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Supply Company to take iharge ot, 

 make the necessary investments and 

 proiess and distribute the mixed fer- 

 tilizers and the fertiliser ingredients in 

 this program. The control of equality 

 in the Plant Food program is under a 

 committee set up in exactly the same 

 way as described under Service Brand 

 feecis. 



The elevator which the Grundy co- 

 operative purchased at C.oil City was 

 built during World War I by John 

 Trotter, father of George Trotter, sec- 

 retary of the new cooperative. Twentv- 

 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 lOO.OOO bushels per year while 

 the feed business totals around 1 500 

 tons a year. Bookwalter will continue 



on the board ot directors ot the nev 

 cooperative. 



L. W. W'omatks. X'llla Gro\e. nciug 

 las county, has been employed as man- 

 ager of the Grundv cooperati\e. H^ 

 has been manager of the N'illa Gro\c 

 elevator tor the past four vi.irs. Prior 

 to that he was employed hv the Savov 

 Grain and foal ( ompany. Champaign 

 county. 



The new board of directors of the 

 Grundy Grain and Supply Company 

 is as follows: J. 1'. Holderman. Morris, 

 president; N. R. Brown. Coal City. 

 vice-president; George F. Trotter. Coa! 

 Citv. secretary; Leo Guardia. Bracevilie. 

 treasurer: directors, j. W. Bookwalter. 

 Coal Citv; Alexander ^'eno, Bracevilie; 

 W. Y. Rothlisberger. Coal City; J. H. 

 Gilchrist. Mazon. and Frank Wesoioski. 

 Wilmington. 



BURN MORTGAGE ON CREAMERY 



WHEN the Bloomington cre.imery 

 folks put on a meeting they really do 

 it right! 



If there ever was any question about 

 the alx)ve statement, the recent annual 

 meeting of the F-'armers Creamery C^om- 

 pany of Bloomington and the McLean 

 County Milk Association settled it. 



Highlight of this program was the 

 ceremony in which the mortgage on the 

 SI2'>.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 mortg.ige. -I-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 mortg.ige 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 

 tlieir f.imihes 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 period 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; ^X'illiam ^X'il- 

 son. McLean: Welby Webb. DeWitt. 

 and Sherman Gall. Macon. 



The creamery cooperative paid SI'^.- 

 yji m dividencis to its 1820 stockholder- 

 patrons, and the Milk Producers Asso- 

 ciation paid S5000 in di\idends. In 12 

 years of operation the Farmers Creamery 

 has paid dividends in the total amount 

 of Si 39.056. 



H. W. Fnns. president of the Farmers 

 Oeamery C!ompany. related the historv 

 ot 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 

 1,17.3. i42 pounds of butter valued at 

 S579.055 during the past year, anil that 

 the creamery's total net worth was SK>(i,- 

 92-J. 



Ihe Milk Producers Association, han- 

 dling whole milk, reported 21.501,062 

 pounds of milk valued -U S"75.*>2^ han- 

 dled during ly 1 i. Total assc-ts of S3-»,- 

 S I s were reported. More than 500 pa- 

 trons delivered milk through the coop- 

 erative during 1 V i i. 



Other speakers of the day were l-arm 

 Adviser N. H. Anderson. Logan county, 

 who congratul.ited producers and man- 

 agement on their .iccomplisliments; 

 H.irry Gehring. vice-president of the 

 Illinois Producers Creajneries. who out- 

 lined the relationship between the state 

 organi/.itiiin and the 10 cotJperative 

 meml cr plants in the state, of which 

 Farmers C rcamery is the largest in tin. 

 point of butter manuf.ictured ; Owen 

 Richards, general man.iger of the Amer- 

 iian Dairy Association, who discussed the 

 future lit the dairy business; |. B. Coun- 

 Iiss. IPC sales manager, and ^X'lltred 

 Shaw, secretary of the Illinois Milk Pro- 

 ducers Associ.uion and lAA director ol 

 milk marketing, talked at the business 

 sessions of the two cooperatives 



All memlxrs of the creamery board 

 Were re-elected: jOe Harris. IXwitt. 

 Reno Barton. Lningston; J. B. Kidd. La 

 Salle: Henry Marten. Logan; F. H 

 Orendortf. .McLean; Silas H a g e n. 

 Grundy; F. D Mason. McLean; ^X'llliam 

 I. NLiys. NKl.ean. and .\ I. Leinhart. 

 .M.icon. 



.Members of the Milk Producers Asso- 

 ciation (xjard who were re-elected were: 

 Louis .Schultz. F.lmer Orendortf and 

 Frank NLison. all of McLean county 

 Officers re-elected were: William I.. 

 Mays, president: George Pitts, vice- 

 president; Flmer Orendortf. secretary, 

 and Frank Mason, treasurer. 



Manager Forrest Fairchild burns the mort- 

 gage on the Farmers Creamery Company 

 oi Bloomington. 4-H girls participating in 

 the ceremony are: left to right. Marian 

 Ganzert. Grundy; Meta Keller. LaSalle; 

 Delores Gaspardo, Livingston; Morjorie 



Bielieldt. McLean; Norma Jecui Hsnnel. 

 Milk Producers Association: Doris Mae 

 Semple, Logan. Donna Griiiin, DeWitl. 

 and Arabelle Ferrill, Macon, do not appear 

 in the picture. In the loreground at the 

 left is a butter replica oi the Creamery. 



MARCH, 1945 



