N«w directors of th* Creomerr board 

 conier with Manager Harold C. Brackett. 

 Leit to right they are: Henry Reuacher, 

 yice-president lackaon county, and Fred 

 Keller, first director from Perry county, and 

 Brackett. Reuscher replaces Frank Easterly, 

 and the new director from Perry county 

 was added when the lackson-Perry county 

 district was divided last year. 



to cover the purchase of refrigeration 

 and receiving room equipment for the 

 conversion project. Application for 

 some of the additional equipment had 

 to be revised. This has been re-sub- 

 mitted for approval. 



One of the highlights of the Cream- 

 ery's annual meeting in 1944 was a 

 "mortgage burning" ceremony mark- 

 ing the final payment on loans from 

 the St. Louis Bank for Cooperatives 

 which amounted to <34,000 over a 

 period of five years. The officers re- 

 ported that the Creamery had no un- 

 paid debts on the books, and that the 

 organization was able to pay a divi- 

 dend of 110,170.95 on preferred stock 

 covering a period of five years. This 

 completed all payments of dividends 

 due stockholders up to Oct. 1, 1944. 

 Many of the stockholders reinvested 

 their dividend checks in the new stock 

 subscription to finance the Creamery's 

 proposed conversion program. 



During 1944, a cooperative locker 

 plant was started in Carbondale, with 

 the lockers housed in part of the 



Creamery. The general administrative 

 boards for the Creamery and the Locker 

 plant are the same. This modern 

 locker plant was officially opened Aug. 

 10. More than 600 lockers are rented 

 and 146 more will be installed during 

 January. In addition to the space 

 occupied in the Creamery, the locker 



Elant has a modern brick structure 

 ack of the Creamery plant for its 

 smoking, curing and rendering facil- 

 ities. Designs are being drawn for 

 slaughter facilities with special equip- 

 ment for milk feeding and dressing 

 poultry. The locker plant came into a 

 profit-making position in its third 

 month of operation. 



William Clarence Hawthorne, Creomery 

 and Farm Biireau member, and his son. 

 Donald Oorence, look over new lockers 

 with Headley FerrelL plant butcher, at loh. 



Returning to the Creamery's opera- 

 tions, it seems that a fitting summary 

 of its worth is contained in this state- 

 ment from the annual report: 



"The final result was the ability of 

 your plant, this year, to pay producers 

 for butterfat 81.6 cents out of each 

 sales dollar received. It pays to be- 

 long." 



From Our - 

 Readers 



Gentlemen: Dutch East Indies 



1 take this opportunity to thank you 

 for sending me the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association Record. To date I don't be- 

 lieve I've missed an issue and to make 

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 enclosing my present address. It will no 

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Capt. Merle M. Zeine 



Protein Meal Order 



Restrictions of Wcir Food Order No. 

 9 which controls distribution of pro- 

 tein meals have been modified by 

 the WFA. Set-aside orders and dis- 

 tribution controls have been re- 

 tained, but quota and inventory re- 

 strictions have been revoked. WFA 

 warns however, that any substantial 

 disturbance of the current pattern of 

 distribution might lead to re-instate- 

 ment of the controls that have been 

 abandoned. 



The U. S. Bumu of Agricultural Eco- 

 nomics reports total milk production at a 

 new record hi;?h for the month of Novem- 

 ber, estimated at 8.4 million pounds, or 5 

 per cent higher than for November, 1943. 



Butter production is running about 10 

 per cent below a year a/?o. 



Cheese production last month was about 

 15 per cent above a year ago. 



Total U. S. butter stocks in storage on 

 Dec. 1, were 91.104,000 pounds, compared 

 with 178,750,000 a year earlier, and a 1939- 

 4} average for that date of 106,910,000 

 pounds. 



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Carbondale Creamery directors "bum a 

 mortgage" signiiying payment oi last debt. 

 Leit to right are Adolph Rickenberg, Ran- 

 dolph county; Ira Beall, leiferson: Erwin 



Fosse, secretary-treasurer, Williamson; 

 Claude Cossey, Pope; Ernie Harper, Mas- 

 sac, and Charles Eddleman. president. 

 Union. Frank Easterly, who resigned from 



the board, was absent when picture was 

 taken. At the right is port of the large 

 attendance at the annual meeting. O. D. 

 Brissenden waa guest speaker. 



RD 



JANUARY. 1945 



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