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processing plant. A 30 acre tract of land 

 has been purchased on the hard road three 

 miles east of Yorkville. In order to pro- 

 vide facilities for slaughtering for the 

 entire county and to take care of the proc- 

 essing for five plants, Dana Cryder is of 

 the opinion that this will require an ex- 

 penditure of from 40 to 50 thousand dol- 

 lars. Definite conclusions have not yet 

 been reached, states Cryder, as to how elab- 

 orate the construction. 



The Pope-Hardin Farm Bureau has named 

 an organization committee of seven mem- 

 bers to organize the Pope-Hardin Locker 

 Service. The committee has been organized 

 into a temporary board of directors and 

 steps are being taken to incorporate. 



If sufficient interest is manifested in the 

 territory and ample stock is subscribed, the 

 board will construct a combined locker- 

 slaughter plant. It is the board's opinion 

 that 500 lockers will be needed. 



cream 



By F. A. eOUeUR 



Manager F. A. Gourley, Producers' 



Creamery of Carlinville, reports that since 

 the spring of 1943, the doors of the cream- 

 ery have never closed. The creamery since 

 then, has operated on the round the clock 

 basis by operating three eight-hour shifts. 



In the spring of 1943, the plant handled 

 60,000 pounds of milk daily, 1944 volume 

 increased to 70,000 pounds daily and the 

 peak day's volume this year was 102,000 

 pounds. 



Recently a new milk route and truck has 

 been purchased from C. F. Tucker who has 

 operated the route in the Raymond terri- 

 tory. Elmer Bartow of Raymond has been 

 employed to operate the truck and continue 

 the route. Elmer has given six years of 

 service to his country and has earned his 

 discharge. The patrons on this route can 

 be certain that they will receive the best 

 possible service. 



Manager Forrest C. Fairchild in a recent 

 issue of Prairie Farms Producer, pays high 

 tribute to an outstanding employee. She 

 is Mrs. Tessie Sievers and her picture ap- 

 pears in the publication. The following 

 tribute is made in her behalf: 



"Mrs. Tessie Sievers completed her 

 tenth year as an employee of Farmers 

 Creamery Company on June 24, 1945. 



Tessie wraps butter in the print room 



and assists in the cream testing laboratory. 



Farmers Creamery Company has always 



appreciated the work Tessie has done and 



we believe she in turn has appreciated the 

 friendship and cooperation she has had 

 from her co-workers in the plant. 



May she serve for many more happy 

 years." 



Jimmie Cramer, Manager of Galesburg 

 Producers Creamery, reports that Ivan Kip- 

 ling who worked in the receiving room of 

 the creamery for more than a year and who 

 more recently operated a cream route in 

 South Warren county has resigned. He 

 will be associated with his brother in the 

 hatchery business. 



Floyd Lybarger of Roseville is taking 

 over where "Kip" left off. Floyd is well 

 acquainted in the territory and patrons 

 should experience no inconvenience as a 

 result of the change. 



Producers Creamery of Carboadale has 



just completed the installation of new 

 double-effect Buflovak milk evaporator. 

 With this equipment concentrated, whole 

 milk, skimmilk and various products will 

 be produced for the market. Heavy users 

 of these products are ice-cream manufac- 

 turers, bakeries and candy makers. 



At the present time, the second unit of 

 boiler is being installed. A large water 

 cooling tower has recently been completed. 

 The new garage 34 x 50 which has recently 

 been constructed is being enlarged to three 

 times its present size. 



By early spring, the expansion program 

 should be completed and milk will be re- 

 ceived as well as cream. 



An increase of 1,182 frozen food locker 



plants in the 48 States between July 1944 

 and July 1945 is reported by the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. The 1945 count 

 is 6,464 locker plants, in active operation, 

 according to information furnished the de- 

 partment through state extension services. 

 It is probable that some plants, especially 

 the newer ones, have not been reported. 

 The distribution by states ranges from 2 

 in West Virginia to 600 in Iowa. Minne- 

 sota is second with 477 and Wisconsin a 

 close third with 473. 



The increased demands for dairy products 



are attributed to a number of factors in 

 addition to the increased national income 

 by Prof. P. H. Tracy, of the dairy manu- 

 facturers department of the U. of I. college 

 of agriculture. Tracy points out that recent 

 American dietary changes include more 

 dairy products ; dairy products are conven- 

 ient, available, and require no labor in 

 preparation ; a larger urban consuming 

 population; improved dairy product mer- 

 chandising methods; wider recognition of 

 nutritional value of dairy products; greater 

 acceptance of quality safety in dairy prod- 

 ucts; and improvement in the quality of 

 dairy products. 



Butter is known to have been made 2,000 

 years before Christ. 



By L. L COLVIS 



Final plans for the Illinois Fruit Grow- 

 ers' Exchange cold storage building at 

 Carbondale have been completed and the 

 contract was scheduled to be let late in 

 September. Construction was expected to 

 begin shortly after the letting of the con- 

 tract with hopes the building will be ready 

 for use early next year. 



In addition to storage capacity for about 

 60,000 bushels of fruit, the new structure 

 also will house the offices of the Illinois 

 Fruit Growers' Exchange and Fruit Exchange 

 Supply Company. 



The building is designed to take care of 

 later expansion as other units can be added 

 as the need arises. Financing is being done 

 largely by members of the Exchange. 



Marco Polo in writing of his travels 



around the world mentioned dried milk. 



Illinois will have approximately 2Vi mil- 

 lion bushels of apples according to present 

 estimates. Many Illinois growers think even 

 this figure is a bit on the optimistic side. 



While not having large crops this year, 

 apple growers are enjoying unusually good 

 demand. The fruit is moving readily at 

 ceiling price ($3.85 per bushel to the 

 grower). Apparently much less than the 

 usual amount is going into cold storage. 



Grimes, Jonathans and Golden Delicious 

 showed the best prospects in Illinois, while 

 late varieties, especially Winesaps, are ex- 

 tremely short. 



The nation produced a record peach crop 

 in volume this year. Illinois moved close 

 to 2,500 cars and a little more than iVi 

 million bushels. This compares with 1,470,- 

 000 bushels last year and a 10-year average 

 of 1,239,000 bushels. 



The Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange 

 marketed in excess of a quarter million 

 bushels for its members this year. This is 

 a record volume of peaches handled by the 

 organization. 



The quality of the Illinois crop was not 

 nearly as good as appearances indicated 

 before harvest. Excessive rains during 

 harvest season caused a great deal of brown 

 rot resulting in considerable damage and 

 loss to the growers. 



The holidays celebrating V-J Day and the 

 elimination of points from canned goods 

 came right at the peak of the peach harvest. 

 The market never recovered from the 

 double shock and declined from the ceiling 

 price of $3.64 per bushel to the grower to 

 $3 and under for the remainder of the 

 season. 



OCTOBER. 1945 



