CREAMERIES 



By J. B. Countiss 



AT A special meeting of all stock- 

 holders of IPC in Chicago, May 17, 

 the name Illinois Producers' Cream- 

 series was changed to "Prairie Farms 

 Creameries." The vote was 37,763 for 

 the change, and only 852 against the 

 ■change. 



Since its organization the state com- 

 pany has operated under the corporate 

 name of Illinois Producers" Creameries 

 and all member plants as Producers' 

 Creamery of (name of town). 



At the next annual meeting of mem- 

 ber plants, the stockholders of the re- 

 spective plants will be given an opportu- 

 nity to change their local creamery name 

 to Prairie Farms Creamery to correspond 

 with the state company. 



Prairie Farms, unknown 13 years ago, 

 now means on butter what Sterling means 

 on silver. On May 13, 1933, H. W. 

 Enn, Minier, Tazewell county, attending 

 the first organization meeting of the 

 Illinois Producers' Creameries board, 

 made the following motion: 



"That IPC adopt the name of 'Prairie 

 Farms' as its brand or trade name." 

 The board not only unanimously passed 

 this resolution, but realizing the impor- 

 tance of properly safeguarding and pro- 

 tecting this new name, Prairie Farms, they 

 unanimously adopted the following res- 

 olution: 



"RESOLVED, That no butter be sold 

 from the local member plants of IPC 

 under "Prairie Farms" brand or any 

 other brand with the company's name 

 on it unless it scores 90 score or more." 

 H. W. Enns, the only remaining member 

 of the original IPC board of directors, 

 has served as president for the past sev- 

 eral years. 



Throughout the past 13 years of op- 

 erations, Prairie Farms has become syn- 

 onymous for quality among the milk 

 and butter fat producers and Farm Bu- 

 reau members, as well as the housewives 

 throughout the state, who appreciate 

 quality. More than 35,000,000 pounds 

 of Prairie Farms Butter have been sold 

 in Illinois. Sales are now being severely 

 rationed because of lend lease require- 

 ments which are 55% of the total amount 

 manufactured for May. 



The "Prairie Farms" trade name is 

 copyrighted and registered for dairy 

 products by the State company, whereas 

 the name "Producers" applies to all 

 kinds of products, including dairy prod- 

 ucts. 



Farmers in Illinois now have nearly a 

 million dollars invested in plant facilities 

 for making Prairie Farms high quality 

 dairy products. It is the policy of the 

 state company not only to protect this 

 capital investment, but also the trade 

 name of all its products. 



The new plant at Henry, Marshall 

 county, replacing the Producers' Cream- 

 ery of Peoria, was incorporated under 

 the name Prairie Farms Creamery of 

 Henry, and any other new plants or- 

 ganized in the future will be Prairie 

 Farms instead of Producers' Creamery. 



The operations of the member plants 

 have been diversified during the past two 

 years in an effort to produce butter, cheese 

 and milk powder for lend lease, and at 

 the same time to provide a dependable 

 year-round market for producers market- 

 ing both separated cream and fluid milk. 



Mt. Carroll Creamery, Carroll county, 

 is moving into a new modern plant 

 equipped to handle both milk and cream. 

 Henry has started the construction of a 

 milk and butter plant of the latest de- 

 sign. Olney, Richland county, has just 

 completed an extensive program of ex- 

 pansion for handling milk, including the 

 installation of a new large size milk dry- 

 er, a new 1 50 H.P. boiler, six-can a min- 

 ute washer, 3,000-gallon stainless steel 

 holding tank and other needed equip- 

 ment. Carbondale, Jackson county, is 

 planning to equip its plant for handling 

 milk. Mount Sterling, Brown county, 

 recently purchased a new location con- 

 sisting of four acres of land and a large 

 garage building to be used as storage for 

 milk powder and supplies. Plans are 

 now being drawn by the architect for a 

 new streamlined modern sanitary plant 

 to be erected on a new site of seven 

 acres recently purchased by the Creamery 

 at Carlinville, Macoupin county. 



These expanded facilities have become 

 necessary to handle the increased patron- 

 age given these plants by producers who 



are convinced that they can do a better 

 job of marketing themselves through 

 their own cooperative Prairie Farms 

 Creamery. 



April 1945 shows an increase of but- 

 ter fat purchases of 8.44% over April 

 1944. Butter manufacturing increased 

 4.45% and milk powder production 

 56.94%. Continued increases of this 

 kind will mean smaller operating ter- 

 ritories and further expansion and di- 

 versifications of present plants, and the 

 establishment of additional plants. 



Two new directors have been named 

 to the Prairie Farms Creameries board 

 of directors. Arthur E. Meyer, presi- 

 dent of the Scott County Farm Bureau, 

 la., succeeds William A. Bismarck. The 

 latter represented the Producers Cream- 

 ery of Moline which has been taken 

 over by the Quality Milk Association. 

 Herbert Schumacher, a director on the 

 board of the Marshall-Putnam Farm 

 Bureau, succeeds Harry Leeper, Fulton 

 county, who resigned because the 

 Peoria Producers Creamery plant was 

 closed. Schumacher will represent rhe 

 new Prairie Farms Creamery of Henry. 

 Meyer operates 240 acres in Scott 

 county, la., which he owns, and oper- 

 ates an additional 100 acres which he 

 rents. His chief 

 farming interest is 

 dairy and hogs with 

 supplementary in- 

 terest in feeding 

 cattle. He has been 

 a member of the 

 Quality Milk As- 

 sociation since its 

 beginning in 1930, 

 and a member of 

 the board of that 

 A. E. Meyer cooperative since 



1933- He is now serving his fourth 

 term as president of Quality Milk. He 

 completed two courses of two years 

 each at Iowa State College, Ames, in 

 agriculture and dairy operations. 



Schumacher is both a grain and live- 

 stock farmer and operates 240 acres of 

 land. A member of the board of di- 

 rectors of the Mar- 

 shall-Putnam Farm 

 Bureau since 1932 

 he also is a charter 

 member. He has 

 served on the Mar- 

 j^ shall-Putnam Farm 



j0^ Bureau dairy mar- 

 - y^^^^ keting committee 

 ^^^^^ for a number of 

 ^^^^^^ years. Schumacher 

 is now rebuilding 

 H. Schumadier his dairy herd as he 

 had to get rid of a number of his cows 

 about a year ago when the herd was 

 found to be infected with Bang's dis- 

 ease. Schumacher has served for a 

 number of years as a grain sealer. 



JUNE. 1945 



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