The following are the blended prices re- 

 ceived by producers supplying the respective 

 Illinois markets. All are May prices for 

 3.5% milk f.o.b. dealers' platforms (except 

 Chicago) and are for milk meeting the re- 

 spective city milk ordinances: 



Bloomington $2.64 



Canton _ 2.70 



Champaign 2.75 



Chicago 3.19 



Danville 2.503 



Decatur 2.74 



DeKaib 2.75 



Freeport _ _ 2.90 



Galesburg 2.65 



Harrisburg _. 2.50 



Jacksonville _. 2.85 



Kewanee _ 2.75 



LaSalle-Peru 2.67 



Moline 2.99 



Peoria 2.89 



Pontiac 2.406 



Quincy 2.64 



Rockford 3.085 



Springfield 2.85 



St. Louis 3.39 



Streator 2.66 



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 

 May unless otherwise noted: 



Akron, Ohio (April) _ $3.45 



Baltimore, Md. (April) 3.85 



Boston, Mass. (April) 3.84 



Chicago (70-mile zone) 3.19 



Cleveland, Ohio (April) _ 3.45 



Denver, Colo 3.01 



Indianapolis 3.28 



Kansas City, Mo. (April) 3.46 



Knoxville, "Tenn 3.55 



Louisville, Kv 3.01 



Madison, Wis. (April) 2.97 



New York City (April) _ 4.00 



Pittsburgh (April) 3.56 



Seattle, Wash. (April) 3.55 



Sioux City, la 3.42 



St. Louis, Mo. ._ 3.39 



St. Paul-Minneapolis 3.13 



Washington, D. C. (April) 4.08 



Sent to America to study soybean 

 production which they hope to pro- 

 mote as a major crop in their home- 

 land, two Australian directors of ag- 

 riculture, H. A. Mullet of Victoria and 

 C. J. McKeon of Queensland, were im- 

 pressed by the large-scale production in 

 Illinois during a three-weeks' stay at 

 the University of Illinois. Last year 

 the Aussies experimented with Amer- 

 ican soybean seeds and were surprised 

 at the fruitful results obtained under 

 Australian conditions. 



EDITOR'S NOTE: Picture page 

 entries should be addressed to 

 Picture Editor, Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association, 608 South 

 Dearborn Street, Chicago 5, ///. 

 // you wish picture returned, en- 

 close self-addressed stamped en- 

 velope. Entries are judged on 

 originality, clearness, and interest. 

 Avoid shots of persons merely 

 looking toward camera. Best pic- 

 ture receives $h Others pub- 

 lished receive $1. 



ALL-TIME RECORD CORN 

 CROP EXPECTED IN 1946 



An all-time record corn crop of 3,- 

 341,646,000 bushels was estimated for 

 1946 by the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture in early July. Highest previous 

 record was 3,288,000,000 bushels in 

 1944. The corn crop last year amounted 

 to 3,018,410,000 bushels. 



The government report said the out- 

 look for this year's crop "has seldom 

 been surpassed." 



The wheat crop was indicated at 1,- 

 090,092,000 bushels, a near record. Oats 

 also will hit a near-record peak with 

 production estimated at 1,4'7 1,026,000 

 bushels. Production of hay is expected 

 to drop below the last four years and the 

 oil crops — soybeans and peanuts — 

 are expected to be below high wartime 

 levels. . . 



CAMPAIGN TO BUY FARM 

 FOR VET NEAR HALF- 

 WAY MARK 



Henderson county's campaign to raise 

 $10,000 to buy a small farm home for 

 Dale Johnson, a young farmer who lost 

 his eyesight in battle, was near the half 

 way mark according to a report July 1 5th. 

 The fund is being raised by a group of 

 Henderson county citizens interested in 

 the welfare of the youth who was blinded 

 in the Philippines by a Jap sniper bullet. 

 The drive has the full support of the 

 Henderson County Farm Bureau. 



In offering a substantial contribution, 

 a young farmer said, "I was of draft age, 

 but I was left on the farm with my family 

 when other fellows my age had to go 

 and this fellow certainly made a sacrifice. 

 It shouldn't be too hard for a man who 

 can see to earn this back. I think that's 

 the least I can do." 



Contributions to the fund are welcome 

 from other parts of the state. Address 

 the Dale Johnson Fund, Henderson 

 County Farm Bureau, Stronghurst, Illi- 

 nois. 



YOU ARE WORKING ONE 

 DAY OUT OF FOUR FOR 

 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 



(Continued from page 5) 



If 2,848,{)(X) capable persons were 

 employed in agriculture, they could op- 

 erate all of the farms in Illinois, In- 

 diana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri 

 and nineteen other states. The same 

 number of persons could more than 

 replace all the hired farm workers in 

 the United States. 



If the federal civilian payrolls con- 

 tinue to increase at the same rate as they 

 have grown since 1930, every able- 

 bodied person in the United States will 

 be working for the (government within 

 25 years. 



Federal payrolls will continue to 

 grow so long as citizens run to Wash- 

 ington every time they want something 

 they are unwilling to pay for. Of 

 course, citizens really have to pay heav- 

 ily for everything they get from Wash- 

 ington, but many people do not realize 

 this and think that grants from Wash- 

 ington are free. They fail to connect 

 their demands for federal aids and sub- 

 sidies with the ever-increasing burden 

 of federal taxes. 



If American farmers, laboring men 

 and businessmen have reached the point 

 where they wish to work more for 

 themselves and less for the Federal 

 Cjovernment, they should tell their Sen- 

 ators and Representatives in Congress 

 to cut all but the most vital appropria- 

 tions. Even more important, all of us 

 — laboring people, businessmen and 

 farmers — should stop asking for or 

 accepting subsidies, grants, and bonuses 

 and all non-essential federal spending 

 projects. 



ADDITIONAL STOCK OFFERED 

 ON COLD STORAGE 

 BUILDING 



Additional stock to provide funds 

 needed to complete the $125,000 cold 

 storage locker building at Carbondale 

 has been offered in $25 denominations 

 to Farm Bureau members only. The 

 additional stock — Class A Preferred 

 — was authorized at the annual meet- 

 ing of the Illinois Fruit Growers Ex- 

 change and pays six per cent interest. 

 The issue is limited to $3,000 per p>er- 

 son. Additional finances for the build- 

 ing will come from organization re- 

 serves and stock sold to the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association. ' 



In plowing one acre six indies deep, the 



farmer turns over 900 tons of soil. 



One 80-acre farm in Vermilion count>-, 

 south of Danville, was found to have 30 

 different species of trees. 



JULY-AUGUST. 1946 



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