The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-10

handle great deal Of cheese and
some other farm products we import
considerable of our cheese from Cana
da simply to meet the demand and to
make it unnecessary for those who
buy Of us to go elsewhere.
Keeping Up the Quality.
1--WE regard the Standardization Of
products as the most important fea-
ture Of 60 cooperation in Germany SO
far as the marketing Of it is concern
ed. All the butter which we handle
is graded and branded. Each producer
is given most complete score sheet.
Every time one Of our subsidiary con-
Germs get consignment of butter from
a producer it is graded as is indicated
on score card"
The score card is in duplicate, the
original to be kept at the central Office,
and carbon copy to be filled out and
forwarded to the producer. The card
states that the quality of the shipment
received has been marked upon the fol
lowing points: IA Geruch (smelD
CD Geschmack (Flavor); go SaIz
(Salt); ca Bearbeitung (Weil
Worked; 90 Konsistenz (Texture);
(6) Yerpacking (Packing). (7) Klassi-
fiziert (Classified): (S) Remarks.
The manager continued: IF we find
| g creamery is not sending us "a high
grade product we send someone to
make investigation and to help inn
prove the quality. AS things now are
no creamery supplies any butter of
q grade less than the highest which 1t
is capable of producing. The score
! card is OF course great help in keep
ing up the quality We keep the orig
| inai score card ourselves and send a
carbon copy Of it to the producer who
is thus able to know in what particu-
lar his butter is less than it should be.
In this way each creamery gets a re-
port every week upon its butter SO
that it knows at once If there is any
| falling on in quality. We are now mar
keting the butter produced by from
| six hundred Thousand to seven hun.
dred Thousand cows.
An Ef1cient Plant
No American, accustomed to farmers
who are always indiyidualists and sell
dom combine. would think from an in
spection Of this plant that it was
owned and managed by 10000 farmers.
| 1t would seem to be rather the prop
4 erty OF some captain of finance who
had spared neither expense nor scien-
tito effort in order to arrive at the
highest stage Of efficiency.
! Everywhere we found labor saving
devices. Everywhere the machinery
was carefully protected SO that danger
to employees did not Turk In the power
/ machinery that was in operation. Ger
1 many it must be remembered has ma
tional policy that requires that all
workmen be fully protected). In one
room was an ice plant; in another was
the electric plant producing the pow
er used in operating the machinery and
In lighting the establishment.
j An Outside Opinion.
| Naturally anxious to hear what q
dealer who was not a co-operator and
had no interest in the cooperative
movement had to say about co-opera'
4 ton, we went to the manager Of a
jobbing concern dealing In dairy prod
ucts. We found him intelligent and
ready to talk "This is q wholesale
company privately owned he said.
II deal with many cooperative dairy
i associations. My experience with
them has been excellent. They have
better machinery. better organization.
better business methods, produce bet
ter butter than do private creameries
and are altogether satisfactory. There
is another thing which should not be
overlooked. We like to deal with a
concern which. can furnish US In large
quantities in absolutely uniform quail
ity. This is what the co-Operators do.
No single creamery could give us But-
j ter in such quantities as do the coop
erative associations which market the
product of several federated creamer-
les. Neither can we get such an abso-
lutely uniform quality elsewhere. We
do not say but that at times private
ly owned creamery will produce just
as good a grade of butter. It is al
ways a problem with us. however, as
to each creamery. We have to know
the creamery itself and have to know
whether or not they continue-to have
the same butter maker. With the CO
operative concern. however, it is diff
ferent. Nothing gets by them unless
1t is up to standard. They give us
better stun and they get better prices.
Danish Huttag.
"We do not buy Danish cooperative
butter to any extent. It Is too high.
Besides that there is a duty Of ten
marks for a package of fifty Kilograms.
For example where we can buy Ger
man butter for 125 marks ($25) per
fifty Kilograms we would have to pay
1873 marks (($27.60) for Danish but
ter. The difference is greater than
the amount of the duty because Da-