lERSEYMAN D. M. STUTZMAN 

 "Sepaiating is easy with electric pow- 

 er." His ten cows produce 20 gallons oi 

 cream each week. 



TUBBING A CHURNING OF 92-SCORE 

 Louie McBurnie (with tamper) and Oick Stewart pack a 1000-pound churniul to 

 be sent to the central butter cutting plant in Chicago. A tub holds 64 pounds. 



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Successful Cooperation 



THE HTQIIY IIP THE F/IK^EKS 

 TKE/IIVIEKY AT HLIMI^I^nTII^ 



By LARRY POTTER 



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tell you 

 (.otfcf. ' 

 While 



SK D.ive Stutzin.m, MiLe.in 



county, why he breeds purc- 



breJ lerseys .inJ he II likely 



To h.ivc iream for my 



D.i' 



ikes plenty of ^okien 

 Boston totfee. he .ilso fancies his Jerseys. 

 And. if you were to pin him to it. hed 

 admit that he admires the tream checks 

 he ^ets from the larmers (dreamery f om- 

 pany of Bloomin^ton. too. 



Not long a^o, Dave tried to ^et 

 more cash from his herd hy sellini; whole 

 milk. He and Mrs. Stutzman ijot alon^ 

 1 ^ days without cream in their favorite 

 bever.ige. Their only consolation was 

 the hope that their milk check would 

 amount to more than cream checks had. 



' VC'hen the milk check came we found 

 that we had made as much selling' cream 

 in seven days as we ^ot for milk in 

 fifteen. That was enough for us. VC'e had 

 missed our coffee cream and the pit;s 

 missed their skim milk, too.' Dave says. 



The Stutzman herd consists of ten 

 cows, all less than four years old, and 

 25 head of heifers and bulls. Older 



cows are sold to other breeders. Cream 

 production averages 20 tiallons per week 

 and usually grades A. 



When the McLean County I'arm Bu- 

 reau came into beini; in 19H with Dave 

 Thompson, now associate editor of Prairie 

 larnier. as tarm adviser, Stutzman's land- 

 lord, ( arl Roman, paid his tenant's dues. 

 Both owner and operator profited by the 

 investment. 



In the 2'> years that Stutzman has 

 farmed Roman's ■\\~! acres he has spread 

 hundreds of tons of limestone and ma- 

 nure and has thrown legumes every year. 

 Land that was too poor to grow grass is 

 now one ot the most fertile farms in the 

 community. 



Another I'armers Creamery patron is 

 A. L. Prosser who lives 11 miles south- 

 east of Bloomington. He milks 19 head 

 of high grade Holsteins from which he 

 gets around -t*) gallons of Grade A cream 

 each week. 



Prosser separates the milk as soon as 

 it is taken from the cows. The cream 

 is run directly into a can set in a cooling 

 tank in a modern milk house. In three 



milkings Prosser gets a ten gallon can 

 of cream. He takes such perfect care 

 of his cream that it is always sweet and 

 cool when it gets to the creamery. 



As a producer of quality cream, Pros- 

 ser is constantly urged by butterfat buyers 

 to shun the cooperative creamery. He 

 admits that he has dickered with many 

 and sold to a few other buyers. But he 

 has always returned to the Farmers 

 C reamery. The reason, he says, is that 

 his own marketing agency pays the most 

 in the long run. 



"When other creameries are short of 

 lat they II pay more but as soon as they 

 have all the butter they need they'll go 

 to skinning you, " he says. 



A. L. farms 309 acres which he bought 

 in 1934. He feeds all his grain to the 

 cows and 200 pigs. He claims that pigs 

 thrive best when they have an ample sup- 

 ply of skim milk. 



Before he bought his farm, when he 

 lived nearer town, Prosser sold whole 

 milk on the Bloomington market. He 

 learned how to handle dairy products 

 properly, experience that has stood him 

 in good stead as a cream producer. He 

 prefers his present mode of dairying to 

 milk production. 



I'armers. like Dave Stutzman and A. 



I. A. A. RECORD 



