The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-04-09
An Efficient Plant.

~" SitSfN't F'aHS
No American. accustomed I farmers
who are always individualists and sci.
dom combine. would think from an in.
spection OF this plant that IL was
owned and managed by 10000 farmers.
II would seem to be rather the prop.
had spared neither expense nor scien.
tlhc 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 Turk In the power
machinery that was In operation. Ger.
many II must be remembered has a M.
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.
or used in operating the machinery and
in lighting the establishment.
An Outside Opinion.
Naturally anxious to hear what a
dealer who was not a co%-operator and
had no interest in the cooperative
movement had to say about co-opera.
ton, we went 10 the manager OF a
tobbing concern dealing in dairy prod.
ucts. We found him intelligent and
ready 10 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 a
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 "a private.
ly owned creamery will produce Just
as good a grade OF butter. II is al
ways a problem with us, however, as
10 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, II Is diff
ferent. Nothing gets by them unless
1t Is up TO standard. They give us
better stun and they get better prices.
Danish Butter.
I'VE do not buy Danish cooperative
butter to any extent II Ia too high.
BESIDES that there Is a duty OF ten
marks for a package OF ifty Kilograms.
For example where we can buy Ger
man butter for 1875 marks Cs25) pet
fifty Kilograms we would have to pay
1888 marks Cts27.G0) for Danish but.
ter. The difference Is greater than
;he amount OF tho duty because Ia.
nish butter has a reputation: also be.
cause there is n demand for Danish
butter everywhere Most Of the la.
Fish butter goes directly 10 England.
Cream IL admitted to Germany FREQ
OF duty. We have tried to ship cream
from Denmark and make butter here.
but II has not succeeded. It Ia too
troublesome n process. Everybody in
Germany viii admit that the Danish
butter Is as good as our best German
butter; most think II Ii better. II Ia
necessary for III to handle the poorer
grade OF butter for some OF our trade.