Top. John Derrer, Carroll county, pulls out can from electric milk cooler 

 housed in sunken pit. Center. Sam Kloepping stands by window of well- 

 lighted cement block basement. Calves are healthy. Bottom. Bob 

 Shubert is pleased with new metal storage rock which keeps pails and 

 cans off floor. Right: In Bob Shubert's Carroll county dairy barn you see 

 what it takes to produce Grade A milk: clean, healthy cows; well-lighted 

 barn with pointed walls, tight floor and ceiling. 



Plan for . 



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Grade A' Now 



By J. S. MASON, Director lAA Oept. Dairy Marketing 



D.-MRVMI'.N who .irc thinking' of 

 modL-rnizini,' their d.iir)- b.iriis 

 would do well to plan their im- 

 proxcmcnts to p.nss Gnide A re- 

 cjuircmcnts. New Gr.ide A m.irkets 

 m.iy be open to them within the next 

 lew )e.irs. 



Sam Kloepping. Stephenson lOuntv 

 tl.iirvm.in iie.ir Pe.irl f jtv. provides .in ex- 

 .imple of I tanner who pl.mned before he 

 rebuilt. He rebuilt his old dairy barn 

 last fall to pass the inspection for Grade 

 A milk and is selling his milk now at a 

 premium price to the Prairie Farms 

 Creamer)- at .\tount Carroll. 



Kloeppinq's barn, like many, was in 

 need of remodel inc. It was old and 

 poorly lighted. His rebuilt barn, in con- 

 trast, is is bright inside as a modern 

 store. It has made it possible for Kloepp- 

 ing to qualify for Grade A milk at a time 

 when Illinois markets are expanding. 



Farmers who intend to build or re- 

 movlel to meet Grade A, as Kloepping has 

 done, will do well to check first with 

 inspectors from markets where their milk 

 will probably be sold. 



The trend in Illinois is toward Grade 

 A. Consider that municipal Grade A or- 

 dinances for bottled milk are now in ef- 

 fect at Chic.igo. FIgin, Peoria, Decatur, 

 Rantoul, Roikford. I'reeport, Davenport, 

 la., St. Louis. Mo., and East St. Louis. 

 Rotk Island and (Miampaign will require 

 Grade A milk late this year. McLean 

 iou:!rv has passed an ordinance effective 

 .April I. 1 '>('). Chicago also reauires that 

 Gr.ide A be used in the manufactui-e of 

 i( e-i ream, and there is a trend toward re- 

 c]uiring Grade A milk for additional 

 products in large metropolitan markets. 

 Prairie Farms Creamery plants at Car- 

 bondale, Carlinville, Olney, Bloomington, 



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llenrv and Mt. Carroll, are either han- 

 dling Cirade A now or plan to do s;i 

 soon. The Producers Dairy of Danville is 

 also develoj-'ing a Grade A milk supply. 



iNLiny Illinois dairymen in the Chicago 

 and St. Louis areas have been producing 

 Gr.ide A for a long time. They have con- 

 sistantly received a premium price for 

 their efforts. 



Records kept by the Pure Milk .Associ- 

 ation, the Chicago milk cooper.itive. show- 

 that in recent years their farmers have 

 been paid from 45 to "iO cents a hundred 

 above condcnscry prices. This premium 

 has meant S7()() a year more for the aver- 

 age producer who last year shipped lOO 

 pounds of milk daily. 



To bear the Grade A label, milk in 

 Illinois must be of a high quality-, and 

 produced in sanitary barns amid clean 

 surroundings. 



The milk quality is determined largely 

 by its bacteria count (less than 200,000 

 per ex. ) and by its sediment test. These 

 tests follow a standard pattern. 



The physical requirements of the farm, 

 however, var\- from city to city and some 

 times from inspector to inspector. It is 

 unfortunate that these have been the cause 

 of bitterness, particularly during the pe- 

 riod when Grade A programs were being 

 •■tarted in new milk sheils. Differences 

 have usually been settled with the passing 

 of time. 



This has not been the case in St. Louis, 

 a condition Sanitary Milk Producers As- 

 sociation is trying to Kirrcct. 



Many farmers feel, and with reason, 

 that the test tor Grade A milk shouKl be 

 the quality antl bacteria lount of the milk 

 itself. Untortun-'ely the trend is not in 

 this direction, and inspectors are placing 



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