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Illinois Producers' Creameries recently 

 signed a contcact for a trainload of 33 car- 

 loads of Prairie Farms Butter to be delivered 

 between May 15 and July 30. 



An all-day meeting of creamery managers 



and plant superintendents was held in 

 Bloomington, May 13 for the purpose of 

 further standardizing the quality and uni- 

 formity of workmanship, package, salt, color, 

 etcS Each tub will be stamped with the lAA 

 emblem on it and is sold at a substantial 

 premium over the market. An aggressive 

 procurement program is also being launched 

 in order to get additional cream to make 

 this butter which is in addition to our 

 regular outlets. Prairie Farms Butter is 

 rapidly establishing itself as a superior prod- 

 uct and as such, merits the support of all 

 Illinois cream producers. 



Door service is now being given Illinois 

 cream producers by 195 cream routes cover- 

 ing 74 counties in the State. Forty per cent 

 of all the trucks operated are owned by the 

 cooperative creameries. Practically all of 

 these are insulated in order to protect the 

 cream in transit to the creamery. 



During 1936 less than 6% of all butter 

 manufactured in the Producers' creameries 

 graded less than 90 score. All of this but- 

 ter was graded by Federal-State inspectors 

 and Government Certificates issued on all 

 shipments. Grade A cream makes 92 score 

 butter — Grade B 90 score butter and Grade 

 C Undergrade. Quality premiums are now 

 being paid on all Grade A cream in the 

 State. More than 200 cooling tanks have 

 been put out on the routes and this should 

 help to materially increase quality in 1937. 



The Producers' Creamery of Champaign 

 added 249 new patrons from April 1 to 

 May 10. Of the eighteen truck drivers, 

 Barney McDuffee, southern Champaign 

 County, led the list with 28 new patrons. 

 Wayne Lewis, Douglas County ranked sec- 

 ond with 25. Eldon Rosenberger who oper- 

 ates one route in Vermilion and two in 

 eastern Champaign County was third with 

 23. Fourth is Otho Snyder of Clark and 

 Cumberland Counties with 21, and fifth 

 Wilmer Bray with 20 in Piatt, Champaign 

 and Vermilion Counties. Elmer Lading, 

 Shelby County was next with 19 followed by 

 Howard Cane, Iroquois County, John Bloom 

 •nd Homer Pogue, Shelby County, Hugh 

 Turner, Coles County and Harry Neal who 

 picks up cream in Ford and Iroquois Coun- 

 ties. 



Sales of Prairie Farms butter in the Cham- 

 paign creamery district continue to climb. 

 Last March was the high month since the 

 creamery started in 1934, but April sales 

 again exceeded all previous records with 

 50,192 pounds. With local sales increasing 

 it is going to be necessary to get more cream 

 producers to sell the co-operative way. 



The first three months of 1937, Producers' 

 Creamery of Galesburg showed 12% more 

 business than a year ago with poorer feed 

 conditions. During the months of March 

 and April, 203 more producers started mar- 

 keting their cream the co-op way. 



The installation of 25 factory-made water 



cream coolers on farms with a similar num- 

 ber of home made cream coolers will help 

 maintain the high quality of "Prairie Farms" 

 Butter, reports Galesburg. The retinning 

 of cream cans has proved popular. It saves 

 money for the producer and helps to pro- 

 duce better cream. 



The volume of butter made by the Pro- 

 ducers' Creamery of Moline showed an in- 

 crease of 10V2% during the first three 

 months of 1937 as compared to the same 

 three months of 1936. 'The increase is the 

 result of a gain in volume of cream and 

 also to the gain in the volume of milk 

 marketed through the Association. The 

 creamery functions as the surplus plant for 

 the Quality Milk Association. Total sales 

 for March were the largest of any month 

 since January 1936 with the exception of 

 October of last year. 



"Bud" Muhleman recently came to gather 



cream for the Moline creamery. Bud is glad 

 to be working for the farmers again after 

 spending part of a year with a dairy in the 

 Quad City Market. He is familiar with the 

 creamery program because of a previous con- 

 nection with the Quality Milk Association. 

 Since his resumption of duties for the 

 creamery, he has added several new cream 

 patrons and butter customers. 



The Producers' Creamery of Peoria for 



the month of March 1937 had a gain of 

 18.7% over March of 1936. The volume of 

 cream for the first four months this year is 

 8.7% larger than the first four months of 

 1936. 



"We now own and operate seven cream 

 trucks. Two of these trucks are insulated 

 to protect the cream from heat in the sum- 

 mer and to keep it from freezing in the 

 winter. The Prairie Farms Soft Ball Team 

 representing the Producers' Creamery of 

 Peoria is organized and is ready to accept 

 challenges from any other Creamery Team 

 in the State." 



Producers' Creamery of Carboitdale is now 



operating trucks in three new territories and 

 has received about 200 new patrons during 

 April. "We had an increase of 59% in 

 volume and the sales of Prairie Farms But- 

 ter in our own territory keeps increasing" 

 says manager Chelsea S. Williams. "For 

 the first half of May we have had quite an 

 increase in the volume over April." 



Daily livestock markets will be broadcast 

 from stations WJJD and WIND from Mon- 

 day through Friday, and from WLS each 

 Saturday during the summer, announces 

 the Chicago Producers Commission Association. 

 A report will go on the air at 12;02 from 

 WJJD and at 9:45 and 12:30 from WIND 

 week days. The Saturday report from WLS 

 will be heard at 12:45. 



Livestock producers are urged to hear 

 the Friday and Saturday broadcasts which 

 will covet market trends and possibilities as 

 well as the regular price report. 



As a matter of record, the broadcast of 

 the Coronation of King George VI from 

 London was the longest continuous broad- 

 cast in radio history. It lasted seven hours 

 and one minute. t 



The Farm and Home Hour is presented 



jointly by NBC and associated stations, the 

 United States Department of Agriculture 

 and leading farm organizations each week 

 day at 11:30 a. m. over NBC Blue network. 

 Three noteworthy programs for the first 

 week in June are: June 1, Secretary of 

 Agriculture Henry A. Wallace will speak; 

 June 2, Home Demonstration program; June 

 5, National 4-H Music Hour with the U. S. 

 Marine Band. 



Highlights of the annual meeting of the 

 American Institute of Cooperation will be 

 broadcast during the National Farm and 

 Home Hour Wednesday, June 23, at 11:30 

 a. m. over the NBC-Blue network. 



The institute sessions will be held on the 

 campus of Iowa State College, Ames. The 

 broadcast, with Charles E. Holman, execu- 

 tive secretary of the organization presiding, 

 will bring several of the nation's outstand- 

 ing leaders in the cooperative movement to 

 the NBC microphones for a round-table dis- 

 cussion of current problems. 



Fanners Con Run a Milk 

 Business 



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 by the dairy to producers in April aver- 

 aged 48c per pound butterfat. 



All the Producers Dairies are making 

 money with one exception. All are us- 

 ing modem delivery service and equip- 

 ment, modern sales methods, returning 

 to their members from 58 - 64% of the 

 net sales dollar. 



With one exception all seven Dairies 

 are members of the Illinois Milk Pro- 

 ducers Association, the state milk mar- 

 keting organization. They are using a 

 uniform trade mark upon theirj)roducts, 

 namely, "Producers." Uniform bottles, 

 cheese cartons and egg cartons make pos- 

 sible efficient buying. Comparable meth- 

 ods of accounting permit comparisons in 

 operating costs. Frequent meetings of 

 managers and directors are held to dis- 

 cuss common problems and to correlate 

 practices. 



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