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Sept. U include: Sept. 11, Iroquois, Menard, 

 Madison, Vermilion and Williamson. Sept. 

 12, Woodford, Logan, Edgar and Jefferson. 

 Sept. 13, McLean, Macon, Monroe and 

 Clark. Sept. 14, Livingston, Piatt, Randolph 

 and Crawford. 



Sept. 17, Wayne; Sept. 18, Whiteside, Du- 

 Page, St. Clair, Jersey and Lawrence. Sept. 

 19, Henry,' McHenry, Peoria, Macoupin, Ed- 

 wards. Sept. 20, Richland, Bureau, Ogle, 

 Fulton, Morgan-Scott and Gallatin- White. 



Sept. 21, McDonough, LaSalle, Stark, 

 Cass, Pulaski-Alexander and Pope-Hardin- 

 Massac. Sept. 25, Hancock, Carroll, Will, 

 Bond and Hamilton. Sept. 26, Henderson, 

 JoDaviess, Ford, Montgomery and Saline. 

 Sept. 27, Mercer, Stephenson, DeWitt, Ef- 

 fingham and Jasper. Sept. 28, Rock Island, 

 Winnebago-Boone, Mason, Christian and 

 Washington. 



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•y F. A. GOUGLER 



The board of direaors of Prairie Farms 



Creamery of Carlinville has authorized the 

 sale of additional Class "A" preferred stock. 

 This new issue is to be used to construct a 

 new building and to purchase needed new 

 equipment. For the time being, says Man- 

 ager F. A. Gourley, total outstanding stock 

 will be limited to $125,000. 



The amount that can be sold to any one 

 individual, according to board action, is 

 S500. However, each member of the fam- 

 ily may purchase this amount. Only per- 

 sons who are directly interested in farmmg 

 and are known to be interested in coopera- 

 tive effort may purchase stock. 



The board anticipates that the stock will 

 be over-subscribed, therefore, the board 

 reserves the right to accept or refuse any 

 or all stock. 



Manager Gourley reports a gain of 18 

 new patrons during June and 5 lost, making 

 a net gain of 1}>. 



Prairie Farms Creamery of Carlinville con- 

 tributed $660.40 to the American Dairy As- 

 sociation this year, which was deducted 

 from patrons' checks June 1-15 inclusive at 

 the rate of Ic per pound butterfat pur- 

 chased. 



Manager Frank Mleynek, Prairie Farms 

 Creamery of Olney, has an excellent short 

 article on quality milk in his July issue of 

 Prairie Farms News, as follows: 



"A pie cooled in a cow barn might not 

 be a very attractive dish, depending upon 

 how many straws, bits of hair, flies and 

 other things like that got into it. 



"It seems as though the milk to make the 

 pie should be given as much care as the pie. 

 The fact is, the milk is more sensitive, more 

 easily damaged by bacteria, than is the pie. 



"Like field crops, some bacteria are help- 

 ful. Like weeds in a garden, some bacteria 

 are a nuisance. And like poison ivy and 

 nettles, some bacteria are very dangerous. 

 Most kinds of bacteria found naturally in 

 milk are undesirable, and in milk we can't 

 separate them, so we try to keep the number 

 of all kinds as small as possible. In all 

 mrlk, the fewer bacteria, the better. 



"TJiis is accomplished by using clean uten- 

 sils, having healthy cows and cooling milk 

 immediately after milking and keeping it 

 cold until your driver picks it up. Cleanli- 

 ness in milking methods and practicing san- 

 itation throughout means few bacteria and 

 good high quality milk." 



Since the subsidy payment for butterfat 



in milk is about equal to that paid for fat 

 in cream, it appears that many producers 

 who formerly sold milk are now separating. 

 Farmers Creamery Company of Blooming- 

 ton shows a slight gain in volume during 

 June this year over June last year. This is 

 one of the nine creameries that did not in- 

 stall equipment to handle milk and as a 

 result during war years volume has dropped. 

 Production per patron also shows a 

 marked increase. Manager Fairchild reports 

 that during the week of July 18, the average 

 production per patron was 15V2% above 

 the same week a year ago and was practically 

 the same as the average production per pa- 

 tron in 1943. 



Prairie Farms Creamery of Mt. Carroll is 



now operating full blast in its new creamery. 

 During the last half of July, Herbert John- 

 son of Prairie Farms Creameries assisted 

 Manager Sailer with installation of a new 

 roll dryer and other new equipment. Man- 

 ager Sailer will now turn his attention to 

 procurement problems. The Farm Bureau 

 boards of JoDaviess, Stephenson and Ogle 

 counties, have given permission to the state 

 Company to allocate these counties to Prairie 

 Farms Creamery of Mt. Carroll. These are 

 heavy milk producing counties and give 

 this plant a splendid opportunity to build 

 volume. That's the next problem for Man- 

 ager Sailer and we will assist him in every 

 possible way. . , 



Prairie Farms Creamery of Carbondale 



will be in a position to receive milk by early 

 this fall. The new boiler room which will 

 house two large boilers is completed and 

 the second boiler is being installed. When 

 this steam plant is completed it will be sec- 

 ond to none of our cooperative plants. 



Work will start immediately in rearrang- 

 ing the interior of the plant to provide a 

 receiving room for handling both milk and 

 cream. Milk will be received, pasteurized 

 and some will be sold to other dairies for 

 bottling and the balance will be processed 

 in the plant for various uses. 



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•y G. H. IFTNER 



A number of elevator companies in Il- 

 linois are now engaged in the process of re- 

 organizing under the Illinois Cooperative 

 law of 1923. This development is in line 

 with modern cooperative procedure. It is 

 simply a matter of keeping good corporate 

 repair, without which cooperatives grow 

 old and die. 



Most recent company to start re-organiza- 

 tion procedures is the Rees Farmers Elevator 

 in Morgan county. The local Farm Bureau 

 and the legal department of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association are assisting with 

 the work. 



The director of this department has tenta- 

 tive dates with at least eight other com- 

 panies which contemplate reorganization. 



Several weeks ago a form letter was 



mailed at the Bloomington, Illinois, post of- 

 fice to the farmer elevator companies in this 

 state. The letter cited a recent court case 

 in a western state wherein it was held that 

 farmer stock companies operating as profit 

 business could not legally reorganize and 

 become co-ops. The effect of the letter was 

 that directors receiving it doubted the legal- 

 ity of such reorganization in this state. For 

 the benefit of those companies which have 

 perfected their reorganization and of those 

 who might otherwise be concerned, it is 

 recommended that the letter be disregarded. 



Ursa Farmer's Elevator Company io 



Adams county got two river-going barges 

 for the movement of the July wheat harvest. 

 These were the first barges the Ursa Com- 

 pany had been able to get for reasons that 

 have never been explained. Word may have 

 gone out that the statewide merchandising 

 program contemplates the development of 

 cooperative companies to operate river 

 houses on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. 



Illinois ranks fifth among all states in 

 total acreage of crops harvested. 



Rapid developments in the Farm Bureau 



sponsored grain and feed programs have 

 placed a strain on management. There is 

 a dire need for experienced men who be- 

 lieve in the Farm Bureau, what Farm Bu- 

 reau stands for, and what Farm Bureau can 

 do to keep Illinois agriculture in a strong 

 position economically, socially and political- 

 ly. Right now there are opportunities 

 for young men recently discharged from the 

 armed services to work into a secure posi- 

 tion for their life work. 



SEPTEMBER. 1945 



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