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

III cooperation In the production and
marketing of butter will take off ever
q small part OF the burden of the farm
ers' wife, IL Ii will give her time Ii
straighten up from her work at table
and tub and leave her free to remem
Der that she In human being with q
head and soul. Ii Ii win permit hei
to set on the farm oftener than once
In IA wears--if cooperation will dc
this or help by ever 30 little to do II
the woman on the farm Ia for co-opera
tfon.
An unoallant irEshmau.
We have found one man here In Ire
land who In opposed to cooperation
Walking along q country road near
0magh we came upon shrswd faced
tftshman who was very ready to talk
about eo-operaftoa. 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 In
conversation about cooperation and
Its effects.
i am against IT," he said. There
In no sense In It," And he gave us In
forcible and picturesque language the
story OF how he had been personally
Injured In his business by co-opera,
ton. II developed that he had been q
buyer Of farm produce~-a commission
merchant In small way. Nov there
Ia no money In it, he said. since the
margin between what the city man
pays and what the farmer receives is
cut down. The farmer sells through
the cooperative organization directly
10 the city merchant" Reluctantly he
admitted that maybe IL was better for
the farmer and better for the city con.
sumner who had little with which to
buy food. But 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 Ii cooperative butter
making did not make the work of the
farmers wife and daughter easier,
OF course 1t doea." he said. "And lit,
tie good II IL doing them. They don't
have to skim the milk and churn and
mold and salt the butter now and 30
they go gaiayantilag over the roads ON
their bicycles. They don't stay home
ut all any more, They're worse about
gadding than city women" and he
shook his head with misgivings,
So, IL Ii be true, as our Irish friend
In hts self pity proclaimed, that co.
operative butter making and butter
marketing In going to make 1t cost the
consumer less and net the farmer
more. we sussest that both maker and
eater win BIO for 1t, the ey.commission
merchant 10 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
OF butter making viii welcome a pro.
cess by which sbe Ia to get an oppor,
tanity TO see something besides the
top OF the cook stove and the inside of
the big churn. And we do not believe
that the ordinary American farmer
VIII object to cooperation even II IL
does give hls wife and daughter time
to get out upon the road La buggy or
on bicycles. a
The omash Creamery.
When we learned that the Omagh
Cooperative Creamery system OF mar.
keting was cutting down the margin
Of price between farmer and consumer
was both raising the price TO the
farmer and lowering the price to the
consumer. we concluded that It was a
concern worth considering, Even the
accusation that made it possible for
the farmers wife and daughter 10 get
out on their bicycles occasionally did
not undnly prejudice us against Ii. The
DmaEh creamery Ia capitalized by con-
trihations from 500 members who In.
vested from Eve dollars. up To $3.50
each. Bur the voting Ii not BIZ shares.
II In on the one man one vote plan.
The fiSe-dcllar man sotes Just as often
and as foreihly a. the s25e.dollar man.
The members voting thus elect a
board OF directors. These In turn have
the best man they can get as manager.
But he must be more than a butter
maker, He nlast be a good business
man and an expert In marketing. No
matter how much money Ii made, Il
must all SO back to the members in
proportion 10 the butter fat delivered
kc the creamery after i dividend MOI