned to 

 return to her houshold work, and Miss Edith 

 Lundahl has been employed as her successor. 



George Potter is the new plant superin- 

 tendent of the Danville Producers Dairy. 

 Potter was born and reared near Danville 

 and is a graduate of the dairy department 

 of the U. of I. College of Agriculture, and 

 until assuming his new duties, has been 

 plant manager of a large Aurora Dairy com- 

 pany. 



The following are the blended prices re- 

 ceived by producers supplying the respec- 

 tive Illinois markets. All are September 

 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 3.09 



Danville 2.45 



Decatur 2.75 



DeKalb 2.74 



Freeport „ 2.79 



Galesburg 2.65 



Harrisburg 2.50 



Jacksonville 2.75 



Kewanee 2.55 



LaSalle 2j69 



Moline 2.906 



Peoria 2.89 



Pontiac 2.406 



Quincy 2.36 



Rockford 3.085 



Springfield 2.85 



St. Louis 3.58 



Streator 2.50 



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 August unless otherwise noted : 



Baltimore $3.85 



Boston 3.64 



Chicago (70-mile zone) (Sept.) .. 3.09 



Cleveland 3.40 



Denver (Sept.) 3.08 



Detroit 3.36 



Indianapolis (Sept.) 3.44 



Louisville 3.42 



Milwaukee (Sept.) 3.00 



New York CHy (Sept.) 3.76 



Pittsburgh 3.40 



St. Louis (Sept.) 3.58 



Terre Haute 2.80 



Washington, D. C 4.01 



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R. L. Davis, manager of the White Hall 



Cooperative Elevator Company is recover- 

 ing from a serious injury sustained from a 

 fall down a 25-foot elevator shaft at Alsey. 

 Davis had previously broken an arm while 

 inspecting the same elevator. Henceforth, 

 Davis will carry a luck charm when he 

 goes over to Alsey. , 



County Facm Bureaus are moving ahead 



with grain and feed programs, a year end 

 survey shows. Here is the picture. 



New county grain companies. Farm Bu- 

 reau type, have been organized in Grundy, 

 McDonough, Macoupin and Hancock coun- 

 ties. 



County Service Companies have entered 

 the grain and feed service for local Farm 

 Bureaus in the following counties: Henry, 

 Bond, Montgomery, Stark, and Clay coun- 

 ties. 



Four local elevators have reorganized and 

 become county-wide Farm Bureau type grain 

 and feed companies. They are, Columbia 

 Farmers Cooperative Grain Company, Rush- 

 ville Farmers Grain and Livestock Company, 

 Farmers Grain Company of Dorans, and 

 Jersey County Grain Company. 



County-wide grain companies have existed 

 in Lee, Champaign, and Moultrie counties 

 for several years. These three companies 

 were sponsored by the local Farm Bureaus. 



It may be a shock to many RECORD 

 readers to learn that since June, 15)44, a 

 total of 26 farmers' elevator companies have 

 been liquidated. This is what happened to 

 them: 



Seven were taken over by Farm Bureau 

 subsidiaries at Speer, Verona, Butler, Farm- 

 ersville, McClusky, Greenville and Bush- 

 nell. These were saved as cooperatives for 

 the community and county. One elevator 

 was purchased by a farmers' stock company: 

 two locked the doors and quit business; 

 one was torn down and carted away; 15 

 were sold or leased, most of them sold to 

 independent operators. To offset their loss. 

 Farm Bureau subsidiaries picked up eleva- 

 tors from independent operators at Coal City, 

 Carlinville, Louisville, Osco and Orion. One 

 new cooperative was organized at Erie. 

 There was a net loss of 13 farmer opera- 

 tions. 



Farmers in parts of five southern Illinois 



counties were afforded an opportunity to 

 market their wheat cooperatively. Arrange- 

 ments were made bv the Franklin County 



L A. A. RECORD 



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