By Wllfrad Shaw 



The following 194$ market statistics from 

 the St. Louis market have been released by 

 W. C. Eccles, milk market administrator: 



Average daily production in 1943 in- 

 creased 4.84% over 1944 and 11.5% over 

 1943. The monthly average number of 

 producers shipping milk in 1945 was 3.571 

 compared to 3.691 in 1944. Class I sales in 

 1945 were 6.47% above 1944 and 7.19% 

 above 1943. 



The annual meeting of the Pure Milk 

 Association, Chicago, will be held at the 

 Sherman Hotel, Chicago, March 12, starting 

 at 10 a.m., according to A. H. Lauterbach, 

 manager. 



The annual meeting of the Midwest 

 Dairymen's Company of Rockford will be 

 held March 26 starting at 10:30 a.m., re- 

 ports H. W. Mainland, manager. 



The northern Illinois evaporated milk 

 plants paid producers $2.55 per cwt. for 

 3.5% milk for the first half of January. 

 The average of prices reported paid to 

 producers by the evaporated plants used in 

 the Chicago Federal milk market order for 

 the first half of January was $2,671 per cwt. 

 for 3.5% milk. These plants are mostly 

 located in Wisconsin. 



Recently discharged from the Army after 



several years service each were: Andy W. 

 Colebank, Chicago, who was milk market 

 administrator of the Chicago Federal order 

 when he joined the Army two years ago; 

 and Fred Shipley, St. Louis, who was for 

 seven years the market administrator of the 

 St. Louis federal order. Mr. Colebank has 

 again resumed his duties as Chicago milk 

 market administrator. Mr. Shipley's future 

 plans are unannounced as yet. 



At a federal milk marketing hearing held 

 in January, the Pure Milk Producers Asso- 

 ciation of Kansas City, Mo., asked for 

 abandonment of their base rating plan which 

 has been in effect and proposed instead 

 withholding 20 cents per cwt. during spring 

 months to be paid back during fall months 

 as an incentive for more even seasoned 

 production. A program of this type is in 

 eflfect in the Louisville market in the federal 

 order. 



Butter storage stocks in the U. S. were 



55 million pounds on Jan. 1, 1946 or 54 

 million pounds lower than on December 

 1, 1945. Cheese storage stocks were 118 

 million pounds on Jan. 1, 1946 compared to 

 131 million pounds on Jan. 1, 1945. 



Evaporated, condensed, and dry milk 

 stocks were, on Dec. 1, 1945 from 21% to 

 85% lower than a year ago the same date. 



Milk production in 1946 is expected to 

 be lower than the all time high in 1945 of 

 125 billion pounds. The USDA goal for 

 1946 has been set at I20V2 billion pounds 

 or the same goal as for 1945. The 1946 



milk production will depend upon milk 

 prices and pasture and feed conditions. 

 The number of cows milked will be lower 

 in 1946 than in 1945. 



The following are the blended prices 

 received by producers supplying the re- 

 spective Illinois markets. All are December 

 prices for 3.5% milk f.o.b. dealers plat- 

 forms (except Chicago) and are for milk 

 meeting the respective city milk ordinances : 



Bl<x>mington $2.48 



Canton 2.75 



Champaign-Urbana 2.75 



Chicago 3J3 



Danville 2.45 



Decatur 2.75 



DeKalb 2.74 



Freeport 2.79 



Galesburg 2.65 



Harrisburg 2.50 



Jacksonville 2.85 



Kewanee 2.55 



LaSalle-Peru 2.70 



Moline-Rock Island-Davenport .... 3.18 



Peoria 2.89 



Pontiac 2.41 



Quincy 2.60 



Rockford 3.165 



Springfield 2.85 



St. Louis-Mo 3.51 



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 November unless otherwise noted : 



Baltimore $3.82 



Boston 3.93 



Chicago (70 mile zone) (Dec.) .. 3.23 



Cleveland 3.50 



Dayton-Springfield 3.32 



Denver (Dec.) 3.01 



Detroit 3.62 



Duluth 2.96 



Kansas City _ 3.50 



Louisville „ 3.47 



Madison 2.5>9 



Memphis 3.61 



New York City 3.98 



Pittsburgh 3.61 



Seattle 3.04 



Sioux City (Dec.) 3.05 



St. Paul-Minn 3.00 



Terre Haute 3.05- 



Edwin Gumm, Galesburg, was elected 



president of the Illinois Milk Producers 

 Association at a director's meeting of IMPA 

 Jan. 10 at Chicago. B. J. Schumacher, 

 Altamont, was re-elected vice president, and 

 Wilfred Shaw of the lAA was re-elected 

 secretary-treasurer. Mr. Gumm is starting 

 his second year as president of the IMPA. 

 He is also president of the Galesburg Pure 

 Milk Association and vice-president of the 

 Knox County Farm Bureau. Mr. Schu- 

 macher has been a member of the board of 

 directors of Sanitary Milk Producers, St. 

 Louis, since it was organized and is Sanitary 

 Milk Producers representative on the IMPA 

 board of directors. 



A hearing upon proposed amendments to 



the Chicago Milk Marketing order No. 41 

 has been set for Feb. 19 at the Hamilton 

 Hotel, Chicago. This hearing was requested 

 by the Pure Milk Association and similar 

 hearings were likewise requested upon the 

 Suburban Chicago Milk Marketing order 

 No. 69 and upon the federal order No. 67 

 covering St. Joseph county Indiana markets. 

 These hearings will be held following the 

 Chicago hearing. . - .• , : ".- ■ 



HidACuL y044tk 



By 



EUSWORTH D. lYON 



New Rural 'Youth presidents elected in 



the state recently include: Dale Lepper, 

 Adams; Charles Miles, Bond; Charles J. 

 Ashbaker, Brown; Russell Jurgens, Cass; 

 Gertrude Shuler, Christian; Ray Farris, 

 Clark; Eugenia Specht, Clay; Raymond 

 Kloss, Cook; Robert Guehler, DeKalb; Don- 

 ald Brummel, DuPage; Charles Krabel, Ed- 

 gar; Elmer Smith, Edwards; Harold A. John- 

 son, Ford; Evan Akin Pickard, Franklin; 

 Henry Willen, Greene. 



Katherine Gibbs, Hamilton; Willard Nel- 

 son, Henry; Leon Anderson, Iroquois; Car- 

 nett Cornett, Jackson ; Don Emmerich, Jas- 

 per; Howard Knaack, Kane (North); Mel- 

 vin Peterson, Kane (South); Deane Kramer, 

 Kankakee; Arthur Skytle, Kendall; Sumner 

 Johnson, Knox; Robert Temple, LaSalle; 

 Christine Ryerson, Livingston; Lorene 

 Knecht, Logan ; Walter Theobold, Macoupin ; 

 James Downey, Marshall-Putnam; Clarence 

 Meinders, Massac. . i 



Delbert Woodford, McDonough; Orville 



Pagles, McHenry ; Glenn Gieske, McHenry 

 (Crystal Lake) ; Glenn Eppel, McHenry 

 (Greenwood); Marvin Menge, McHenry 

 (Hartland); Walter F. Lottig, McHenry 

 (Hebron); Ruth Polnow, McHenry (Mar- 

 engo); Helen Johnson, McHenry (Pleasant 

 ■Valley) ; Carol Harrison, McHenry (Ring- 

 wood) ; Wayne Lage, McLean; Carl Niehaus, 

 Montgomery ; John McFadden, Morgan ; 

 Mary Ellen Buisker, Ogle (Forreston); James 

 Baker, Ogle (Mt. Morris) ; Edwin Dew, Ogle 

 (Polo). 



Russell Scheeler, Peoria; Roy Eichhorst, 



Pulaski-Alexander; Russell McConachie, Ran- 

 dolph; Marlyn Burgener, Richland; Ellen 

 M. Bartsch, Rock Island (North); William 

 Grommet, St. Clair; Bob AIvy, Saline; Karl 

 Luthy (Schuyler) ; Melvin Thomas, Stephen- 

 son; Ruth Huser, Tazewell; Kenneth Zim- 

 merman, Wabash; William Gullberg, War- 

 ren; Violet C. Rixmann, Washington; Glenn 

 Sailer, White. 



Howard Eldrenkamp, Whiteside; Carl An- 

 derson and' Warren Leech, co-chairmen, 

 Whiteside (Morrison Merrymakers); LeRoy 

 Hudson, Whiteside (Newton Notions) ; 

 Mary Nelle Satterfield and Ray Woodworth, 

 co-chairmen, Whiteside (Prophetstown War- 

 riers) ; Jim, Wink and Rose Mary Megli, 

 co-chairmen, Whiteside (Twin City Rip- 

 ples) ; Warren Carlson, Winnebago, and 

 William Romersberger, Woodford. 



The State Rural Youth committee has 



placed certain responsibilities upon the mem- 

 bership for 1946. Here they are: 



Adopt a slogan for 1946 — namely "Serve 

 Your Community and Know Your Neigh- 

 bor." 



Since the Red Cross is still greatly 

 needed, the committee recommends con- 

 tinued cooperation with the local Red Cross 

 in 1946. This would mean (a) get ac- 

 quainted with the needs of the Red Cross 

 in the county. Ask a worker to come in 

 and explain the Red Cross program and tell 

 your group where it can help, (b) fulfill 



1 



A. 



the needs of the 1 

 sible. 



Advertise Rural 

 of the committee t 

 be done to place 

 public, especially t 

 Youth age, than 

 This program of 

 might be done thrc 

 publicity of Rural 

 written news items 

 reau newspaper a 

 use of the Rural 

 ing, autos, windshi 

 (d) Rural Youth 

 movie of Rural Yc 



The committee 

 educational progra 

 ings so that newco 

 portance of Rural 

 may consequently 



The committee 



youth leaders invite 

 ties as speakers 01 

 to farm youth and 

 tivities be encoura. 



The committee a 

 ral Youthers lead r 

 or teach games to 

 and offer any otl 

 local community w 

 which Rural Youtl 

 opinion of the c< 

 will make Rural 'V 

 wherever a Rural 



It is advisable 



ficers keep the spi 

 Farm Bureau and I- 

 of all activities wi 

 working relationsh 

 ganizations and gr 

 personalities of fan 



COUNTRY C. 

 BUSINESS IS 



The flood of 

 mobile insurance 

 office of Country 

 pany would indi 

 members don't ii 

 on a limb if invc 

 cidents. 



Country Casu 

 Agricultural Mi 

 pany, received 

 applications for 

 the t'wo months 

 uary according t 

 ardson. 



This was the 

 business in the \ 

 tion for two co 

 the 8,000 applic 

 cepted in Decern 

 4,300 were acce 



Under the n 

 bility law, whici 

 Illinois, a perso 

 dent may be rei 

 ability to pay or 



20 



L A. A. RECORD 



FEBRUARY. 19- 



