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J. B. *7ack" CountisB, niinou Producers CreameriMi Sales manager, shows Talmadge 

 Thunnan, holding four years' butteriat sales slips, how he would hove received 1.41 

 cents more a pound ii the creamery had been operating. 



AN IMPORTANT JOB '' 



Next to pooling producers' output, careful testing, weighing and grading of the 



product is the ipost vital service of a co-op. Bob Doubet and Harry Magee run ac- 

 curate fat tests at Galesburg. 



six Farm Bureaus to help the creamery off 

 to a good start. They agreed with Pro- 

 ducers Creamery President Harry Geh- 

 ring and the Board members that a 

 well-trained manager was needed. 



In September, 1935, Virgil Johnson 

 was supervising the production of a 

 car a day of sweet butter to be used 

 in making ice cream at Springfield, 

 Missouri. Virgil who was born and 

 raised on an Iowa dairy farm, had 

 earned his way while studying dairy 

 industry at Iowa State College by work- 

 ing in a creamery. After graduation 

 he had operated a cooperative creamery, 

 the sole product of which was 92 and 



93-score butter. 



Johnson was the man the lAA pro- 

 duce marketing men and the creamery 

 officers favored for manager. They 

 drove to Springfield one night and 

 brought him back the next day. Since 

 then he has made an enviable record 

 among co-op creamery managers in the 

 state. 



More than 3,000,000 pounds of qual- 

 ity butter have been churned in the 

 Galesburg plant since 1935, nearly a 

 million pounds of which was made in 

 1938. Of the nine Producers Cream- 

 eries ojjerating in Illinois, Galesburg 

 has the lowest farm-to-market cost per 



pound of butterfat and ranks second 

 among the nine in net profits. During 

 1938, patrons received one cent over 

 the Illinois Producers Creameries price 

 schedule and producers of Grade A 

 cream got two cents a pound premium. 

 The second largest check for produc- 

 tion of 92-scorc butter paid by IPC in 

 1938 went to the Galesburg co-op. 



Fieldman Forrest Moberg, too, 

 helped make this record. Forrie a na- 

 tive of Knox county, is known by near- 

 ly every cream producer in the six 

 counties comprising the creamery's dis- 

 trict. After graduating from Gales- 

 burg High School, Forrie became a 

 cow tester with the Knox County Dairy 

 Herd Improvement Association. When 

 the creamery started he was manager 

 of the Galesburg Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion, the job he resigned to become 

 fieldman for the Producers. He is now 

 county organization director with the 

 Knox County Farm Bureau. 



The Pure Milk Association and the 

 creamery have always worked hand in 

 hand. The butter plant stands ready 

 to handle PMA surplus milk should 

 the need arise and is a "big stick " in 

 solving problems for the milk co-op. 



Like Talmadge Thurman, dairymen 



in the Galesburg area face the future 



with confidence because they have a 



sound, cooperative marketing system. 



— L. A. Potter 



AIDS TO TOP QOAUTY 

 Upper photo shows open shed storage 

 of empty cans that keeps them dry ond 

 bacteria free. Cream kept in sterile cans 

 stays street and brings premium prices. 



Below: Plant Manager Ray Sailor keep* 

 giant untensils as spic and span as a 

 china plate. 



