The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-01

Berlin, Germany.-The German
farmer calls upon cooperation TO sell
him his supplies. He asks II to a
ket his eggs and his butter. II dis.
ills alcohol out OF his potatoes and
makes wine for him out OF his fruit.
Everywhere In Germany you will find
cooperative elevators and warehouses
for storing grain. cooperative soci-
cites for improving the breed OF live
stock. cooperative banks for furnish.
ing loans to members. cooperative In
surance companies for insuring
against every imaginable damage. Co
operative societies are formed TO meet
the needs OF agriculture at every turn
producing the raw material. convert.
ing the raw material into salable form.
and placing the finished product upon
the market.
Agricultural cooperative societies
have become so numerous in Germany
as almost TO iostle one another. There
are at the present time more thar 26,.
900 OF them" These are the words OF
Henry Wolff, the great authority upon
agricultural cooperation. and we have
found his statement true. These &C..
900 societies have nearly two and a
half million members. over half OF
these societies are credit associations.
which have a working capital OF over
$500. 600. 900. Moreover. the number
OF societies and tho number OF mem.
bers are constantly Increasing. The
German farmer who In his way IL an
~individualist and as independent as is
the American farmer. has learned that
cooperation is his salvation and be-
lieves In allying himself with his neigh
bors for the common economic de.
Tense.
How German Farmer co-operates.
Everything the German farmer does
he does comparatively. II he wishes
to purchase a farm he gets n so or 60
year loan from a L~andschaften bank.
When he finds II necessary TO buy
implements or live stock, or seeds. no
uses money borrowed from n co-opera.
tive credit society. making short time
loans. He gets his equipment Of a co
operative store which furnishes him n
guaranteed article at the lowest pos.
siole price. For when cooperation sells
to the farmer. everything from garden
seeds TO threshing machines is guar.
anteed. II he wishes 10 insure his
property he goes to 4 cooperative In
surance company. which will insure
his crops against loss by hail or wind;
another cooperative insurance agency
insures his house against fire, while
another insures his live stock against
sickness. accident, or legal destruc-
tion. following the discovery OF tuber-
culosis or other contagious disease.
His stock cattle come to him from a
cooperative breeding farm, From CO.
operative associations he gets his sci.
entinc instructions as to the caro- OF
his cattle, as 10 the best feeds. as TO
tho cure Of animal diseases, as to the
valuation OF crops, as TO fertilizers.
His milk and cream he takes 10 a Co
operative creamery, from which II Is
sold comparatively. His very hens
lay cooperative eggs which within an
hour after they are laid may bear the
stamp of a cooperative organization.
Even the farmers wife has a ten.
dcncy toward cooperation and Is as
alive 20 its advantages as Is the farm
or himself. Everywhere We find the
women intelligent and conducting
their domestic affairs as scientifically
as do tho men their farms.
Water supply Companies.
One form In which cooperation has
evinced It's efficiency in Germany Is
a rather unique one. and Is n which
at least In some parts of the United
States Ii worthy OF careful study by
American farmers. Scattered through.
out Germany there are many co-opera-
tive societies for supplying water 70
It's members. There are In the prov
ince OF raLov2: acne. for example, 80
such companies. Whether the commu.
nifty has been large or small. these
supply companies have generally sue
ceeded.
The advantages OF cooperation In
attacking the problem OF water supply
have been thus summarized: by CO.
operation q sufficient sum OF money