PLANNING A NEW CREAM ROUTE 

 Fieldman C. N. Atw^ood, left, and Manager Forrest Fairchild study 

 reports preparatory to putting on a new route in Macon county. Farmers 

 Creamery trucks call at 1000 farms for cream twice each week. 



NO. 1 AND SUCCESSOR 

 Right: Manager Fairchild points to the 

 first Prairie Farms Butter delivery truck in 

 Illinois. Right, below: Salesman removes 

 pari of one store's consignment from Old 

 Number One's streamlined successor. 



I.. Frosscr, wlio ^et mLn.ii of their income 

 from the sale of cream are careful sellers 

 because they have more at stake than 

 smaller procJuccrs. When thev patronize 

 one creamery year after year it indic.ites 

 that the agency is doinj; a satisf.ictorv 

 market int; job. 



It has been said that cooperatives 

 have but one justification for their ex- 

 istence: To provide patrons with serv- 

 ices or savings that they cannot ^'et else- 

 where. That the I'armers Creamery Com- 

 pany has done since it opened, I'ehruary 

 9, 1933. 



Its incorporators, largely dairymen 

 seekint; to raise milk prices and broaden 

 their milk market, borrowed 510,000 

 from the McLean County Milk Produc 

 ers Association and 510,000 from the 

 McLean County Farm Bureau. The funds 

 were used to equip a surplus milk plant 

 and to provide operatinc capital. 



VC'hen the plant was ready to take 

 lar^e quantities of surplus milk, lo, there 

 was none. Private dairy operators who 

 had, a short time before, refused to take 

 any of the surplus had, surprisinyly, 

 found new outlets for it. Surprisingly, 

 too, butterfat prices in Bloomington had 

 suddenly jumped two cents as compared 

 to the Chicago butter market. 



But there was plenty of butterfat being 

 produced in McLean and adjacent couri- 

 ties to warrant operating the surplus plant 

 (Continued on page 28) 



PRESIDENT HAROLD ENXS 

 "Our greatest achievement was to 

 the price of milk and butterfat." 



increase 



lUNE. 1938 



