Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-05-27

handle great deal Of cheese ana
some other farm products. We import
nsiderable Of our cheese from Cana
do simply to meet the demand and to
make It unnecessary for those who
buy Of 10 to go elsewhere.
Keeping Up the Quality.
We regard tho Standardization Of
products as the most important fea,
ture Of cooperation in Germany 20
far as the marketing Of 1t is concern
ed. All the butter which we handle
IL graded and branded. Each producer
is given most complete score sheet
Every time one Of our subsidiary con
Germs get consignment of butter from
. producer it is graded as 10 indicated
on 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: (1) Geruch (smelD !;
(2) Geschmack (Flavor); (3) salz
(salt); az Bearbeitung well
Worked; (5) Konsistenz (Texture) {;
(6) Verpacking (Packing). 81 Klasst
f1ziert (Classified); (8) Remarks.
The manager continued: IF we find
= 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 q 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
Is thus able to know In what particu.
lar his butter is less than 1t should be.
In this way each creamery gets a re-
port every week upon its butter 50
that it knows at once If there is 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 farmerl
who are always individualists and sell
dom combine, would think from an in
;spection Of this plant that it was
owned and managed by 20, 900 farmers
1t would seem to be rather the prop
ierty Of some captain of finance who
had spared neither expense nor scien'
tiflc effort in order to arrive at the
highest stage of efficiency.
Everywhere we found labor savins
devices. Everywhere the machinery
was carefully protected so 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 q
dealer who was not a 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 creameriea
and are altogether satisfactory. There
is another thing which should not be
overlooked. We like to deal with 4
concern which can4furnish 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 grade of butter. It is al
ways problem with us, however, al
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
1t Is up to standard. They give III
better stuff and they get better prices.
Danish Butter.
'We do not buy Danish cooperative
butter to any extent. It 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 1925 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 a demand for Danish
butter everywhere. Most of the. Da,