Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1931 — Page 21

h Welcome - - * » T To everyone attending or participating in | this great event .* . Welcome/ Let’s make f an outstanding success of our - - - t * I Cloverleaf Dairy Day! I * r * Some *| P\\ AIRY DAV calls attention to the significance of a thriving industry tei?eStmg FcBCtS |D which benefits every citizen of the county and which has made AddlllS COllfltV’S DaWV Decatur widely known as a substantial center of this steadily growing business. Industry » Decatur is the home of one of the most modern and successful creamery "j ■ Y plants in the entire central western section of the United States. From I this plant come dairy butter, cheese, ice cream, etc.- 1 “ 1 the finest and most essential food products for mankind. They are wide- More tha „ wo(1 of , he 2 . 100 farm> in Adanls Counly have dairy ly distributed. herds. The 4-H Calf club has 42 members, all striving to improve general . Well established routes, covered by motor trucks, gather the raw’ pro- dairy Conditions. I I ducts, cream and milk, from great dairy herds which are the pride of Therc are one-third more dairy cows in Adams County than horses. their owners and are profusely distributed throughout the county and Farmers and dairymen receive several hundred thousand dollars a northern Indiana. - vear from sale of mi,k a,,d cream - Exclusive of farmers, several hundred people are engaged in the A large condensary at Berne, many milk stations, and other substantial da r> business ,n Adamß tount >- evidences of the industry are manifest everywhere in the county. thou^ in AdamS ‘° | More than 26,000,000 pounds of milk purchased in 1930 by Cloverleaf > When you count the people employed at the plants in Decatur and Berne; Creameries at Decatur and Huntington plants. X the drivers for the trucks; the men engaged in dairying on the farm, this Adams county has a cheese factory, a milk condensery and a one business in Adams county provides jobs for thousands. And when creamery. . j „ you add the money invested in plants, equipment, trucks, farms, herds, More trucks are engaged in gathering milk from farmers than autofeed, pasture lands, farms, machinery, you begin to get some idea of the mobiles used m delivering of mads m Adams county. size and far-reaching effects of the business. Adams county ranks among first twelve counties in the state as dairy center. .!■ • We have something worth crowing about. That’s one reason why we are . . having Dairy Day. But a bigger reason is to further the industry in a constructive way. We congratulate the dairying interests of the county on their successful efforts and we pledge our cooperation to the sponsors ' Tn of Dairy Day. LETS MAKE IT AN ANNUAL INSTITUTION. J—- * fa ■ Chamber of Commerce | • ¥ Y ' S Decatur, Indiana t OFFICERS DIRECTORS • ■. a r» a ra.no A - Ashbaucher Leo Kirsch A. IL Ashbaucher, pres. Henry Schulle Avon Burk James Cowan, vice-pres. . <’• C. Pumphrey William Linn Wilson Lee James Cowan a Leo Kirsch, secretary p ick Hdk . r William Linn, treasurer /»•

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1931.

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