PRODUCERS 

 XREAMERIES 



iNEWSi 



Producers Creamery of Galesburg — 



This is the seventh of the! chain of eight 

 cooperative creameries to be organized 

 in the State. It started to churn butter 

 Thursday, July 11. During the first week 

 of operation 24,664 pounds of butter 

 were mad?. On the second day of oper- 

 ation, 6,324 pounds of butter were 

 churned. The first car of butter was 

 shipped to market on Thursday. July 18. 

 The cream is assemb'ed by 24 truck 

 salesmen operating 38 routes. There are 

 still three routes to be organized. 



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Forrest Moberg, field representative, 

 says, "We are getting the cream in spite 

 of the fact that some processors in the 

 territory are paying from 5c to 7c higher 

 than our * price. Our patron^ were 

 warned in advance not to join the or- 

 ganization if they were not willing to 

 take less for their butterfat after the 

 co-operative got underway than other 

 creameries would then be willing to pay. 

 Some producers." says Moberg, "report 

 that while they get higher prices from 

 other creameries, yet for a like volume 

 of cream they get a larger check from 

 the co-operative." 



An army of producers are giving a 

 lot of assistance to truck salesmen in 

 building up routes. Each township has a 

 cream committee of three. The town- 

 ship Farm Bureau director serves as 

 chairman of the cream committee. In 

 Knox County Moberg met with sales- 

 men for the Knox County Service Com- 

 pany. These hustlers will not only push 

 oil and gas sales but will boost the 

 creamery program also. 



"The trade is not yet being served 

 with Prairie Farms Butter", says Man- 

 ager Virgil Johnson. "However, some 

 butter has been printed for the creamery 

 patrons. This is being taken to produc- 

 ers by truck salesmen who gather the 

 cream. By Monday, July 22 larger quan- 

 tities of butter will be printed and lo- 

 cal trade throughout the district will be 

 supplied with high quality Prairie 

 Farms Butter — 'The Butter that Must 

 Please'." 



IN THE HANDS OF A FRIEND 

 Loft to right: Howard Van Anken and Otto 

 Davis of Edgar county and Cy Simpson of Illi- 

 nois Livestock Marketing Association, in rear, 

 with part of 61 steers averaging 1129 lbs. that 

 topped the Indianapolis market at $12 on June 

 25. The cattle fed by Van Anken were bought 

 early in May last year through John Scott of 

 the Kansas City Producers. 



Not A Party To Suits 



The Institute of American Meat Pack- 

 ers advises that it is not a participant in 

 the suit brought by a Baltimore meat 

 packer, or by any other meat packers, 

 to restrain the Agricultural Adjustment 

 Administration from collecting process- 

 ing taxes on hogs. 



The statement was issued following 

 erroneous reports that the Institute was 

 "behind" a suit filed by a Baltimore meat 

 packer to test the validity of the Agri- 

 cultural Adjustment Act and the process- 

 ing tax on hogs. 



1935 wheat benefit payments will be 



at least 33 cents a bushel on allotments 

 compared witlj. the 1934 minimum of 29 

 cents. 



JoDavIess County 



(Continued from page 18) 



by Sears, Roebuck and Company in rec- 

 ognition of their fine interest and coop- 

 eration in making the project a success. 

 A sheep shearing contest was conducted 

 for the first time which proved of real 

 interest and worth to the onlookers. Mr. 

 Harris of the Chicago Producers sheep 

 department demonstrated the grading of 

 market lambs and talked on what present 

 market requirements are. L. B. Horn- 

 beck, fieldman on the wool marketing 

 project for Illinois Livestock Marketing 

 Association, stressed the need of getting 

 more volume in the National Cooperative 

 to stabilize prices. 



The Club Merit Sheep Project with 

 the continued unselfish interest and sup- 

 port of Mr. Berlage and the cooperation 

 of the Farm Bureau should grow and 

 develop into an organization of sheep 

 farmers that will exert great influence 

 for the good of the sheep industry in this 

 county. More important than improve- 

 ment of sheep farming, winners of lambs 

 in these contests are being schooled in 

 the art of sticking with a certain project 

 until worthwhile aims are accomplished. 

 They are also learning that giving brings 

 more real satisfaction than receiving. 



MRS. MIES 



What the Home Bureau 

 Is Doing 



Mrs. Elsie W. Mies, organization 

 chairman of the Illinois Home Bureau 

 Federation, states that 24 reporting 

 counties show a net gain of more 

 than 700 members between September 

 1. 1934 and June 15. 1935. This figure 

 does not include the 300 or more new 

 members in Greene county which 

 was organized 

 in May. 



The Illinois 

 Home Bureau 

 Federation i s 

 proud of its 

 growth. There 

 are 36 organ- 

 izations in, 40 

 counties. June 

 8 marked the 

 twentieth year 

 for Kankakee 

 as an organized 

 county. It was 

 the first in the 

 state of Illinois 

 and one of the 

 first counties in 

 the United 



States to be organized in home exten- 

 sion work, while the last county to 

 join the Federation is JoDaviess 

 which was added on July 18. 



Dewitt and Henry counties are 

 working toward an organization with 

 150 to 200 members signed in each 

 county. This fall several other unor- 

 ganized counties hope to secure the 

 required number of members to join 

 the Home Bureau Federation. 



For the past three years Home ik;o- 

 nomics Ebctension and the Illinois 

 Home Bureau Federation have co- 

 operated in holding membership 

 training schools each fall in eight or 

 nine districts of the state. These have 

 been attended by membership com- 

 mitteees from each county. Problems 

 are discussed, plans formulated and 

 information, inspiration and enthu- 

 siasm given to be carried back to the 

 unit committees and members. 



The increase in interest and new 

 members is no doubt to some degree 

 at least, due to the greater under- 

 standing and feeling of responsibility 

 on the part of the members brought 

 about through these schools. I think 

 you can add as other reasons, a grow- 

 ing realization of the problems of the 

 homemaker; the fact that authentic 

 information may be obtained through 

 the educational program of the Home 

 Bureau; an ever increasing belief in 

 organization, and the desire to express 

 through united effort our individual 

 needs which are the needs of the 

 group. 



•"Home Bureau wiU mean as much 

 to you as Farm Bureau means to me. 

 You better join," was the advice giv- 

 en by Henry J. Mies to his wife, Mrs. 

 Eslie W. Mies. So unsolicited in 1917 

 Mrs. Mies signed to become a charter 

 member of the Livingston County 

 Home Bureau. She has been active 

 in the work since that time. 



Since 1919 Mrs. Mies has held some 

 office in the Home Bureau, unit, 

 county, or state. She was county 

 president for three years and state 

 president for four. Her major interest 

 during the entire time has been or- 

 ganization work. She is an able 

 speaker and an aggressive leader in 

 women's activities. 



T. A. A. RECORD 



