Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1914-12-31

III cooperation In the production and
marketing of butter will take of even
d small part vt the burden OF the farm.
ers' wife. II 1t viii give her time 10
straighten up from her work at table
and tub and leave her free to remem.
Der that she Ii human being with
head ard q soul. II Ii will permit her
to get of the farm oftener than once
In II wears~-if cooperation viii dc
this or help by ever DO little TO do IL
the woman On the farm lii for eo-opera
ton.
An uHaallant Irishnan.
We have found one man here In ire
land who In opposed to cooperation
Walking along O country road near
omagh we came upon shrewd faced
trishman who was very ready TO taib
about cooperation He was evidently
. man of some Intelligence and, Judg
Ing from his manner and address.
man of some experience and success
In business. So we engaged him I'm
conversation about cooperation and
ita effects.
Il am against It," he said. There
In no sense In H." And he gave us lin
forcible and picturesque language the
story OF how he had been personally
injured I'm his business by co-upera,
ton. IL developed that he had been q
buyer OF farrn produce commission
merchant In small way. Nov there
Is no money In It." he said. since the
margin between what the city man
pays and what the farmer receives Ii
cut down. The farmer sells through
the cooperative organization directly
to the city merchant" Reluctantly he
admitted that maybe 1t was better for
the farmer and better for the city con
sumer who had little with which to
buy food, "1sut It's hard on us com.
mission men. It's putting Us on the
rocks. | am not buying butter at all
any more. The cooperative creamery
here has run me out"
We asked him III cooperative butter
making did not make the work Of the
farmers wife and daughter easier.
"Of course II does" he said. And lit.
tie good II Ia doing them. They don't
have TO skim the milk and churn and
mold and salt the butter now and 80
they 30 galayanting over the roads on
their bicycles. They don't stay home
nc all any more. They're worse about
gadding than city women" and he
shook his head with misgivings.
So, II 1t he true. as our Irish friend
In his self rity proclaimed, that 90,
operative butter making and butter
marketing Ia going to make 1t cost the
consumer less and net tho farmer
more. we suggest that both maker and
eater will be for IL. the ex.eummission
merchant to the contrary notwith.
standing, They win both In city and
country be Interested In seeing coop
Grafton accomplished, Certainly the
country woman who feels the burden
or butter making viii welcome pro.
cess by which abe IL to got az oppor,
tunlty to SEQ something besides the
top of the cook stove and the inside of
the big eharR. And We do not believe
that the ordinary American farmer
will object to cooperation even liz 1t
does give his wife and daughter time
to set out upon the road In buggy or
on bicycles.
The omaah Creamery.
When We learned that the omagh
Cooperative Creamery system of mar.
keting was cutting down the margin
or price between farmer aud eonsumer
was both raising the price to the
farmer and lowering the price to the
consumer. We concluded that 1t was q
concern worth considering, Even the
accusation tha.. made II possible for
the farmers wife and daughter To get
out on their bicycles occasionally did
not undnly prejudice u against 1t. The
omagh creamery IL capitalized by con.
trlhutions from 600 members who In
Vested from ave dollars. up to $3.50
each, But the voting Ii not by shares.
It In on the one man one vote plan.
The hve,doilar man votes Just as often
and as foreibly rs the s2se-aollar man.
The members voting thus elect q
board al directors, These In turn have
the hest man they can get N manager.
But he must be more than butter
maker He must ba q good business
man and an expert I'M marketing. No
matter how much money Ii made. Ii
must all 20 back To the members tn
proportion 10 the butter fat delivered
% the creamery after = dividend not