Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-04-16

some other farm products. We import
considerable of our cheese from Cana
da simply to meet the demand and to
mako It unnecessary for those who
buy Of US TO go elsewhere.
Keeping Up the Quality
I'VE regard the Standardization Of
products as the most important fea-
ture Of cooperation in Germany 20
far % the marketing Of II IL concern
ed. All the butter which we handle
is graded and branded. Each producer
IL given q most complete score sheet.
Every time one of our subsidiary con-
Germs get q consignment of butter from
. producer 1t is graded as is indicated
on O score card"
The score card is in duplicate, the
original to be kept at the central ONCE.
and q 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 (smell);
(2) Geschmack (Flavor); (S) Sails
(Salt); "a Bearbeltung well
Worked; (5) Konsistenz (Texture);
(6) Verpacking (Packing), ~ Klassi-
fiziert (Classined); (S) Remarks.
The manager continued: III We ind
o creamery is not sending US high
grade product we send someone to
make investigation and to help i'm
prove the quality. As things now are
no creamery supplies any butter Of
q grade less than the highest which It
is capable Of producing. The score
card is Of course great help In keep
ing up the quality. We keep the orig
inal score card ourselves and send q
carbon copy Of It to the producer who
IL thus able to know in what particu-
lar his butter IL less than It should be.
In this way each creamery gets re-
port every week upon its butter 80
that It knows at once II there 10 any
falling OF in quality. We are now 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 individualists and sci.
dom combine, would think from an In
spection Of this plant that 1t was
owned and managed by 10000 farmers.
It 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 80 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 protected). 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 to hear what a
dealer who was not co.operator and
had no interest in the cooperative
movement had to say about co-opera'
ton, we went to the manager OF q
jobbing concern dealing in dairy prod
ucts. We found him intelligent and
ready to talk. This Is a wholesale
company privately owned" he said.
Il 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 creameriee
and are altogether satisfactory. There
Is another thing which should not be
overlooked. We like to deal with o
concern which can furnish us In large
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 the
product Of several federated creamer
les. Neither can we get such an abso
lutely uniform quality elsewhere. We
do not say but that at times private
ly owned creamery will produce just
as good a grade of butter. It Is al.
ways a problem with US, however, as
to each. creamery. We have to know
the creamery itself and have to know
whether or not they continue to have
the same butter maker. With the CO
operative concern, however, 1t is diff.
ferent. Nothing gets by them unless
1t is up to standard. They give ua
better stun and they get better priceG
Danish Butter.
I'VE do not buy Danish cooperative
butter to any extent. II Is too high.
Besides that there Is a duty Of ten
marks for q package Of fifty Kilograms.
For example where we can buy Ger
man butter for f25 marks (S25) per
fifty Kilograms We would have to pay
1873 marks ((S27.60) for Danish but
ter. The difference 10 greater thar
the amount Of the duty because DR
nish butter has q reputation; also be
cause there Is q demand for Danish
butter everywhere. Most Of the Da'
nish butter goes directly to England.