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THE dAftOLlNA UNION EAHMER
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Co-Operation
What Four Young Farmers Accomplished by Work
ing Together in Co Operative Marketing,
The co-operative spirit is an active
one that is making great strides
among farmers everywhere, which is
a hopeful sign. Nowhere in this
country, perhaps, have co-operative
associations been fraught with more
success than in the State of Minneso
ta. This may be partly due to the
energy of the farmers themselves in
this State, and partly to the fact that
they are largely descendants of old
country dairymen, who lived and
worked among co-operative associa
tions for many years, and whose de
scendants, therefore, take as natural
ly to the co-operative idea as a duck
to water.
It may be interesting to some of
those concerned in the marketing of
eggs and poultry products to learn
that there is a co-operative associa
tion in Dassel, Minn., which has been
most successful in selling eggs on the
co-operative plan. This organization
was founded by four young men of
the town, but it must not be pre
sumed they had an easy task in the
beginning. The whole of the first
year was spent mainly in educational
work. One of the first things under
taken was to interest the people of
the community in better roads and
they succeeded in getting into service
ten or a dozen split log drags. Later
they took up co-operative testing of
their cows for tuberculosis and for
milk production. Through the club’s
efforts about 400 cows were tuber
culin tested. Then a testing associa-
When this egg-producing associa
tion was started it had sixty mem
bers, but there are now eighty. Dur
ing the first eight months 22,000
dozen eggs were handled by the as
sociation, it paying for these $4,840,
or 22 cents per dozen.
At the regular market price the
same eggs would have brought ap
proximately $3,300, or 17 cents per
dozen, a difference of $1,540, which
divided among seventy patrons gives
$22 for each. So each member has
received $22 during the eight months
for going to the small expense and
trouble of placing a better quality of
eggs on the market.
All this time these young men
were studying the conditions on their
own farms and on the farms about
them. They were taking an active
part in improving the live stock and
methods of keeping the same in the
community. They were improving
their poultry and methods of mar
keting their poultry products. They
were working out improved systems
of rotations for their farms. They
were breeding corn and small grains.
As a result of these activities they
reached a point early in 1911 where
they felt they could no longer oper
ate under the loose system of their
original farmers’ club. They felt the
need of a strong business organiza
tion, so they formed what is known
as the Farmers’ Corporation of Das
sel, with a capital stock of $50,000.
They have in this corporation four
active departments. They are con
tinuing their cow-testing work and
their egg-marketing work; they have
taken up stock shipping and the sell
ing of their pure-bred seed grains.
In their stock shipping department
they employ a manager who has sole
charge of the shipping of all the live
stock for the members of the corpo
ration. They have a carefully work
ed out system ’ of accounting, and
have provided for the manager’s com
mission, a sinking fund and other
necessary items. Mr. K. Johnson,
the secretary of the corporation,
states in reporting the results of their
live stock shipping department this
last fall that though it was com
menced only last spring it certainly
has given the bzest of satisfaction
during the time of its existence, with
ail indications that it wili continue
so to do.
Severai of the men interested in
the corporation, as stated above,
have been breeding corn and growing
pure-bred seed grains, and this fall
organized a department for disposing
of these products in the best possible
manner. They have rented a ware
house, installed the necessary clean
ing machinery, and are now prepared
to sell first-class highly bred seed
grains and seed corn and *get for the
producers of these products the prices
usually charged by the seedsmen and
save • the great waste of handling
these products in the usual manner.
What these young men have ac
complished at Dassel may be accom
plished by any thoroughiy progres
sive, wide-awake men in almost any
agricultural community if they are
wiiling to set aside their prejudices
and work together.—H. C. Ayer, in
Farm Life.
NEW YORK’S SHAME.
Never before in the history of the
country has a delegation been assail
ed on the fioor of a convention like
Mr. Bryan assaiied the ninety dele
gates fro mthe most populous and
powerful State in the Union at Balti
more the other day. And the con
vention yeiled with delight at every
blistering sentence that fell from the
speaker’s lips. There*the ninety men
sat silent and glum, because they
knew they were the creatures of one
man and that man an ex-bar-keeper.
Everybody knows that Tammany Hall
is as corrupt an organization as there
is upon the face of the earth. They
know no shame but heretofore they
have escaped the castigation they de
served long ago because the leaders
were afraid of their power. This is
the first time that they have ever re
ceived what is coming to them] But
it will not be the last. Tammany
met its Waterloo at Baltimore. Its
tremendous infiuence in the political
life of the nation is over. Ali that
was needed was for some great lead
er to give expression to the general
feeling about the boss-ridden institu
tion in New York City that made
treachery and falsehood its trade
mark. This Bryan did in clear and
ringing words, and the great audi
torium thundered with the applause
of the delegates. William Jennings
Bryan has made many mistakes. His
judgment is the poorest in the world,
but his courage and candor are most
refreshing, and he has rendered no
finer service in all his briliiant ca
reer than when he tore the mask
from the grinning and hideous face of
Tammany Hall.—Charity and Chil
dren.
tion was started and it has been con
ducted up to the present time with
unqualified success.
As one thing foliows another, so
the Dassel Corporation found that
the results of the testing aroused an •
Interest in better methods of feeding.
Two of the most enthusiastic work
ers for the club reported that the
returns from their herd from April
1, 1908, to April 1, 1909, was 229 .
pounds of butter fat per cow, while
this last year produced 249 ^
pounds of butter fat per cow. Fig- ;
ured down, for every doilar’s worth :
of feed fed they got $2.08 the former
year and $2.31 the iatter year, in
spite of the fact that there was in
crease of from 10 to 20 per cent in
the prices of the various feeds. These
young farmers give credit for this
forward stride to their organization.
It was not long before the poul
try end of farming began to receive
attention by the members of this so
ciety. The thrifty and enterprising
young men behind it went right to
Work pushing the co-operative idea
ahead of them. They soon gained
the confidence and co-operation of a
large part of the farmers about Das
sel and in the winter of 1909-1910
they took up a plan to finding a bet
ter way of marketing eggs. This re
sulted in the formation of the Dassel
Kgg Producing Association in connec
tion with the farmers’ ciub.
This association is a strictly co
operative one, its sole object being
to place a product on the market
that is guaranteed to reach the con
sumer strictly fresh, as well as to be
of uniform color, shape and size, and
thereby to secure- a higher price for
the eggs soid. All eggs sold by the
association are guaranteed to be not
over seven days old, and if found
otherwise, they must be replaced by
the producer.
The eggs must be put in cartons
every egg must be stamped with the
hanie of the association and the pro-
'lucer’s number; the eggs in the car
tons must be of uniform color, shape
^bd size. Each member signs a con
tract and promises to follow the re-
fiblrements of the association.
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