American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1914-04-23

a great deal Of cheese and
other farm products. We import
of our cheese from Cana
ia simply to meet the demand and to
1t 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 so
as the marketing of it is concern
All the butter which we handle
8 graded and branded. Each producer
is given a most complete score sheet.
Every time one of our subsidiary con-
Germs get a consignment Of butter from
a producer it Is graded as is indicated
on a score card"
The score card is in duplicate. the
original to be kept at the central Office,
and a 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 (smelD;
~ Geschmack (Flayor); 90 Sal2
(SalD; C) B%earbeitung (Well
Worked); 90 Konsistenz (Texture);
90 Verpacking (Packing). CD Klassi-
hziert tClassifed) (s) Remarks.
The manager continued: If we find
a creamery is not sending us a high
grade product we send someone to
make investigation and to help inn
prove the quality. AS things now are
no creamery supplies any butter OF
a grade less than the highest which it
is capable of producing. The score
card is of our a 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 it should be.
In this way each creamery gets a re-
port every week upon it's butter so
that it knows at once il there is any
falling of in quality. We are nov 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 in~dividualists ana sell
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-
tihc 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 it must be remembered has a ma
tional policy that requires that all
workmen be fully p~rotected). In one
room was an ice plant; in another was
the electric plant producing the pow
er used in operating the machinery anc
in lighting the establishment.
An Outside Opinion.
Naturally anxious to hear what {
dealer who was not a co-operator ant
had no interest in the cooperative
movement had to say about co-Opera
ton, we went to the manager of
jobbing concern dealing in dairy prod
ucts. We found him intelligent an
ready to talk. This is a wholesal'
company privately owned" he said
Il deal with many cooperative dair,
them has been excellent. They have
better machinery. better organization
better business methods, produce bet
ter butter than do private creameriel
and are altogether satisfactory. Their
is another thing which should not b.
overlooked. We like to deal with
concern which a furnish us in larg'
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 thu
product of several federated creameT
les. Neither can We get such an abso
lutely uniform quality elsewhere. w
do not say but that at times a private
ly owned creamery will produce jus
as good a grade of butter. II is a.
ways a problem with rs, however. a
TO each creamery. We have to know
the creamery itself and have to know
whether or not they continue to hav,
the anne butter maker. With the &C
operative concern, however, 1t is dill
ferent. Nothing gets by them unles
1t is up to standard. They give u
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 a duty of tel
marks for a package of fifty Kilograms
For example where We al buy Gel
man butter for 125 marks ($25) pc
fifty Kilograms we would have to pa
1873 marks ((s27.60) for Danish but
ter. The difference is greater thai
the amount of the duty because Ds
nish butter has a reputation; also be
cause there is a demand for Danis
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