| Show 7 N nn r fl COOPERATION AMONG FARMERS s 5 Interesting futures Features ot ci Lilt Lite li In r if nuu n 11 Consul Walter C Hamm flamm of oC Hull HUH l England sends lends tho the following Interest Interesting In lag ing account of ot cooperation among farmers In Denmark as given II by the tha leader of a 11 party of ot Yorkshire farmers who recently visited Denmark to study methods of ot agriculture lie He isa says as The Tho ho Coop Dairy at nt has a n membership of ot 23 farmers milk mille milking ing 1600 cows A small quantity of ot tho the milk is 15 retailed In Esbjerg tho thu bulk however Is Ie mode made Into butter and practically nil all exported to England England Eng Ens land The mill milk Is l paid for tor b by weight and quality The manager who receive 70 60 per annum embraces In himself tho the functions of ot managing director manager working foreman and clerk his clerking being done during durin the aft afternoon afternoon after aCter the butter Is 18 made mudo The Tho of ot directors of oC such I u concern rut get virtually no remuneration The Tho Danish cooperative butter r and egg room were next visited so SI society delY clety lien 50 M separate dairies scattered over oror different parts of th the north anti and cst elIt of Denmark where the butter hutler Is he made modo then s sent nt on ott to headquarters at nt Esbjerg to bo be blended and made one uniform quality before exportation to England The membership embraces ooOO farmers and the Is ship shipping ping pounds of oC butter yearly yearl The gg department wile was then In Inspected Inspected Eggs are sent In weekly from Crom the tho different depots depot fa each h egg CRR belli heln stamped by the farmer with a rubber rubberstamp rubberstamp stamp with Ith figures representing name of oC farmer fanner district and date dat so that thal tiny any bad boll egg can be easily traced back bark to 10 the farmer who sent It Every Eory eg egIs eKit le Is tested the method being to place th the eggs egg on perforated trays holding up to each Th The tray when full Is put OW over a II electric light In a n adark alark lark dark room tho tite light being con confined OneIl In a n kind of wood washing sink so o ss KB to concentrate all the light on tho thio eggs It ItIs ItIs Is IH only tho the work of oC a II I moment to 10 sep separate I arate arato tho the goof good from th the tue had the Corm for Cor former former m mer r being bright and clear the latter dull ansi and muddy On the farmer Carmer who hI has bus nent tho the bad ones onel n a tine fine Is Impo Imposed ed for each had bad egg This Tills method soon sharpens the farmers wife and she takes good care to see tee that the nests are cleared every dR day and stay any doubt douht doubtful doubtful ful ones kept for home us its The eggs eKg lire are paid for by eight so 10 much a n pound not b by number r anti and ItO ire nil all graded In p packing Into three different sizes The CI firmer farmer rm 11 I Is paid pall weekly on 1 a quotation fixed In accordance with mar mH market ket hat prices In London rondon and Copenhagen O Till TUn MARKET llAma In order tl to 1 avoid ole p putting 0 o many eggs on the market when whan heIt tho the irico Is he Islow helow low anti and Mill still further d It Im Ira mouse menso quantities are ore preserved In hu hll huge e VI vats S of ot limo lIme and water with an air airtight airtight tight cOt covering of water Those These are MC nold as nIl egga become career and dearer dealer so 50 o that the farmer Carmer hll Imi sas not to dispose of ot his eggs when whon there is Is 18 a n glut pluton on the market not nor has hns he lie or hl his wire wife to trudge mills miles with a 1 heavy basket to the marItaL at 01 anti and 1 then accept any price that I Is going Eoln They can ran stay Htay Hta at It homa and look after the work tork of ot that tho fatal faim The Tho turnover In this society In Itt r antI and eggs Is about per Jer Annum cost of at buildings art and plant h ht bo be I t tween weon JOE aral and It hue has only been 10 years corll anti ami Is ethll I ru rJ U crowing especially In the tho egg depart department ment Other egg oilS at lit Odense and m were wIrl visIted The latter though only Q ambUshed two to years has hAH already a tl of oC 4 farmers and has hall a It rapidly Increasing lIn trade The Tite od esl cost of oC colle collecting lIni forwarding to 10 cen en lIal depot grading testing und antI 1 pack luff ing for tOI export Is about 2 o cents nt per dozen down The egg cu societies are growing wore more rapidly than tItan either the butter hutler or Or bacon but It Il must bo be III hired bred red that the tue torm former r ate are only In III their hats Infancy ne factory factor at Hanley has 1 a m membership of ot 80 SOl O farmers who sup sui supplied plied 1 hogs lOgs last year yonI It U has hag been established h 1 eight years Mr That at Ime hM It a In of farmers who II last t year rear supplied hogs all nil ov over r the Isle oC cC At the en ott entrance trance to 10 the factory are posted the days prices for tor first second third quality hogs hobs so eo that any iny one can Mn I n ee e current quotations or a n farmer cart can by hy telephone n ascertain the current Ire and then decide he will send In his liege hogs or not COOPERATION All thee societies ore are purey purely cooper alive rite Tho farmers rl In a I district meet moet moett t together gether to h a 1 L cooperative society to doll deI with their produce milk hogs and eggs Kath lIach one under undertaken undertakes takes taken to supply the factory with lh 1 a certain cHhun amount of produce A dairy hats has to ho be built and aol machinery bought No io prospectus Is 18 Issued nor are there any shareholders How then Is 18 the tha money ra raised edV Ench farmer Carmol signs 1 ft a document by which he In Is held responsIble responsible sible not for tor n a r part art of the money that inu insist t bo ko borrowed but for all I Soy Y for tor i s ample that has to be he rate rail railed ed od fo for or cost of building plant etc and that oo members of tho the Every Everyone one of ot the signs hh responsibility for Cor the tha ta to that If it the WI 80 00 van can not meet their lia ha liabilities the one Is III bound for tor forthe the tho loan Actual experience proves Pre that In Denmark no risk what hut i t sr t pr r I Is attached d to this Armed with Hitch stich I a bond there I is II not the thu difficulty In borrowing the money fit nl 1 a Ir rate rat of oC Interest limIts Hanks or loan companion companIes are arc only too glad glud to lend lenil on suds such a security Tho The dairy It In itt th then built buill and equipped ll a chairman and Ap tSP Appointed I management II small 11 a 11 committee committal of ot mOni pointed t 1 1 their pay being nothing these In turn appoint a n ed Id 4 manager tho the milk Is III delivered atthe atthe at atthe the dairy made Into butter and either cither sold olti b by tha the dairy direct to England or orIf orif If It the dairy Is 19 too ton small email It It Itself self to lo I a larger dI dry dairy and no so the pro produce produce duce duco Is disposed of oC The Tho price to he be paid for Cor milk hogsand hogs anti and cs eggs a Is II s settled b by tho tim weekly quo for butter bacon hacoP and eggs In Copenhagen or London n a certain mar mu marSin marin Sin Alii in left heft fo to working expenses At Atthe the tho end of the tile year the balance lalance sheet Is IB made out ont all eli expenses eH paid IncludIng Ing 1111 Interest on loan lonn and depreciation lation and the balance Is 1st distributed ns as bonus boasts to e ech eads uh farmer r In accordance with th the amount of UI produce h he nan lists sent tnt Bacon factories ar are established 1 in Irs the themo lImo mo wU way tuy Tha Thu Ug I h is the tho simplest and least costly of ot all oil and Is often attest worked as tee I a of oC the Bason Ua Ba son pon or ur flutter nutter society Thu Th farmer fit of it England Russia Canada anada 1111 1 n and other countries are Aro study studyIng studyIng Ing the these o cooperatIve of oC the Danish In Iii order to 10 Introduce them elsewhere It might be bo well reIl for tor or American to tal lal take the tho tRIne same trouble |
