The Raymer enterprise., 1914-04-09

handle q great deal Of cheese ant
some other farm products. We import
considerable Of our cheese from Cana
da simply to meet the demand and te
make it unnecessary for those who
buy Of us to go elsewhere.
Keeping Up the Quality.
We regard the Standardization Of
products as the most important fea
ture OF cooperation in Germany SC
far as the marketing of 1t 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 a consignment Of butter from
producer 1t 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: ~ Geruch (smelll
t2) Geschmack fFlavor): fsy Sal7
tSalu: l4 Bearbeitung well
Worked; t5) Konsistenz (Texture)
t6) verpacking Packing. f7) Klassi
fiziert classified; 49, Remarks.
The manager continued: IF we find
creamery is not sending US high
grade product We send someone tc
make investigation and to help i'm
prove the quality. As things now are
no creamery supplies any butter ol
a grade less than the highest which 1,
Is capable Of producing. The score
card Is OF course great help in keep
ing up the quality. We keep the orig
inal 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 1t should be
In this way each creamery gets re
port every week upon its butter SC
that 1t knows at once II there is any
falling of in quality. We are now mar
keting the butter produced by from
six hundred thousand to seven hun
dred thousand cows"
An Efficient Plant.
No American, accustomed to farmers
who are always individualists and sci
dom combine, would think from an in
spection Of this plant that 1t was
owned and managed by 10000 farmers
1t would seem to be rather the prop
erty OF some captain OF finance who
had spared neither expense nor scien
titic 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 lurk in the power
machinery that was in operation tGer
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.
An Outside Opinion.
Naturally anxious to hear what a
dealer who was not co-operator and
had no interest in the cooperative
movement had to say about co-opera
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 a wholesale
company privately owned" he said
Il deal with many cooperative dairy
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
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 grade OF butter 1t is al
ways problem with us, however. as
10 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, II is diff
ferent. Nothing gets by them unless
1t is up to standard. They give us
better stuff and they get better prices
Danish Butter.
I'VE do not buy Danish cooperative
butter to any extent. 1t is too high
Besides that there is duty of ten
marks for package of fifty Kilograms.
For example where we can buy Ger.
man butter for 125 marks ($25) per