The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-05-29
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COOPERATIVE BACON FACTORY

~ NO-OFENAll 1--WE
Frederickssund Denmark.-We TAX
off our hats to the Danish packing
house and its product. Here a mos
efficient packing house takes a higl
grade pig and manufactures him int
the best bacon on earth. If Armour
1r Cudahy or Morris we're here hC
would be compelled to join us In oul
salutation of the packing houses oi
Denmark. Here is the last word as
to efficient scientific treatment of the
dead porker.
But in Denmark they demand some
thing more than scientific treatment
In the packing house. The Danish
theory is that to produce good bacon
you must go back into the history of
the pig. They want to know of what
breed he was, that he was raised in
sanitary pen, on pure, wholesome
food, that he was between five and
seven months old and weighed from
$50 to 200 pounds when butchered.
He may nots be a scrub, picked up
by the buyers and rushed into the
yards to be killed and cured, as may
be the case in America. The Danish
| pig is an efficient scientific agency
for Transforming pure milk and grain
and root crops and fodder into fine
pig meat. And so when the best
packing house methods deal with the
best pig the result is sure to be the
best bacon. And the farmers after
they have raised the pig and cured
the bacon in the bacon factory which
they themselves own, insist that they
get the profit from the sale. So these
Danish farmers keep possession of the
bacon until it is placed upon the
counters of the retail dealers in Eng
land. In this way they get all the
profits there are in the entire process.
Organized Without Money.
This is the way in which it is done.
The bacon factory here at Fredericks-
sund is owned by 5000 farmers. There
are big farmers and little farmers
among them. Some of them have
only five acres, and others have hun
dreds OF acres. Some contribute only |
one or two hogs per year, while 9TH
ers send theirs in by the hundred. |
Strange to say, while the factory now |
represents a very large investment .
and while the farmers who own It
have in the aggregate great wealth.
the plant was established without the
direct investment Of one dollar. There
was no capital paid in and there were
no bonds issued. A large number of
farmers simply got together, organ
ized, elected officers and directed that
these officers should, in their behalf,
borrow sufficient capital at the near
by bank TO erect the plant and start
the business. And the bank stood
for it. we'll knowing that the unlim-
tied liability of hundreds of farmers
who were interested in the bacon fac
tory was the best security in the
world; well knowing also that under
proper management a bacon factory
was itself one OF the most sound and
profitable business ventures into
which these same farmers could go.
The loan was obtained with the un- {
that repayment should be
A annual installments running over {
en- years and that these payments i
hould be made out Of the net earn c
ngs of the concern. There is one c
nnual meeting of the members each i
ear, and although the financial in t
erests which the different members /
ave in the concern vary largely 1t {
J one man one vote no matter who O
@ may be, the owner of a small farm n
r of large farm. The man who "
elivers one pig per year has the h
anne. voting power as he whose an r,
ual product amounts to 1000 pigs. &
he annual meeting elects a board of n
| directors, These directors hold g,
'ur meetings per year. The direc-
rs employ the superintendent and
anager. q,
High Grade Manager. s;
This concern is owned by 5000 Il
rtfty, close-fisted, money-making "
rmers, but they do not run this cf
Isiness on any narrow gauge plan al
ley KNOW tudL incompetence uOeS tV
It pay. They want good results and fir
employ the best superintendent l,e
d manager that monetary consid- La
ations can secure. His name is ar
ederick L. Sleek. He is an edu- en-
ted, widely read, much travelled, he
entifically trained business man, ctl
10 understands farming and hog IN,
sing in all its details. He knows *
about pigs from breeding to eat an
!. He has studied every known alb
,cess of transforming a live pig into sci
, finest bacon. He knows all abou, in,
, by-products, be they sausage or ha
tilizers made from the blood. He GU
derstands the problems of trans an
'tation. He is familiar with the vii
rkets Of the world and with the tor
nands Of each. Into his plant he ser
introduced all the latest efficiency me
ices. He is in the broadest sense, win
competent, efficient, high priced
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