IPC PLANTS GAIN $90,000 



FARMER patrons of the 10 member 

 plants of the Illinois Producers Cream- 

 eries are making a real contribution to 

 the war eflFort. This fact was revealed 

 in the production figures reported at the 

 annual meeting of the IPC held in con- 

 junction with the 30th annual meeting 

 of the lAA in Chicago. 

 \ In the 1944 fiscal year, the 10 member 

 plants produced nearly 6I/2 million 

 pounds of butter, and 21/^ million 

 pounds of powdered milk. One plant 

 produced 233,740 pounds of cheese. Of 

 this production, the amounts going to 

 America's fighting forces and Allies 

 through government purchases were: but- 

 ter, 1,007,742 pounds; powdered milk, 

 1,781,796 pounds, and cheese, 136,209 

 pounds, J. B. Countiss, IPC sales man- 

 ager, reported. 



This represents 15.5 per cent of all 

 butter manufactured, 69.1 per cent of all 

 powdered milk manufactured, and 58.3 

 per cent of all cheese manufactured by 

 the member plants. 



Total butterfat purchases during the 

 year increased more than a million 

 pounds for the year, or 19. 3 per cent, 

 546 new members were added, and prof- 

 its of all member plants were in excess 

 of $90,000, or enough to build and 

 etjuip another creamery. 



Farmers have invested in their Illinois 

 cream marketing program $471,092 in 

 the form of stock and the new worth 

 according to official audits at the close 

 of the fiscal year was $1.67 for each 

 dollar invested. 



Plans for new creamery plants out- 

 lined at the annual meeting also indicate 

 that the Illinois cream marketing pro- 

 gram is not resting on its oars — it's 

 moving ahead. 



The north territory now being serv- 

 iced by Producers' Creamery of Peoria, 

 consisting of Peoria, Woodford, Stark, 

 Bureau, and Marshall-Putnam counties, 

 will soon have one of the most modern 

 plants in the state. Finances have been 

 furnished by producers to build and 

 equip a two-story plant 54 by 90 feet 

 to be located at Henry. This plant will 

 receive and handle both milk and cream. 

 Plans and specifications have been pre- 

 pared and bids are now being taken. 



The south part of the Peoria territory, 

 consisting of Mason, Tazewell, Fulton, 

 Cass and Menard counties, will have a 

 new Producers' Creamery located at Ha- 

 vana. This plant will handle both milk 

 and cream. Finances are being raised 

 through the sale of stock to producers in 

 the territory. 



SOIL NEEDS NUTRIENTS 



ILLINOIS farmers are now applying 

 limestone at the rate of more than 3,- 

 500,000 tons annually. If this can be 

 continued for 1 5 to 20 more years, all of 

 the acid soils in the state will have been 

 limed sufficiently to support maximum 

 soil building legume crops; and that is 

 a fundamental step in a permanent and 

 economical agricultural program. 



This point was made by Prof. A. L. 

 Lang, U. of I. College of Agriculture, 

 at the soil improvement conference of 

 the 30th annual meeting of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association in Chicago. 



In addition to limestone usage, rock 

 phosphate, superphosphate, potash and 

 supplementary fertilizers are being used 

 to the full extent of their availability. 

 Professor Lang said. 



"However, even this stepped-up usage 

 does not begin to meet maintenance needs 

 in these important plant food elements. 

 Illinois alone would have to use more 

 than 10 million tons of rock phosphate 

 or its equivalent, and 200,000 tons of 

 potassium chloride in the next 10 years 



to replenish and maintain its fast dimin- 

 ishing supplies of these materials," he 

 said. 



Dr. George D. Scarseth, director of re- 

 search, American Farm Research Associ- 

 ation, declared that in our rich nation 

 "we have been inclined to look only on 

 the size of yields of our crops, but sci- 

 ence is revealing that the nutritional qual- 

 ity of these crops is as important to the 

 well-being and happiness of man as the 

 yields." 



"A traveler along the highways of the 

 nation will see hunger signs in the crops 

 of the fields crying out that something 

 is wrong and that an unbalanced harmony 

 in the nutrition of the plants is causing 

 trouble," Scarseth asserted. 



John R. Spencer, director of soil im- 

 provement for the lAA, reviewed the 

 quality supervisional work of his depart- 

 ment on limestone quarries over the state, 

 and advised prospective purchasers to in- 

 spect these tests at their Farm Bureaus 

 before making purchases. 



"Great Fntnre For Co-ops" 



(Continued from page 18) 



operative slaughtering and processing 

 plants. 



Studies were presented to the locker 

 conference by S. T. Warrington, senior 

 agricultural economist, FCA, and F. E. 

 Ringham, secretary, St. Louis Bank for 

 Cooperatives, on 20 Illinois cooperative 

 associations operating 46 plants. Com- 

 plete records of income and expense 

 were tabulated for the year on these as- 

 sociations and the summary showed the 

 average net income per plant was $3,- 

 708.25. Source of income of the asso- 

 ciations were as follows: locker rentals, 

 51.05 per cent; processing, 31.68 per 

 cent, and other income, 17.27 per cent. 



C. M. Ferguson, 

 Ohio State Univer- 

 sity, discussing the 

 dressing of poultry 

 for freezer lockers, 

 said the first consid- 

 eration in putting up 

 poultry for lockers 

 is that of quality. 

 He also declared 

 that birds should be 

 kept off feed for at 

 C. M. FerguBon j^^j ^2 hours be- 

 fore killing and during this time they 

 should be given water to drink. 



Building of new locker plants and 

 expansion of existing plants is progress- 

 ing rapidly within the limitations of war- 

 time materials, Dana Cryder, president 

 of the Illinois Cooperative Locker Serv- 

 ice, reported. 



Elections 



(Continued jrom page }}) 



Illinois Farm Supply Co.: Wrate H. 

 Hill, Kingston, (replaces Chas. Kes- 

 linger) ; Frank J. Flynn, Murrayville; 

 Jesse L. Beery, Cerro Gordo ; George 

 Chappie, Dwight; Glenn H. Geiter, 

 Dakota; Harley R. Neal, Lawrence- 

 ville; John P. White, Washington; R. 

 H. Monke, Litchfield. 



Illinois Livestock Marketing Ass'n: 

 LaRue Tice, Shelbyville (replaces Daniel 

 Smith) ; Mont Fox, Oakwood ; Ralph 

 Beckett, Blue Mound ; Carl Lage, Say- 

 brook; Fred Smittkamp, Paris; Charles 

 Shuman, Sullivan; Clark Wise, Cham- 

 paign. 



Illinois Producers Creameries: Har- 

 old W. Enns, Minier ; E. A. Fosse, 

 Jackson county; (replaces Chas. Eddie- 

 man) ; Thad Loveless, Gillespie ; A. 

 Oliver Bower, Bushton ; Harry Geh- 

 ring, Altona; W. A. Bismark, Geneseo; 

 H. B. Smith, Bardolph; John Sterchi, 

 Olney; Harry L. Leeper, Farmington; 

 Chester McCord, Newton; D. L. Gar- 

 ber, Mt. Carroll. ) 





L A. A. RECORD 



