Carlinville Treamery 



(Continued from page 22) 



Gilbert H. Kasten who farms 125 

 acres and runs a herd of 16 Jersey 

 cows typifies a new order of farming 

 in Macoupin and surrounding counties. 



Half of Kasten's land is tillable. Pas- 

 ture is a major crop. Pasture improve- 

 ment and soil erosion control are just 

 as much a part of regular farm opera- 

 tion here as plowing or seeding is on 

 level land. Pasture crops in the rota- 

 tion, too, are important. 



"Winter barley is one of our good 

 pasture crops," Gilbert says. "It fits 

 in well with our dairy program here. 

 We sow it late in August at the rate 

 of a bushel and a half an acre. This 

 is a little heavy but it makes better 

 fall pasture that way. We pasture it 

 through the fall when other pastures 

 are short. It matures early and makes 

 a feed grain crop in June." 



Kasten has patronized cooperative 

 cream marketing since the cream pools 

 were organized in the county. He 

 helped organize the Producers Cream- 

 ery of Carlinville. 



Sf)eaking of co-op marketing, Kasten 

 says: "Every member helps elect a 

 board of directors and I feel that they 

 are doing all they can to make us the 

 best possible market. They keep us 

 informed about the co-op's business 

 and when we aren't satisfied with their 

 efforts we can elect others." 



M. D. fKessinger, another Producers 

 patron, got in the dairy business 

 through^ hogs. He wanted skim milk 

 for pigs and the more purebred Hamp- 

 shires he and his two sons raised, the 

 more cows they had to get. Now he 

 milks from 27 to 30 cows, mostly Hol- 

 steins, besides operating 700 acres of 

 grain land. 



"When I'm satisfied with a cream- 

 ery I'm hard to wean away," Kessinger 



AL GOURLEY. MANAGER 

 His plant is most efficient oi nine. 



MRS. FRANCES PRESSLER 

 Her accounting drew auditor's praise. 



said. "The Producers is the best place 

 to sell because I feel that I'm selling 

 to myself." 



With boosters like Martin, Kasten 

 and Kessinger working for it, the fu- 

 ture of the youngest Producers Cream- 

 ery is bright. Another factor in its 

 favor is that farmers in the area are 

 turning more and more to dairying as 

 an outlet for pasture and legume hay, 

 the by-products of a system of per- 

 manent agriculture. Owners of the 

 Creamery, farmers in Bond, Calhoun, 

 Christian, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin 

 and Montgomery counties, will profit 

 as the business grows. 



They get honest weights, and tests 

 and fair prices based on the Chicago 

 butter market. As the volume of but- 

 ter made increases through new pa- 

 trons, co-operators will get the ad- 

 vantage of savings in operating costs. 



E. E. Houghtby, president of the De- 

 Kalb County Locker Service and Roy 

 Johnson, farm adviser spoke on cold 

 storage lockers to the Agricultural 

 Club of Chicago Oct. 6. They reported 

 that 1173 lockers are rented in their 

 five plants at DeKalb, Sycamore, Genoa, 

 Somonauk, and Waterman, that farmers 

 regarded cold storage lockers as a 

 highly appreciated service rather than 

 a money-making enterprise. About 40 

 per cent of the farmers in the county 

 are using the service. 



Harvest Festival Queens in the mid- 

 west states will be invited to a dinner 

 at the Saddle and Sirloin Club, Chicago 

 Dec. 6 during the International Live- 

 stock Exposition, Dec. 2-9. If you have 

 a festival or harvest queen, write Man- 

 ager B. H. Heide at the Union Stock- 

 yards. 



DUCK ISLAIVD 



.• ' (Continued jrom page 29) 



number of small, portable roost units, 

 a few rough shelters with metal roofs, 

 feeders and watering troughs. Water 

 is supplied from a temporary well made 

 by driving a sand point into the water 

 table 15 or 20 feet below the surface. 

 A small gasoline motor is used to pump 

 the water. The ground is kept clean 

 by moving equipment every two weeks. 

 Mrs. Linn, in charge of the turkey 

 project, has the feeders kept full of 

 a high-protein growing mash in pellet 

 form. When turkeys have plenty of 

 feed they won't roam far, she says. 

 The fence between the field of silage 

 corn next to the range is lifted to 

 permit the poults to use the corn for 

 shelter from the sun. 



Duck Island turkeys are taken to 

 a packing house in Havana for dress- 

 ing. They are packed in containers 

 bearing the Duck Island brand and are 

 shipped to the Boston market in time 

 for "Thanksgiving and Christmas trade. 



Whitnah and Linn are 100 per cent 

 cooperators in the Fulton county Farm 

 Bureau. Whitnah was its first vice- 

 president, a position he held for many 

 years. Linn is district director. They 

 use all the Farm Bureau services they 

 can and buy all fuel and lubricants 

 for their three tractors from the Fulton 

 Service Companv. 



Linn is president of the Spoon River 

 Electric Cooperative, Inc. He is work- 

 ing with other turkey growers to form 

 a turkey packing cooperative in Mason 

 county. Present plans indicate that it 

 will be built in connection with a cold 

 storage locker plant. 



With all of his activities, Oscar has 

 time to spend with his family. He 

 takes Eddie, 5, and Eleanor, 12, swim- 

 ming in the lake. They go fishing. 

 He takes them on trips. Last year 

 they went to Yellowstone National 

 Park. 



If you are looking for a place where 

 the Farm Bureau goals of Better Farm- 

 ing, Better Business and Better Living 

 have already been reached, try Duck 

 Island. 



Illinois Farm Supply Co. and the 64 



affiliated county companies are the 

 largest cooperative handler of pe- 

 troleum products in the United States. 

 There are 1026 oil and gas cooperatives 

 in the country. A larger percentage 

 paid patronage dividends last year than 

 any other type says the Farm Credit 

 Administration. 



A paste of cornstarch and carbon tetra- 

 chloride will remove most grease stains from 

 wallpaper; two or three applications may be 

 necessary. _^___ 



See that your laying hens have plenty of 

 water all winter. 



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