Title: Illinois Agricultural Association record (microform)
Identifier: 5060538.1935-1939
Year: 1923 (1920s)
Authors: Illinois Agricultural Association; Illinois Agricultural Association. Record
Subjects: Agriculture -- Illinois
Publisher: Mendota, Ill. : The Association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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/ZutJ YOUTH Tours of all descriptions will hold the spotlight on the Rural Youth calendar this summer. Inspection tours of Producer Creameries will be held during June as follows: Mt. Sterling, June 20; Galesburg, June 27; Peoria, June 26; Champaign, June 29. Kane County Rural Youth have sent in- vitations to northern Illinois Rural Youth to attend a reunion June 11 at Pottawatami Park, St. Charles. Thirty-five Bureau County youth made plans at their May meeting to attend. Good Fellowship Across State Lines featured the first annual Henderson County banquet program held May 9 near Hamilton. A dozen Rural Youth from DesMoines County, Iowa, were guests. Lee Carlson, president of Rural Youth, C. E. Bergren, president of the Farm Bureau, Otto Steffey, lAA Director, and Mrs. Frank Anderson, president of the Home Bureau did the honors for Henderson County. Frank Ging- rich, lAA youth leader, spoke. High School Seniors were guests of the Marshall-Putnam Rural Youth at their May meeting reports Ford Fairbanks, president. Their "variety" program appealed to many. Topics were "services of Government," "Grammatical Errors," "Cooperative Live- stock Marketing Tour" and "Recreation." July 17th is Rural Youth Day at the Mid-West Farm Bureau Training School, July 16-20 East Lansing, Michigan. Eleven states will be represented. Illinois Rural Youth are invited. "Everj'thing in Reverse" was the motif of the Hancock Rural Youth meeting, April 21. "It was lots of fun at the BACKWARD PARTY," writes President Virginia Hen- drix. An unusual sight greeted those who were present. Clothes were in reverse, fames were turned "round, and folks walked ackward. State's Attorney William Angel was the only person not required to follow the backward custom. He gave a "forward" talk on "Pertinent Facts Concerning A States Attorney's office." Cost of Trucks Four new trucks were purchased by Farmers Creamery Company, Bloomington, the latter part of April. They replaced trucks that had been in service in the counties of Macon, DeWitt, Logan, and McLean and are of the J^-ton pick-up type found to be economical for cream routes. Cost studies made by the University of Illinois, in cooperation with the Creamery show that the average per mile cost of operating the co-op's 14 trucks during 1938 was 3.14 cents. This figure does not in- clude labor, but does include all other chargeable costs. Gasoline made up 46.6 per cent of the total cost; while tires, repairs, and lubri- cation amounted to 26 per cent of the total. The number of miles driven and the num- ber of units hauled influence the per mile cost; and the report shows that the 14 trucks averaged 36,800 miles in the 11- month period studied, and hauled an aver- age load of 158,677 pounds of cream. A Good Cooperative Creamery The Glidden Cooperative Creamery, Glidden, Iowa, manuactured 1,035,800 pounds of butter last year from 833,- 201.5 lbs. of butter fat and returned patrons 29.74c per lb. butterfat after putting .27c per lb. in reserve reports Manager M. P. Junker. Out of this 29.74c the producer had to pay 2lAc per lb. for hauling which cuts the net to 27.24c unless he delivered his own cream. The average price received per pound of butter was 26.23c, manufac turing expense was 1.75c, and ad- ministrative expense .57c. The per cent of over-run was 24.31. Manufacturing expense per pound of butterfat was 2.17c, administrative expense .71c, buttermilk dryer expense .35c, or a total expense per pound of butterfat of 3.23c which left 30.01c available for distribution. This compares favorably with returns made by the top Producers Creameries plants in Illinois. The cooperative handled 110,700 dozens of eggs which it sold for an av- erage of 19.82c per dozen at an expense of 2.44c per doz., leaving 17.38c for distribution. A fleet of trucks pick up cream and eggs at the farm over a wide area. The company has an excellent finan- cial statement with total assets of $58,959.86 as of Dec. 31, 1938. How to get the best results from-grafting fruit trees is described in Cornell bulletin E-387. A penny postcard to the New York State College of Agriculture at Ithaca, New York, brings a free copy.
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