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Wonderful 

 Sausage 



Williamson Locker 

 Company Shows How 

 If Is Done 



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By CRESTON FOSTER 



Edit*r, lAA RECORD 



AKING quality saiij^age i^ like 

 baking a iiliie ri{>l)on cake for 

 the county lair -- a lot de- 

 pends on the recipe and how 

 you follow it. And making 

 quality sausage niav prove to he an ini- 

 [lortant factor in the i)rotil and los> 

 -lieets for a locker plant with processing 

 facilities. That's why there is consider- 

 ahle interest in the sausage making proj- 

 ect heing carried on hy the W illiamson 

 County Cooperative Locker Service at 

 Marion. 



So far one of the main things dis- 

 covered in the project is that the plant 

 can turn out fine sausage of a dozen 

 different varieties. Some of the for- 

 tunate folks who have had a sample of 

 (he product say that they have never 

 lasted such wonderful sausage. Care- 

 ful records are heing kept of all the 

 operations involved so that accurate 

 cost figures will be available. Vi'ith these 

 figures it will be eas\ to tell whether 

 quality sausage making is profitable. 

 F^arly indications are that it is. 



Quality sausage making is expected 

 '» result in three major benefits for 

 'he W illiamson plant and other lockers 

 with processing equipment: (1) fur- 

 nish a profitable outlet for edible by- 

 products of locker processing; (2i 

 keep labor and machinery operating 



SEPTEMBER. 1949 



during (leriods that might olheiwise be 

 slack: (.'>) give a wider outlet tor 

 livestock products of the area served 

 by the plant. 



Locker managers have found that 

 during the summer months, neither 

 labor nor processing facilities are fully 

 used in processing locker patrons" 

 products. 



If the locker plant is to stay in flic 

 black, ways must be found to keep 

 busy. The processing def)artnienl of 

 a locker plant cannot depend on the 

 locker rentals to keep it out of the red. 



Most processing departments also 

 have a capacitv far greater than is 

 ne<-(led to handle the year around run 

 of locker patrons" needs. The manu- 

 facture of sausage products can be car- 

 ried on during slack summer months 

 when these products are af their de- 

 mand peak. 



Farm Credit Administration fur- 

 nished a sausage maker to <et up the 

 project in the Marion plant and teach 

 the techniques of the business. Man 

 agers from other plants also have had 

 a chance to observe the oi»eratioiis. 



Sausage made at the Marion plant 

 will be marketed under the famous 

 Prairie Farms label, and will adhere to 

 the same high quality standards a> 

 apply to the Creameries" dairy products. 

 It is anticipated that the I'rairie Farms 

 statewide network of creameries may be 

 u.sed as part of a marketina setup for 

 the sausage. 



The processing and packaging of 

 sausage at the Marion |>lant will also 

 be watched with interest becau.se it may 

 furnish some facts on the wider use 

 of locker plants in the marketing of 

 fresh and cured meats. A large per- 

 centage of cooperative locker fdants in 

 Illinois have slaughter facilities which 

 can be used more efficiently if the sale 

 of meat products is increased. 



You can see that the Marion plant 

 is pioneering for the other cooperative 

 locker plants in Illinois in this partic- 



iLeft) Henry Under, left, sausage maker 

 from the Shenandoah Valley Packing Com- 

 pany, shows Lauren L. Fosse, Williamson 

 County Co-op Locker Service sausage 

 maker, ho«v to pock sausages. Under was 

 loaned to the fCA by his company to aid in 

 research on sausage making. (Kight) fosse 

 displays a rack of sausage links ready for 

 the smoke house. 



ular field ol meat [iroie.-^sing. ('redil 

 is due the dircitors and others who 

 have invested lime, nionev and effort 

 in the X^'illianison ( 'ountv Cooperative 

 Locker Service plant and facilities. 



Last month new honors came to the 

 Williamson ()Iant when ii re<'eiv<-d an 

 award of merit for being one of the 

 outstanding plants in the state. The 

 award was made by the Locker Man- 

 agement magazine. To be eligible for 

 the magazine award, a plant must have 

 the highest standards of sanitation, 

 must maintain proper locker tempera- 

 lures, must handle all meals [iroperly 

 and furnish a real -ervice to the people 

 of the communitv. Manager Romeo 

 (iaravaglia proudly framed the award 

 certificate and hune it in the plant 

 lobbv. 



Insect Specialist Suggests 

 Fumigation of Wheat 



Fl MICA If. vour farm-stored oats 

 and wheat within six weeks after you 

 harvest it to insure your grain against 

 insect damage is the advice of insect 

 specialist H. 15. Petty of the College of 

 .\griculture and Illinois .Natural His- 

 tory Survey. Petty savs insects can 

 cause more damage than most farmers 

 realize. 



Petty recommended a three to one 

 mixture of ethylene dichloride and car- 

 bon tetrachloride or a four to one mix- 

 ture of carbon tetrachloride and carbon 

 disulphate. Roth are safe, effective and 

 inexpensive. 



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