ONE hundred thousand pounds of 

 milk daily - — that's the processing 

 capacity of the Prairie Farms 

 Creamery at Henry in Marshall- 

 Putnam counties and the goal of 

 this lAA affiliate for Dairy 

 Month. 



June also starts the second year of 

 operations for the Henry creamery. So 

 June would appear to be an appropriate 

 time to appraise the success ot this 

 year-old baby and maybe try to predict 

 his future. 



As creameries go, it has had remark- 

 able success. Manager Dave Smith 



Truckers line up before Prairie Farms Creamery at Henry. 



HENRY CREAMERY ENDS A 

 SuCCMAA^al FIRST YEAR 



gives most of the credit to the farmer 

 patrons who have given the creamery 

 "unbelievable support" during the past 

 year. Financially it also has done well. 

 Besides it has been an important factor 

 in helping maintain a higher price 

 level to producers in the area it serves. 



By January the plant was operating 

 at 40 per cent of capacity. Today it is 

 around the 100 per cent capacity mark 

 which could have been reached some 

 time ago if more trucks had been avail- 

 able to reach more producers. 



Growth has been steady and sus- 

 tained with successive months record- 

 ing satisfying gains. The creamery 

 serves the counties of Bureau, Peoria, 

 Marshall, Putnam, Stark, and Wood- 

 ford. 



The Prairie Farms Creamery at Henry 

 produces large quantities of high qual- 

 ity products — butter, sweetened con- 

 densed milk, sweet cream, and con- 



By JIM THOMSON 



lAA RECORD Ass't. Editor 



densed buttermilk. It also handles 

 cheese manufactured at the Prairie 

 Farms Creamery plant at Moline. 



Several of the Prairie Farms Cream- 

 erics also have given some serious 

 thought to going mto the manufacture 

 of ice cream which is made only at the 

 Mt. Sterling plant at present. The 

 creamery at Henry will give the manu- 

 facture of ice cream more thought 

 when machinery becomes available and 

 the market appears suitable for the 

 venture. 



The Henry plant is modern in every 

 detail. It gleams and sparkles every- 

 where with its stainless steel equipment 

 and bright glazed tile. The milk evap- 

 orator, for example, cost $28,000 and 

 is the only one of its kind in the or- 

 ganization's 10 creameries. 



On receiving line, 

 Clarence Barker 

 (right) removes 

 lids from cans, 

 pushes them to 

 Lyie Hall (center), 

 who ^weighs milk, 

 dumps it and 

 pushes can through 

 washer. Donald 

 Ringenberg checks 

 weight, keeps rec- 

 ord. 



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Milk j loiitKi. >aid Smith, had wider 

 use among more people during the war 

 years and although a decline in prices 

 is now in the wind, more people are 

 going to appreciate the value of milk 

 products as a staple food in the future 

 so consumption may continue at high 

 levels. 



By continuing to advertise and pub- 

 licize the importance ot milk as a neces- 

 sary food for good health. Smith be- 

 lieves the industry can sustain its mar- 

 kets. He believes, too. that there is a 

 good domestic market for powdered 

 milk that will become increasingly im- 

 portant as its use by commercial bakers 

 increases and as women become edu- 

 cated to its economy and usefulness in 

 the home. 



1 he Henry creamery is the lOth of 

 the Prairie Farms Creameries to be es- 

 tablished but after a year's progress it 

 does not expect to stay in that rank in 

 importance. That appears certain. 



This gives you on idea of the great size 



of the power boiler at the Henry creamery. 



Turning valve is Plant Superintendent Joe 



Crobb. 



