Arizona republican., 1922-02-20
COOPERATION

There are three things necessary
for the success OF the dairy business
first, a good grade OF dairy COWS
second. good ranch and farm equip
ment. and third. cooperation BY all
who are interested in the dairy bus
mess. BY co-operation we mean a
friendly feeling and understanding
with your mixers, truck drivers, our
brother dsirymen. our creameries and
our merchants.
Our mixer should be shown the
consideration and kind treatment he
deserves. Let him feel that he is
not slave but a Co-worker for the
success OF the business. Kind treat
ment for your mixers means kind
treatment for your cows, which in
turn means more milk and a better
quality.
Our truck drivers like our fnilkmen
are human and submissive to kind
and courteous treatment We should
strive to make the truck drivers
troubles less. We should make Il a
pleasure and not a hardship for him
TO enter our premises for our milk.
BY doing this he will soon embrace
the spirit of cooperation and better
service will result.
We sometimes hear. ii said that
dairymen are not given a fair deal in
making tests and weighing their milk.
A little sound reasoning along this
line viii convince us that such talk
Is idle and that there is no founda-
tion therefor. 1t at once becomes ap-
parent that this is true when we re-
member that the creameries employ
as weighers and testers only those
men who come with the highest rec
concentrations and who are known to
be honest and trustworthy. Ii must
be remembered also that these men
are paid stipulated salary per day
and therefore could not profit by
dealing dishonesty with YOU In con-
nection with their work as testers and
weighers Of your milk Neither can
these men benefit themselves by de-
ciaring that your milk is sour when
1t should be pronounced sweet. as
you believed it was when it left your
dairy. Our milk testers are also hu-
man and not adverse to fair treat
ment.
Another thing that should not be
overlooked in our plan of co-opera-
tion is our relations with the cream
cries upon which we must largely
depend for our success. 1t is our
duty to furnish them the very best
milk we can produce to the end that
they Will be able to produce the best
quality OF butter, cream and con-
densed milk. Without the creanler-
les the dairymens business will be a
failure, without the dairymen the
creameries cannot exist: therefore.
the one should work for the success
of the other. Without this co-opera-
tion both will fail.
The dairymen, mixer, truck driver
and milk tester having Travelled to-
gether from the milk pen to the
creamery. the question now is, What
are we going to do? Are we going
to say to the creameries: You must
buy our milk and IL is no concern
of ours what you do with or what
trouble you experience in disposing
of it? Such a policy would soon put
the creameries out of business and
with them would go the dairy busi-
ness. This being conceded, IL must
be admitted that the dairymen should
go with the creameries to the mer-
chant, who distributes the products
OF the creameries, and with the mer-
chants all 60 to the consumers with
a determination to persuade those
who consume dairy products that our
milk, and the products from our milk
should receive first consideration at
their hands. With the consumer con-
yinced, the merchant will be per-
suaded, the creameries satisfied, and |
the dairymen made prosperous.
DAIRYMEN' LEAGUE,
Ey !. L. Holmes,