RURAL YOUTH MIX RECREATION, EDUCATION 



Rural Youth genorally male* a bang-up affair of an annual banquet meeting and the young men and women of Edgar covnty 

 or* no exception. Here are some of the things they did at their last annual meeting at Paris. Left, at a signal, the beys grab for 

 the girls' shoes. Get to dance with the shoe's owner. Center, Ray Farrls, over from Clark county, acts as minister at mock wedding. 

 Others, left to right, are David Ewing, Paul KIley, the groom; Charles Webb; Thelmo Sturgeon, the bride; and Violet Stewart. Rifht, 



they scurry around In a game played with chairs. 



On the serious side, the meeting hod farm landscaping and farm building layout for Its principal topic. Left, Prof. H. W. Gilbert of 

 the University of Illinois points out a farmstead feature to (left to right). President Charles Krabel, Catherine Brown, Theima Sturgeon, 

 Charles Webb and Jock Robinson. Prof. Gilbert gave the principal talk. Center, group examines farm plan drawing by Joe Ewing. 

 left to rigtit: Dick Brown, Alice Sober, llene Stewart and W. E. Perisho. Right: signing up for human bingo. Left to riglit: Je« 



Hoani, Helen Smittkamp, Joan Brown, Wayne Krabel and Peggy Mitchell. 



these or/;anizations made plans for the com- 

 ing year which promises to be one in which 

 many marketing problems will confront 

 dairymen. 



The creamery receives cream and milk 

 from producers, and manufactures butter, 

 sweetened condensed skim milk and con- 

 densed buttermilk. It also disposes of milk 

 and cream in fluid form. The amount of 

 milk and cream handled has steadily in- 

 creased since the opening day, and the 

 creamery is looking forward with confi- 

 dence to a bright future. 



Edwin Gumm, Galesburg was re-elected 

 president of the Illinois Milk Producers' As- 

 sociation and of the Illinois Milk Producers' 

 Supply Company at meetings of the boards 

 of directors which were both held in Chi- 

 cago on Jan. 14. W. J. Swayer, Gumee, 

 was elected vice president of these two or- 

 ganizations and E. E. Houghtby, Shabbona, 

 secretary-treasurer. 



The Illinois Milk Producers' Association 

 selected an executive committee consisting 

 of O. H. Ryan, Tonica; Glen Tombaugh, 

 Streator; L. B. Coomber. Freeport; Julian 

 D. Ray, Vandalia; Charles Cameron, Peoria; 

 with Gumm and Swayer ex-oflicio mem- 

 bers. 



The executive committee selected for the 

 Illinois Milk Producers' Supply Company 

 consists of Harold Kamm, Jacksonville; 

 Anthony Grawe, Quincy; Charles Cameron, 

 Peoria; J. Warren Ellis, Danville; L. A. 

 Schnekloth, Moline; with Gumm and Swayer 

 ex-officio members. 



In addition to the election of officers 



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Secretary Anderson recently stated that if 

 it becomes necessary to support dairy prices 

 at 90 per cent of parity, dairymen will find 

 that the present parity formula puts them at 

 a disadvantage with other farmers. How- 

 ever, he pointed out that he did not expect 

 dairy prices to go down to the support 

 level. He stated that the dairy picture is 

 characterized by high production, high con- 

 sumption and relatively high returns. 



As of December, milk production was 15 

 per cent above the prewar level, fluid milk 

 consumption was up 26 per cent, dairy prices 

 up 140 per cent, and cash income to dairy- 

 men, up 175 per cent. . : . 



The McLean County Milk Producers As- 

 sociation will hold its annual meeting in the 

 Farm Bureau building, Bloomington, Feb. 

 15. At this meeting a resolution of the 

 board of directors will be considered which 

 would consolidate the McLean County Milk 

 Producers Association and the Prairie Farms 

 Creamery of Bloomington into a single or- 

 ganization. This proposal has been given 

 considerable study during the past year by 

 representatives of both organizations. 



A complaint filed by certain Will county 

 handlers who contended that certain territory 

 in Will county should not have been in- 

 cluded in the marketing area under Order 

 69 regulating the handling of milk in the 

 suburban Chicago marketing area was dis- 

 missed recently by Judge Sullivan of the 

 U. S. district court. 



The Steagall amendment, passed by Con- 

 gress in 1941, provides that the price of 

 milk and butterfat shall be supported at 

 90 per cent of parity for two years after 

 Jan. 1 following the declaration of the end 

 of hostilities. This declaration was made 

 by President Truman Dec. }1. Present price 

 support commitments under current legisla- 

 tion, therefore, will end Dec. 31, 1948. 



Prices received by farmers for milk and 

 butterfat will decline in the first half of 

 1947 as milk production increases season- 

 ally, according to the Bureau of Agricultural 

 Economics. However, prices probably will 

 exceed the previous record returns (price 

 plus subsidy payments) established for that 

 period in 1946. Returns to dairy producers 

 are expected to be slightly below average 

 relative to prices for hogs and beef cattle, 

 but will be favorable relative to feed costs, 

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