After seven years of operation Schuyler- 

 Brown Service Company held its banner an- 

 nual meeting in the Rushville High School, 

 September 21. 



Manager George Scheef reported that the 

 sales of the company had increased 21.8 per 

 cent the past year, with a net income the 

 highest in the history of the company. 



Out of 1,354 patrons, 581 Farm Bureau 

 members or 92 per cent of the membership 

 received patronage dividend checks totaling 

 $1},297.69, an average of $20.60 per mem- 

 ber. The seven per cent preferred stock divi- 

 dend totaled $869.75. The largest patronage 

 dividend check issued was in the amount of 

 $411.02. 



The rates of patronage dividend paid 

 ranged from eleven to twenty per cent on 

 rural sales, and ten per cent on service sta- 

 tion and dealer business. 



Four hundred eighty-five tractors in Schuyler 

 and Brown counties operate on service com- 

 pany fuels and lubricants. 



Special entertainment at the annual meet- 

 ing was furnished by WLS radio artists. 

 L. R. Marchant was the speaker. The entire 

 board of directors, with Brooke Edmonston, 

 president, was reelected. 



report that patronage dividends declared 

 on the past year's business had hit a new all 

 time high. Eighty-seven per cent of the Farm 

 Bureau members patronized the company 

 during the fiscal year. They received patron- 

 age checks averaging $17.50 per member. 

 The total amount of dividends paid on the 

 year's business was $12,806.00. 'The rates of 

 dividends were 20 per cent on motor oils 

 and grease, I21/2 per cent on all other rural 

 sales, and 10 per cent on service station and 

 dealer business. C. H. Becker of Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company was the principal 

 speaker. 



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Farm Bureau members of Hancock county 



who attended the thirteenth annual meeting 

 00 September 15, were pleased to hear 

 ^(anager Dorothy of the Service Company 



The Warren County Service Company dis- 

 tributed $10,181.00 in patronage dividends 

 to 618 Farm Bureau members, 79 per cent of 

 the total county membership, at the annual 

 meeting, Monmouth, Oct. 14. 



The rate of dividends on rural sales was 

 12 per cent on fuels, with the exception of 

 distillate which was eight per cent, and 15 

 per cent on all other products. 



Harold Whitman and Sam Phelps were 

 elected directors. C. H. Becker was principal 

 speaker. 



Producers' Creamery of Olney has 1058 



active cream patrons as compared to 730 a 

 year ago, reports C. W. Simpson, manager. 

 This is a 44% increase for the year. 



Says Simpson: "A comparison of 32 

 cream routes on October 3 shows only three 

 with fewer active patrons than they had a year 

 ago. The check-up indicates less turnover 

 of patrons during 1937 than in other years." 



Illinois Producers Creameries annouiKes 

 that it will pay member creameries one cent 

 more for 92 score butter than for 90 score. 



The new price assures producers of at 

 least IVi cents a pound more for Grade A 

 butterfat. 



In order to secure a ready market for 

 buttermilk. Producers Creameries of Cham- 

 paign and Bloomington recently installed 

 condensing equipment to produce semi-solid 

 buttermilk. "The new product will be sold 

 for hog and chicken feed. 



Butterfat sales to the Farmers Creamery 

 of Bloomington from Logan county in- 

 creased 40 per cent during the year, reports 

 F. G. Fairchild, manager. Logan county 

 producers were served by Harold Williams 

 until April 1, and since then by Joe South. 



Volume of cream handled by Illinois Pro- 

 ducers Creameries during the first nine months 

 of 1937 shows substantial increases over the 

 same period a year ago. Carbondale reports 

 a 17 per cent increase, Moline 14 per cent, 

 Peoria 13 per cent, Galesburg 93 per cent 

 and other plants show similar increases. 



Closing the first year of operation of the 

 central butter cutting plant in Chicago, 

 Illinois Producers Creameries declared a 

 patronage dividend of $10,847.75 to be 

 paid member creameries. A 7 per cent Class 

 A Preferred Stock dividend of $1,108.72 and 

 a dividend of $696.54 on purchases of 

 supplies were also declared. 



Operation of the plant reduced transporta- 

 tion charges 33 per cent, saved $3,500. More 

 than a million dollars worth of butter was 

 packaged and sold. "Buyers are so eager 

 to get Prairie Farms Butter that they come 

 out to the plant to get it. C. I. F. (Cash 

 In Fist)," reports Jack Countiss, sales 

 manager. 



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