The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-24
BULLETIN FOR OCTOBER
FARMERS MEAT INCREASED 20
PER CENT. IN VALUE.
COOPERATIVE KILLING AND CURING
Where individuals Keep Aloof from Each Other
and Underbid Each Other in the Mar
ket they Can Never Realize the
Best Prices Obtainable,

Best Prices Obtainable.
The October Bulletin of the North
Carolina State Board of Agriculture will
be devoted entirely to 'sThe Hog and ats
Products. This matter is treated in a
series Of illustrated articles on the hand
ling dhd curing of bacon under the fol,
lowing neads:
ITO make good hams,
Smithffeld Hams.
Breakfast Bacon.
Shoulder Cuts.
Receipts for Curing Meat.
Butdhering Time.
Cooperative KILLING and Curing.
Corporation in Marketing.
BY careful and dexterous handling of
our pork it is believed" the Bulletin
says, that at least 21a cents per pougid
on hams and breakfast bacon may be
added to the selling value. If this be
true. and we believe it is, it means add
ing nearly 20 per cent, to the incone
of the farmer from this item alone.
THE time 'honGred custom of neighbors
assisting each other at the yearly slaugh-
ter eff the hogs and the otttime practice
of employing some neighbor more skill
ed in the especial arts of the trade sug-
gest the thought that further co-opera-
Tlosa may be rot only desirable but hb-
so&ta.cly necessary in the preparation of
pork products IN such a way that
they may compete with the imported ma
tevaal prepared by professionals, many
% whozn have but a single motion to
perform and al OF whom are continually
engaged.
AEasEicaEg are not inclined to look
with favor u Europeans as teachers in
ecancgassc questions. but IN cooperative
aSSaciasiO1. at least one nation of in
uE1srrS0sas people are far ahead of what
we uaay expect 10 become IN many years,
PARTLY on arcoErmF OF ogT surroundings.
anG partly ON account of orr coIlservat-
isFn and natural IisTrgEst of untTied con-
glafi01ss
AEogEt twenty years ago there was
initiated IN Denmark a system of cream
cry cooperation wfs5oa has since spread
until the hulk Of milk supplied TO its chief
cities IS supplied by Il, and whose ex
ample has borne fruit in 1his country and
is daily increasing BY its means milk.
cream. butter and cheese are handed
ter condition in its finished products.
These creameries are entirely controlled
by the milk producers and, as the name
implies. by all working together for the
common end. Each small owner could
not purchase all the improved apparatus
for handling milk, nor perhaps could
attend to an the manifold duties con-
nected with its manufacture, hut some
could devote their time and all he shar-
ers OF the income derived.
THE creamery associations soon slim
ulated the dairy industry on ac-
count of the increased profits, so
that an outlet for the waste products
became necessary and the fattening of
swine began. AT first there was no trou-
BILE in disposing OF the live swine to Ger
many, but soon there was raised a pro-
Inhibition against the importataon of the
swine by the German Government, and
then anDther outlet was sought. The
present system of co opel atiive aIbattoiTs
resulted. So remarkable had been the
result of cooperation in creameTieS shat
this was the logical sequence of events.
THE first a)battoir was established in
1887 for the slaughter of hogs and the
preparation of salted and smoked meats.
I'm 1888 five others followed By 1896,
twenty-five had been established with a
membership off 80, 600 farmers The least
off these aIbattoirs slaughtered I'M 1896
4.602 head; the largest, 53,951; all
slaughtered, T01 ,041 head or AN average
of 2S,042 head for each.
'"Ihe capital necessary to establish
these was primarily borrowed upon the
recognized credit OF the members of the
society. The loan was Facilitated 10y
bankers and tradesmen of neighboring
villages whose interests were increased
by the creation OF such Important enter
prises.
'All were admitted as members, what
ever the number, who raised swine and
engaged to deliver at the abatto;r all
that they intended to sell. at a weight be-
tween 100 and 200 pounds.
1.-THE societies add work under fixed
regulations as regards deliveries, pay
ments, fees, Withdrawal at the end of
the stated time, and other necessary de-
tails of business.
disputed points ale submitted to the
general assembly prs sided over by a
president Questions cf dispute between
the members and the abattoir are set
tied by a Board Of Arbitration compos-
cd of judge named ly the Assembly, one
Gy the ahattoir committee and third
by the CLAIMANT.
in all other cases a committee named
by the general assembly represents the
abattoir in all its acts, conforming to the
rules anG regulations of the society, am
der the responsibility of the general as
sem1iy. y commercial member. who
can not otnerwlSe be'tDg to the society,
is appointed.
Although ample provision has been
made in the organic law of the society
for its dissolution at amy time none of
them have yet been obliged TO avail them
selves Of it. On the contrary their pros
pelIty affords the most striking proof of
the results that can be obtained by
well applied and seriously undertaken CO.
operative society.
The above llotes have been taken
from a recent report made TO the French
Minister of Agriculture ON this important
phase of work. While as before stated