Manager Chelsea S. Williams of the Pro- 

 ducers' Creamery of Carbondale, reports a 

 16V^ per cent increase in volume during 

 1937 as compared to a year ago in spite of 

 decreased butterfat production. Williams 

 credits the gain in volume to hard work by 

 cooperating producers. c •; 



J. C Fleming, Hancock county patron of 

 Producers' Creamery of Mt. Sterling, reports 

 that eggs marketed through the creamery 

 have averaged two cents per dozen more 

 than those of his neighbor who sells to an 

 old line concern on a graded basis. The 

 extra two cents a dozen is the bonus the 

 Flemings get for following the suggestions 

 of their creamery on the care of eggs. 



A special drive for more cream for the 

 Producers' Creamery of Mt. Sterling now in 

 progress in Adams county, will close Decem- 

 ber 1. Committeemen, schooled in the 

 problems and benefits of cooperative cream 

 marketing, are busy showing their neighbors 

 how to get more for cream .through market- 

 ing it cooperatively. 



Rivalry is keen between the mcfflbers of 



the staff of the Mt. Sterling creamery. The 

 district has been divided and the responsibil- 

 ity for increasing the cream volume during, 

 November, the lowest month of the year, 

 has been delegated as follows: Brown coun- 

 ty "door" cream to O. R. Ingram, office 

 manager; west half of the district to "Sun- 

 shine" Ash, field man; east half to T. H. 

 Hafer, general manager. Late reports in- 

 dicate a close race but rumors have it that 

 the office and field managers are conniving 

 to beat the general manager. 



Preparations are being made to cut the 



19J7 dividend melom when Farmers Cream- 

 ery stages its fifth annual meeting in 

 Bloomington, December 11. Members of 

 the creamery eligible to receive patronage 

 dividends will have their checks before 

 Christmas this year, instead of in February 

 as in previous years. 



The amount of the dividend will be an- 

 nounced at the meeting, along with a com- 

 plete report of the year's business. 



At the opening of the 1937-38 fiscal 

 year (October), a condensing pan was in- 

 stalled in the creamery for the purpose of 

 making concentrated buttermilk. This step 

 makes the buttermilk available to patrons 

 over the entire creamery area. When the 

 buttermilk was sold as it came from the 

 churn, only those within easy driving dis- 

 tance of the plant could regularly get a 

 supply. . . ._ _, . ^ ,. , . 



Potash Ups Com Yields on ' 



Cbray Silt Loam Soils 



Thaa* two picture* ware taken in 

 luly on th« W. A. Hunter ionn neor 

 Scdem in Marion county- The com 

 in the top picture had no fertiliser, 

 the plot in the lower picture got 125 

 Iba. ef a mixed fertilizer containing 

 8 porta add phosphate and 24 porta 

 potaah dropped in the hilL The 

 treated com yielded close to 60 bu. 

 OB acre (Champion White Pearl). 



the dieck plot untreated only 

 25 bu. 



The fertilizer tests were made un-\ 

 der the supervision o! Fred J. Black- 

 bum, farm adviser, and the Morion 

 County Farm Bureau. Blackburn 

 •lates that the potash was responsi- 

 ble for the increose. The soil is 

 gray silt loom on tight cloy. 



Farmers Creamery truck drivers are re- 

 newing spark plugs, putting in anti-freeze, 

 and otherwise tuning up their trucks in 

 preparation for another winter of depend- 

 able service to hundreds of creamery pa- 

 trons. The second million miles of service 

 has been made with increasing economy, 

 and has further demonstrated Ae practica- 

 bility of the minis Producers Creameries' 

 procurement program. 



DECEMBER, 1937 



For the first time in its history, the 

 McLean County Milk Producers Ass'n. 

 wrote its own checks in payment of milk 

 sold to dealers by members of the Asso- 

 ciation. Checks perviously had been writ- 

 ten by the dealers purchasing the milk. 



"Checks for October milk were largest 

 per lb. butter fat since December 1930," 

 said a former member of the Board. 



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"After pooling the money received from 

 the dairies for milk," announced Manager 

 Forrest C. Fairchild, "we find we are able 

 to pay 49.8 cents per pound butterfat for 

 Grade A milk delivered, 44.8 for B milk, 

 and 39.8 for C milk. At this time of 

 year only a very small percentage «f the 

 milk from association members is C milk, 

 so the average price for all grades is well 

 over 45 cents." ~~^ 



