PRODUCERS 



CREAMERIES. 



NEWS 



Galesbur^ — Tlic new planl is nuaiiim 

 completion and is expected to start <>p- 

 pratinR July 1. The board of directors 

 has einjiloyed a manaKtr, Virgil K. John- 

 son of SprinRfieid. Missouri, lie grad- 

 uated from Iowa State CoileRe in lit2T. 

 Since that time he has operated ice 

 cream and millv plants in Iowa and a 

 co-operative creamery for three years at 

 P>therville, Iowa. Diuinc: the past four 

 months he has l)ei'n supervising the 

 manufacture of butter for the General 

 Ice Creaiii Corporation of Schenectady, 

 New York, in a larne i)roducers cream- 

 ery at S|)rinnlie!d. Missouri. The New 

 York concern had a contract lor J.'l ear- 

 loads of butter made during the monlhs 

 I'f March, April, May and June. 



The Producers Creamery of (lalesburg 

 also has employed a field manager, For- 

 rest MoberR. Molier)j was horn and 

 raised on a farm near Cialesburjr, and 

 during the past few years has been man- 

 ager of the GalesburfT Pure Milk Asso- 

 ciation. He has provcil an etticient man- 

 ajier for that orKanization and the 

 creamery is fortunate to secure his serv- 

 ices. He started work the week of June 

 17 to or^rani/.e truck routes throu^liout 

 the territory. 



Mr. Countiss and Mr. Gou^rler recently 

 visited the producers creamery plant al 

 Springfield, Mo. which assembles whole 

 milk from a radius of fifty miles by 

 truck. Seventy-five truckloads a r e 

 brought in daily. During the Hush sea- 

 son a carload of butter is made eacli 

 day. Butter is manufactured durinir 

 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 hJijJ 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 .■J8,000 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 (ggs. 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 



worth S2.'')0,000 are paid for— all devel- 

 oped during the iiast 12 lo ir> years." 



64 Per Cent of Auto 



Deaths In Rural Areas 



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 S20,0(tn 

 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 3.'!'( 

 more than last year. Champaign Tj'.i'^i 

 more in May than during .\pril,. Olney 

 ;?T',' more and Caibondale \C>'", moi'c. 



.Moline Kecently llie plant was moved 

 from Davenport, lowa to Moline, Illi- 

 nois. .\t present, an aggiessive stock 

 selling campaign is under way. The 

 Board has secured the services of Ben 

 Bollnian, former- field represintaf ive for 

 the (Quality Milk .Association to seive as 

 field man U'V. the creamery. Mr. Btdl- 

 man is now actively engaged in organiz- 

 ing new truck routes ami is lapidly in- 

 creasing the \ohinie coming into the 

 plant. 



Huller Sales and (Juality IHning the 

 month of .June all bultei iir.iduced in all 

 I)lants scored an average of better than 

 '.10 with a large percentage scoring lil 

 and ;»2. Practically all '.i2 score butter 

 is being sold in cartons containing the 

 Government certificate. louring the 

 month of June the Blotjmington plant 

 had an average score of slightl.v under 

 '.>2 for all its butter which is almost two 

 points higher than the aveiage 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 ajjportionment of 

 8200.000,000 among the states for high- 

 ways, roads and streets, and S200.000,- 

 000 for grade crossing elimination. The 

 allocations were approved by the Presi- 

 dent. Illinois' portion for highways, 

 roads and streets is $8,094,001) and $10,- 

 .■)07,184 for grade crossing elimination. 



More than a million contracts fur ]H.').'> 



corn-hog co-operators are in preparation 

 according to Claude R. Wickard, chief of 

 the .-V.-V-A corn-hog section. 



Illinois (irain Corporation now has 



member elevators in Morris, Morrison, 

 Mt. Morris, and Morrisonville. 



Speed Plus Indiflerence and Care- 

 lessness Takes Heavv Toll 



.An auto fatality every 1,"> minutes! 

 Of those fatalities, (i4 percent were in 

 rural communities. That is Ul.'14's fa- 

 tality record for tlie United Slates. It 

 is the horrible toll <if speed plus indif- 

 firencc 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 .') fatal acci- 

 dents occur on main highways. Not all of 

 those fat.-ilities 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 "inditference." 



In comiudsory brake tests conducted 

 lecently 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 

 e(iuipment, cities had a better record 

 than rural areas. There is no reason to 

 believe that I'.t.'i.'j will .'^how 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 suddeidy. The 

 shock is too great for some hearts to 

 stand. Don't go swimming immeiliately 

 after eating. Wait a couple of hours. 

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

 to hear your lady friend scream, but her 

 ne.\t sound may be a gurgle. If you 

 haven't been .-iwimming 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 w^rry and give the kids a lot of 

 pleasure and exercise. 



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A baby son, John Paul, was bom to 

 .Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Mathias at the 

 Presbyterian hospital, Chicago, May ^1. 



I. A. A. RECORD 



