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Pure Milk 

 Seeks Merger 

 of 

 Producer 



Co-ops 



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EXPANSION of Pure Milk Asso- 

 ciation to include all cooperatives 

 and farmers supplying milk in 

 the Chicago milk shed was ad- 

 vocated by General Manager A. 

 H. Lauterbach at the recent 23rd an- 

 nual meeting of PMA in Chicago. 



Pure Milk Association, a producers' 

 bargaining organization, is a member 

 of the Illinois Milk Producers Associ- 

 ation, an Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion affiliate. 



Lauterbach mentioned specifically 

 consolidation with the Pure Milk Prod- 

 ucts Cooperative of Wisconsin. 



Speaking on farm price stabilization, 

 the PMA general manager said: "All 

 farmers should be members of at least 

 one large general farm organization 

 which truly represents farm people in 

 Congress and the state legislature. 

 After World War I, farmers' milk 

 prices in the Chicago milk shed 

 dropped from $3.75 to $1.50 per hun- 

 dredweight." 



Lauterbach pointed out that PMA 

 progress for 1947 included the addi- 

 tion of 491 new members, a greatly 

 expanded plant operation, and five mil- 

 lion dollars more for members' milk. 



In the principal address before the 

 convention, John Brandt, president of 



Wilbur J. Swayar 

 (left), president of 

 Pure Millc Association, 

 and Arthur H. Lauter- 

 bach (right), general 

 manager/ pin corsages 

 on Blanche Snow 

 (left) dairy quean of 

 Kane county, llllnoli, 

 and Shirley Murdocic 

 (right) Walworth 



county, Wisconsin, 

 during the annual 

 meeting of the PMA 

 In Chicago. 



Below: The Mlllc Foun- 

 dation exhibit was a 

 popular place. Wonder 

 if the free Ice cream 

 samples had anything 

 to do with it. 



the Land O' Lakes Creameries said, 

 "Farmers' income will be better in 1948 

 than it was in 1947. Farmers' income 

 must be high in order to keep the 

 government on a sound financial struc- 

 ture. The basis of all sound finance 

 in government is high farmer income. 

 People that are happy when agricul- 

 tural prices go down are foolish, for 

 as agricultural prices go down so go 

 all other prices in our economy." 



Speaking on aid to Europe, Brandt 

 said, "We must maintain a sound fi- 

 nancial structure here at home before 

 we spend money in aiding foreign 

 countries. We can never conquer com- 

 munism with a wall of gold." 



The 2500 members from Illinois, 

 Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan at- 

 tending the meeting at the Hotel Sher- 

 man heard Treasurer W. E. Winn re- 

 port an increase of $298,607.98 in net 

 worth in 1947. "Pure Milk Associa- 

 tions net worth of $2,064,989 is di- 

 vided between $698,826.64 in general 

 reserve and $1,366,162.88 in plant 

 fund," Winn said! 



Director of Sales F. J. Knox re- 

 ported that Pure Milk Association sold 

 1,735, 321,638 pounds of milk in 1947 

 compared with 1,645,695,396 pounds in 

 1946. 



The daily average production of all 

 PMA markets was 4,767,508, a daily in- 

 crease over 1946 of 258,757 or 5.44 per 

 cent. Twenty per cent of all milk pro- 

 duced by members was handled by 

 PMA directly. 



During the past year PMA put two 

 additional receiving plants into opera- 

 tion at Kankakee and Gary, Ind. An- 

 other at Mazon opened March 1 of this 

 year. Other PMA plants are at Chi- 

 cago, Hinckley, Lisle, Richmond, St. 

 Charles, and Kansasville, Wis., Orford- 

 ville. Wis., Salem, Wis., and Sharon, 

 Wis. 



Clarence Meyer, Peotone, was elected 

 to the PMA board of directors to suc- 

 ceed W. M. Kimmelshue. Other Illi- 

 nois members re-elected were: W.E. 

 Winn, Richmond; Harvey Norem, 

 Newark ; and J. P. Case, Naperville. 



Total membership of PMA is now 

 14,000 of whom 6475 are in Illinois. 



Wilbur J. Swayer, Gurnee, was re- 

 elected president of PMA at the first 

 meeting of the board following the 

 convention. Swayer has served as presi- 

 dent since 1943. 



CORRECTION 



In an article entitled "War on the Cora 

 Borer Menace" in the April issue of the lAA 

 Record, the passage quoting Entomologist J. 

 H. Bigger on DDT sprayed corn reading "it 

 (is) not advisable yet to feed the corn to 

 dairy animals until further experiments have 

 been made;" should read, "to feed the com 

 fodder to dairy animals." 



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