CPS Unit Number 100-06

CPS Unit Number 100-06

Camp: 100

Unit ID: 6

Operating agency: MCC

Opened: 5 1943

Closed: 10 1946

Workers

Total number of workers who worked in this camp: 15

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  • CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    Civilian Public Service Dairy Farming. Serving to give sufficient quantity of high-quality milk.
    1943
  • CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    625 CPS men are working as dairy farmers and as dairy herd testers in 30 different countries in the leading dairy states of the country. The increase and the improvement of the nation's milk supply is the function of this government assigned 'work of national importance.'
    ca. 1944
  • CPS Camps 125 and 100, subunit 6
    CPS Camps 125 and 100, subunit 6
    News and Views was a newsletter jointly published between Camps 125 and 100, subunit 6 in 1945.
    Digital image from the American Friends Service Committee: Civilian Public Service Records (DG 002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 100
    CPS Camp No. 100
    Dairy Farming: Wilbert L. Moore calibrating butter fat columns to determine the production and index increase of cows through artificial breeding by pure bred-high production and type breed bulls.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 100
    CPS Camp No. 100
    Dairy Farming: Bemis and Lindes computing the dairy income above feed costs for a recently tested herd. From such information culling is done more efficiently.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 100
    CPS Camp No. 100
    Dairy Farming: Bemis and Lindes at the laboratory in Litchfield taking composite and individual milk samples and running the Babcock test for butter fat.
    Digital image from American Friends Service Committee: CPS Records (DG002), Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  • CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    1943
  • CPS Camp No. 100, subunit 2
    ca. 1944
  • CPS Camps 125 and 100, subunit 6
  • CPS Camp No. 100
  • CPS Camp No. 100
  • CPS Camp No. 100
Summary:

CPS Unit 100, subunit 6, located in Maine, was operated by Mennonite Central Committee.

 

Mennonite Central Committee appointed Francis Smucker to oversee the dairy testers in Maine.  He worked from Orono and remained in contact with seventeen testers scattered throughout the state. The men seldom met as a group, but on August 12, 1945, they gathered to hear Newton Weber preach.  Roy Brubaker succeeded Smucker on September 15, 1945.

 

One man in the unit conducted artificial insemination throughout his service.  By 1944, 125 breeding cooperatives existed across the country and collectively bred nearly a quarter million cows. (Gingerich p. 206-207) CPS men worked as technicians and inseminators managing the bulls.  They washed and disinfected equipment as well as took and distributed the semen. 

 

Unit men, working with the Orono Agriculture Extension CPS Unit No. 125 men, contributed to Maine “News and Views” from June through September 1945. The unit also published Dairy Tester’s Letter with the October 30, 1945 unnumbered issue in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

 

As demobilization began the farmers expressed reluctance to lose unit men as they had provided good service.

Location:
Maine, United States