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                                     LRB093 13981 HSS 19391 r

 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS, The members of the House of  Representatives  of
 3    the  State  of  Illinois  wish  to  congratulate Furst-McNess
 4    Company on 95 years of operation in the State; and

 5        WHEREAS, Furst-McNess Company  was  started  in  1908  in
 6    Freeport;  the  company  served  area  farmers and small town
 7    people  with  a  quality  line  of  livestock  remedies   and
 8    household products; the company was founded by Frank Furst, a
 9    young  Freeport  lawyer,  and Frederick McNess, a pharmacist;
10    and

11        WHEREAS, In the late  1950s,  Furst-McNess  met  farmers'
12    needs  for  vitamin/mineral  premixes  to  be  used in making
13    livestock  rations  on  the  farm;  midwestern  farmers  were
14    provided these premixes out of the Freeport plant that serves
15    as the company's headquarters; and

16        WHEREAS, Furst-McNess  is  committed  to  being  a  major
17    independent agribusiness nutrition company serving the dairy,
18    beef,  and  swine  industries  with a complete line of McNess
19    mineral and premix products, custom  formulated  manufactured
20    livestock  feeds, wet brewers grain, commodity merchandising,
21    and nutrition consulting; and

22        WHEREAS, Furst-McNess also services the food and beverage
23    industries by establishing a market for their  waste  streams
24    as economical livestock feeding ingredients; the company uses
25    local   business   leaders   and   enthusiastically  supports
26    continuous learning throughout the organization by  providing
27    staff   with   superior   nutrition   training  and  advanced
28    technology; and

29        WHEREAS, Terrapin Ridge is the specialty foods  brand  of
30    Furst-McNess   Company;   Terrapin   Ridge  produces  catsup,
31    mustards, sauces, dry glazes, mustard dressings, mustard seed
 
                            -2-      LRB093 13981 HSS 19391 r
 1    oil, sweet condiments, sugars, and garnishing  sauce;  it  is
 2    named  for  Terrapin  Ridge,  located  in northwest Illinois,
 3    which was named by Native Americans who believed the terrain,
 4    with its scaling ridges, looked like a turtle shell; and

 5        WHEREAS, Furst-McNess was the first  company  to  produce
 6    trial-size  bottles  for its products; the company was also a
 7    leader  in  protecting  its  customers  by  providing  tamper
 8    resistant packaging; therefore, be it

 9        RESOLVED,  BY  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES   OF   THE
10    NINETY-THIRD  GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
11    we congratulate Furst-McNess Company on 95 years of operation
12    in the State of Illinois; and be it further

13        RESOLVED, That a suitable  copy  of  this  resolution  be
14    presented  to  Furst-McNess  Company  as an expression of our
15    esteem.