Prairie Farms Creamery 

 At Henry Opens May 25 



COMPLETION of the new $180,000 

 Prairie Farms Creamery at Henry 

 was announced by J. B. Countiss, man- 

 ager of the state organization, with the 

 formal opening of the plant for busi- 

 ness May 25. 



The new creamery, the 10th in the 

 list of Prairie Farms Creameries scat- 

 tered throughout the state, is on the 

 bank of the Illinois River about a 

 stone's throw from the Marshall-Put- 

 nam County Farm Bureau building. 



The new plant will serve farmers in 

 Bureau, Marshall-P u t n a m , Stark, 

 Woodford and Peoria counties and can 

 be geared to produce 1,000,000 pounds 

 of butter annually. 



Serve 600 Producers 



The creamery will service a minimum 

 of 600 milk and cream producers daily 

 and can handle a maximum of 100,000 

 pounds of milk daily. Output of the 

 new plant will include sweetened and 

 unsweetened condensed milk, con- 

 densed buttermilk, butter, cream, and 

 whole milk. 



On the job as general manager of 

 the Prairie Farms Creamery at Henry 

 is Dave W. Smith, who has been with 

 the state company in Chicago for more 

 than 10 years. His experience includes 

 25 years of creamery operation. 



Plant manager is Leo J. Kelly, who 

 also spent several years with the state 

 company in Chicago. Field Manager 

 Ray Carlson was associated with the 

 former Peoria plant, during its life- 

 time. 



Forerunner of the Henry plant, the 

 Producers Creamery of Peoria plant op- 

 erated for 12 years until about a year 

 ago making more than 12 million 

 pounds of Prairie Farms butter and 

 paying back to producer members more 

 than 164,000 in patronage refunds. 



Replaces Peoria Plant 



The Peoria organization, was liqui- 

 dated paying off 100 cents on the dol- 

 lar plus a dividend of seven per cent on 

 all the outstanding stock. 



The new plant at Henry was built to 

 take the place of the Peoria creamery 

 in its northern buying area. 



Funds were raised by selling now as- 

 sessable seven per cent preferred stock 

 to producers with a limit of $1,000 in 

 stock to any one member. Any Farm 

 Bureau member who sells to the cream- 



ery is a common stockholder in the 

 Prairie Farms creamery. 



The new plant is 50 feet by 90 feet 

 and is lined inside with cream-colored 

 glazed tile. It has a 3,000 gallon stain- 

 less steel tank for milk storage, and a 

 stainless steel separator which can sep- 

 arate 11,000 pounds of milk an hour. 



The milk evaporator cost $28,000 

 and is the only one of its kind in the 

 organization's 10 creameries. The re- 

 peated use of steam to condense skim 

 milk in two batches cuts fuel costs far 

 below ordinary evaporator fuel costs. 



The 175 horse power boiler is 

 equipped with autorrutic water and 

 fuel feeds. Milk will be picked up 

 daily on routes by covered trucks and 

 present cream routes will be continued 

 without trucking duplication. 



Members of the board of directors of 

 the creamery are: President Herbert 

 Schoemaker, Marshall-Putnam; Vice 

 President Ray Schneider, Bureau; Sec- 

 retary Joe Wilson, Stark; Peter Schirtz, 

 Woodford, and Joe Rahn, Peoria. 



By 



ELLSWORTH D. LYON 



Rural Youth oiarches on in education, 



recreation, and community sefvice. Will 

 closed its year March 21 with annual re- 

 ports at a gala banquet in Joliet served to 

 70 Rural Youthers. At the first meeting; of 

 the new year Leonard Braham, director. 

 Will County Cooperative Association, spoke 

 on the theme, "Opportunities for Rural 

 Youth in the Field of Cooperatives." 



Montgomery's tenth annual banquet held 

 as a formal, April 16, in Hillsboro was at- 

 tended by more than 100 Rural Youthers. 

 The Hawaiian theme was featured in the 

 banquet hall at the country club. Each per- 

 son was presented with a Hawaiian lei as 

 a symbol of welcome. A Hawaiian dance 

 by Mary Evelyn Good and a vocal solo by 

 Barbara Seymour added much to the south- 

 west Pacific atmosphere. The speaker was 

 the Rev. Paton, missionary to Puerto Rico. 



Randolph's play "She's My Daisy" was 

 presented in four centers in the county 

 but with a change in schedule due to an 

 auto accident in which two members of the 

 cast were injured following the first per- 

 formance. Injured members of the cast 

 were Glenn Sternberg and Mary Cleland. 

 According to reports, both were able to 

 appear in the three later performances. 



Bond's sixth annual banquet and dance 

 held in Greenville was climaxed by the 

 crowning of Norma Jean Elam as the Rural 

 Youth queen with Mae Jahnssen, Delia 

 Durr, June Hunter, Connie Marcoot as 

 maids of honor. One-third of the cash 

 proceeds of the voting for the queen was 

 contributed to the Red Cross. The Rural 

 Youth prophecy given by Helen Baum- 

 berger added much fun to the occasion. 



Kankakee was host to three 4-H clubs in 



April. Representatives of these clubs pre- 

 sented stunts. 



Wabash held a debate on "Compulsory 



Military Training" at its recent parent guest 

 night. 



Enjoying HianMalvai nt Montgomery coun- 

 ty's 10th annual banquot and dance re- 

 cently ore, left to right: Secretary Martha 

 Martin, President Carl NIehaus and Recre- 

 ational Chairman Dorothy O'Malley. 



The March meeting of the Crystal Lake 

 Wildcats was held at the home of Earl Tes- 

 sendorf. Earl played selections on both the 

 organ and the piano. 



Franklin showed a movie featuring "State 

 Parks in Illinois" at the meeting April 11. 



Edgar Rural Youthers recently heard 

 Prof. K. H. Hinchcliff of the University of 

 Illinois extension agricultural engineering 

 in a chalk talk on the theme, "Farm Build- 

 ings." Members of the married group met 

 with them. A skating party to be held in 

 Terre Haute was planned for May. 



Massac heard George Tager on "Soil 



Conservation." An ice cream social was 

 scheduled to raise money for future Rural 

 Youth activities. 



DeKalb answered many questions on 



etiquette under the theme, "Emily Post 

 Looks at Life." 



McLean began preparing in April to send 

 some of its members to the Rural Chorus 

 which will sing at the state fair in August. 

 DeKalb also sent out invitations to Rural 

 Youthers to engage in county rehearsals 

 for this big event. 



Logan realized $41.15 on its box social 

 held recently in Lincoln. 



Warren has plans for the organization of 

 a square dance group as well as a baseball 

 team. At a recent meeting members of the 

 board of directors of the Farm Bureau were 

 invited as guests to the next Rural Youth 

 meeting. 



Bureau announces: "The first Bureau 

 County Rural Youth banquet and dance 

 will be held at the Princeton high school 

 gym. May U at 7 p.m. Farmer Bill of 

 Station WMBD is engaged as speaker. The 

 theme of the dance is '"The Maypole Dance." 



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