

FORTHCOMING DAIRY LEGISLATION FOR ILLINOIS CONSIDERED. 

 Conference Held Recently in the I. A. A. Offices, Chicago, at the Call of the Illinois Milk Producers Association, 

 Seated — left to right, Harry Roti, Decatur Producers' Dairy, Ed Gumm, Galesburg Pure Milk Association, Walter W, McLaughlin, State 

 Director of Agriculture, Alex McPhedran, president, Illinois Milk Producers, Wilfred Shaw, secretary, I. M. P. A., H. D. Allebach, Natl Com- 

 mittee on Evaporated Milk, E. W. Tiedeman, Sanitary Milk Producers, Dr, R. W. Bartlett, Univ. of Illinois. 



Standing — left to right, John C. Watson, I. A. A. Director of Taxation, James McCabe, Pontiac Milk Producers. C. M. Cosgrove, Pure Milk 

 Ass'n, Rueben Meti, Stephenson County Pure Milk, D. J. Blickenstaff, Decatur Milk Ass'n, Albert Heckle, Quincy Coop. Milk Producers Ass'n, 

 Walter Mugge, Producers Dairy, Harrisburg, F. C. Fairchild, McLean County Milk Producers, H. O. Klawonn, Quality Milk Ass'n, Moline, 

 Hugh W, Mainland, Mid-West Dairymen's Co., Rockford, Paul E. Mathias, I. A. A. Corporate Secretary, Erwin C. Aufdenkamp, Producers' Dairy, 

 ■ Jacksonville, Marion Stubblefield, McLean County Milk Producers, Joseph P. Stiegliti, Peoria Producers Dairy, R. S. Lundqulst, Stephenson 

 County Pure Milk Ass'n, Dewey Prather, Champaign County Milk Producers. J'. Cole Morton, Danville Producers Dairy. 



A committee of five — Case, McPhedran, Mainland, Heckle, and Tiedeman — was appointed to report specific recommendations. A state 

 milk quality improvement program and oleo and filled milk measures were discussed. 



it th.it'way). The consumer, of course 

 must expert to pay a premium price for 

 it based on qu.ility and market condi- 

 tions. 



In less than -io days actual operations 

 of this new plant, markets have been 

 developed whereby our entire supply ot 

 tub butter now is beint; packaged tor 

 discriminatmt; buvers wiio want cjuality 

 at a i^remium price. Nine tuil-time em- 

 ployees are now necessary to carry on 

 these ojM^rations and more will be aJtlcd 

 as the- volume of butter increases. 



All the butter is picked up .it the 

 plants reL:Lilarlv on schedule each week 

 by Alfred Osterhotf with a bis: ten ton 

 refrii;erateil truck, and ilelivered to the 

 Chicico plant. Before shipment is made 

 all butter is graded at the plant by a 

 Federal-St.ue butter grader. C. (). luttle. 

 He represents the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 1 he certificate he issues 

 accom'panies each shipment. 

 . -Immediately upon arrival at the plant 

 the butter is placed in a refrigerated room 

 at a temperature of 33 degrees. Here 

 it is recheckcd for quality,, weight, fat. 

 moisture, salt and extraneous matter. It 



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is held at a temperature of 30 to 32 de- 

 grees for 24 to 3(i hrs. 



It is then re-weighed with an auto- 

 matic print-weigh recording device which 

 prints the weights of each tub in dupli- 

 cate as the butter moves down a gravity 



"Largest in the State and Proud of It." 



conveyor to the Doering cutter. The 

 tubs or boxes are removed and the butter 

 pkiced in the Doering machine similar 

 to a big sausage grinder and the butter 

 molded or printed into 1 lb. prints, rolls 

 or I4 lb. prints. It then moves down an 

 endless belt conveyor where it is hand- 

 wrapped by the Prairie I'arms girls and 

 packeil in ^2 lb. fibre shipping boxes anil 

 placed in the coolers ready lor shipment. 



The plant has a capacity of two car- 

 loads or -lO.OOO lbs. daily and if the 

 business justifies we can handle this 

 much more by running a night shift. 



A complete laboratory is being 

 ei|uipped with an experienced technician 

 in'charge, so that each creamery will haxc 

 a complete butter analysis furnished with 

 each churning on every shipment. An 

 adet|uate slock of creamery supplies will 

 also be carried for the creameries as well 

 as a stock of Prairie I'arms cheese which 

 will be ready for distribution within a 

 few days. 



Adecjuate facilities are available for 

 handling eggs at this plant with very lit- 

 tle additional expense. 



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