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Service Company to use the Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company's elevator at Benton. About 

 85,000 bushels of wheat were marketed 

 through the St. Louis office of Illinois 

 Grain Corporation. This time, farmers 

 sold the crop on test weight and grade and 

 not by guess, and b'gosh. They liked the 

 arrangement, too. 



The first of a series of schools for new 



managers, their assistants and field men was 

 held at the Farm Bureau in Bloomington on 

 Oct. 1 2. Special emphasis was placed on 

 corn and soybean grades and grading. 

 Other schools are contemplated within the 

 next few months. This is in keeping with 

 a policy of hiring Farm Bureau minded 

 young men and developing them along the 

 lines of grain marketing and feed service. 

 Interested parties should call at the local 

 Farm Bureau office. 



The following farmers' elevators have 



completed reorganization and are now op- 

 erating under the 192} Cooperative laws 

 of Illinois. Belleville Cooperative Grain 

 Company, Farmers' Square Deal Grain Com- 

 pany, Morris; Secor Elevator Company; Pax- 

 ton Farmers Grain Company; Hamel Coop- 

 erative Grain Company; Dorchester Coop- 

 erative Elevator Asociation; Bunker Hill 

 Cooperative Company and Earlville Farmers 

 Cooperative Elevator Company. Several other 

 companies are in the process of reorganiza- 

 tion. 



livestock 



By S. F. RUSSEU 



Effective Oct. 1, 1946, hog support price 

 will be reduced according to a graduated 

 scale ranging upward from $10.75, the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture has announced. 



Under the new price support program, 

 seasonal variations are being applied to hog 

 prices for the first time. During the first 

 week in October, 1946, the price, Chicago 

 basis, for good and choice butcher hogs will 

 be $12.75 and thereafter at weekly intervals, 

 the support price will drop 25c until a low 

 of $10.75 is reached by the end of Novem- 

 ber, 1946. 



Starting the second week in January, 1947, 

 the price will be raised progressively until 

 a high of $1}.25 is attained in September, 

 1947. Present support price is $13 and will 

 remain in effect until Oct. 1, 1946. 



According to the USDA officials the pro- 

 gram is designed to stimulate marketing of 

 swine during the periods when slaughter is 

 usually light and prices high. 



The new support prices will apply to 

 hogs bought by federally-inspected slaugh- 

 terers throlfghout the United States based 

 on geographical differentials above and be- 

 low Chicago's weekly average support prices. 

 These differentials will be the same as those 

 used by the OPA. 



U.S.D.A. officials assert an average support 

 price of $12 at Chicago will reflect at least 

 90 per cent of parity to farmers for the 

 country as a whole, according to the Sept 

 15, 1945 index of prices paid by farmers. 

 USDA support of hog prices at not less than 

 90 per cent of parity is required under the 

 Steagall amendment. 



Chicago weekly average support prices for 

 the marketing year beginning Oct. 1, 1946 

 are: 

 Week Ending: 



By r. A. GOUGUR ♦ v' 



Creamery annual meetings in November 



and December include: Producers creamer; 

 of Olney, Nov. 17; Producers Creamery of 

 Mt. Carroll, Dec. 1 ; Producers Creamery of 

 Mt. Sterling, Dec. 5 ; Producers Creamery of 

 Carbondale, Dec. 1 1 ; Producers Creamery 

 of Champaign, Dec. 12; Producers Creamery 

 of Galesburg, Dec. 1 3 ; Farmers Creamery 

 Company, Bloomington, Dec. 15; Prairie 

 Farms Creamery, Chicago, Nov. 2''. 



All patrons and shareholders of producer 

 owned creameries should attend their annual 

 meetings this year, not only to hear the re- 

 ports of a successful year's operation, for 

 all member creameries have had a good 

 year, but also to learn something about 

 what the future holds for the man who 

 milks the cows. 



Good speakers will be secured for these 

 annual meetings and to be sure, they will 

 give their views as to what the future holds 

 for the dairy industry. 



Prairie Farms Creamery of Henr>- is 



progressing with its building project. The 

 lower story of the building is completed, 

 both floors have been laid and the walls of 

 the upper story are rapidly being built. The 

 boiler room is completed and the boiler is 

 being installed. Several pieces of new 

 equipment have arrived and the remainder 

 will be on hand by the time the building 

 is completed. 



The contractor assures the board that he 

 will have his job completed by early De- 

 cember. In that case. Herb Schumacher, 

 president, and Bert Mullooly, manager, are 

 certain they will be churning in the new 

 plant by Jan.l, 1946. 



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Discussion was recently had at a creamery 



managers' meeting as to the advantages re- 

 sulting from the use of standard truck bodies 

 used in assembling milk and cream. There- 

 fore, two committees were named to study 

 such possibilities. The members of the 

 cream committee art: Forrest Fairchild. 

 chairman; Robert Erikson; Jim Cramer; 

 Bert Mullooly, and the members of the milk 

 committee are: Cliff Huppert, chairman: 

 Fletcher Gourley; Frank Mleynek ; Ray 

 Sailer; Harold Brackett. 



It is expected that when agreements are 

 to be reached as to a standard body that 

 not only will truck bodies be uniform, but 

 they will be more attractive and savings can 

 be had from quatTtily purchases. 



NOVEMBER, 1945 



