A RESOLUTION demanding the re- 

 moval of all subsidies and price 

 ceilings on dairy products was adopted 

 unanimously by delegates to the annual 

 meeting of the Pure Milk Association 

 held in Chicago. 



The move came after a stirring de- 

 nunciation of food subsidies and general 

 policies of the OPA by Manager Arthur 

 H. Lauterbach before the 2,000 members 

 that crowded the Hotel Sherman ball- 

 room. 



The Pure Milk Association represents 

 13,000 member dairy farmers who sup- 

 ply Chicago and suburbs with their daily 

 milk supply. 



Other resolutions adopted by the unan- 

 imous vote of the delegates at the March 

 12 meeting were: "Urged the University 

 of Illinois to establish a 12-weeks winter 

 short course in soils, dairy production and 

 marketing, agricultural engineering, farm 

 management and industrial-agricultural 

 relations. 



"Urged officials in charge of surplus 

 war property sales to hold them in rural 

 areas where farmers are expected to buy 

 and that articles put up for sale be of 

 practical use on the farm. 



"Endorsed federal aid toward school 

 lunch programs inaugurated by states to 

 improve health standards of children in 

 both rural and urban schools. 



"Pledged support to the National Co- 

 operative Milk Producers Federation in 

 its efforts to institute more sound pricing 

 arrangements for butter, cheese and other 

 milk products. 



"Affirmed support for application of 

 the parity formula in determining prices 

 for farm commodities, but insisted that if 

 that is not possible, the parity formula 

 must be changed to provide fair consider- 

 ation for livestock and dairy farmers. 



Eight directors, including four from 

 Illinois, were reelected to two-year terms 

 on the board of Pure Milk Association. 

 The Illinois men reelected were: Walter 

 Winn, McHenry county; Harvey Norem, 

 DeKalb county ; John Case, Cook-DuPage 



The six McHenry county dairymen chat- 

 ting in the Hotel Sherman lobby in Chi- 

 cago during annual Pure Milk Association 



meeting are. left to right R. I. Rattray. R 

 Williams, Arthur Lange, John Boyer, Clark 

 Flemming and I. B. Olbrich. 



PMA DAIRYMEN DEMAND 

 REMOVAL OF SUBSIDIES 



A. H. Lauterbach Dr. Asher Hobson 



counties, and W. M. Kimmelshue, Kan- 

 kakee county. 



Others reelected were: Lee Cartier, 

 Whitewater, Wis. ; John Voelkering, Bur- 

 lington, Wis.; Fred Hiigli, Union Mills, 

 Ind.; and Whitney Kline, Culver, Ind. 



Members heard reports by PMA offi- 

 cers and talks by Manager Lauterbach, 

 Dr. Asher Hobson of the department of 

 agricultural economics. University of 

 Wisconsin; A. W. Colebank, administra- 

 tor, federal milk marketing orders 41 and 

 69; Arnold P. Benson, director of the 



Illinois state Department of Agriculture, 

 and Milton A. Button, Wisconsin state 

 director of agriculture. 



Secretary' Charles M. Cosgrove pointed 

 out in his report that members of Pure 

 Milk Association continued their out- 

 standing milk production job in 1945 

 by delivering 1,608,863,557 pounds of 

 milk, 5.13 per cent more than in 1944. 



This production record is 41.09 per 

 cent higher than 1939 production al- 

 though PMA membership has increased 

 nine per cent since then. President Wil- 

 bur J. Swayer of Lake county declared 

 that unless more farm labor becomes 

 available soon, it will be impossible to 

 maintain the milk production record 

 of 1945. 



Dr. Hobson warned the members that 

 the "farmer is heading for a serious 

 situation. Because of our heavy pro- 

 duction, farm prices will go down. It 

 does not make any difference how much 

 consumer purchasing power you have 

 in the country; if you produce more than 

 the nation — the domestic market — 

 can use, prices of these products will fall 

 to the world level." 



Lauterbach said that the prospect of 

 continuing subsidies before elections was 

 good political strategy but that it height- 

 ened the danger of "enslaving agriculture 

 to perpetual subsidies." 



At Pure Milk Association meeting. Will 

 and DuPage county dairymen meet in 

 hotel lobby. Left to right: Lester Sdiroeder, 



C. W. Schroeder, A. C. Geuther, and Leslie 

 Lewis, all of Will county, and Frank T. 

 Klein and William Wurtz. DuPage county. 



FUTURE FARMERS TO MEET 

 IN SPRINGFIELD, MAY 3-4 



Illinois Association of Future Farmers 

 of America will hold its annual meeting 

 at Lanphier high school in Springfield, 

 May 3-4. It is the first year the FFA 

 has not met at the University of Illinois. 

 Meetings will be resumed in Champaign - 

 Urbana when housing facilities are ade- 

 quate. 



APRIL, 1946 



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