Prairie f<iriii( plant managers meeting at 

 Urbana to dIttMn* their new retearth pro- 

 gram are, Mt to right: Robert tritkton, 

 Mt. Sterling; Bert Mullooly, Goiesburg; Tor- 

 rest falrthlld, Chltago, state sales manager; 

 I. B. Howard, head, food technology de- 



partment. University of Illinois; A. Oliver 

 Bower, Bushton, president, Prairie farms 

 Creameries; frank Mieynek, OIney; I. C. 

 Hochstrasser, Champaign; Harold Brackett, 

 Carbondale. Batk to camera are John ftaab, 

 Henry, and fletther Oourley, Carllnvllle. 



PFC RESEARCH PROGRAM 



Prairie Farms Creameries Plan New 

 Research On Ice Cream Mixes, Frozen 

 Desserts, To Market Milk Surpluses 



PRAIRIE Farms Creameries laboratory 

 in Chicago has developed a new and 

 superior dairy cleaner which will be 

 sold this year to housewives and dairy 

 farmers throughout Illinois. 



The cleaner can be used for all house- 

 hold and dairy cleansing needs. It leaves 

 dishes cleaner than dishes rinsed with 

 clear water, and does an excellent job on 

 milk pails and strainers. 



This new cleansing powder — it is not 

 a soap — has been developed by E. L. 

 Andersen. He is in charge of the labora- 

 tory in Chicago for Prairie Farms. 



Andersen described the cleaner as a 

 light powder, milky cream in color. He 

 said it is compounded from the new super 

 phosphates and new wetting agents being 

 introduced to industry. 



Forrest C. Fairchild, state manager of 

 the creameries, said that it will be used in 

 the 10 member plants of Prairie Farms 

 Creameries and will be sold by them to 

 housewives and dairy patrons. 



This is the first product to be devel- 

 oped by the creamery laboratory in Chi- 

 cago. Fairchild said that any income 

 from this product will be used to expand 

 the research program. 



At a meeting recently held in Cham- 

 paign, plant managers suggested several 

 research projects which could be devel- 

 oped by the Chicago laboratory. 



They suggested that work be done to 

 expand existing outlets and to create new 

 markets for milk solids other than cream. 



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They asked that work be done on the 

 vitamin fortification of semi-solid butter- 

 milk. 



Ice cream mixes and other frozen des- 

 serts also were suggested as possible re- 

 search projects which might yield profit- 

 able results. 



The laboratory in Chicago has been set 

 up primarily to perform quality control 

 work. Work is centralized there for all 

 member plants. 



Sweet Is Named 

 New Director Of 

 Road Improvement 



CULLEN B. SWEET, 45, superintend- 

 ent of the Community unit school 

 at Barry in Pike county since 1936, 

 has been employed, 

 effective Feb. 1, as 

 director of road im- 

 provement for the 

 Illinois Agricultural 

 Association. He suc- 

 ceeds Charles F. 

 Mayfield who re- 

 cently became assist- 

 ant director of or- 

 ganization. 



Sweet was born 

 on a farm near C. B. Sweet 

 Franklin in Morgan 



county which has been in the family for 

 more than a century. Following gradu- 

 ation from Franklin high school, he at- 

 tended James Milliken University at De- 

 catur and Illinois College at Jacksonville 

 from which was graduated in 1935. He 

 earned his master's degree in school 

 supervision at the University of Illinois 

 in 1941. 



Before going to Barry he taught at 

 Kinderhook and Rockport. Sweet has 

 shown a great deal of interest in rural 

 road conditions through his work in plan- 

 ning school bus transportation. The road 

 situation he considers a major problem 

 for rural educators as well as farmers. 



The new director of road improvement 

 is married and has two children — a 

 daughter aged 19, and a three-year-old 

 son. 



John Raab Succeeds Dave Smith 

 As Manager Of Creamery At Henry 



JOHN RAAB, plant superintendent at 

 Carlinville, has been appointed to 

 succeed Dave W. Smith as plant 

 manager of the Prairie Farms Creamery 

 at Henry. 



Smith plans to continue working for 

 Prairie Farms Creameries but in a posi- 

 tion which will make fewer demands on 

 his health. Smith worked in Chicago 

 for the state company for 10 years be- 

 fore going to Henry as plant manager. 



Raab has worked for the Carlinville 

 plant since 1947, and before that worked 

 two years for Golden State, Inc., a Cali- 

 fornia dairy company. 



He was reared at Belleville in St. Clair 

 county and was graduated from the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois in 1941. After gradu- 

 ation he served in the army for four 



years. During his last year in the army 

 he served as a purchaser of dairy prod- 

 ucts in the Chicago area. i . 



Beware Of Cholera 



A NORTHERN Illinois farmer had 

 tough luck with his fall pigs. He 

 lost 41 out of 49 from hog cholera. It 

 could have been prevented. 



Proper vaccination would have done it. 

 Dr. M. E. Mansfield, extension veteri- 

 narian with the College of Veterinary 

 Medicine, Urbana, says. 



Cholera strikes most often in the fall, 

 Mansfield says, although outbreaks can 

 occur anytime. , - ' I • 



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