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County Farm Supply Company and 

 served as its secretary tor 16 yearv 

 Mrs. Elliott has been active in Homi.- 

 Bureau, serving on the state board an>'. 

 is county president tor tliree years. 



.Mr. Elliott is a member ot" the La 

 Salle County Taxpayers .Association, an 

 organization devoted to keeping an 

 eagle eye on the spending of public 

 funds. 



The Elliott children .irv Donald. 30: 

 Helen. 27; Hubert. I'y : Kenneth, 24; 

 Quintin, 22; and Wavnc. 19. 



Donald, an Illinois graduate engi- 

 neer, works for Boeing in Seattle. He 

 was a lieutenant in the navy. Helen, 

 -in Illinois home economics graduate 

 and a former ensign in the Waves, is 

 Ea 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 have used 

 concrete widely 

 about their farm 

 and appreciate its 

 advantages. 



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L-ases. Both are members of Rural 

 Youth. 



Earm 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 v\ill 



remain strony. But Farm Bureau it- 



self needs more than the man who 

 thinks only in terms of the money re- 

 turns from our commercial companies. 

 Abo\e all. We- must work to pro- 

 duce the goods which will bring about 

 .1 better siandard ot livmg. There is 

 nr, e.isv wav." 



Meredith Johnson is 

 New Field Man for 

 Prairie Farms Creameries 



Meredith Johnson, 33. of Galesburg. 

 has been employed as the new held- 

 man tor Prairie Farms Creameries and 

 will work out of the Chicago otfice. 



Johnson will devote his time- to work- 

 uig with the 10 member creameries and 

 their patron farmers in a program to 

 maintain and impro\e the quality of milk 

 and cream used in the manufacture of 

 Prairie Farms products. 



Well c]ualified by experience for 

 this work. Johnson has worked for the 

 last five years as tieldman for the Prai- 

 rie Farms Oeamery of Galesburg. 



He first worked for the Galesbure 

 cooperative tor two years as a truck 

 salesman, and from 193~-tO 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 19.il. 



He then attended .Augustana College 

 in Rock Island in 1931, the Roosevelt 

 .Military Academy at Aledo, 1932-55, 

 and the University of Illinois, 1956-37. 

 He is married to the former Irene 

 Longly of Aledo. 



NX'. J. S\V'jycr, Gurnce-. was recently name^ 

 viee- president of the Amtrican Dairy Asso- 

 ciation, at its annual meeting: in Chieaso. 

 Swaycr is also president of the Pure Milk 

 .\ssociation in Cliieato. and viee- president of 

 the Illinois Milk Producers' Association. The 

 .Anurican Dairy Association re-electeJ D. T. 

 CarLson. NX'illnur. Minn.. presiJent. It was 

 pointed out at the ADA. annual meeting; 

 that milk and dairy projuet prices have al- 

 ready dropped from their peak levels and 

 that it is time for the dairy industry to put 

 more e-mphasis on .sales. It was the fe-elmt; 

 of the group that advertising would help 

 nMintain the wartime a.'v.mies in milk con- 

 sumption, whieh intre-aseJ .-0 per cent above 

 pre-war levels. 



The marketing; eommittee of the jo Da\iL>s 

 County I'arm Bureau met with representativc■^ 

 of the lAA at Elizabeth. Mareli 2i. to discuss 

 steps which mi!;ht be taken in that area to 

 •..'■irrove the milk marketine situation 



On Jan. 1. 191", there were 2 1. i"').0(l(l 

 milk cows on L', S. farms. This number rep- 

 resented a decrease of 850.000 cows from 

 Ian. 1 last year, and 1.296.000 less than the 

 Peak level established in 1941. Production 

 per cow in 1946, however. w.-is the highest on 

 record — 4.891 pounds. Total milk produc- 

 tion in 1946 totalled 119.73 billion pounds. 



The ."second .Annual Miuwestern .\lilk 

 Marketing; Conlerenee attracted a Ijr4;e crowd 

 .It Lrban.i. April I and s. Milk proJueefs 

 trcm scAeral midwcstern !r..rkets c"n\c-ncd 

 to Jiscuss current n\irkelinj: problems and to 

 hear ie.i :ers tell ui new cie\ei"pinenis >n the 

 milk nurketinc tield. Spe.«kers included 

 Herbert i.. l-ciiest. assistant director. Dairy 

 branch. LSDA ; R K. Froker. Innersity of 

 Wisconsin; Dr. R \X' ISartlett. Iniversitv of 

 Illinois; and others. I. i. Hoiiclib;. lAA 

 Jairy m.irketini; .iirector. discussed the place 

 • if coopcratnes m pricemakint:. 



A pubhe hearing w.is held in (Jueago, 

 bemnninu March .i, to receive evidence with 

 respe-et to proposed anu-ndnients to the fed- 

 eral orders ret:i;l.iting the h.indlini; <»f milk in 

 the Chic.ii;o And suburban Chieaco areas. The 

 principal propos.il submitted by the Pure 

 .Milk Assoeiation of Chiea.oi would raise the 

 le\el of milk prices during the tall and u iiuer 

 :-;onths when production is normalh in short 

 supph. This proposal, if adopted. siK.uld 

 'i.itcIl.iiU reduce the sc.isonal v.iri.itii'll in 

 milk ptoductiim. A similar pricin.i; pro-;ram 

 IS in operation in the St. l.ouis m.irket and in 

 nam otlier large liidd milk iiiarketm;; .ireas. 



The ^cLretarv i>t .i:;ric ultiire i^.enth ruled 

 :iiai the Department of .^cri-ulture was with- 

 in Kc legal riethts i:i est.ibnshing a federal 

 ."siilk marketing order tor the Columbus, O., 

 m.lrketing area. Producers there sought a 

 reJeral order mainly on the urounds that milk 

 ;n that area burdened, obstruete-d .md afTeeted 

 mterstate cominerce in milk .ind its pn^ducts. 

 H.indlers conlende-d thjt this market was not 

 -ubiecr to fe-deral reculation. .Mth.iugh this 

 ■r.itter more than likely will be appealed to 

 :he higher courts, it does express the position 

 .>f the Department of Agriculture with respect 

 ;o its attitude toward an extension of the 

 federal order program This case has been 

 .loscly watched bv Illinois produrer groups. 



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