1 ,000 At Creamery 



Meet In Bloomlngton 



Patronage Dividends Declared, 

 • Assets Gain 125 Per Cent 



By J. B. Countiss 



ALMOST 1,000 producers attended 

 the annual meeting of Farmers 

 Creamery Company, Bloomington, 

 Wednesday, February 20. In the morn- 

 ing session. Manager Forrest Fairchild 

 reported that 1,258,359 lbs. of butter was 

 manufactured by the company during 

 1934, the gross value of which was $305,- 

 161.22. 79^8% of this amount was re- 

 turned to the members in the form of 

 cash for cream, stock credits and cash in 

 cases where stock was fully paid fpr. 



The Creamery started operating two 

 years ago this month with total assets 

 of 120,000. On November 30, 1934, when 

 the fiscal year ended, the audit report 

 showed that the total assets of the 

 Creamery were $45,000, an increase of 

 125 per cent. 



Dividends of .8c per lb. butterfat to 

 members of the Creamery and Ic to 

 members who are also members of their 

 respective County Farm Bureaus were de- 

 clared. An additional Ic per pound but- 

 terfat has been paid to members of the 

 Creamery besides their regular cream 

 check. In cases where the share of pre- 

 ferred stock has been paid in full, this 

 le has been paid in cash. 



Total earnings this year aggregated 

 $15,918.84, excluding preferred stock 

 dividends, of which nearly $8,000 was 

 paid at the meeting in the form of stock 

 credits and cash. Nearly half of the 

 $8,000 was paid in cash. Since the,Cream- 

 ery opened, total dividends amounted to 

 $28,431.53, which includes preferred 

 stock dividends, as of November 30, 1934. 



Inspection Started 



Last July, by virtue of a contract with 

 the State and Federal governments 

 through Illinois Producers' Creameries, 

 Farmers Creamery Co. began in earnest 

 to improve the quality of its cream and 

 butter. C. H. Tuttle, employed by the 

 U. S. D. A. was placed in charge of this 

 work. Mr. Tuttle started work first on 

 improving plant practices. He began in 

 the receiving room and the man there 

 i.i charge was taught to grade cream 

 into four grades. A, B. C, and D. "A" 

 grade cream will make 92 score butter, 

 B grade cream will make 90 score butter 

 or better, C grade cream will make 88 

 score butter or better, and D grade is 

 reject cream. 



Mr. Tuttle then followed the cream 

 from the receiving room, through the 

 processes of neutralization, pasteuriza- 

 tion, ripening and churning. Practices 



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were standardized, bad practices elimi- 

 nated, and each person in charge of a 

 specific job was taught how that job 

 could best be done. After the Creamery 

 had put its house in order, the problem 

 then became one of improving the supply 

 of cream received. The first attempt 

 was made through signal tags. Red tags 

 were used to designate C grade cream, 

 blue tags were used to designate that the 

 can of cream was Grade A. No tags 

 were used for Grade B cream. Literature 

 in the form of circular letters and the 

 Prairie Farms Producer, the Creamery 

 bulletin, was used. The Creamery has 

 put forth its best efforts in the most in- 

 expensive way to teach better quality 

 production methods. 



Advertising Helps 



Last December the sale of Certified 

 92 Score Prairie Farms Butter was 

 started. A full page ad was taken in 

 the Daily Pantagraph, Bloomington, and 

 now Farmers Creamery is selling about 

 60 to 70% of its print butter as Certified 

 92 Score. 



Other reports were made by President 

 Enns, Secretary Ben McReynolds and 

 Treasurer Silas Claus. 



Mr. Fricke of the Indiana Farm Bu- 



reau Federation gave the members an 

 inspirational talk during the afternoon 

 session in which he stressed the value 

 of organization. "In Denmark," he said, 

 "which is only one-half the size of the 

 State of Illinois, they have 1400 co-op- 

 erative creameries and 85% of all dairy 

 products are marketed by producers 

 through their own co-operative cream- 

 eries." "You will never solve your milk 

 problem either," he said, "until you dis- 

 tribute your own milk." Each member 

 agreed at the close of the meeting to go 

 out and get another member for the 

 creamery. Officers and directors elected 

 for 1935 are as follows: Harold Enns, 

 president, Bloomington; Marion Stubble- 

 field, vice-president, McLean; Ben Mc- 

 Reynolds, secretary, Stanford; Silas 

 Claus, treasurer, Pontiac; Joe Harris, 

 Clinton; John Kidd, Mendota; Thad Love- 

 less, Gillespie; Jim Knight, Bloomington; 

 Wm. Mayes, Normal. 



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The Intermediate Credit Bank of St 



Louis more than doubled its volume of 

 business during 1934, according to Joseph 

 R. Cosgrrove, president. The bank dis- 

 counts farmers' short-term production 

 notes. 



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