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County Farm Supply Company and 

 served as its secretary for 16 years. 

 Mrs. Elliott has been active in Home 

 Bureau, serving on the state board and 

 as county president for three years. 



Mr. Elliott is a member of the La 

 Salle County Taxpayers Association, an 

 organization devoted to keeping an, 

 eagle eye on the spending of public 

 funds. 



The Elliott children are Donald, 30; 

 Helen, 27; Hubert, 25; Kenneth, 24; 

 Quintin, 22; and Wayne, 19. 



Donald, an Illinois graduate engi- 

 neer, works for Boeing in Seattle. He 

 was a lieutenant in the navy. Helen, 

 an Illinois home economics graduate 

 and a former ensign in the Waves, is 

 La Salle county assistant home adviser. 



Hubert, a mechanical engineer, is 

 employed by Pratt and Whitney at 

 Hartford, Conn. Kenneth, a student 

 at the College of Agriculture, is study- 

 ing general farming and agricultural 

 economics. He enlisted in the army 

 after a year at the University. 



Quintin and Wayne work on the 

 farm at home and plan to further their 

 education when the help situation 



On a chilly winter 

 morning. Director 

 Elliott and son 

 Wayne, (left) 

 work over a gaso- 

 line engine at- 

 tached to a con- 

 crete mixer. The 

 Elliotts hove used 

 concrete widely 

 about their farm 

 and appreciate its 

 advantages. 



eases. Both are members of Rural 

 Youth. 



"Farm Bureau," says Director Elliott, 

 "has a better foundation today than 

 it ever has had before. As long as it 

 renders service to its members, it will 

 remain strong. But Farm Bureau it- 



self needs more than the man who 

 thinks only in terms of the money re- 

 turns from our commercial companies. 

 "Above all, we must work to pro- 

 duce the goods which will bring about 

 a better standard of living. There is 

 no easy way." 



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Meredith Johnson is 

 New Field Man for 

 Prairie Farms Creameries 



Meredith Johnson, 33, of Galesburg, 

 has been employed as the new field- 

 man for Prairie Farms Creameries and 

 will work out of the Chicago office. 



Johnson will devote his time to work- 

 ing with the 10 member creameries and 

 their patron farmers in a program to 

 maintain and improve the quality of milk 

 and cream used in the manufacture of 

 Prairie Farms products. 



Well qualified by experience for 

 this work, Johnson has worked for the 

 last- five years as fieldman for the Prai- 

 rie Farms Creamery of Galesburg. 



He first worked for the Galesburg 

 cooperative for two years as a truck 

 salesman, and from 1937-40 was em- 

 ployed in the plant of a Peoria cream- 

 ery. 



Born and reared on a stock and 

 grain farm near Joy in Mercer county, 

 Johnson graduated from the local high 

 school in 1931. 



He then attended Augustana College 

 in Rock Island in 1931, the Roosevelt 

 Military Academy at Aledo, 1932-33, 

 and' the University of Illinois, 1936-37. 

 He is married to the former Irene 

 Longly of Aledo. 



W. J. Swayer, Gurnee, was recently named 

 vice president of the American Dairy Asso- 

 ciation, at its annual meeting in Chicago. 

 Swayer is also president of the Pure Milk 

 Association in Chicago, and vice president of 

 the Illinois Milk Producers' Association. The 

 American Dairy Association re-elected D. T. 

 Carlson, Willmar, Minn., president. It was 

 pointed out at the A.D.A. annual meeting 

 that milk and dairy product prices have al- 

 ready dropped from their peak levels and 

 that it is time for the dairy industry to put 

 more emphasis on sales. It was the feeling 

 of the group that advertising would help 

 maintain the wartime advances in milk con- 

 sumption, which increased 30 per cent above 

 pre-war levels. 



The marketing committee of the Jo Daviess 

 County Farm Bureau met with representatives 

 of the lAA at Elizabeth, March 24, to discuss 

 steps which might be taken in that area to 

 improve the milk marketing situation. 



On Jan. 1, 1947, there were 24,479,000 

 milk cows on U. S. farms. This number rep- 

 resented a decrease of 850,000 cows from 

 Jan. 1 last year, and 1,296,000 less than the 

 peak level established in 1944. Production 

 per cow in 1946, however, was the highest on 

 record — 4.891 pounds. Total milk produc- 

 tion in 1946 totalled 119.7} billion pounds. 



The Second Annual Midwestern Milk 

 Marketing Conference attraaed a large crowd 

 at Urbana, April 4 and 5. Milk producers 

 from several midwestern markets convened 

 to discuss current marketing problems and to 

 hear leaders tell of new developments in the 

 milk marketing field. Speakers included 

 Herbert L. Forest, assistant direaor. Dairy 

 Branch, USDA; R. K. Froker, University of 

 Wisconsin; Dr. R. 'W. Bartlett, University of 

 Illinois; and others. E. E. Houghby, lAA 

 dairy marketing director, discussed the place 

 of cooperatives in pricemaking. 



A public hearing was held in Chicago, 

 beginning March 3, to receive evidence with 

 respea to proposed amendments to the fed- 

 eral orders regulating the handling of milk in 

 the Chicago and suburban Chicago areas. The 

 principal proposal submitted by the Pure 

 Milk Association of Chicago would raise the 

 level of milk prices during the fall and winter 

 months when production is normally in short 

 supply. This proposal, if adopted, should 

 materially reduce the seasonal variation in 

 milk production. A similar pricing program 

 is in operation in the St, Louis market and in 

 many other large fluid milk marketing areas. 



The secretary of agriculture recently ruled 

 that the Department of Agriculture was with- 

 in its legal rights in establishing a federal 

 milk marketing order for the Columbus, O., 

 marketing area. Producers there sought a 

 federal order mainly on the grounds that milk 

 in that area burdened, obstruaed and affected 

 interstate commerce in milk and its products. 

 Handlers contended that this market was not 

 subject to federal regulation. Although this 

 matter more than likely will be appealed to 

 the higher courts, it does express the position 

 of the Department of Agriculture with respect 

 to its attitude toward an extension of the 

 federal order program. This case has been 

 closely watched by Illinois producer groups. 



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