McLean County Milk Producers Associa- 

 tion of Bloomington, in its annual meeting 

 Feb. 15, voted to consolidate the business 

 of the association with that of the Prairie 

 Farms Creamery of Bloomington. McLean 

 County Milk Producers Association, which 

 has assets of approximately $40,000, will 

 distribute this money among producers on 

 a patronage basis. The members then plan 

 to become associated with Prairie Farms 

 Creamery of Bloomington. 



Sanitary Milk Producers Association held 

 its 17th annual meeting in Belleville. Feb. 

 4. A. D. Lynch, manager of the association, 

 reported that St. Louis enjoyed the highest 

 milk prices in its history in 1946. The aver- 

 age price was $4.25 per hundredweight, an 

 increase of 79c over 1945. The total value 

 of production for the year exceeded $15.- 

 000,000, even though the amount of milk 

 produced was one per cent less than a year 

 ago. Sanitary Milk Producers Association 

 paid out $6,456.69 in benefits to members 

 throughout the year. The testing depart- 

 ment ran $160,746 butterfat tests for mem- 

 ber producers. 



The litigation regarding the validity of 

 the allocation provisions of the federal order 

 in the St. Louis market was brought to the 

 United States Supreme Court during the 

 last year. The court refused to hear this 

 case and by so doing, ordered handlers to 

 distribute $105,000 to producers which had 

 been growing in an escrow account since 

 Jan. 1, 1944, when the last amendment was 

 made effective. 



R. D. Pennewell, president of the associa- 

 tion, pointed out to members that they had 

 assisted in organizing artificial breeding pro- 

 grams in both the Illinois and Missouri 

 portions of the milk shed. Sanitary Milk 

 Producers Association moved into its new 

 office at 1439 Chouteau Avenue recently, 

 where laboratory facilities are available for 

 quality, butterfat and disease control testing. 

 The association expects to initiate a program 

 of mastitis control during the coming year. 



George Metzger, lAA field secretary, and 

 Milo K. Swanton, executive secretary of 

 the Wisconsin Council of Agriculture Co- 

 operatives, addressed the membership. Ap- 

 proximately 1200 producers attended the 

 meeting. 



The Producers Co-op Dairy of Quincy 

 celebrated its 25th anniversary at its annual 

 meeting Feb. 10. This dairy had the best 

 year in its history. Gross sales for the year 

 amounted to over $450,000, an increase of 

 26 per cent over a year ago. During the 

 year the dairy had a net income of $42,- 

 526.08. Instead of paying a patronage divi- 

 dend on the year's business, an electric milk 

 cooler was purchased from savings for each 

 member patron. These coolers are expected 

 before warm weather and should contribute 

 materially toward improving milk quality. 



Pure Milk Association recently petitioned 

 tlie secretary of agriculture to hold a public 

 hearing to amend certain provisions of 

 Orders 41 and 69, regulatini; the handling 

 of milk in the Chicago and suburban Chicago 

 marketing areas. The Pure Milk Association 

 proposed a change in the pricing formula to 

 encourage more milk during the fall months 

 of the year. Amendments were also pro. 

 posed by milk dealers and other cooperative 

 associations following this request for a 

 hearing. 



Pure Milk Association will hold its an- 

 nual meeting at the Hotel Sherman in Chi- 

 cago, March 15, and Hassil Schenck, presi- 

 dent of Indiana Farm Bureau, will be prin- 

 cipal speaker. 



Prairie Farms Creamery of Carlinville 

 plans to move into its newly constructed 

 building in March. The building has been 

 under construction for some time and is 

 of the latest design. It will be equipped to 

 handle a large volume of milk and cream 

 for producers in that area. This creamery 

 recently declared a dividend of $29,913.45, 

 representing surplus accumulated by the 

 creamery for the years 1938 through 1944. 

 The dividend will be paid in Class A pre- 

 ferred stock. After paying this dividend the 

 creamery will have approximately $115,000 

 in its surplus account, accumulated during 

 the years 1945 and 1946. 



Chatting during the annual meeting of 

 Sanitary Milk Producers in St. Louis 

 recently ore, left to right: E. H. Isen- 

 berg, Alhambra, chairman of redis- 

 tricting committee; Judson P. Mason, 

 lAA assistant director of dairy mor- 

 Icetlng; and Emil Klingenberg, Oicaw- 

 ville, SMP director. 



Prices of all major dairy products have 

 been reclining at least seasonally, and some 

 more, as production has increased in recent 

 weeks. In spite of these price declines, 

 abundant feed supplies will probably main- 

 tain favorable dairy production feed price 

 ratios during the first half of 1947. Grain 

 feeding to dairy cows is likely to be at or 

 near record levels, and milk production per 

 cow is expected to continue high. An ex- 

 pected lower level of consumer incomes in 

 the latter part of 1947, combined with in- 

 creased supplies of consumer goods and a 

 substantial decrease in dairy product ex- 

 ports, will probably result in a somewhat 

 lower level of cash receipts from farm mar- 

 ketings of dairy products in 1947, than last 

 year. 



A cow can make adjustments for external 



temperatures up to 85 degrees F. 



STAFF DIRECTORY OF 

 ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION & 

 ASSOCIATED COMPANIES 



ASSOCIATED ORGANIZAnONS , 



Country Liie Ins. Co. A. E. Richardson. Mgr. 



Country Mutual Fire Co. I. H. Kellcer. Mgr. 



Country Mutual Casualty Co F. V. Wilcox, Mgt. 



111. Agr. Auditing Assn. C. E. Strand. Mgr. 



111. Agr. Service Co Donald Kirkpatrick, Sec. 



111. Co-op Locker Service C. F. Musser. Mgr. 



111. F. Bur. Serum Assn. S. F. Russell, Sec.-Mgr. 



III. Farm Supply Co. C. H. Becker. Mgr. 



111. Fruit Growers' Exchange.. ..Ted Davis. Mgr. 

 111. Grain Corporation. .Howrard McWard. Mgr. 



111. Gr. Terminals Co G. H. Iltner. Acting Mgr. 



111. Livestock Mkig. Assn.. H. W. Traulmann, Mgr. 



111. Milk Assn. Edwin Gumm, Pres. 



Prairie F. Creomeries.. Dave Henry. Sales Mgr. 

 lU. Wool Mktg. Assn. S. F. Russell. Sec.-Mgr. 



DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS 



Dairy Marketing E. E. Houghtby 



Secretary o( Marketing L. L. Colvis 



Grain Marketing George H. tftner 



Legal Donald Kirkpatrick 



Live Slock Marketing S. F. Russell 



General Office C. E. lohnslon 



Organisation _ O. D. Brisaenden 



Personnel W. E. Scheer 



Produce Maikeiiag F. A. Gougler 



Publicity _ Creslon Foster 



Research L. H. Simerl 



Road Improvement Charles Mayfield 



Rural School Relations Tohn K. Cox 



Safety and Public Health W. W. Whitlock 



Snecial Services Roy P. Johoson 



Property Taxation _ Be-i VrmderTliet 



TransDortatinn-Cloims G. W. Baxter 



Veterinary Medical Relations CD. Von Rouweling 

 Young People's Activities Ellsworth D. Lyon 



NAME STATE 4-H 

 DELEGATES TO NAT'L CAMP 



Four Illinois 4-H club boys and girls 

 have been selected to represent their state 

 at the National 4-H Club Camp to be 

 held next June in Washington, D. C. 

 They are Irene Downey, Putnam, Putnam 

 county; Loren E. Nelson, Varna, Mar- 

 shall; Orvan Peters, Momence, Kanka- 

 kee; Miriam Wrigley, Trivoli, Peoria. 



Miss Downey, 18, has completed 20 

 projects in her nine years of 4-H mem- 

 bership and has been a delegate to Na- 

 tional 4-H Club Congress and to 4-H 

 Junior Leadership camp. She is a student 

 at Illinois Wesleyan University. 



Nelson, 20, helps to operate a 470- 

 acre farm and has realized an income of 

 more than $12,000 from his 14 4-H 

 projects. He was valedictorian of his 

 senior class and in 1946 was acting secre- 

 tary of the Illinois FFA. 



Peters has been a 4-H club member 

 for 10 years and his 34 projects have 

 resulted in an income of more than 

 $39,000. He was a winner in 1945 in 

 the dairy production contest at the Na- 

 tional 4-H Club Congress. 



Miss Wrigley, 19, has finished 9 years 

 in 4-H Club work and is now attending 

 the University of Illinois. She was state 

 winner in the achievement contest in 

 1945 and won the right to attend the 

 National 4-H Club Congress that year. 

 She has held many offices in 4-H. 





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