Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-04-17

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imported butter frora South America.
For twenty years we have had butter
from North America. We import but
ter also from Finland, from Denmark,
and from Siberia. Some of our cheese
comes from Canada. All this is done
he added, ''il the interest of the CO.
operative societies. We get the i'm
ported butter SO that our stock may
be complete at all times and So we
can meet the demands of those whom
we have made our customers. We
must stand ready to do as well by the
retailers as do the big private dealers.
The chief product is butter, but we
handle a great deal of cheese and
some other farm products. We import
considerable of our cheese from Cana
da simply to meet the demand and to
make 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 SO
lar as the marketing of it is concern
ed. All the butter which we handle
is graded and branded. Each producer
is given a most complete score sheet.
Every time one of our subsidiary con-
Germs get 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 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;
CD Geschmack (Flavor); (3) Salz
(SalD; (4) Bearbeitung (Well
Worked; (5) Konsistenz (Texture);
CO. Verpacking (Packing), CD Klassi-
fiziert (Classifed); (S) Remarks.
The manager continued: "Tf we find
a creamery is not sending US high
grade product we eand someone 60
make investigation and to help i'm
prove the quality. AS things now are
no creamery supplies any butter of
a grade less than the highest which 1t
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
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 re
port every week upon it's butter sc
that it knows at once if there is any
falling off 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 it 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-
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 lurk 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 a
jobbing concern dealing Il dairy prod.
ucts We found him intelligent and
ready to talk This is 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 creameries
and are altogether satisfactory. There
Is another thing which should not be
overlooked. We like to deal with a
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 a private
ly owned creamery will produce Just
as good a grade of butter. 1t is al
ways 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, it is diff.
ferent. Nothing gets by them unless
it is up to standard. They give us
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 ten
marks for package of fifty Kilograms.
| For example where we can buy Ger
| man butter for 125 marks ($25) per
| fifty Kilograms we would have to pay
1873 marks (($27.60) for Danish but
| ter. The difference is greater than
the amount of the duty because Da-
nish butter has reputation; also be
cause there is demand for Danish
butter everywhere. Most of the Da-
nish butter goes directly to England
| Cream is admitted to Germany free
/ of duty. We have tried to ship cream
from Denmark and make butter here
but it has not succeeded. 1t is toe
troublesome a process. Everybody in
Gprmanv will admit that the Danish