The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-04-17

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.
We regard the Standardization Of
products as the most important fea-
ture of cooperation in Germany so
far 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
producer it is graded as is Indicated
on 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: "a Geruch (smelD;
(2) Geschmack (Flavor); (3) Sal2 |
tSalt); "a Bearbeitung well |
Worked; 60 Konsistenz (Texture); /
(6) Verpacking (Packingl, (7' Klassi-
fziert classified; go Remarks.
The manager continued: IF we find
a 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
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 its butter so
that it knows at once il there is any
! falling off in quality. We are now mar
J keting the butter produced by from
J six hundred thousand to seven hun
dred thousand cows"
An Efficient Plant.
No American, accustomed to farmers
who are always indiyidualists and sell
, dom combine, would think from an in
spection Of this plant that It 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'
tific effort in order to arrive at the
! highest stage of efficiency.
: Everywhere we found labor saving
: devices. Everywhere the machiner!
! was carefully protected SO that DANCE
: to employees did not Turk in the poWe
: machinery that was in operation. (Ger
= many it must be remembered has ma
;, tional policy that requires that al
!, workmen be fully protected). In on
! room was an ice plant; in another wa
= the electric plant producing the pow
= er used in operating the machinery an
= in lighting the establishment.
e. An Outside Opinion.
le Naturally anxious to hear what
st dealer who was not a co-operator an
to had no interest in the co-operatly
10 movement had to say about cooper
RS ton, we went to the manager OF
ly jobbing concern dealing in dairy pro
ri ucts. We found him intelligent an
he ready to talk This is a wholesa
~ company privately owned he sal
es Il deal with many cooperative dali
is. associations. My experience wi
them has been excellent. They ma
better machinery, better organizatio
ict better business methods, produce b'
er ter butter than do private creamert
es' and are altogether satisfactory The
On is another thing which should not
ra- overlooked. We like to deal with
re- concern which can furnish us in lar
'uS quantities in absolutely uniform gu
On ity. This is what the co-operators
Gus No single creamery could give us b
PIE ter in such quantities as do the cox
lth erative associations which market
er- product of several federated cream
ais les. Neither can we get such an alb
ION lutely uniform quality elsewhere
yer do not say but that at times priva
" owned creamery will produce j.
the as good a grade of butter. 1t is
ale ways a problem with US, however,
ian to each creamery. We have to KIN
nts the creamery itself and have to KIN
the whether or not they continue to hs
ldJ- the same butter maker. With the
dge operative concern, however, It is
lar- ferent. Nothing gets by them uni
Ilm it is up to standard. They give
an better stuff and they get better prie
my Danish Butter.
1--WE do not buy Danish co-operat
80 butter to any extent 1t is too hi
- Besides that there is duty OF
49, marks for package Of fifty kilogra
~ For example where we can buy
- man butter for 125 marks ($25)
- fifty Kilograms we would have to
''.4,, 1873 marks ((s27.60) for Danish
-. ~. ter. The difference is greater
- the amount of the duty because
--' nish butter has reputation; also
cause there is a demand for DaI
}. butter everywhere. Most of the
ocia- nish butter goes directly to Engl;
not | Cream ia admitted to Germany