1 ,000 At Creamery 



Meet In Bloomington 



I'atrunaKi' Dividcsids Declared. 

 Assets Gain 125 Per Cent 



H.v .1. If. Counlifis 



ALMOST l.(MM( i.r.MliKvi.s atliiKkil 

 tho annual nicctiiijj of Fainii'is 

 Creamery Company, Bloomington. 

 Wt'dnt'sday, February 20. In the niorn- 

 inj; .>;es.-iion, Manager Forrest Fairchild 

 reported that 1 .258..!.'S;t lbs. of butter was 

 manufactured by the eompany during 

 lli.')4, the pross value of which was $305.- 

 1()1.22. T'.t'aTt 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 for. 



The ("reamcry staitcil operatinjr two 

 years ajro this month with total as.>iets 

 of §20,000. On November .iO. I'.i.ll. when 

 the fiscal year ended, the audit report 

 .showed that the total assets of the 

 Creamery were $4.").000, an increase of 

 12.') per cent. 



Dividends of .8c per lb. butterfat to 

 member.s of the Creamery and Ic to 

 members who are also members of their 

 respective County Farm Bureaus wore 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 

 Ic has been paid in cash. 



Total earnings this year aggregated 

 115,918.84, 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, to'al dividends amounted to 

 $28,431.53, which includes preferred 

 stock dividends, as of November 30, l'J34. 



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 tji its cream and 

 butter. C. H. Tuttlc, 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 >yas taught to graiie cream 

 into four grades. A, B. C. and F). "A" 

 grade cream will make '.<2 score butter. 

 B grade cream will make ItO 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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CLYDE HAMLIN. BUTTERMAKEK FARMERS CREAMERY CO. BLOOMINGION AND THE SILVER 

 Cup awarded by lUinoii Producer! CreameriM to its member producing the highest percentage of 82 

 •core butter. 



were standardized, bad (iractices elimi- 

 nated, and each person in charge of a 

 specific job was taught hoW that job 

 eould best lie done, .\fter 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 tirade 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 ([uality 

 production methods. 



.Vdvertislng Helps 



Last December the sale of Certified 

 '.'2 .Score Prairie Farms Butter was 

 started. A full page ad was taken in 

 the Daily Pantagraph. Bloomington, and 

 now Farmers Creamery is selling about 

 r,0 to TOTr of its print butter as Certified 

 02 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 mend)ers 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 havo 1400 co-op- 

 erative creameries and 85*"^ of all dairy 

 products are marketed by producers 

 through their own coToperative 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 l!i.'!y are as follows: Harold Knns, 

 president, Bloomington; Marion Stubble- 

 field, vice-president, McLean; Ben Mc- 

 Reynolds, secretary, .Stanford; Silas 

 Claus, treasurer. Pontiac; Joe Harris, 

 Clinton; John Kidd. Mcndota; Thad Love- 

 less. Ciillcspic; Jim Knight, Bloomington; 

 Wm. Mayes, Normal. 



The Intermediate Credit Bank of St. 

 Louis more than doubled its volume of 

 business during 1M4, according to Joseph 

 R. Cosgrove. president. The bank dis- 

 counts farmers' short-term production 

 notes. 



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