Bringing in the Cream 



County Farm Bureaus Chief Factor In Swelling Volume In 

 Producers Creameries 



By Frank Gougler 



TAAinS. eOUOLES 



THE Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion is recognized throughout the 

 United States as the largest and 

 most militant farm organization in 

 America. The reason for this is the 

 outstanding accomplishments that have 

 been achieved in this state in carrying 

 out a broad program of service to 

 m-mbers, and setting up subsidiary or- 

 ganizations to the state organization as 

 well as to county 

 Farm Bureaus. A 

 few of the business 

 service a c c o m - 

 plishments within 

 the state are of in- 

 terest. 



More than ten 

 years ago the Illi- 

 n o i s Agricultural 

 Auditing Associa- 

 tion and Farmers 

 M u t u al Reinsur- 

 ance Company 

 were organized — both very successful. 

 Some eight years ago the Illinois Farm 

 Supply Company was launched which 

 at the present time has sixty affiliated 

 associations and during its eight years 

 of operation has returned to p>atrons 

 more than two million dollars in pat- 

 ronage dividends. 



The Illinois Agricultural Mutual 

 Insurance Company was launched in 

 1927 and at the present time has more 

 than 42,000 policies in force saving 

 many Farm Bureau members annually 

 more than their dues. 



The Country Life Insurance Com- 

 pany is another outstanding example. 

 In a little more than five years this 

 organization has written seventy mil- 

 lion dollars worth of insurance and in- 

 creased its business 338 per cent. 



Such accomplishments are not acci- 

 dents. County Farm Bureaus and the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association not 

 only launched these projects but also 

 made possible their tremendous 

 growth. The confidence of farmers in 

 the I. A. A. and Farm Bureau was a 

 powerful factor. 



Illinois Producers' Creameries is one 

 of the newer undertakings. In 1932 

 the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 and County Farm Bureaus determined 

 to establish eight large co-operative 

 creameries. Seven of these are now 

 operating and the eighth will be ready 



to operate some time this fall. These 



creameries have been set up to make 



one million pounds of butter during 



their first year of operation and they ^^^^'~^^^^|Hi^HH^^^IUSv^' M 



have achieved this record. The pro- ''Itli^Wl - 1 ^^^BF^- 



ducers creameries at Peoria and 



Bloomington made their million 



pounds the first year of operation and ^-^^^^^^ ^^r> 



up to this time are running about 33 \ '^^"^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ 



per cent ahead of last year for the _^ \ »- 



first five months of operation. The 



Producers Creamery of Champaign 



was started on September 13, 1934 and 



by June 24 of this year reached the SAM HONNEGSER OF LIVINeSTON 



million mark. county smiles as he gets a check from Packay 



T ■ • ii_ McFarland. one of Farmers Creamery Com- 



In organizing these creameries, com- p^^., ^„^|, ^,„,,„ Honnegger Bros., who 



mittees of Farm Bureau leaders in raise Guernseys, have a milk route of their 



each county within a creamery district own in Forrest but their surplus goes to the 



gave an enormous amount of time co-operative creamery. Paekey maket about 



during the stock selling campaigns to ^ ^•'" T' "'t T,"";"' T '^^ >^ .'^T:. 



assist in raising money to finance the ;„g 150 mjles and returning to Bloomington 



project and these same leaders, after about 4 P. M. 



the creameries were started, have de- .=:=r^__^_=rr_^^__r^^: 



voted a lot of time to increasing vol- *'"on "f a co-ooerative creamery should 



unie. constantly solicit his neighbor who is 



Farmers generally realize the im- "ot a patron in order that manufactur- 



portance of supplying the creamery '"K costs can be reduced, 



with a large volume of good cream. O"*" creameries are assembling very 



They, no doubt, know that the cost interesting information on the problem 



of operation is directly proportional to "^ cream procurement. The Producers 



the volume. Co-operative creameries Creamery of Champaign has summa- 



which have operated for several years r*^*^ ''"ch i^f'^rmafion for the months 



and have increased their volume from o^ April and May this year in the sev- 



time to time report that by doubling ^^al counties that it is serving. The 



the volume in a creamery, the cost of ^^^ below shows the total pounds of 



making one pound of butter can be re- butterfat sold by producers in each 



duced approximately l-4c per pound, county annually. 



This means that if a creamery which County Annual ProductloB 



has made one million pounds of butter Iroquois 1.455 831 # 



during the first year can increase its fhelb'^'^ 1 TO7712 



volume to two million the second year, Veminion 829 6R8 



the per pound cost will be reduced at Ford 5.'W182 



the rate of l-4c on the total two million Piatt 495.299 



pounds, which amounts to a saving of E""?^^ IH SS 



«o icnA T f *u- £ * Moultrie 454.597 : 



$2,500. In view of this fact, every pa- Clark 395.R14 



======^=^= Coles 3H.V» - 



The total potential available butterfat for the months of April and May in each of these 

 counties and the amount actually received, in addition to the percentage received in each 

 county to the total available cream, is as follows: 



B. F. Produced (Lbs.) B. F. Beceived (Lbs.) PercenUce of 



County May April May April County Produrtion 



May AprU 



Iroquois 157J06 117.401 12.955.7 10.948.7 8.2% 9 3% 



Champaign 117.649 87.804 40.010.9 32.447.1 34.0 36 9 



Shelby 109,639 81,826 9.077i 7.942.4 8.2 9.7 



Vprmilion i>->/0 6' ''"O 6 fi'7 - ■■■.\ -q 74 



Ford 58.554 43.700 17.320.9 13.525.8 29.6 30.0 



Piatt 53.889 40.218 3.300.0 3 298 9 6.1 8.0 



Douglas 51J35 38.462 9.359.1 8.502.0 18.1 22,1 



Moultrie 49.460 36.913 4.733.6 4.256.1 9.5 11.5 



Clark 43.065 32.140 4.223.2 4.752.2 9.8 10.5 



Coles 42,879 32,001 5,003.5 3,9405 11 J 10.2 



(Continued on page 26) 



SEPTEMBER, 1935 





