

AN INVESTMENT IN FAIR PRICE INSURANCE 

 Cream producers' modem plant at Goletburg 

 U a bulwark between ony-old-price and price 

 based on demand. 





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Successful 



Cooperation 



Producers Creamery of Galesburg Makes 3,000,000 



Pounds of Butter in Approximately Tliree Years, Has 



Outstanding Record for Low Cost Processing 



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a ^ /71 SURE is wonderful the 

 way the cream market 

 stays up' my neighbor 

 said the other day. 'Sure' I told him, 

 'we have our own creamery. It's got to 

 stay up." " 



That's the way Talmadge Thur- 

 man, Knox county, feels about the 

 Producers Creamery of Galesburg. And 

 he has good reason. 



From 1931 until the creamery 

 started in September, 1935, Talmadge 

 shipped 9952 pounds of butterfat to 

 21 different creameries at different 

 times. As a direct shipper, he enjoyed 

 a little price advantage over cream 

 station patrons. But in spite of that, 

 Talmadge's fat would have netted him 

 1.41 cents a pound more if the Pro- 

 ducers Creamery had been operating 

 and he had delivered it there. 



Thurman's interest in getting the top 

 dollar for his cream is that butterfat 

 is one of the chief sources of income 

 from his 150-acre farm. His herd of 

 14 purebred and four grade Jerseys 

 averages 291.65 pounds of butterfat 

 and returns him more than $50 a head 

 per year over feed costs, his Dairy 

 Herd Improvement records show. 



"When the creamery was organized 

 in 1935, other buyers stepped up their 

 price. I like to patronize the co-op be- 

 cause it is responsible," he said. 



Last year more than 200 other pro- 

 ducers in Knox, Bureau, Warren, Hen- 

 derson, Mercer and Henry counties 

 joined the ranks of new Producer pa- 



trons. Right in the harvest month, 

 September, 47 new patrons started 

 sending cream to the co-op. 



One of the founding fathers of the 

 Producers Creamery of Galesburg is 

 Loch Angevine of Henry county. In 

 addition to promoting the creamery he 

 became its first patron and one of the 

 first directors. 



"When interest in a cooperative 

 creamery was first shown in the Gales- 

 burg area, the Henry County Farm 

 Bureau cream committee appointed 

 township committees," Angevine said. 



MANAGER V. E. lOHNSON 

 Keeps costs low; prices up. 



OmCE FORCE 

 Left to right: Mildred Nystrom. Field- 

 man Moberg, Assistant Bookkeeper Bob 

 Sherrard, Chief Bookkeeper Bob Cliiiord 

 and Manager Johnson. 



"We made a survey to see if the 

 amount of cream being sent to cream- 

 eries in the territory was enough to 

 warrant setting up a co-op at Gales- 

 burg. The most reliable information we 

 got by counting the cans on station 

 platforms." 



Although the committeemen didn't 

 know it then, they collected data on the 

 area that now markets more cream co- 

 operatively to the square mile than any 

 other region in the state. 



But can count or no can count, the 

 men were skeptical. They remembered 

 twenty years ago, just after Loch An- 

 gevine had started farming in the county, 

 when sales of creamery machinery were 

 very low, so low that a manufacturer of 

 churns sent men out to organize "co- 

 operative" creameries. As fast as a 

 promoter set up a "co-op" and got paid 

 for the churns and other equipment he 

 would leave for parts unknown leav- 

 ing the farmers to make the most of 

 their equipment. There had been one 

 in Henry county that made butter less 

 than two years. Some of the cream 

 committeemen still had their stock 

 certificates. 



The township committees did their 

 work well. They quieted fears, sold 

 their quota of the $24,000 capital stock 

 and solicited patrons. Today, with 

 $36,529.73 invested and each dollar 

 worth $1.29, the founders' prediction 

 that the creamery would succeed has 

 been realized. 



Jack Countiss, formerly a cow tester 

 in Knox county, who is now sales 

 manager for Illinois Producers Cream- 

 eries, and Frank Gougler, lAA director 

 of produce marketing, worked with the 



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