The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-01
Coo Operative Farm
Products Marketing
How II Is Done in Europe and May Be Done
in America TO fhe Profit of Both
Farmer and Consumer
COOPERATIVE
by MATTHEW 8. pUpoEoN.

operation ensures extreme economy In
maintenance and management: 3. Co
operation enables the smallest commu.
nifty to provide itself with q really
good water supply"
II Is not impossible that there In IN
this German experience n suggestion
for the irrigation companies In western
America, where mismanagement and
graft seem TO have prevailed. Ger
tainly a truly cooperative association
ganized upon the one man one vote
plan. freed from all motives OF excess
slve or speculative profits. and man
aged with the efficiency that Is tradi.
tional In cooperative concerns could
never have made shlpwreck OF SO
many fair prospects as have some OF
tho irrigation companies in the west
ern states.
Flowing by Steam.
The owners OF the big wheat farms
In the northwestern parts OF the United
States might sit up and take notice OF
some OF the cooperative power pillow
companies which are operating In Ger.
many - pi'r'ut lItlt dIt ~ SuGU
societies. The entire power equipment
Is owned by the society. and its mem
bers. even though they occupy com.
paratively small farms, are by this
means enabled TO have the benefit OF
the improved and cheaper work OF the
power plow. Experience here shows
that the power blowing plant. consist
ing nf n cot nf nlnNya tnRE1n ND ataaf
or electric power, annot be main.
talned economically unless Il has
something like 1000 acres upon which
TO operate. The concerns are most care
fully managed. A good machinist Is
always In charge OF the outfit. In ad.
dition 10 his salary he Is allowed a
commission upon every acre plowed.
He has entire charge OF the operations
and requires all members to remove
all distractions before work is under.
taken. The rates are carefully graded
according to the soil, tho depth and
the accessibility. In some cases. also.
a less charge is made for blowing dur.
ing the slack periods, the price being
raised as the demand for services OF
Cooperative Automobiles.
II Is said that every well.to-do Amer.
lean farmer has an automobile. In
Germany, whore the acreage Is small
and the farmer has less capital TO In
vest in his eqaipmen. the farmer joins
with his neighbor TO purchase an auto
mobile and a large number OF co-op.
erative motor societies have been
formed. These machines. however,
are not the touring cars and runabouts
that are ordinarily used by the Amerl.
can farmer. but are the most prosaic
unitarian motor trucks which can
move immense quantities, OF produce
over the hard level roads OF the Ger.
man provinces.
German scientists and inventors
have with great ingenuity produced
machinery that accomplishes with lit
tie effort almost everything which in
! years past called for hard labor. The
demand for power Is consequently
great and growing constantly. This
has led to tho organization OF cleo.
trlcal supply works In connection with
NNh' NObl'laNAN' vi klllr
izations. OF these there are $40,
which are purely cooperative, al.
though there are In Germany over
1000 companies which furnish moro
or less electrical power to those inter
ested In agricultural pursuits.
Cooperative Societies Federated.
Tho cooperative spirit has not
ceased when IL has led the farmer to
cooperate with his n~eighbors TO form
a local cooperative concern. The Ger.
man genius for organization has led
to a most elaborate system OF co-or-
dination between the various local co.
operative associations. For example.
all cooperative dairies within n prov.
ince will be united together In n CEN
trail association which unihes and har-
monies the work OF all tho local or.
CARNATIONS. These central provincial
societies are In turn In an empire
wide federation with headquarters at
Berlin. You will therefore In that
city fnd several central concerns,
each of which Is allied with hundreds
OF local societies. This Capitalization
scheme has many advantages. II pro-