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Supply Company to take charge of, 

 make the necessary investments and 

 process and distribute the mixed fer- 

 tilizers and the fertilizer ingredients in 

 this program. The control of quality 

 in the Plant Food program is under a 

 committee set up in exactly the same 

 way as described under Service Brand 

 feeds. 



The elevator which the Grundy co- 

 operative purchased at Coal City was 

 built during World War I by John 

 Trotter, father of George Trotter, sec- 

 retary of the new cooperative. Twenty- 

 four years ago, Bookwalter took over 

 the facilities and has operated it suc- 

 cessfully during that period. He es- 

 timates that the grain business approx- 

 imates 400,000 bushels per year while 

 the feed business totals around 1500 

 tons a year. Bookwalter will continue 



on the board of directors of the new 

 cooperative. 



L. W. Womacks, Villa Grove, Doug- 

 las county, has been employed as man- 

 ager of the Grundy cooperative. He 

 has been manager of the Villa Grove 

 elevator for the past four years. Prior 

 to that he was employed by the Savoy 

 Grain and Coal Company, Champaign 

 county. 



The new board of directors of the 

 Grundy Grain and Supply Company 

 is as follows: J. F. Holderman, Morris, 

 president; N. R. Brown, Coal City, 

 vice-president; George E. Trotter, Coal 

 City, secretary ; Leo Guardia, Braceville, 

 treasurer; directors, J. W. Bookwalter, 

 Coal City; Alexander Yeno, Braceville; 

 W. V. Rothlisberger, Coal City; J. H. 

 Gilchrist, Mazon, and Frank Wesoloski, 

 Wilmington. 



BURN MORTGAGE ON CREAMERY 



WHEN the Bloomington creamery 

 folks put on a meeting they really do 

 it right! 



If there ever was any question about 

 the above statement, the recent annual 

 meeting of the Farmers Creamery Com- 

 pany of Bloomington and the McLean 

 County Milk Association sett-led it. 



Highlight of this program was the 

 ceremony in which the mortgage on the 

 $125,000 creamery building and equip- 

 ment was burned. It was less than four 

 years ago that the cooperatives moved 

 into their new home which today is free 

 of debt. 



Here is a brief summary of the cere- 

 mony. Preceding the actual burning of 

 the mortgage, 4-H club girls represent- 

 ing each county in the creamery district 

 placed eight yellow candles in a cande- 

 labra. Then a producer member from 

 each county advanced and lighted a 

 candle for his area. Then Manager 

 Forrest Fairchild stepped forward and 

 burned the mortgage over the candles. 

 As the mortgage burned, a replica of 

 the creamery building, carved in butter 

 by Harry Lash and Ike Salch, butter- 

 makers, was unveiled. 



The applause of the 1200 patrons and 

 their families in attendance expressed 

 not only the appreciation of the cooper- 

 ators for the colorful presentation, but 

 their pride and joy at having completely 

 paid for their modern building, the 

 finest in Illinois, in so short a jseriod of 

 years. 



Producer members who lit candles 

 were: V. G. Tambling, Grundy; L. C. 

 Rinker, LaSalle; Carl Barton, Livingston; 

 F. D. Mason, Milk Producers Associa- 

 tion; Harold Keys, Logan; William Wil- 

 son, McLean; Welby Webb, DeWitt, 

 and Sherman Gall, Macon. 



The creamery cooperative paid $15,- 

 593 in dividends to its 1820 stockholder- 

 patrons, and the Milk Producers Asso- 

 ciation paid $5000 in dividends. In 12 

 years of operation the Farmers Creamery 

 has paid dividends in the total amount 

 of $139,056. 



H. W. Enns, president of the Farmers 

 Creamery Company, related the history 

 of organized cooperative cream market- 

 ing in the state during the past two dec- 

 ades and also told of the early struggles 

 of the Bloomington creamery. He re- 

 ported that the creamery manufactured 

 1,173,442 pounds of butter valued at 

 $579,055 during the past year, and that 

 the creamery's total net worth was $160,- 

 924. 



The Milk Producers Association, han- 

 dling whole milk, reported 24,501,062 

 pounds of milk valued at $775,923 han- 

 dled during 1944. Total assets of $34,- 

 843 were reported. More than 500 pa- 

 trons delivered milk through the coop- 

 erative during 1944. 



Other speakers of die day were Farm 

 Adviser N. H. Anderson, Logan county, 

 who congratulated producers and man- 

 agement on their accomplishments; 

 Harry Gehring, vice-president of the 

 Illinois Producers Creameries, who out- 

 lined the relationship between the state 

 organization and the 10 cooperative 

 member plants in the state, of which 

 Farmers Creamery is the largest in the 

 point of butter manufactured; Owen 

 Richards, general manager of the Amer- 

 ican Dairy Association, who discussed the 

 future of the dairy business; J. B. Coun- 

 tiss, IPC sales manager, and Wilfred 

 Shaw, secretary of the Illinois Milk Pro- 

 ducers Association and lAA director of 

 milk marketing, talked at the business 

 sessions of the two cooperatives. 



All members of the creamery board 

 were re-elected: Joe Harris, Dewitt; 

 Reno Barton, Livingston; J. B. Kidd, La- 

 Salle; Henry Marten, Logan; E. H. 

 Orendorff, McLean ; Silas H a g e n, 

 Grundy; F. D. Mason, McLean; William 

 L. Mays, McLean, and A. L. Leinhart, 

 Macon. 



Members of the Milk Producers Asso- 

 ciation board who were re-elected were: 

 Louis Schultz, Elrher Orendorff and 

 Frank Mason, all of McLean county. 

 Officers re-elected were: William L. 

 Mays, president; George Pitts, vice- 

 president; Elmer Orendorff, secretary, 

 and Frank Mason, treasurer. 



Mcmager Forrest Fairchild bums the mort- 

 gage on the Farmers Creamery Company 

 oi Bloomington. 4-H girls participating in 

 the ceremony are: leit to right Marian 

 Ganzert, Grundy; Mela Keller, LaSalle; 

 Delores Gaspordo. Livingston: Marjorie 



{Paragraph Photo) 



BielieldL McLean; Norma fean HsnneL 

 Milk Producers Association; Doris Mae 

 Semple, Logan. Donna Griifin, DeWitt. 

 and Arabelle Ferrill, Mocon, do not appear 

 in the picture. In the ioreground at the 

 left is a butter replica of the Creamery. 



MARCH, 1945 



