Bringing in the Cream 



County Farm Bureaus Chief Factor In Swelling Volume In 

 Producers Creameries 



By Frank Gougler 



THE llllliol> Ai;riiulUliiil A^^.lle■l;l- 

 tioii is ri'cojjtuzrd ihrouKhout thi- 

 Unitod Sliitt's a,s tlio laiRost atifi 

 most militant farm urtiani/alion in 

 Anu-rica. The reason for this is the 

 outstaiuiing accomplishments that have 

 been achieved in this state in carryin« 

 out a broad program of service to 

 m inbi'is. and seilini; up subsidarj or- 

 Hani/ations to the state oiv,ani/ation as 



well 



IS to countv 



Farm Bureaus. A 

 few of the busmes.- 

 service a c c o m - 

 plishmeiits within 

 the state are of in- 

 terest. 



More than ten 

 years ago the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural 

 Auditing A.s.socia- 

 tion and Farmers 

 iRANK GOUGLER M u t u ul Reinsur- 

 ance C o m p a n y 

 were ortianized 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 patrons 

 more than two million dollars in |)al- 

 ronage dividends. 



The Illinois Agricvdtural Mutual 

 Insurance Company was launched in 

 1027 and at the pn-st'tit 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 husine.ss 338 per cent. 



Such accomplishments are not acci- 

 dents. County P'arm Bureaus and the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association not 

 only lauiich(>d these projects but .il.so 

 made possible their tremendous 

 growth. The confidence of farmers in 

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

 powerful factor. 



Illinois Producers" Creameries is one 

 of the newer undertakings. In l!t32 

 the Illinois Auriciiltural Assoi-iation 

 and County Farm Buri'aus determined 

 to establish eight large co-operative 

 creameries. Seven of the.se are now 

 operating and the eighth will he ready 



to operate some tiiiK' this fall, 'lln- • 

 creaniiTies have bt'cn ^« I up to mii.ki 

 one miUifin pounds of butter during 

 ihi'ir first year of operation and tiny 

 liave achieved this lecord. The pro- 

 ducers creameries at Pioriii and 

 Blof)mmgton made their millmn 

 Ijounds the first year of operation aiui 

 up to this time are running about 'S.i 

 pel cent ahead of last year for the 

 first five months of oijeration. Th<- 

 Producers Creamery of Cliami^iigii 

 was .started on September l.'!, 1934 and 

 b.\- June 24 of thi-- \ear reached the 

 million mark. 



In organizing these creameries, com- 

 mittees of Farm Bureau leaders m 

 each county within a creamery district 

 gave an enormous amount of time 

 during the slock selling cjiinijaigns to 

 assist in raising money to fin;mce the 

 project and these same leadt'rs. after 

 the creameries were started, have de- 

 voted a lot of time to increasing vol- 

 ume. 



Farmers generally realize the im- 

 portance of supplying the creamery 

 with a large volume of good cream. 

 They, no doubt, know that the cost 

 of operation is directly proportional to 

 the volume. Co-operative creameries 

 which have operated for several years 

 and have increased their volume from 

 lime to time report that by tloubling 

 the volume in a creamery, the cost of 

 making one pound of butter can be re- 

 duced appro.\imati'ly l-4c per pound. 

 This means that if a creamery which 

 has made one million pounds of butter 

 during the first vi'ar can increase its 

 volume to two million the .second year, 

 the per pound cost will be r»'duci'd at 

 the rate of l-lc on the total two million 

 pounds, which amt)unts to a saving of 

 S2,r)(KI. In view of this fact, every i>a- 



SAM HONNEGGER OF Livingston 



co-nty ST* !es as ^e ge*s a c^>ec* ^'om Packey 

 McFarland 0"e c^ Faff"eps C'ea'^^'v Com- 

 pany's cacii Haulers. H.onne^ge' B'os. -»ho 

 raise Gucnseys. have a m U rou^e o^ their 

 own in Fcrrest but the^r surplus goes to the 

 co-operat-ve cr«*flrne'y. Packev rriates about 

 40 calls ana picks *jp around 500 to 600 lbs. 



4*d returning tp B-'oorvi ng*or» 



Ing 150 rniles 

 about 4 P. M. 



•r,.., f :> ,-ii-,.f.. ■••;!•■..•,. ,'p';il>i-'r\ vh'.llM 



i-oii-tantlv solicit his nomhbor who is 

 not a paM-on in order that n-.a;i'if,K-Uir- 

 ms: (ii-ls can be reduced. ' 



Our creanieries are assembluii: vi ry 

 interest ■lit; infonration on the probl-ni 

 of cream procurement The Producers 

 Cri .■!'• '■' ■ f rh:rnpa:cii h.is vuvr-i.i- 

 !•■ ...,1 -..i.-li ■•'f -v.,;!'!''!! for 'be •••' vb- 

 of Ajiril and May this year in the sev- 

 eral counties that it is serving; The 

 (iaia l>ilow shows the total pounds of 

 luiltrrla' sold l>y producers in each 

 countv annuallv. 



Th«" t()!al pdtfiiti;)! availahlf hutttrfat for 

 fountu-s atui tlu' amount actually ivtv-ivt-d 

 iountv t(i tht' total a\ .lil.ttil*- inani i^ a^ fi 



thf tnoiith'. .»f Apri) at^l May \t\ t .uh of tiifso 



How. 



SKI'TK.MIJKK. 1935 



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