

ing evidence on the points just men- 

 tioned: 



Land O'Lakes Creameries, Minne- 

 apolis, Minnesota, was established in 

 1922 with 300 member creameries. 

 That year these creameries produced 

 only 10% of Land O'Lakes Butter (93 

 icore). Last year 420 member cream- 

 eries produced over 60% of 93 score 

 butter. Such results could never have 

 been accomplished without organiza- 

 tion. Again this high quality butter 

 results in increased consumption. It 

 ii reported that in some co-operative 

 creamery districts in Minnesota but- 

 ter consumption is as high as 42 

 pounds per capita, while the average 

 in the U. S. is only about 17.5 pounds. 

 .Where an abundance of high quality 

 batter is always available, we find 

 that oleomargarine sales are almost 

 "negligible. ..v.; .••....•.:.', -^ ■ ■.■■ >.—,.- 



In the sale of butter the co-oper- 

 ative type of marketing has little ad- 

 vantage over the other, other things 

 ^ being equal. However, if a co-oper- 

 ative creamery succeeds in making 

 better butter, and it should, then such 

 an institution has a tremendous ad- 

 vantage. 



The Farmers Creamery Company 

 vat Bloomington, Illinois, netted pro- 

 ducer members 3%c per pound butter- 

 fat more money during the first year 

 '. ef operation than would have been 

 received without that plant. The Pro- 

 ducers Creamery of Peoria made one 

 and one-quarter million pounds of 

 butter during its first year ofy oper- 

 ation. Nearly $10,000 in patronage 

 dividends were returned to members 

 the first year. Last year a co-operative 

 creamery at Columbia, Indiana, made 

 in its 10th year in excess of 3,000,000 

 pounds of butter. Patronage dividends 

 (private creamery profits) amounted 

 to more than $100,000. At Constan- 

 tine, Michigan, last year a co-oper- 

 ative plant made 4,781,698 lbs. of but- 

 ter, for which it paid its members 

 22.16c as an average for all butter- 

 fat, or an average of 1.97c over the 

 Chicago 90 score butter market for 

 the year. Producers might do well by 

 digging up their cream check stubs 

 for last year, average them up and 

 make the comparison. C. W. Simpson, 

 Farm Adviser, White County, Illinois, 

 whose father is a patron of this 

 creamery, reports that during the sec- 

 ond two weeks of June last year, 

 farmers received 24c net for their 

 butterfat at the Constantino plant 

 while producers in White County, Illi- 

 nois, during the same two weeks were 

 receiving only 18c, or six cents less. 



The only sound reason for estab- 

 lishing farmer-owned and farmer- 

 controlled creameries is that the pro- 

 ducer may receive more money. With 



PRODUCERS DAIRY AND CREAMERY FLOAT IV FLAG DAY PARADE PEORIA, JUNE 14 



This float was conceded by many to be the best in the parade says 7. B. Countiss, director of 

 milk marketingT' Peoria Producers made 1,194,278 pounds of butter during its first year of opera- 

 tion— paid diTidends of |9,689.94. 



a margin between producer and con- 

 sumer prices which average more 

 than 200%, it appears indeed en- 

 couraging and inviting for producers 

 to engage in processing and distribut- 

 ing their own products. .,.,:, 



Cream Prices Advance ^' 



In Southern Illinois 



r L. E. Lingenfelter of Pulaski coun- 

 ty, a director of the Farmers Mu- 

 tual Reinsurance Co., reports that 

 sine I. A. A. meetings have been held 

 in that territory in the interest of a 

 co-operative creamery at Carbondale, 

 a nearby private creamery has estab- 

 lished truck routes and is picking up 

 cream twice a week at farms in that 

 section. This creamery also has raised 

 the price to within one cent of that 

 paid by direct shippers in Chicago, he 

 states, whereas local prices in the 

 past have been four to five cents un- 

 der Chicago. 



This situation is typical of all co-operatiTO 

 marketing development. When farmers organize 

 to proceis or distribute their own commodities 

 locid prices paid by private dealers invariably 

 go up. It pays to co-operate. — Editor. 



Soil Erosion Is Farm Enemy 



' According to F. A. Fisher, chief of 

 federal erosion control in Illinois, soil 

 erosion takes out 21 times as much 

 fertility from the soil annually as is 

 taken out by crops. Experiments per- 

 formed by the Missouri station 

 showed that a slope of four per cent 

 where soil is exposed continuously 

 erodes to a depth of seven inches in 

 20 years. The same amount of erosion 

 requires 3,000 years where the slope 

 is planted periodically to grass and al- 

 falfa, -^iv... • ••■■•• '..■■■■ 





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C. C. Burns Resigns To 

 ; Go With New Creamery 



' C. C. Bums, for the t)a8t 11 years 

 farm adviser in Champaign county, 

 recently resigned to accept the man- 

 agership of the new Producers Cream- 

 ery of Champaign. 



Mr. Burns went to Champaign from 

 JoDaviess county where he served al- 

 so as farm adviser. He was one of the 

 successful state solicitors who took 

 part in the memorable I. A. A. reor- 

 ganization and sign-up campaign in 

 1919 and 1920. Mr. Burns made a 

 splendid record in both counties in de- 

 veloping co-operative marketing, seed 

 corn improvement, community organ- 

 ization and training of leadership. The 

 Producers Creamery is fortunate in 

 getting a manager of his experience, 

 training, and business ability. 



The new building which will house 

 the Champaign Producers Creamery 

 is being remodeled and will be equip- 

 ped with the most modern machinery 

 for making Prairie Farms high qual- 

 ity butter. Every effort is being made 

 to speed its early opening. . 



Farm Bureau Day, Galva ^ 

 July 4, O'Neal To Speak 



Farm Bureau Day will be cele- 

 brated on July 4 at Galva in Henry 

 county as a feature of homecoming 

 week sponsored by the American 

 Legion and local business groups. 



The Henry County Farm Bureau 

 invites farmers from adjoining coun- 

 ties to attend the big celebration In- 

 dependence Day where Edward A. O'- 

 Neal, president of the A. F. B. F., is 

 billed as headline speaker. ^^ . 



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