The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20

lJDeIdllNC NoA hNIAlS HooOSIo-
ton Tells, After Visit There. of
lis Wonderful Success.
While Denmark is small yet its
,.-,,,srs are the best organized aud
.aa most prosperous in the world.
Es-.;retv-four per cent of its farmers are
,a.nbers of cooperative marketing
.'--I,iations. Moss of the remaining
az az cent have been in, but for lack Of
P5#c;encv in methods suitable to the
ossor;ation were put out and can not
at back again. Mr.. ]. E. Conwell,
ssre.ident and manager OF the Georgia
Cotton Growers COOPERATIVE Mark
e.;ng Association, was a member OF
NE commission appointed by the
American Cotton Growers Associa-
ion 70 visit Europe. They visited Den
.,arl. on the tour and it is an inspira-
. nm to hear Mr.. Conwell tell of his
rim to that little country. We are
liking extracts from Mr.. Conwelps
address TO his board of directors:
I'm Denmark | learned my greatest
among the first places we visited
,ras the COOPERATIVE Council. This
:, an organization of all the co-opera-
IVES in Denmark. 1t does not market
;or them and it does not buy for them
i i an advisory board which they
,;oin bv paying small fee, and which
!. IN position to give them informa-
ro0 Of any description. We were re-
ceivcd by the secretary.
1--WE told him we wanted to go into
the country and see at first hand the
real condition of the farmers and what
cooperative marketing was doing for
them.
"Thev carried US first to the Co.
Operative Exchange-an import and
export company. There we met one OF
the snartest men | met on the whole
rim in their secretary and manager.
He knows the markets of the world
Is we'll as any man | ever knew of
He knows where to sell and where to
buy.
i learned there that Denmark buys
"a per cent of all the cotton oil cake
that America exports. 1t was an eye
opener to me. Think of little coun-
try no bigger than our state OF Geor-
pja taking "a per cent of our country's
output of oil cake! Before we left |
could see what they did with it.
TO make the trip into the country
one OF the banks in Copenhagen fur
nished us with big car and sent one
Of their assistant cashiers to drive for
Us and to interpret for us. The Co.
Operative Council also sent young
man 10 act as an interpreter, and be-
fore | 90 farther with our trip TO the
country let me tell you something OF
this young man. He was 28 years old
and the COOPERATIVE Council had
been training and educating him for
ten wears for a financial man-and had
not put him to work yet! There, in a
country that has had more than so
years experience in cooperative mark
citing they require a man to be per
iectly trained before they allow him
10 handle any important phase OF the
business 1t is more than ever remark
able to me that we in this country
have not made any more blunders than
we have, when you think that we have
had practically no experience IN CO.
operative marketing. They had put
this young man through their schools,
sent him to foreign countries to study
financing and after ten years, HE is
STILL LEARNING rCO-OPERA-
TIVE MARKETING.
To go back to the story, we start
ed out to visit the country around
Copenhagen and our first stop was at
the COOPERATIVE Dairy 1--WE would
call it a creamery. They have num-
bers and numbers OF these diaries. In
this particular case 400 cows were
signed up in a circle around the dairy.
The farmer member puts his milk in
cans in front of his house and that IS
the last he has to bother with IT. A
man from the dairy gathers up the
milk, takes it to the dairy where It IS
poured into a large vat to be cooled
10 a certain temperature. 1t is then
separated and the butter taken from
it. The skim milk is sold back to the
farmers, at about cents per hundred
pounds, to use in feeding chickens and
hogs
In Denmark they endeavor to
ralse cows OF one type. lhere are
said to be 70 spotted cows in Den
mark-they are all dark red. They try
to raise herds that will produce ~
gallons Of milk the year round. They
inquire on producing to take care OF a
certain consumption.
Il found that ga per cent OF the
farmers OF the country belong to CO.
operatives. The per cent are farm
ers vino would not keep their stables
and utensils cleansed, or feed proper
IT, They were not turned out until
the co-operatives had tried time and
again to get them to do right.
The manager Of the dairy invited
lis into his home and his wife served
US with a light lunch, although we
mad Just finished breakfast.