Producers 



The Producers' Creamery of C'hampaign 



IS installing a vacuum pan to be in opera- 

 tion by September 1. This new piece of ap- 

 paratus is bcinj; installed to evaporate the 

 buttermilk which, up to this time, h.is been 

 a by-product. "For every 100 pounds of 

 butter that was made List year, we had 11^ 

 pounds of buttermilk. " reports Maiia.utr 

 Burns. "With this new installation we will 

 now have semi-solid buttermilk of a hii^h 

 quality for sale." 



Cream delivered to the door of the Pro- 

 ducers' Creamery of Champai.mi has in- 

 creased 2'% 'from the last of July to the 

 middle of Aupust. 



PIKE COUNTY MARKET TOPPERS 

 Grading Service Nets Growers Better Prices. 



During the third summer of operation, 



the quality of PRAIRIF FARMS Butter 

 made at Champaign has steadily improved 

 Xo under-score butter has been made this 

 summer, and an increased amount of extra 

 quality butter has been made. 



Volume of butler made by Producers 



Creamery of Moline in July was -IJlj'f 

 ahead of the same month in s6. The in- 

 crease IS partly due to heavier production 

 than a year aj;o when the drouph 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 li.is consistently built up 

 the patron.i.ge 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 lifty- 

 tive new patrons added with one hundred 

 twenty-four lost, or ofT 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- 

 cate that fifty out of the one hundred twenty- 

 four lost are net 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." 



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NEWS 



JoDaviess Service Company closed its 

 sixth year of operation. June .sO, with a 

 total of SI 1.^.11120. annual net sales, it 

 was revealed in the annual meeting at tliz- 

 abeth. August 1" I.. R. Marchant was 

 principal speaker. Seven per cent dividends 

 were paid on preferred stock. Patronage 

 dividend checks totaling SI1,2"'2.11 were dis- 

 tributed to 6IV Farm Bureau members. The 

 patronage rate was 11 per cent on refined 

 oils, 16 on gieases, 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 Flizabeth. 



During the three months, May, June 



and July, the cattle department handled 

 more cattle than any similar period in 

 Indianapolis Producers history. Dur- 

 int; July 31 "'"r of the market tattle 

 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 Sl'>67 as compared with Sl-i27 

 per car the first seven months of last 

 year. 



The Producers' Creamery of Mt. Sterling 

 has now dropped all of tJie cream buying 

 stations through which it had been receiving 

 cream. These stations helped hold up volume 

 durini; the drouth of last summer and winter, 

 but due to the lower quality' butter which they 

 pro.Uiced. all cream is now being secured by 

 truck. 



Lamb Grading Pays 



Two months ago, Millard Rusiiton of 

 the St. Louis Producers Livestock Com- 

 tnission As.sociation, picked 7^ head of 

 iTiarkct topping lamhs from 16 Pike 

 county flocks. 



A few days after his lainbs were 

 sorted, Lred Reel trucked the best ones to 

 the St. Louis Producers. They topped 

 the market. Next day Reel stopped at 

 the I-'arm Bureau office, enthusiastically 

 discussed his good fortune with Farm 

 Adviser W. B. Bunn. Said Fred: 



"Look at this invoicel 1 had 13 lambs 

 that weighed 1 1 30. They netted me 

 $1 13.27 -- inore 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 Iamb raisers, too, praised the 

 service. Meriyn Barton pointed out that 

 the gr.iding service brought in enough 

 extra cash to pay his Farm Bureau dues. 

 lYancis Hoover, W. H. Knipmeyer and 

 Art Lipcamon agreed that they made 

 them money and they w.mt it continued 

 next year. 



Word of Rushton s grading visit / 

 spread. Other iamb 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. 



Merrill Gregory, former assistant ed- 

 itor of Prairie Farmer, is now publicity 

 director for the state Rural Electrifica- 

 tion Committee. 



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