milk 



By Wilfred Shaw 



The following are the blended prices re- 

 ceived by producers supplying the respec- 

 tive Illinois markets. All are January prices 

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

 cept Chicago) and are for milk meeting 

 the respective city milk ordinances : 



Bloomington $2.48 



Canton 2.75 



Champaign-Urbana 2.75 



Chicago 3.20 



Danville 2.45 



Decatur 2.75 



DeKalb 2.74 



Freeport 2.78 



Galesburg 2.65 



Harrisburg 2.50 



Jacksonville 2.85 



Kewanee 2.55 



LaSalle-Peru 2.70 



Moline-Rock Island-Davenport 3.15 



Peoria 2.89 



Pontiac 2.406 



Quincy 2.60 



Rockford 3.14 



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 December unless otherwise noted: 



Baltimore »3.85 



Boston 3.92 



Chicago (70-mile zone) Oan.) .... 3.20 



Cleveland 3.51 



Denver (Jan.) 3.01 



Detroit 3.60 



Duluth, Minn 2.85 



Hartford, Conn 3.99 



Kansas City 3.50 



Knoxville, Term. 0«" ) 3.55 



Madison, Wis 2.98 



Memphis 3.61 



New York City 4.08 



Pittsburgh 3.62 



Seattle (Jan.) 3.10 



Sioux Citv, Iowa (Jan.) 3.05 



St. Joseph, Mo. Oan) 3.30 



St. Louis 0«n) 3.51 



Toledo 3.44 



A. E. Meyer of Davenport, la., has been 

 employed as manager of the Quality Milk 

 Associatioh by the association board of 

 directors. He will succeed C. G. Huopert, 

 manager for the past nine years. Offering 

 his final report to the 42^ members attend- 

 ing the organization's I6th annual meeting 

 in Moline, Feb. 16, retiring Manager Hup- 

 pert declared the association has marketed 

 17 per cent more milk over the previous 

 year and had added 167 new members to 

 its rolls during the year. Wilfred Shaw, 

 lAA director of milk marketing, addressed 

 the meeting. 



The annual meeting of the Mid-West 



Dairymen's Company of Rockford will be 

 held Tuesday, March 26, starting at 10:30 

 a.m., at the Faust Hotel, Rockford. Prin- 

 cipal speaker, according to Manager H. W. 

 Mainland, will be Prof. R. D. Froker of 

 the agricultural economics department. Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin. 



Cash refunds of $16,625 to producers were 



declared at the 24th annual meeting of the 

 Producers Co-Op Dairy held Feb. H in 

 Quincy. The refunds included $9,329 as 

 patronage refunds and producer equities 

 totaling $7,296. Total sales increased $33,- 

 000 during the year for a new high, accord- 

 ing to reports by President Anthony Grawe 

 and Manager M. B. Crocker. Speakers on 

 the program were Edwin Gumm of Knox 

 county, president of the Illinois Milk Pro- 

 ducers Association, and Wilfred Shaw, secre- 

 tary. Reelected as directors for three-year 

 terms were Wilbur Coe and Henry Sommers. 

 John Allison was elected to succeed retiring 

 director Ben Putnam, who was not a can- 

 didate for reelection after serving on 'the 

 board for many years. 



Manager Ryland Capron of Peoria Milk 



Producers and Manager Ed Rush of Peoria 

 Producers Dairy reported substantial in- 

 creases in business during the past year in 

 their reports to the 400 members attending 

 the organizations' annual meetings Feb. 8 

 in Peoria. Manager Capron reported in- 

 creased membership and Manager Rush de- 

 clared the past year's sales were 18 per cent 

 above any previous year. Patronage refunds, 

 stock dividends, and membership equities 

 paid to members of the two organizations 

 totaled $25,001.51. Principal speaker was 

 L. G. Fletcher of the Caterpillar Tractor 

 Company of Peoria. With the exception of 

 John Hagenstoz of Tazewell county, all 

 directors were reelected. Hagenstoz was not 

 a candidate and was succeeded by Lester 

 Keil of Tazewell. 



Illinois' 1945 "Com King," Walter Stack, 

 McLean county, is flanked by a pair of 

 grain-raising champions also honored dur- 

 ing Form and Home Week in Urbana. 

 Pillsbury awards were made to lesse Riley 

 (left), Macon county, lor his wheat and to 

 C. E. Canterbury (right), Sangamon 

 county, lor his soybeans. (Ciurier Photo) 



Historians report that many centuries ago 



the Chinese used dried and powdered skins 

 of toads as a treatment for wounds. This 

 ancient practice was considered a silly super- 

 stition until recently, when it was found 

 that powdered toad skins contain a consider- 

 able amount of modern drug adrenalin. 



AULT NAMED FARM 

 SUPPLY ASS'T TREASURER 



A. M. Ault, former director of the 

 petroleum division, has been named as- 

 sistant treasurer of the Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company. 



The new position 

 was created at the 

 request of Robert A. 

 Cowles, Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Associa- 

 tion treasurer, who 

 also serves as Illinois 

 Farm Supply Com- 

 pany treasurer. In- 

 creasing business, 

 sometimes amount- 

 ing in volume to a 

 half million dollars 

 a day made the need for an assistant 

 treasurer imperative. 



Ault is a graduate of the University of 

 Illinois College of Commerce and has 

 been associated with Illinois Farm Sup- 

 ply for 11 years. He was nunager of 

 service companies in Jo Daviess and 

 Marshall-Putnam counties before joining 

 the field staff of Illinois Farm Supply in 

 1939. In 1941 he came to the Chicago 

 oflfice as head of the petroleum division. 



A. M. Ault 



ILLINOIS WINTER WHEAT 

 ACREAGE DECREASES 



A six per cent decrease in the state's 

 winter wheat acreage was reported March 

 1 by A. J. Surratt, state and federal farm 

 statistician. 



Surratt blamed the decrease in wheat 

 acreage and labor and equipment short- 

 ages and the late harvest of soybean and 

 corn crops. 



"Shortage of farm labor and equipment 

 strung out the harvest of beans and corn 

 through the winter and many farmers did 

 not have time to prepare the soil for 

 winter wheat plantings," Surratt said. 



Surratt said that unless conditions im- 

 proved some husking of corn and com- 

 bining of beans would go into March. 

 There is still some unfinished work in the 

 southern half of the state, he said. 



DR. BOLAND INJURED 



Driving" on his way" to Fort Sheridan 

 from Chicago to receive his discharge 

 from the Army, Lt. Col. John E. Boland, 

 Country Life medical director on leave 

 of absence, wound up in Gardiner CJen- 

 eral Hospital after a collision with an 

 empty school bus. The accident occurred 

 Feb. 25 on the outskirts of Chicago. Dr. 

 Boland sustained a fractured left leg and 

 lacerations to the left ear. 



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