El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-01
COOPERATION TO
CUT LIVING COST
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canning. In the first place a con-
Venient canning establishment ena DleS
the farmer to save much fruit and
many vegetables that otherwise would
80 to waste. In the second place, the
canning outfit does not cost much. The
average canning factory large enough
for all neighbOrhood needs, can be
equipped for a few hundred dollars.
In many of these the farmers not only
have their surplus product put up, but
that for family consumption as we'll
One who mas been on the farm at
canning and preserving time. when help
could not be procured, knows what
task il is for the women OF the house
hold Under the new system the house
Wife has tomatoes, beans and Deets
canned. applebutter made, and other
fruits put up with very little outlay of
actual cash.
Strong in Europe.
In Europe the cooperative manufac-
turing establishment flourishes and
stands as a monument TO the POSSIBLE
ties Of. cooperation. In Glasgow Scot
land, there Is the largest bread making
establishment in the world It has
capacity of hundreds OF thousands of
lOaVes Of bread a day, and is operated
by the United Cooperative Baking So
ciety. The saving effected BY its Op-
GRAFTON is so remarkable that California
grown wheat may be shipped Is, 900
miles, around Cape Horn, ground in
cooperative mill. the flour baked in
to the consumer at much lower price
than the resident OF Minneapolis pays
for bread baked from flour made ten
blocks away, from wheat grown within
so miles.
Reduces Living Cost.
At Dunston-o n-Tyne there is a great
Hour mill that VIII compare with the
biggest to be found in any country
Wholesale society, and its great grain
SilOs nave a capacity of $1,000 tons,
or half a million bushels of wheat. 1t
is one OF the activities which eX-
land.
The activities Of English cooperation
are reaching across the sea to our own
land. The Scottish Cooperative Whole
sale society has perfected arrange
ments in Buffalo for the storage
of the wheat it buys in the Canadian
NOrthWess to await favorable steam
ship rates on wheat BY storing its
some tramp steamer is anxious for
transatlantic cargo and offers a salts
factory rate. That the society has to
Duy quite BIT OF Wheat in the United
states and Canada is evidenced by the
fact that its annual sales Of all kinds
amount TO nearly sac, O0o, 600. 1t is the
wholesale department of some ESQ
Scotch retail cooperative societies.
many Of them with large memberships,
and one, St. Cuthberts. in Edinburg,
with $4,000 members. The society has
oAA Ad45E gram RECEIVING GAENaAOLE VI
its own in Western Canada 1t has
one flour mill in Glasgow with an
annual output valued at more than
S2.OOO,0OO, cooperative prices.
The British cooperative societies find
no fields where they cannot manufac-
ture to advantage. Some of them have
their own soap factories. One of these
turns out a half million dollars worth
Of soap a year. OF the total trade OF
the English cooperative societies they
manufacture nearly One-half of their
own products. Thus one-half Of the
commodities the working people who
constitute these societies buy, are made
by working people whom they directly
employ.
The cooperative manufacturing plant
Is no less successful in other countries
than IL IS in England. In Germany
cooperative manufacturing establish
ments are to be found in majority of
the different communities, and the
same tale'is told of wholesome working
conditions for the labor. reduced cost
Of manufacturing by reason of the
elimination Of profits, and a grade OF
goods always equal 10 that put on the
market by private enterprise, and fire.
qucnuy freer from adulteratiOn and
substitution. The same condition pre-
walls elsewhere, but the cooperative
factory always has followed the coop
erntlve retail store; for the cooperative
outlet for goods must always come first
u the cooperative making of them is
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