Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-05-01

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The manager continued III we find
creamery is not sending us a high
grade product we send someone to
make investigation and TO help i'm
prove the quality As things now are
no creamery supplies ans butter Of
q grade less than the highest which I,
is capable OF producing The score
card Ia of course a great help In keep
ing up the quality. We keep the orig
inal score card ourselves and send .
Ia thus able TO know IN what particu
lar his butter 10 less than Il should be
In this way each creamery gets a re
port every week upon ita butter SO
that Il knows at once II there Is any
falling on in quality We are now mar
keting the butter produced by from
ak hundred thousand 20 seven hun
dred thousand cows"
An efficlsnt Plant.
No American. accustomed TO farmers
who are always individualiHts and sci.
dom combine, would think from an In.
spection OF this plant that Il was
owned and managed by 10000 farmers
II would seem to be rather the prop.
erty OF some captain Of finance who
had spared neither expense nor scion
tific 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 Turk In the power
/ machinery that was In operation. Ger
| many Il must be remembered has a ma
tional policy that requires that ell
workmen be fully protected1. 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 10 hear what o
dealer who was not = co-operator and
had no interest in the cooperative
movement had 10 gay about co-opera
tion, we went 70 the manager OF q
tobbing concern dealing In dairy prod
ucts. We found him intelligent and
ready TO talk This is a wholesale
company privately owned" he said
II 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 creameriei
and are altogether satisfactory. Thert
Is another thing which should not b.
overlooked. We like 10 deal with /
concern which can furnish us In largi
quantities In absolutely uniform quail
ity. This IL what the co-operators do
No single creamery could give us but
ter In snch quantities as do the coop
srative associations which market IN
product Of several federated creAmsr
les. Neither can We set sach IN abso
lntsly uniform quality elsewhere. W.
do not say but that II times n private
u owned creamery will prodncs jus
as good . grade Of butter II IL 81
ways 6 problem with US. however. .
70 each creamery. We have 70 knos
the creamery Itself and have 20 kn0s
whether Or not they ecntinue 70 hav
the same butter maker. With the ee
: operative concern, however. IL IL dii
/ ferent Nothing gets by them nnles
! 4 - up 70 STANDARD. They give q
. better stuff and they get better prices
Danish B1ttsr.
we do not bur Danish co-opeFaiiv
butter 10 any extent. II 10 too hiRi
Besides that there II y daty Of -
marks for . package Of afty Kilograms
FOR example where We can buy Gsl
man butter for IZ5 marks (szsJ %
nifty Kilograms va would have 10 -
l3s marks (fs77e0 for Danish bss
ter The difference IL greater aha
the amount of the duty because -
nish butter hMs a reputation. also ,
: cause there iH . demand for Danis
butter everywhere Most Of the u
nish butter goes directly to Englan'
Cream In admitted to Germany IRE
OF duty We have tried 20 shlp creai
from Denmark and make butter her
!. but Il has not succeeded Il IL 70
!. troublesome q process Everybody
y Germany will admit that the DAMS
butter Is rs good a. our best aeTina
butter: most think IL ~ better II
!. necessary for Us TO handle the p0or'
!. grade OF butter for some Of our trad
! we get some Siberian batter which
4 considered Of the second aud THU
, quality
4 A Successful system.
" This IL the way the German faTEn'
b sells direct in the city. He unit
! with his neiEhhOr In local cooper
. tive society. This society fsdfFat'
= with others until there Ia combln
q ton that ID big enough TO eomp9
a with and Guido ang private eonesr
D. He produces \ high quality Of pro
e net He handles Il IN q busin@aa.lil
i way. Naturally be gets fair pri'
ii ana makes = fair profit co-opsrssi'
10 seems = success