The Harrison times., 1914-02-21

DGTdIlNS VI .
II cooperation In the production ana
marketing of butter will take Off even
a small part Of the burden of the farm
ers' wife, If 1t will give her time 10
straighten up from her work at table
and tub and leave her free to remem'
ber that she is human being Wlth q
head and a soul, II 1t will permit heI
TO get of the farm oftener than once
IN ID wears-lf cooperation VIII DC
this or help by ever so little to DO n
the woman on the farm is for co-opera
ton.
An Unealant lrlshman.
We have found one man here In Ire
land who is opposed to co-operaton
walking along country road he@
Omagh we came upon shrewd taceI
IrIshman who was very ready to tall
about cooperation. lie was eVidentl'
a man of some intelligence and, JuuG
ing from his manner and address,
man OF some experience and success
IN business, SO we engaged him /
conversation about cooperation an
It's effects, ~
! 81 am against IT," he said. "Ther
ia no sense in IT," And he gave US !
Gorcible and picturesque language I'd
story Of how he had been PERSONAL
injured In his business by cooper
ton, II developed that he had been
buyer of farm produce=-a commlssie
merchant N a small way. NOW thei
h no money in IT," he said, since u
margin between what tho city ma
pays and what tho farmer receives
cut down The farmer sells throut
the cooperative organization direct
4 10 the city merchant" Reluctantly
r admitted that maybe II was better !
A tho farmer and better for the city &C
4 sumer who had little with which
?. buy food. "But its hard on US co
|. mission men. It's putting us on I
4 rocks. am not buying butter at
8 any more. The cooperative cream'
@ here has run me OUT i
d We asked him II cooperative buq
y making did not make the work OF
ID farmers wife and daughter eaeI
,t oOf courRo It does" he said, "And
@, tic good II Ia doing them, they az
have to skim the milk and ehurn
At mold and salt the butter now ana
a. they 10 galayanting over the roads
ct their bicycles, They don't stay no
"a at all any more, They're worse ap
"A, gaddIpg than city women" ana
nd ghool, His head with misglyings'
1y SO, II It bo true, ~ our irish fri'
In his self pity proclaimed, that
Id. operative butter making and Du'
ut. marketing IL going to make II cost
I'M eopaumor less and net tho farl
I'm tmore, We suggest that both maker
va cater will be for II, tho ex'eommlsI
at. merchant to tho contrary notW
lily glondlng. They will both IN city
alta country be interested In seeing GO
rth grafton accomplished Certainly
country woman who feels the Dui
ips Of hutter making viii welcome a
ira eeas by which she Is to get an OF
re-. uunity TO see something besides
ICES ton of the cook stove and tho insld
,an the big ohurp, And we do not bel
,ut. that the ordinary American iRi
viii object to cooperation even
daos eIye hia wife and daughter
.,s, "a got out upon tho road In bugs
of on bicycles,
,am Tho omaah Creamery
INK. When we learned that tho vi
.alt. Ceoporatiye Creamery system OF
but. ltotlng was cutting down tho inI
the of price between farmer ana cons
ado wac both raising the price to
.nyo farmer aud lowering the price u
the eonaumer, we concluded that " v
concern worth considering hyeI
uns aeeuaotioa that made II poeHiel
wife the farmers wife and daughter I
the out on their bicycles oeeAsiohall
worm not unduly prejudice un against "
into Omagh creamery IN oapi'Alhnu y!
itIea trlbutlena rom 600 members WI
ming vested trem aye dollare, up to
,nitS each, nut the voting ID not by 81
mos. II is Oh the one man one vote
and The hye.dolar man votes just as
arm and ns foroibly aB the SSbedollaI
,oun. The members voting thue ol
nifty, hoard Of directors, These In turi
dooi, the best man they oah got 10 ma
redu. nut no must be more than
anlty matter. lie must be good ou
4 lind man aud an expert In marheIlnI
4 act matter how much money Ia me
nd no must all 70 back to tho meme
long proportion TO tue puv.er NV s,.,ie, se,
10 the creamery after a divldei