By Wilfred Shaw 



The 23 milk marketing cooperatives com- 

 posing the membership of Illinois Milk Pro- 

 ducers' Association marketed in April, 1946, 

 a total of 206,754,020 pounds of milk, or 

 7.04% more than the amount marketed by 

 the same organizations in April, 1945. The 

 April, 1946, milk marketed was 9.24% more 

 than the pounds marketed in March, 1946. 



Five evaporated milk plants in Northern 



Illinois paid their producers $2.75 per cwt. 

 for 3.5% milk during the period May 1-15 

 and one plant paid $2.70 per cwt. for 3.5% 

 milk for the same period. The average 

 evaporated milk price paid to producers 

 supplying fourteen plants in Wisconsin and 

 Michigan for the May 1-15 period was 

 $2,782 per cwt. for 3.5% milk. 



Pure Milk Association, Chicago, recently 

 purchased a building in Kankakee as a new 

 location for a Pure Milk plant where either 

 Grade A or Grade B milk of members in 

 that area can be received and handled. Pure 

 Milk Association is now operating plants 

 in Illinois at 515 North Pulaski Road, Chi- 



cago, at Richmond, St. Charles, Hinckley, 

 and Lisle; in Wisconsin at Salem, Sharon, 

 Orfordville, and Kansasville. PMA has 

 buildings or sites for future plants at the 

 following locations: Mazon, 111.; Gary, 

 Ind.; Sycamore, 111., and another plant at 

 Lisle. 



The following are the gross blended 

 prices paid to producers for milk in the fol- 

 lowing named cities throughout the United 

 States, and are quoted on a 3.5% butterfat 

 basis, delivered f.o.b. dealers' platforms 

 (with exceptions noted), as reported by the 

 respective milk cooperatives. These prices 

 are for March unless otherwise noted ; 



Akron, Ohio (April) 53.45 



Baltimore, Md. 3.85 



Boston, Mass 3.88 



Canton, Ohio 3.40 



Chicago (70-mile zone) (April) .... 3.27 



Cleveland, Ohio 3.49 



Davton-Springfield, Ohio 3.30 



Denver, Col. (April) 3.01 



Hartford, Conn 3.94 



Indianapolis (April) 3.20 



Kansas City, Mo 3.51 



Knoxville, Tenn. (April) 3.55 



Louisville, Ky. (April) 3.21 



Madison, Wis 3.01 



New York City 3.96 



Omaha, Neb 3.01 



Pittsburgh, Penn 3.58 



Seattle, Wash _ 3.55 



Sioux City, la. (April) 3.02 



St. Louis, Mo. (April) 3.39 



St. Paul-Minn. (April) 3.11 



Toledo, Ohio 3.53 



Washington, D. C. (April) 4.06 



The following are the blended prices re- 

 ceived by producers supplying the respec- 

 tive Illinois markets. All are April prices 

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

 cept Chicago) and are for milk meeting the 

 respective city milk ordinances : 



Bloomington $2.57 



Canton 2.70 



Champaign 2.75 



Chicago — 3J7 



Danville 2.45 



Decatur _ 2.75 



DeKalb _ 2.74 



Freeport _ 2.84 



Galesburg _ 2.65 



Harrisburg „ 2.50 



Jacksonville ...: 2.85 



Kewanee 2.75 



LaSalle-Peni _.... 2.® 



Moline 3.03 



Peoria 2JB9 



Pontiac _ 2.406 



Quincy 2.60 



Rockford 3.11 



Springfield 2.85 



St. Louis 3.39 



Streator 2.50 



Two dairy equipment manufacturers have 



recently announced the development of con- 

 tinuous process butter churns which have 

 proven very successful in initial tests in pro- 

 ducing a good bodied butter. These churns 

 are not yet available to purchasers but will 

 be in production soon. This new type of 

 churn, which will permit a continuous 

 manufacture of butter to speed up the 

 process of churning and to lower the costs 

 of manufacture, is believed by many in the 

 industry to be a revolutionary development 

 for the future in the butter manufacturing 

 industry. 



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