PRES. THAD LOVELESS 

 "Calhoun county's apples are fine — so 

 is its cream." 



"J 



SEND my cream to the 

 Producers Creamery of Car- 

 linville because it's a per- 

 manent market," says James Martin, 

 ruddy-faced Greene county farmer. "I 

 know my cream is being tested and 

 weighed right. There's no worry about 

 getting the best price, either. In years 

 passed, I've sold cream to everybody. 

 But I'm through shopping around for a 

 better price. Higher price doesn't al- 

 ways mean a bigger cream check." 



Jim Martin farms 390 acres of which 

 one-third is rough, pastureland. Cream 

 from his herd of 20 purebred Guernsey 

 cows has gone to a Producers cream- 

 ery since 1933 when the Farmers 

 Creamery of Bloomington operated 

 routes in Greene county. Since May, 

 1938, Jim's butterfat has gone to the 

 Producers Creamery of Carlinville. 



The Carlinville creamery is the 

 youngest of the Illinois Producers' 

 chain of nine. Although only 18 

 months old, its volume is growing 

 encouragingly and it has already set 

 a. mark for efficiency of operation that 

 its sisters will have to hustle to beat. 

 "Volume of butterfat churned. May 

 through September, was 30 per cent 

 greater this year as compared to the 

 same five months of 1938. 



Successful Cooperation 



Youngest of a Husky Famiii', the Producers Creamery 

 of Carlinville Makes Rapid Strides 



The youngster has a broad coopera- 

 tive background dating from 1929 

 when farmers around Palmyra and Car- 

 linville began pooling cream to sell 

 to highest bidders. Bids were based 

 on the Chicago market price for but- 

 ter. Testing and weighing was done 

 by the producers' association. 



In a few years, cream pools had 

 served their purpose. Pools increased 

 local price levels. They ended ques- 

 tionable weights and juggled tests. But 

 comp>etition stopped pools by with- 

 holding bids and building false price 

 structures in pool territories to wean 

 patrons from cooperative marketing. 



When Macoupin county cream pools 

 were on the spot in 1933, patrons de- 

 cided to establish their own creamery 

 to handle the 200,000 pounds of butter- 

 fat collected by the pools each year. 

 The plan was pigeon-holed when 

 chinch bugs destroyed crops, leaving 

 farmers short of funds. 



There was yet an outlet, however, 

 in the cooperative creamery at Bloom- 

 ington. An agreement between Pro- 

 ducers in the Carlinville area and the 

 co-op was worked out. For three years 

 trucks hauled cream over the .hundred 

 or more miles between the two cities. 

 Experience proved that the distance was 

 too great for economical butter pro- 

 duction. The Farmers Creamery con- 

 tinued to take the cream until the plan 

 for organi2ing a creamery at Carlin- 

 ville could be worked out. 



Cream producers in the seven coun- 

 ties that the new creamery would serve 

 bought $16,000 of capital stock in the 

 venture. Through an accumulated div- 

 idend plan for buying stock patrons 

 of the Farmers Creamery held some 

 $4,000 of stock in the Bloomington 



-WINTER BARLEY 

 ITew pasture and grain 

 'Crop fits dairying. Mgr. 

 'Gourley. left, and Gilbert 

 "Kasten find. 



M. D. EESSINGER 

 "I'd be hard to 



IIM MARTIN 

 "Guernseys are good, but dairy 

 herd improvement work makes them 

 better." 





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creamery which was transferred to Car- 

 linville bringing the total capitalization 

 of the new link in the Producer chain 

 to $20,000. 



Fletcher A. Gourley, who holds a 

 bachelor of science degree in dairy in- 

 dustry from Iowa State College and is 

 an experienced creameryman, was em- 

 ployed to manage the creamery. A 

 suitable building was purchased and 

 remodeled for the creamery. On May 

 14, 1938, the Producers Creamery of 

 Carlinville received its first cream. 



Since then, nearly one million pounds 

 of Prairie Farms butter have been 

 churned in the plant. More than 85 

 per cent of its graded 90 score or bet- 

 ter. Three factors make production of 



FOR TEN YEARS — 

 Irrin fasten has received his cream checks 

 irom Harold Williams. Harold became a 

 cream pool station man in 1929. Now he 

 is Producers' plant supt. 



a high quality product possible: (1) 

 Regular pickup service at the farms 

 that gets cream to the churn while 

 it is fresh. (2) Patrons cool cream 

 quickly the year 'round. (3) Good 

 workmanship in the plant. 



More than 100 stores, restaurants 

 and hotels in the vicinity are selling 

 Prairie Farms butter. Local business- 

 men were quick to see the advantages 

 of a cooperative creamery in the dis- 

 trict. Among them was Ira McCollom, 

 Carlinville banker, who has long 

 plumped for a co-operative outlet for 

 butterfat in the area his bank serves. 

 Dairying gives farmers steadier income 

 and makes them better businessmen, 

 he believes. 



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