The Producers' Creamery of Champaign 

 is installing a vacuum pan to be in opera- 

 tion by September 1. This new piece of ap- 

 paratus is being installed to evaporate the 

 buttermilk which, up to this time, has been 

 a by-product. "For every 100 pounds of 

 butter that was made last year, we had 145 

 pounds of buttermilk," reports Manager 

 Burns. "With this new installation we will 

 now have semi-solid buttermilk of a high 

 quality for sale." 



Cream delivered to the door of the Pro- 

 ducers' Creamery of Champaign has in- 

 creased 27% from the last of July to the 

 middle of August. 



During the third summer of operation, 



the quality of PRAIRIE FARMS Butter 

 made at Champaign has steadily improved. 

 No under-score butter has been made this 

 summer, and an increased amount of extra 

 quality butter has been made. 



Volume of butter made by Producers 



Creamery of Moline in July was 421/2% 

 ahead of the same month in '56. The in- 

 crease is partly due to heavier production 

 than a year ago when the drough was in 

 effect. But new patrons also have added 

 volume. 



Kenneth Shields recently assumed charge 



of field routes and field work, reports man- 

 ager C. G. Huppert of Moline. He is mak- 

 ing progress in adding to the number of 

 patrons selling through the creamery. Ken- 

 neth has been on one of the cream territories 

 for some time and has consistently built up 

 the patronage from that area. 



A few weeks ago Farmers Creamery Com- 

 pany made a prediction that during the first 

 week of August cream deliveries would 

 show an increase and be greater than a year 

 ago. This prediction has now become a 

 reality and the chart shows that the number 

 of deliveries increased by approximately fifty 

 during that week. A good per cent of these 

 are creditable to truck route salesmen, al- 

 though a definite increase was noted in door 

 business. These increases are the result of 

 an effort to maintain a steady flow of cream 

 to the creamery and at least postpone sea- 

 sonal shortage which ordinarily occurs at 

 this time. 



Our revised aggressively administered 

 township survey plan of cream patron pro- 

 curement is certainly giving some very posi- 

 tive results," writes C. W. Simpson from 

 Olney. "The records from May 1 to Au- 

 gust 1, inclusive, show four hundred fifty- 

 five new patrons added with one hundred 

 twenty-four lost, or off the routes, which 

 leaves a net gain of three hundred thirty- 

 one new patrons for the three months pe- 

 riod. A conservative estimate would indi- 

 aite that fifty out of the one hundred twenty- 

 four lost are not lost but went off the 

 routes due to going out of production. The 

 present indications are that this program 

 will continue to function on the above basis 

 during August and September." 



PIKE COUNTY MARKET TOPPERS 

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JoDaviess Service Company closed its 



sixth year of operation, June 30, with a 

 total of $113,141.20, annual net sales, it 

 was revealed in the annual meeting at Eliz- 

 abeth, August 17. L. R. Marchant was 

 principal speaker. Seven per cent dividends 

 were paid on preferred stock. Patronage 

 dividend checks totaling $11,272.44 were dis- 

 tributed to 619 Farm Bureau members. The 

 patronage rate was 14 per cent on refined 

 oils, 16 on greases, oils, paints, tires and 

 miscellaneous products and 11 per cent on 

 service station and dealer sales. Early in 

 July the company opened an attractive super- 

 service station in Elizabeth. 



During the three months. May, June 



and July, the cattle department handled 

 more cattle than any similar period in 

 Indianapolis Producers history. Dur- 

 ing July 31.7% of the market cattle 

 receipts were consigned "PRODUC- 

 ERS." The first seven months of this 

 year more than twice as many feeder 

 cattle as last year were bought for 

 feeders, reports Gene Middleton. Total 

 volume of all Indianapolis Producer 

 business is almost 300 cars more than 

 the first seven months last year. Value 

 of an average car load during this peri- 

 od was |1567 as compared with |1427 

 per car the first seven months of last 

 year. 



The Producers' Oeamery of Mt. Sterling 

 has now dropped all of the cream buying 

 stations through which it had been receiving 

 cream. These stations helped hold up volume 

 during the drouth of last summer and winter, 

 but due to the lower quality butter which they 

 produced, all cream is «ow being secured by 

 truck. 



Lamb Grading Pays 



Two months ago, Millard Rushton of 

 the St. Louis Producers Livestock Com- 

 mission Association, picked 75 head of 

 market topping lambs from 16 Pike 

 county flocks. 



A few days after his lambs were 

 sorted, Fred Reel trucked the best ones to 

 the St. Louis Producers. They topped 

 the market. Next day Reel stopped at 

 the Farm Bureau office, enthusiastically 

 discussed his good fortune with Farm 

 Adviser W. B. Bunn. Said Fred: 



"Look at this invoice! I had 13 lambs 

 that weighed 1130. They netted me 

 1113.27 — more than 13 cents a pound! 

 I hadn't given the matter of marketing 

 these lambs much thought until you and 

 Rushton came out to my place and graded 

 them. I hadn't grained them and I 

 didn't think they were fat enough to go. 

 I'd have kept them a few weeks longer 

 and sold them at a much lower price." 



Other lamb raisers, too, praised the 

 service. Merlyn Barton jwinted out that 

 the grading service brought in enough 

 extra cash to pay his Farm Bureau dues. 

 Francis Hoover, W. H. Knipmeyer and 

 Art Lipcamon agreed that they made 

 them money and they want it continued 

 next year. 



Word of Rushton's grading visit 

 spread. Other lamb producers called on 

 Farm Adviser Bunn to show them how 

 to go about grading their flocks. 



"We are planning to carry on a similar 

 project next year in Pike county," says 

 Bunn. 



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