The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1914-04-17

imported butter from South America
For twenty years We have had butter
from North America, We import but
ter also from Finland, from Denmark
and from Siberia, Some OF our cheese
comes from Canada, All this is done,
he added IN the interest OF the Co
operative societies. We get the i'm
ported butter so that our stock may
be complete at all times and so we
can meet the demands OF those whom
we have made our customers. We
must stand ready TO do as well by the
retailers as 30 the big private dealera
The chief product Is butter, but we
handle a greay deal Of cheese and
some other laim products. We import
considerable of our cheese from Cana
ia simply TO meet the demand aud to
make II unnecessary FOR those who
buy Of MS TO go elsewhere.
Keeping Up the Quality
We regard the standardization Gf
products as the most important iea
ture OF cooperation in Germany so
far as the marketing Of It Is concern.
ed. All the butter which we handle
is graded and branded, Each producer
Is given a most complete score sheet
Every time one of our subsidiary con
Germs get a consignment of butter from
a producer It is graded as is indicated
on a score card"
The score card Is in duplicate, the
original to be kept at the central office,
and a 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; D Geruch JsmelD :;
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The manager continued: IF we find
a creamery is not sending us a high
grade product we send someone to
make investigation and 10 help i'm
prove the quality. AS things now are
no creamery supplies any butter OF
a grade less than the highest which Il
Is capable OF producing. The score
card is Of course a great help in keep
ing ',p the quality. We keep the orig
inal score card ourselves and send a
carbon copy of it to the producer who
Is thus able TO know in what particu
lar his butter Is less than II should be
In this way each creamery gets re
port every week upon It's butter so
that il knows at once II there is any
falling off in quality. We are now mar
keting the butter produced by from
six hundred thousand 10 seven hun
dIed thousand COWS"
An Efficient Plant.
No American, accustomed TO farmers
who are always individualists and sci
dom combine, would think from an in.
spection of this plant that it was
owned and managed by20,000 farmers.
1t would seem TO be rather the prop
erty OF some captain OF finance who
had spared neither expense nor scien-
tihc effort in order to arrive at the
highest stage Of efficiency.
Everywhere we found labor saving
devices, Everywhere the machinery
was carefully protected so that danger
to employees did not lurk 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 a
dealer who was not co-operator and
had no interest in the cooperative
movement had to say about co-opera.
tion, we went to the manager Of a
iobblng 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 creameries
and are altogether satisfactory. There
is another thing which should not be
overlooked. We like to deal with
concern which can furnish 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 a grade Of butter 1t is al.
ways a problem with US, however, as
to each creamery. We have TO know
the creamery itself and have to know
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
it is up to standard. They give us
better stuff and they get better prices.
Danish Butter.
I'VE do not buy Danish cooperative
butter to any extent. 1t is too high.
Besides that there is a duty of ten
marks for a package of fifty Kilograms,
For example where we can buy Ger
man butter for 125 marks ($25) per
fifty Kilograms we would have to pay
1873 marks (($27G0) for Danish but
ter The difference is greater than
the amount OF the duty because Da-
nish butter has a reputation; also be
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