Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-05-08

not be relief to you If you knew
where you could get absolutely good
milk. and cream, and butter; if your
milk and cream were guaranteed to
be rich, and pure, and fresh; if you
could buy a brand of butter which was
always up to standard, always had the
same flavor, and the same amount Of
moisture in it, was never over salted
or under salted, and was always abso-
lutely free from taint of age. Most
of us in America get good butter and
good milk at times. All of US get
bad butter and milk at least occasion
ally Over in Denmark there is an
entire ration which is united in a
common purpose of producing good
milk and butter. It's success is due to
team work; the COW does her part,
the farmer does his part, the cream
cry does its part, the delivery man
does his. and the government itself
takes hand in the process. Not very
long ago there was complaint from
England that the quality of Danish
butter was falling off. 1t was treated
in Denmark as If the national honor
had been attacked and every reason
able complaint was attended to at once
by the united action of ali concerned.
1t was not a local question, but na-
tional one. Primarily Danish butter
and milk is good because the Danish
| farmer is scientific in his methods
But the milk after it leaves the farm
is dealt with by the distributive agen-
cies in a way no less efficient, and sci
entific and businesslike. This is
where the Danes surpass the Ameri-
cans. and with the result both con-
sumer and producer in Denmark have
occasion to be satisfied.
Why American MIX Is High to the
Consumer and Low to the Farmer.
DR. Thomas Nixon Carver, now di-
rector of the government bureau of
rural organization, who at one time
made thorough investigation OF the
prices Of farm products, says in his
book on the Principles of Rural Eco
nomics" that the milk for which the
dealer in Worcester receives 2Ac per
1 quart sold for eight cents in nearby
Boston. Milkmen drove all over the
city to deliver few gallons of milk
He received and probably earned two
cents per quart for doing this. If a
route we're arranged (as they are in
Copenhagen for example), SO that one
man could deliver on one street con
secutively from house to house max
ing it unnecessary for any other de
livery man to follow him up or dupli
cate his delivery route, the work could
i probably be done for. one-half cent pei
quart, certainly for one cent per quart
Another reason for the high eight
cent price was that the farmer sold
the milk to a contractor, (the con
tractor seems to have been a specula
tori, who took out profit of 2Ac pei
quart raising the price at least two
cents hsghe.. than it otherwise would
have been. The account stands thus
AS 1t Is Should Be
H. Cents. Cents.
Farmer,n prize is........2A to 81
Transpo. .tation cost .... II u to l
Contractors profit is....2A y to
Mlkman's wages is......2 ~ to
Total ...................S ~ to 81
copenhasen's Milk Supply.
Here in Copenhagen there is bet
ter method employed. The farmel
gets more money. the city man get,
more money, the city man gets more
milk and the milk is better. This il
being accomplished through a cooper
ative arrangement which could b,
duplicated in Boston, Chicago or Kan
kakee- 1t is no experiment TIL,
company has been operating success
fully for twelve years, and it has beef
clearly demonstrated that it is posi-
Bile to do the business in this way
There is nothing mysterious or secre
about it. This cooperative association
is a simple, business-like organization
Of dairy farmers, backed by good bus
mess men operating on sound, scienti
fic and business principles. There i
delivered every morning to local pr
vate consumers in Copenhagen $500
bottles of the best milk in the worl
at a price less than six and a hal
cents per quart; some of this mill
comes forty miles, but it is handle
so we'll that three cents pays all ez
penses and profits between the farm
er and the consumer. For the sam
rervice performed in a less sanitar
way taking a longer period of timt
involving more waste and more cor
tamination the Boston consumer pay
tive and one-half cents. Here is
saving in cost Of distribution Of tw
and one-fourth cents per quart. If thi
could be saved to the milk consume
in Boston it would amount to abou
$4,000 pay day of $3,650,000 in a yea
How many lives would be saved b
absolutely pure milk at the reduce
price no one knows.
In order to see the Trifolium mil
depot at it's busiest we planned ou