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s Construction is now under way on 
a second car loading train shed at the 
Eastern States mill in Buffalo. It is 
mighty good business for members to 
own this new property for, by increas- 
ing the mill capital investment about 
10 percent, facilities are being added 
that will make it possible to step up 
production nearly 20 percent. This 
new construction will permit opera- 
tions at Buffalo to be ‘‘around the 
clock, @ 

hr) Compare that stack of lumber with the height of the men constructing the 
new loading shed at the Eastern States Mill in Buffalo and you get an idea of 
what a whopping big roof it takes to cover 39 freight cars. 
sx There ought to be an “E” for 
Eastern States. The Army-Navy “‘E”’ 
is awarded, with fitting ceremonies, 
to wat goods factories which meet 
production quotas. Well, your East- 
ern States Mill is kicking quotas into 
cocked hats these days — and if it 
were guns instead of feed, we'd have 
our. Ei. 
Take October, for instance. In Oc- 
tober, 1941, Eastern States members 
— the fellows who are helping to 
keep the army and navy and hard- 
working civilians supplied with eggs 
and milk — asked the mill to produce 
40,354 tons. Comes October, 1942, 
and the mill staff strained and sweat 
to the tune of 49,578 tons! An increase 
of nearly 25 percent. 
Hard work and expanded produc- 
tion counts these days. Farmers and 
their cooperatives richly deserve 
some sort of “‘E”’ flag such as many 
industrial plants are flying. However, 
Eastern States people, like so many 
others, will not allow the lack of an 
“E”’ to keep them from continuing to 
strain every muscle in the tremendous 
task we have. 
Priority for this new construction 
has been issued by the War Produc- 
tion Board because of the extremely 
important place dairy, poultry and 
livestock feeds hold in the production 
of much needed vital human foods. 
As you have known for some time, 
the Exchange’s petition for construc- 
tion of a complete mill at Huron, 
Ohio, was not granted because it 
would have required too great an 
amount of steel and other scarce 
materials. In the new train shed at 
Buffalo wood is being used where 
steel would normally be specified and 
the conveyor belts will be made of 
canvas instead of rubber. A lot of 
rubber is being saved for there will be 
three miles of canvas belting! 
This new train shed will be 900 feet 
long. It will be three tracks wide for 
400 feet and two tracks wide for the 
remaining 500 feet. 
It will provide undercover place- 
ment for 39 cars to be loaded, supple- 
mented by a covered position for un- 
loading nine incoming cars of sacked 
feed. When this new facility is com- 
pleted, it will be possible to load, 
at your Buffalo mill, 90 cars at one 
time — 82 of them under cover. 
Lumber for this new Eastern States 
cooperatively owned facility came 
from the great fir mills at Bellingham, 
Washington. Nearly 30 carloads of it 
spanned almost the entire continent 
to make more eggs and milk possible 
for the fighters, the workers and our 
overseas Allies. This new construc- 
tion requires about 750,000 board 
feet of lumber and the builders hope 
to have it completed about May 1. 
As this CooperaTor goes to press, 
much of the framework is up and 
some of the sheathing applied. 

€9 The Army has its WAACS and the Navy its WAVES — but did you know 
Eastern States has its W-A-Y-S, too? Yes, sir, Women Assisting Your Service 
at the Exchange’s warehouses. At West Springfield the WAYS girl is Miss 
Ruth White, shown writing up a poultry feed order for William Abraham of 
Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. 
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