Show 4 CO operative cooperative fa farm r products marketing 9 how it I 1 Is s done in E europe drope and ivady mcf be done in america to the tile profit of both farmer and consumer 5 MATTHEW 8 DUDGEON i LA 4 wan 11 union EGGS FOR EVERYBODY copenhagen denmark did you know that the people in now york auna 1 oak cat ono one hundred 1 million clown of eggs every year and that they cost something like forty five mil han dollars did you know that an nas estimated that each year america cata cat something lire ong on thou and million doll dollars tirs worth ot of eggs how cogs spoil when the farmer aued to go to town ha wife ife wont went along with a basket of containing possibly four or six or ar ton dozen of at them these eggs wore idell vered to the general country countr v more 1 deeper ceper end instead of paying for them tn in cash tiro the merchant garb in exchange the price of egge eggs was low and when the price vaa nan further reduced b translation into augar or coffee at u 6 high price the results were of no great 11 egg soiling then was in fact a small buel busin nors eite As 2 email small Lu business it was not for a ions long lime developed along a lines unes diio hen laid only when the a weather was good she laid a fresh egar eg of course but it was likely to lie around in dirty nest until time end and a summer heat mado it a very bad egg to look took at and a worse egg to eat cat not all eggs spoiled but so many went bad that scattered through th D lot deot in ii by the farmer they lowered the grade of all so that even the freshest went only as eggs because no one knew hoy khok ere strictly freeli fresh 11 strictly fresh eggs were practically unobtainable as a matter of fact after the farmers wife delivered the egge to the me merchant reliant ho a kept them around a few baysor maybe woos until ho he had a fairly largo large shipment they inight be in the cellar and they might bo be in the back of the store whore here it nas namar Nam ymer cr but at any rate they gained nothing in flavor or quality from his ills storage then ho he sent them thorn to some merchant in lit the county abat nearby this dealer kept them awhile until an accumulation made a 4 shipment I 1 possible possible to tho the city commission merchant in n milwaukee boston or kansas tilt they hon than bo be sold by the i aget age t 0 a tho the retail trade or thoy might bo le put in cold storage or they might bs shipped to ao some distant place sut eat you may test rest assured that it was some timo time bo be foro fore the egg laid on the farm found its way to tho the bre breakfast aLfast table of tho the city consumer much time had been unnecessary expense had been incurred in going through this clow unscientific system of distribution but worse than 11 4 44 tj A few danish eggs tho the delay and expense involved was the fact that the egg alch started down the line from me ben as a strictly ly fresh egg had little chance of reaching its deatina destination tion as anything but a bad egg A wasteful expensive process Proe eee the whole process li to wasteful last laurn or in missouri literally hundreds of agon loa loads Is of eggs ere driven off into the rind dumped simply they had gone bad upon ti thi i liand 5 of those who were not ablo able to market them promptly then too the loss and und damage from breakage is con add emble and aud one authority has esti mated that the handling of at eggs by those who pack and ship them ie to so in expert that each year seventy five mil trill llon lion dollars aro are broken and lost in transportation ie Is it any v wonder onder that when eggs flu sri ally reach the consumer often cost him more than twice what the tarn aror ir r roc received elved for them Is it any wonder that th tho farmer is dissatisfied with tho the price he receives when it is som eUmes less than one half what the consumer pays Is TA it any wonder the kicks at the price which he pays kicks again when ho he finds that the high priced eggs are bad eggia contrast this method of handling 9 with tho way it ie in done by the cooper co oper organizations abroad denmark leads in egg marketing as an in tho the roar mar koting of almost every other farm produce at in don mark for example ton thousand farm era ors own an egg packing establish establishment meriL every farmer gathers every egg from the noet every day in hot weather ho he la Is required to grather the eggs twice a day at least three times a week ho he sonda sends in hia his eggs to ono ond of the collect ing points which are located conveniently thence they go to the con aral station they are good clean eggs too for not only have they be been e d promptly gathered ard kept in a cool aluce but the nesta themselves are kept clean and freeh fresh aa an the egg ie Is delivered dell vered it Is to carefully tested no egg which 1 Is bad cither either in appearance or in substance ses muster every egge bears a stamp who de 1 livered iho egg to the association the farmer who sends in a bad egg Is lined fined these farmers through their manager whom they hired and who ie is a highly skilled man ship most ot of these eggs directly to the retail dealers in england the manager as ho he himself told us absolutely refuses to sell bell through the london commis slon roon mon because they demand a percentage which cuts down the profit of the farmer who produces the eggs and raises tho the price to the city man who oats cats them at the tile moment ot of ahli eLIp ilag ho he 1 know knowli just where there la Is a demand for egg eggy and consequently Is sure that the eggs will bo be promptly accepted and promptly resold so 0 boffl fal dent cleat Is la this process that within six days after the eee egg Is to laid by tho the hen it may be on the table of tho consumer in distant england I 1 aring every minute ot at that six days the egg has boon so well cared for that it has had no chance to deteriorate in quality in the slightest degree not only does uio he farmer receive a good price for this egg but because the process c of distribution Is so flo effi efficient clent and inexpensive tho the final retail price Is reasonable and the consumer profits as much as the producer dutch eggs the organization of egg societies tim has also boon taken up by the dutch farmers the astern adopted being practically the same as that which prevails lu lit denmark local so societies detles aro are formed and abill to a central provincial federation which Is responsible for grading joesting jt resting esting packing and shipping the eggs are collected by the local ties and forwarded regularly to the central dext delot every member of a local Is furnished with a number v which be stamped on tho eggs before delict delivery ry the eggs are carefully touted and a supplying stale eggs Is subject to a penalty of one dollar for every egg rejected the of at operative cooperative co creameries Creamer tea in limburg wae wa e the first to ake take up the operative cooperative co export of eggs the province of friesland followed I 1 there to a poultry association which over the whole of at holla I 1 a 1 and has phaen on provincial 1 Irr riches but U Is UIs Is association dooe dom not trade having been established to protect the interests and develop the industry of poultry far fastring trIng generally the friesland friesl aid export federation was established t 14 1903 and tho the total value ot 0 the in 1909 was as about 16 how irish eggs are sold A recent activity of the irish frish agricultural organization society has been the of poultry product ri i patterned entirely atte after tue the daish system already described this Is of course about simplest and easiest form of a cooperative operative co enterprise ter prise to establish as the outlay of invested capital Is email sir tall tha returns prompt and continuous and the product nt at least the egee readily standardized the edgr in act fact are not only stamped sorted and lacked as by the danes but aba producer q are paid for them almost entirely by weight instead ct cf by number these operative cooperative co egg companies have succeeded belond expectation pec tation and the value of the egg ox ex porta parts handled operatively cooperatively co Is about equal to the dairy exports although the poultry produce is of much leas less varoe than dairy produce in germany the eggs are am marketed much as they are wre in denmark in the ono one province of hanover there are for tar example one hundred forty two coop co op ral lv poultry societies borne some of these combine the bie bleeding eding of poultry or the othor other forms of operation cooperation co with the selling of egg eggs ninety eight egg societies however ever oro are devoted en on lo 10 eg selling Belll nET and in the year 1910 1010 disposed of eggs realizing over 00 for distribution among t their heir operative cooperative co members e I 1 10 a belong lelong to the society each farmer palo pay an entrance fee of five coute shared in the society coat cost each of which however only twelve conan la is paid down doun the balance being gradually paid by a distribution of div identa upon tho the trading profits the operative cooperative co society at 11 hanover anover owns a brick egg house from which eggs are sold each year the collector who IB lit paid coc for every one thousand eggs collected calle calls once a week nt at the farm form house a 0 each member of at the coope cooperative rathe egg selling belling society the woman oman who ho tests sorts and packs the eggs Is paid lit teen cents for every one thousand eggs par passing parsing sing through her hands bands the customers are obtained in the first instance through the chamber of agriculture at hanover this Is a sort of rural chamber of commerce which among other things keeps an up to date list of customers who ho are good pay and who are honest dealers each week the society ships large consign ments merits to the various cities of the ger man empire seldom finding it necessary to export to foreign countries experience show shows s that under this german operative cooperative co system of marketing the cash returns upon each dozen of eggs are from three to six cents great 4 A danish farm yard cr or th than a n they were when hen they were kere sold to tho the ordinary buer on the other hand not a penny has been added to the cost to the consumers who in tho the majority of In instance get eggs cheaper than they got them before and of better quality the more economic lesa less wasteful system of marketing makes egg production wore a profitable to the farmer leads him to produce more eggs increases the supply and by the soundest principles of practical business economics lowers the price to the consumer americans can operate cooperate co in eggs nor has the operative cooperative co marketing of eggs beun been confined to europe wo we bavo have in our own on country some excel lent institutions aich which demonstrate that the cooper operative cooperative co oper stive procedure which la is good for chico european hen upon the continent of europe Is good for the Ame american hen upon american soil one of fese fleace Is at dassel mine minn these are the results resul tsIn jn two 5 ears during the first year the egg selling society handled six thousand dozen egge eggs lecel an average of five cents a dozen more for their product than was paid for the miscellaneous eggs on the same markets thus making over 22 21 2 per member T tho sic second year the association shipped dozen eggs with the camo came success while the dassel darrel produce company a concern shipped dozen more in carton box lots in all dozen eggs were mere sent from this little town during the year for v which those progressive farmers received birly in c ash or more tb alan in they could have received under the old system whereas only enough eggs were formerly taken in trade at tho the village gro aery stores to supply the five hundred people living in other american co operative egg societies at hickory north carolina a co operative egg marketing grew out ol 01 ai at d became engrafted upon a cooper co oper creamery business that the existing operative cooperative co o creameries crea merles can easily U and naturally assilie assume the bunc tlona of an egg marketing institution Is to evidenced evidenced by the success which several minnesota I 1 crea creameries merles have at talked in this line the operative cooperative co society need not necessarily babe a large organization the blue mounds egg association of blue ditto 31 mounds ands wisconsin consists ot at only seven beven members the home ot of one of the members u constituted the headquarters of the concern modest as was thia this venture it netted the members a very velry margin above the price which they ot otherwise herIse would have been able to obtain As the foun der eald said it requires almost no time the association nine runs itself in fact all that Is needed today Is the con that what hae has been done elsewhere san an be do boso doso in any community Y |