PRODUCERS, 



CREAMERIES. 



worth $250,000 are paid for — all devel- 

 oped during the past 12 to 15 years." 



64 Per Cenf of Auto 



Deaths In Rural Areas 



Galesburg — The new plant is nearing 

 completion and is expected to start op- 

 erating July 1. The board of directors 

 has employed a manager, Virgil K. John- 

 son of Springfield, Missouri. He grad- 

 uated from Iowa State College in 1927. 

 Since that time he has operated ice 

 cream and milk plants in Iowa and a 

 co-operative creamery for three years at 

 Estherville, Iowa. During the past four 

 months he has been supervising the 

 manufacture of butter for the General 

 Ice Cream Corporation of Schenectady, 

 New York, in a large producers cream- 

 ery at Springfield, Missouri. The New 

 York concern had a contract for 43 car- 

 loads of butter made during the months 

 of March, April, May and June. 



The Producers Creamery of Galesburg 

 also has employed a field manager, For- 

 rest Moberg. Moberg was born and 

 raised on a farm near Galesburg, and 

 during the past few years has been man- 

 ager of the Galesburg Pure Milk Asso- 

 ciation. He has proved an efficient man- 

 •ager for that organization and the 

 creamery is fortunate to secure his serv- 

 ices. He started work the week of June 

 17 to organize truck routes throughout 

 the territory. 



Mr. Countiss and Mr. Gougler recently 

 visited the producers creamery plant at 

 Springfield, Mo. which assembles whole 

 milk from a radius of fifty miles by 

 truck. Seventy-five truckloads are 

 brought in daily. During the flush sea- 

 son a carload of butter is made each 

 day. Butter is manufactured during 

 four months of the year. At other times 

 the whole milk is separated, skim milk 

 converted into cheese and powder while 

 the sweet cream is shipped to Eastern 

 markets. 



"While at Springfield we had an op- 

 portunity to visit the M. F. A. Produce 

 House, said to be the largest co-opera- 

 tive organization of its kind in the 

 world handling both poultry and eggs," 

 said Mr. Gougler. "Last year the as- 

 sociation handled over 33,000 cases of 

 eggs or approximately 45 carloads, and 

 8,000,000 pounds of poultry, more than 

 400 carloads. There were 100 girls 

 busily engaged in candling eggs. Fifty 

 additional girls were at work in the 

 breaking room, breaking eggs into con- 

 tainers where they are frozen and 

 shipped to Eastern markets. In addition, 

 an army of girls were engaged in pick- 

 ing chickens. The plant and facilities 



Mt. Sterling — The stock selling cam- 

 , paign continues to make satisfactory 

 progress. The following counties have 

 made their quotas: Brown, McDonough, 

 Morgan and Scott. More than $20,000 

 has been raised, the largest single sub- 

 scription being $1,000 from a resident of 

 Brown County. 



Volume Increase — All of the creamery 

 plants which have operated during the 

 past two years are showing a splendid 

 increase this year over last. During 

 the first five months this year the Pro- 

 ducers Creamery of Peoria made 20% 

 more butter than during the same 

 months last year; Bloomington 33% 

 more than last year, Champaign 53% 

 more in May than during April, Olney 

 37% more and Carbondale 95% more. 



Moline — Recently the plant was moved 

 from Davenport, Iowa to Moline, Illi- 

 nois. At present, an aggressive stock 

 selling campaign is under way. The 

 Board has secured the services of Ben 

 Bollman, former field representative for 

 the Quality Milk Association to serve as 

 field man for the creamery. Mr. Boll- 

 man is now actively engaged in organiz- 

 ing new truck routes and is rapidly in- 

 creasing the volume coming into the 

 plant. 



Butter Sales and Quality — During the 

 month of June all butter produced in all 

 plants scored an average of better than 

 90 with a large percentage scoring 91 

 and 92. Practically all 92 score butter 

 is being sold in cartons containing the 

 Government certificate. During the 

 month of June the Bloomington plant 

 had an average score of slightly under 

 92 for all its butter which is almost two 

 points higher than the average for the 

 same period last year. Every carload 

 .sold this year brought a premium over 

 the market. 



Secretary of Agriculture Wallace an- 

 nounced on June 4 an apportionment of 

 $200,000,000 among the states for high- 

 ways, roads and streets, and $200,000,- 

 000 for grade crossing elimination. The 

 allocations were approved by the Presi- 

 dent. Illinois' portion for highways, 

 roads and streets is $8,694,009 and $10,- 

 307,184 for grade crossing elimination. 



More than a million contracts for 1935 



corn-hog co-operators are in preparation 

 according to Claude R. Wickard, chief of 

 the AAA corn-hog section. 



Speed Plus Indifference atid Care- 

 lessness Takes Heavy Toll 



An auto fatality every 15 minutes! 

 Of those fatalities, 64 percent were in 

 rural communities. That is 1934's fa- 

 tality record for the United States. It 

 is the horrible toll of speed plus indif- 

 ference and carelessness. Now take Il- 

 linois. There was an auto fatality last 

 year for every 4.8 miles of pavement. 



Strangely enough 4 out of 5 fatal acci- 

 dents occur on main highways. Not all of 

 those fatalities were rural drivers. They 

 were city people as well, who saw the 

 open road and wanted to see what "the 

 old bus would do." Crossroads, left 

 hand turns, faulty brakes, sideswiping, 

 skids, headlights all contributed their 

 share. But the greatest of all contribut- 

 ing causes was "indifference." 



In compulsory brake tests conducted 

 recently in a large city it was shown 

 that fully 24 percent of the brakes were 

 dangerously defective. A little thinking 

 will disclose the fact that city people 

 generally have to depend on brakes more 

 than drivers in rural sections. If the 24 

 percent holds good in the cities it takes 

 no great powers of deduction to see that 

 brakes on cars in rural areas will show 

 an even greater percentage of defective- 

 ness. 



Between May and August last year in 

 the United States there were 7,700 

 deaths from drowning. Due to super- 

 vision at beaches, as well as pulmotor 

 equipment, cities had a better record 

 than rural areas. There is no reason to 

 believe that 1935 will show any appre- 

 ciable decrease in drownings. A few 

 simple rules, if followed, will considerably 

 cut down rural drownings. They are: 

 don't jump into the water suddenly. The 

 shock is too great for some hearts to 

 stand. Don't go swimming immediately 

 after eating. Wait a couple of hours. 

 Don't "rock the boat." It may be fun 

 to hear your lady friend scream, but her 

 next sound may be a gurgle. If you 

 haven't been swimming lately don't try 

 to do the stunts you used to do when 

 you were in trim. It takes time to get 

 unused muscles loosened up. Don't go 

 out in a boat alone if you can't swim. 

 You can find plenty of good swimming 

 experts to ride while you row. Keep 

 little children away from the water un- 

 less you are with them. By all means 

 teach them to swim at an early age. It 

 will save you as a parent or guardian 

 much worry and give the kids a lot of 

 pleasure and exercise. ,2,. 



Illinois Grain Corporation now has 



member elevators in Morris, Morrison, 

 Mt. Morris, and Morrisonville. 



A baby son, John Paul, was born to 

 Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Mathias at the 

 Presbyterian hospital, Chicago, May 31. 



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