Hb catti* bam ii alwoyi kept spk and 



span to cenferm with Grade A standard*. 



H«r« h« paints Intarier whita. 



His rotation follows this pattern but is 

 not strictly adhered to: corn, corn, 

 oats, soybeans, pasture (including such 

 hay crops as clover, sweet clover, les- 

 pedeza, timothy and brome grass). 



He also raises about 75 pigs each 

 year. Several years ago while McCord 

 was shipping cream to the Prairie 

 Farms Creamery at OIney, Newton 

 businessmen asked McCord to supply 

 the town with milk since Newton was 

 getting its milk from outside the com- 

 munity. Since that time virtually all 

 of his milk has been marketed in fluid 

 form. By sticking to the St. Louis 



Grade A code he receives a high pre- 

 mium for his high grade milk. 



McCord joined the Crawford County 

 Farm Bureau in 1922 and served as 

 secretary five years before becoming a 

 charter member and first president of 

 the Jasper County Farm Bureau which 

 he helped organize in 1936. He served 

 as president for 10 years. 



Director McCord is a director of the 

 American Jersey Cattle Club, and a 

 member of the State Advisory Board of 

 Livestock Commissioners, the Newton 

 Civic Club, and East St. Louis Shrine. 

 He is a 32nd degree Mason and has 

 been active in the Brockville Christian 

 Church and the local school. He was 

 superintendent of the Sunday School 

 for 10 years and a school trustee for 

 many years. McCord also was honored 

 as a Master Farmer in 1936. 



His "learn and do better" attitude 

 is summed up in this remark: "If I 

 never had a dime I would stick to the 

 man who did. Not to get his dime, 

 but that I might learn to get one for 

 myself. 



"The soil," he says, "is the founda- 

 tion of all of the nation's basic wealth. 

 From the Extension Service of the 

 County Farm Bureau we can learn to 

 maintain the fertility of that soil, and 

 through the state and national Farm 

 Bureau we hope to work out and main- 



Shaded area on map Is 33rd cengresflenai 

 district represented on the lilineis Agricul- 

 tural Association board of fHrectors by 

 Chester McCord of Newton. 



tain a balance between agriculture and 

 industry. This balance being all-im- 

 portant to our nation's security." 



Sanitary Milk Producers, representing two- 

 thirds of the producers supplying the St. 

 Louis, fluid milk market, maintain that 

 prices to producers there are not sufficiently 

 high to encourage them to supply the mar- 

 ket with a sufficient quantity of milk. 



After a series of meetings with handlers 

 to negotiate premiums over minimum prices 

 established by the federal order, it became 

 apparent that if producers were to receive 

 more money for their milk it would have 

 to be accomplished through an amendment 

 to the order. Consequently, a petition was 

 filed with the Department of Agriculture 

 and a hearing held July 17. 



Will Rogers, Jr., former congressman 

 from California and son of the late humorist, 

 presided at the hearing. 



Other representatives of the Department 

 of Agriculture were Orville A. Jamison, 

 principal market specialist, Fred Shipley, 

 market administrator, and Foster R. Lewis, 

 acting market administrator. 



In their testimony, on behalf of the 

 Sanitary Milk Producers, witnesses stressed 

 the need for higher price if the market is 



to have a sufficient supply of milk. This 

 market has been short of milk for a con- 

 siderable period of time and it has been 

 necessary for handlers to haul milk out of 

 Wisconsin and other areas to supplement 

 the local supply. This situation has been 

 aggravated during recent months by a de- 

 cline in prices to producers while feed, 

 labor, and other costs entering into the 

 production of milk have been increasing. 



Under the current provisions of the fed- 

 eral order prices to producers are deter- 

 mined by adding specified preimums to aver- 

 age prices paid by twenty-three Mid- Western 

 Evaporated Milk Plants. These premiums 

 have been ll.lO for the months July through 

 November, 90c for the months December 

 through March, and 80c for the months, 

 April, May, and June, for Class I milk. 



Prices requested by Sanitary Milk Pro- 

 ducers would increase these premiums to 

 11.55 for the months July through Decem- 

 ber, $1.25 for the months January through 

 March, and 90c for April, May, and June. 

 Substantially similar increases were requested 

 for Class II milk. 



Witnesses appearing on behalf of Sanitary 

 Milk Producers included: R. D. Pennywel], 

 President and A. D. Lynch, Secretary-Man- 

 ager of the Association; J. P. Mason, As- 

 sistant Director of Dairy Marketing, Illinois 

 Agricultural Association; Fletcher Gourley 

 and Harold Brackett. manager of the Prairie 

 Farms Creameries of Carlinville and Car- 

 bondale respectively ; A. J. Surratt, state agri- 

 cultural statistician; Summer Wilson and 

 John Voss, farmers from Butler and Aviston, 

 and others. 



Although no results for the hearing have 

 been announced by the Department of Agri- 

 culture, an early decision is expected. 



At the hearing in St. Louis on the federal 

 milk marketing order are left to riglitt 

 Judson P. Mason, lAA assistant director of 

 the dairy marketing department; A. D. 

 lynch, secretary. Sanitary Milk Producers; 

 R. D. Pennyweil, president. Sanitary Milk 

 Producers; and Leigh Kagy, 

 counseL 



In view of the evidence presented, it is 

 almost certain that producers will receive 

 a substantial increase in the price of milk, 

 especially during the fall and winter months 

 when milk is always badly needed on the 

 St. Louis market, and when milk production 

 is most difficult to maintain. 



The first Bureau County Sports Fes- 

 tival was held at the Bureau County 

 Fair Grounds July 31. Winners of the 

 major contests were to represent the 

 county at the State Sports Festival at 

 Champaign Aug. 28 and 29. 



SEPTEMBER, 1947 



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