Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-22

HcTdhlEC OTCdUlGEJs
I If cooperation in the production and
marketing of butter will take off even
l small part of the burden of the farm
srs' wife, if it will give her time to
straighten up from her work at table
and tub and leave her free to remem-
Der that she is human being with q
head and a soul, if it will permit her
% get off the farm oftener than once
in II wears-if cooperation will do
this or help by ever 50 little to do it,
he woman on the farm is for co-opera-
ton.
An UngaIlant Irishman.
We have found one man here in Ire
land who is opposed to cooperation.
Walking along { country road near
Omagh we came upon a shrewd faced
Irishman who was very ready TO talk
about cooperation. He was evidently
a man Of some intelligence and, judg-
ing from his manner and address,
man Of some experience and success
in business. So we engaged him in
conversation about cooperation and
its effects.
q am against ii" he said. There
is no sense in it." And he gave Us in
forcible and picturesque language the
story Of how he had been personally
injured in his business by co-opera-
ton. 1t developed that he had been a
buyer of farm produce-a commission
merchant in a small way. Now there
is no money in it." he said, since the
margin between what the city man
pays and what the farmer receives is
cut down. The farmer sells through
the cooperative organization directly
to the city merchant" Reluctantly he
admitted that maybe it was better for
the farmer and better for the city con-
sumner who had little with which to
buy food But it's hard on Us COM
mission men. It's putting US on the
rocks. I am not buying butter at all
any more. The cooperative creamery
here has run me out"
We asked him if cooperative butter
making did not make the work of the
farmers wife and daughter easier.
"Of course it does" he said. And lit
tie good it is doing them. They don't
have TO skim the milk and churn and
mold and salt the butter now and sc
they go galavanting over the roads on. ..
their bicycles. They don't stay home
at all any more. They're worse about
gadding than city women" and he
shook his head with misgivings.
So, if it be true, as our Irish friend I
in his self pity proclaimed that CO.
operative butter making and butter .
marketing is going to make it cost the /
consumer less and net the farmer T
more, we suggest that both maker and .
eater will be for it, the ex-commission (
merchant to the contrary notwith- {
standing. They viii both in city and /
country be interested in seeing coop /
Grafton accomplished. Certainly the
country woman who feels the burden
of butter making will welcome pro-
cess by which she is to get an oppor-
tunity to see something besides the
top of the cook stove and the inside Of
the big churn. And we do not believe
that the ordinary American farmer
viii object to cooperation even if it
does give his wife and daughter time
to set out upon the road in buggy or
on bicycles.
The Omagh Creamery.
When we learned that the Omagh
Cooperative Creamery system of mar
xeting was cutting down the margin
If price between farmer and consumer
was both raising the price to the
armer and lowering the price to the
we concluded that it was a
'oncern worth considering. Even the
accusation that made it possible for
he farmers wife and daughter to get
ut on their bicycles occasionally did
lot unduly prejudice us against it. The /
)magh creamery is capitalized by con- 6
ributions from 500 members who In
ested from five dollars, up to $3.50
ach. But the voting is not by shares. a
/ is on the one man one vote plan. {
he five-dollar man votes just as often a
nd as forcibly as the S250-dollar man. ;
The members voting thus elect a q
GARD of directors. These in turn have Il
he best man they can get as manager u
nut he must be more than butter /
laker. He must be a good business i
ian and an expert IN marketing. No 81
latter how much money is made, il a
lust all go back to the members in a
roportion TO the butter fat delivered K
the creamery after a dividend not 81