Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 241, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1931 — Page 9

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DERATIONS HUM AT HUNTINGTON PLANT

■RfIFTHAD ■EI about lese making H of Makins And ■ Package RevojHinized Industry ■\\} LARGEST K rm: world M ar> . tun threads in u l p.c 1 the Kraft ! < ■ i“ «h big idea, , K,, itself t hat j K . single ; < to use the; ui.l reference . Hgr,' cheese i'lea ancient a; -j, to exam >u ■ w Inch , y, about -polosntan ■e ' a meeting representaI h ■ ■ I- 'I a personof lite and business Mpl Mk-p : foundation - ■he said. 'and ' 1 . When I came .1 u.i. nt. tram store to S - u . h cheese a. t-egan business in those days, ■t- lin «itii one horse and ■l. lioi name was Pad-■il-r -it he territory ■ nolle e.oii after 1 arrived I pin based another ■ili.ci mini! ■id> lhe first day I owned ■ the im\i .1 IV a street car M-other wagon and demol-

1 To I• X*jl[ C\ )) Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., \ ( a V JII the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, an d to the Farmers of Adams and adjacent Counties — Greetings and Good Wishes ■ General Electric Company

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

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ished it. “At the end of the first year 1 found myself over $3,000 in debt and Mr. J.C Randolph, from whom I bought cheese, insisted that I buy a $3,000 life-insurance policy in his name for fear I might die before 1 got out of debt. This 1 did because I was exceedingly agreeable in those days. “Conditions went from bad to worse. But let me say here that somewhere back within me was a desire to amount to something. When 1 last Canada, I told an uncle of nihie that I was going to Chicago and would build there the biggest cheese business in the world ! He thought I was the biggest joke in the world, because he knew I had no money. Nevertheless, I was I determined to make good I had un -I l bounded confidence in my own abil(Continued on Page 10) NEW TESTER EMPLOYED HERE Mervin Miller, Succeeds Roy Price As Cow Tester In County Mervin Miller, formerly of Bippus, began his duties October 1. as cowtester for the Adams county Dairy i Herd Improvement Association. .Mr. Miller succeeded Roy Price of Monroe who served in that capacity for seven years, during w hich I time he aided materially in further- I ing and promoting the dairy interests in this county. Officers of the Adams County ' dairy herd improvement associat- • ion are, Otto D. Bieberich. pres ; i Peter B. Lehman, vice-president; Peter D. Schwartz, secretary treas- 1 urer. The dairymen who are associated i in the movement to improve the dairy industry and testing methods (Continued on Page 10)

VALUE OF DAIRY CATTLE IS BIG IN THIS COUNTY Nearly 9,000 Head Assessed In Adams Count} At SIOO,OOO READY MARKET FOR ALL PRODUCTS Dairy cattle assessed for taxal tion purposes in Adams county to--1 tai nearly s4iH),ol>() according to the i assessments sheets on file in the I office of County Auditor Albert , Harlow. Last March the township assess- I i ors assessed 8865 head of dairy cattle, the average assessment beI ing $44 per head. Dairy cattle far 1 outnumber other cattle listed for taxation purposes was 5596 and the average assessment was $24 per i head. Everyone of the 12 townships has i cattle and the owners find them I very profitable since they produce a daily income for the farmers. Herds of dairy cattle have been increasing in Adams county in re- ■ cent years, because of the demand for butterfat, cream and milk. Farmers find these products in demand every day and buyers of milk and butterfat cover a wide territ- | ory in the solicitation for the proI duct. Milk and butterfat produced in i Adams county find its way into the larger markets in the east and so * great is the demand that even in I view of the large production, the supply does not fulfill the demand. In and around Berne much of the I raw milk is delivered to the condenI sery operated by Libby, McNeil and Libby, in the northern part if the county some of the milk goes into (Continued on Page 14)

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 12, 1931.

Founder Os World’s Largest Cheese Business Started With $65 And Faithful Horse J. L. Kraft, founder of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., has remarkable career—Guest of Decatur today.

One of the most distinguished visitors in Decatur today is J. L. Kraft, of Chicago, president of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., and one of the foremost dairy products manufacturers in the country. Officials of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., a subsldary of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., , their guests and citizens of Deicatur were honored with Mr. | Kraft’s presence here today. As directing head of this great dairy industry Mr. Kraft finds little time to visit his plants scattered throughout the country and in Europe. Recently the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., was observed in Chicago and Mr. Kraft was presented with a bronze plaque

commemorating the early days . . of the industry. L ’ KRAFT The plaque, presented to Mr. Kraft said, “Two rolls and coffee Kraft by his employees throughout for my own breakfast and a bag of this country and abroad, was sculp- oats for Paddy were all 1 had left tored by the famous English artist, to show for my original $65 outlay Diana Thorne. It represents Paddy, the second morning I was in Chi the old cheese-wagon horse, that cago. So Paddy and 1 started out played a dramatic part in the begin- with our original consignment of ning of the cheese industry in Chi-I cheese just after dawn. We traveled cago. around the neighborhood of Austin, Paddy was the first and only ass- on what afterwards became our famet. aside from fifty pounds of cheese iliar rou,eacquired by Mr. Kraft when he “At the end of the first year, we came to Chicago from Canada, 25 were three thousand dollars in debt years ago determined to build a in spite of all the trotting Paddy cheese business with’s6s. which re- and I did and all the sales 1 could presented ids total capital. Last make. In those days, people didn’t year that business, built on $65, care very much for cheese. Our told its sales volume around 80 rational per capita consumption million dollars. ... was less than one pound a year. the early days of the — ChPese business in Chicago, Mr. (Continued on Page 10)

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CALF CLUB TO HOLD EXHIBIT DAIRYDAY Forty-Two Members Os Adams C ounty Calf Club To Be Here Wednesday MEMBERS TO RECEIVE NEW CLUB JACKETS Forty-two members of the Adams County 1931 Calf Club will receive club jackets from the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., for exhibiting calves on Dairy Day. Wednesday, i October 14. The exhibits will be I held in tents to be erected near the Creamery in this city, and every ■ member of the club is expected to I enter the exhibit. Calves will be on display tliat ! come under the following classifiI cations; Guernsey: Junior Calf, i Senior Calf, Senior Yearlings and Junior Yearlings; Jersey: Junior Calf and Junior Yearlings; Holstein: Junior Calf, Senior Calf, Junior Yearlings, and Senior Yearlings. There are 23 members of the Holstein division, 14 members of the Guernsey, and 6 members of the Jer sey division. Several members of the club will enter more than one calf in the exhibit. Following are the members of the 1931 Calf Clpb: Richard Moses, James Moses, Reinhold Koldeway, David Wynn, Byron Tricker, Miss Juanita Lehman, Miss Pollyanna Lehman, Glen Griffith, Miss Mabel Harvey of Decatur. Sol Mosure, Frederick Duff, Ardon Mosure, David Mosure, and j Jane Duff of Geneva; Eli Schwartz, ': Kenneth Hirschy, Clarence Schrock i | Chalmer Baumgartner, Sherman ! Vow Gunten, Noah J. Schrock, Miss l Eleanor Hirschy, Miss Helen HirsI chy. Miss Lucy Graber. Miss Eesher

Steury, Miss Elma Steury, Miss Huldah Steury, and Miss Esther Steury of Berne. Joe Haoegger, Lester Mazelin, Miss Helen Mitchell, Miss Laurine Rich, Miss Dessie Mazelin, Miss Ruth Mazelin, Chester Schwartz, Leßoy Schwartz, Elmer Nussbaum. Miss Elda Nussbaum of Monroe. | o | Production Announced ♦— — < County Agent Lawrence Archbold announced the September milk and butterfat, production for the cows in the Adams county territory today. These tests are conducted monthly by the Adams County Cow Testing Association. Production of Ten High Cows For the Month of September Henry Aschleman, Gr. Ayrshire, 1,15 f lbs. milk 6.5% fat, 75.1 lbs. fat. Ralph B. Henry, Pb. Ayrshire, (Continued on Page 14) o HUMB ARGER IS PLANT MANAGER Heber Humbarger Sees Huntington Plant Enlarged In One Year Heber Humbarger, manager of the Huntington plant of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., has been w r ith the company since 1918. Much of the developing, growth and progress made at the plant is due to Mr. Humbarger’s efforts in the last year, when he accepted his present position after serving as superintendant of the Decatur plant for 12 years. At present a new butter print and refrigerator room is being completed in the building and the entire interior is being redecorated in en(Continued on Page 14)

DAIRYDAY EDITION

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PRODUCTION IS GREATEST EVER AT BUSY PLANT More Than 100 Persons Employed In Manufacturing Dairy Products 14,000 COWS SUPPLY PLANT WITH CREAM (By Staff Correspondent) Probably the busiest place in Huntington centers around the activities of the Huntington plant of the Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., where more than 100 persons are employed in the manufacture of Cloverleaf Butter, Ice Cream, Cheese and allied products. This idea about it being the busiest place in the Huntington County capital was obtained after a visit to the plant and getting an "eye full." Things hummed in general and as the Creamery deals in raw milk and sweet cream, trucks loaded with cans of milk rolled up to the building in such numbers and with as much precision as if they were unloading supplies for the Western front. Despite the continual rush and the fact that everyone is busy, everything runs as smooth as water from the faucet. Under the able supervision of Heber Humbarger, the manager of the plant, every department functions in army like style and every man knows what he has to do and keeps at it until the job is completed. Production is the big job after milk and butterfat is once received and both being perishable there is no delay in handling the product The business demands that it be (Continued on Page 14)