The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-06-11
A COOPERATIVE BACON FACTORY

from private dealers. Earlier in the
game more than one cooperative so
ciety was sadly hindered In being out.
bid In It's efforts 10 purchase the
products OF Its members. IL is hard
indeed for the farmer 10 realize that
he should accept $40 per hundred for
his pigs from a cooperative society
while the outside dealer is Offering
him 81 per hundred. The private
dealers here played the game that they
are playing In America. Whenever
any cooperative concern started do
ing business the private dealer at
once outbid H. Here ns In America
the farmers sometimes abandoned
their cooperative society and sold TO
the highest bidder. Occasionally the
cooperative concern was pushed TO
the wall and went out OF business.
Here as in America the private deal.
er Immediately dropped his price and
the farmer was where he was before
getting whatever price the dealers
agreed upon among themselves.
NO SelIin0 70 " Dealers.
II did not take the organizers OF
the cooperative movement long to
realize that this could not go on. Con.
%sequently. when a rev organization Is
started now the matter Is fully ex
planned to the prospective members.
They are told that unless they expect
TO give unlimited loyalty TO the con-
Germ. unless they are willing TO agree
TO bring all OF their output TO the So
ciety even when the society 10 outbid
by private dealers. there Is no uSe In
starting a society at all. T. ia fully
explained 10 them that the high prices
which may be offered can only be
temporary and that the permanent
welfare OF the community demands
that the cooperative concern be or
ganized and be Loyalty supported. The
matter thus fully before them the
Danish farmers do not hesitate 10 en-
ter into a contract 10 deliver all their
product 20 the local cooperative So
ciety. The members OF this bacon
factory here are under absolute agree
ment to deliver pigs TO no other deal.
er, although any member may OF
course use such hogs as he needs for
his own use.
II a member delivers pigs 70 any
dealer he Is penalized. He has gone
into this agreement with full knowl.
edge OF its purpose. As a result no
n seem TO be In the least dissat.
isfied, although occasionally competi-
tors 0rer prices that are indeed tempt.
ing. The manager told us. however.
that repeatedly he had farmers not
only express satisfaction over the
profits which they were receiving. but
when In addition TO a fair price they
have been paid a dividend they have
repeatedly demonstrated that II
seemed 10 them they were getting
more than they should out OF the cor
Germ.
Sixty Thousand Pigs Per Year.
I'VE handle from sixty thousand 10
seventy thousand pigs each year,
said tho manager. During parts OF
the year two thousand pigs per week
viii come In. These all are nearly
OF the same age and size, practically
all being between twenty.four and
twenty-eight weeks old and Weighing
from $50 10 200 pounds, They have
been fed almost the same food and
have been raised upon conditions that
are absolutely uniform. Slight differ.
ences occur In tho individuals, some
being q little fatter than their mates,
others differing in the quality OF
meat, although IL would take an
expert TO detect these differences. Our
annual turn over OF bacon amounts 10
about n millioa and a half dollars. We
send u some fresh pork. Our lead.
Ing article 10 cured side bacon with
ham and shoulder attached. We send
out also lard, sausage. boEeless ham
and a number OF b~y-produots. You
VIII note as you go through the fac.
tory that every product which we
send out Is marked with a govern.
ment stamp with the number 80,
which Is the number OF this factory.
Utilizing All Except the squeai.
All the waste from the factory Is
carefully cared for. We do not de-
stroy a particle OF material that comes
in. Some one has said that the only
thing we have hot been able TO make
money out OF 10 the squeal. For en-.
ample, we manufacture bone meal for
chicken feed. We urn the blood into