The Drumright Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1914 Page: 2 of 13
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DOAN'S V.VLV
FG5TLR-MILBURN CO, BUFFALO. N. Y.
Reputation and character are about
as synonymous as the north and
couth poles.
Constipation causes and aggravates rr.any . ,
•en'-js d.sea ea. It 11 thoroughly cured by
Dr Pierce's Pieasar.t Pelieta. ITie favorite
farn.-y laxative. Adv.
It may be ail right to take the
thought for the deed, but no man ever j |
got rich that way.
Germany Imports Danish Co-operative Cream.
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Co-Operative Farm
Products Marketing
How It Is Done in Europe and May Be Done
in America to the Profit of Both
Farmer and Consumer
formed sololy I" nl«J Hi" farmer in mar
ketlng IiIh produce. In fact, nearly all
tho HharoH urn li.'M liy fanner* We
havo over twenty thousand separate
membors. There are 110 niwoelatlon*.
Wo are marketing our product through
fifty nlx stores."
Thin Ih a co-op«*rativn row**™ In in«
truo sense of tli«> w<Vh1 All «>ur con-
cerns urn o|*r tnd upon the "one man
one vote" plan, hh nr«' all <>f the co-op-
eratlvo societies In Qermany. The
small farmer ban hh much Influence an
the big man. Kvorybody ected
| with uh participates In our profit and
Ib responsible If wo havo losses. Kv-
erybody votes, nobody votes more than
once. We charge about three per
cent, on the turnover to pay the ex-
penses Involved In marketing. What
Is left goes to tin) members who sell
through ub."
"The chief product Ih butter, but wo
handle a great deal of cheese and
Borne other farm products. We Import
considerable of our cheese from Cana-
da simply to meet the demand and to
make It unnecessary for those who
buy of ub to go elsewhere.
Keeping Up the Quality.
"We regard the standardization of
products as the most Important fea-
ture of co-operation In Germany so
far as the marketing of it is concern-
ed. All the butter which we handle
Is graded and branded. Each producer
is given a most complete score sheet.
Every time one of our subsidiary con-
cerns get a consignment of butter from
a producer It Is graded as is Indicated
on a score card.'
Catering to All.
A Boston merchant tells of an old
grocer In Massachusetts who was
about as "slick" an article as one
would care to meet.
"One day," says the Bostonlan, "I
stopped before his shop and looked
curiously at a long line of barrels of
apples, some marked with an 'A.'
some marked with a 'Z.'
" "What is the meaning of these
markings?' I asked. 'The barrels
seem to contain the same kind of
apples."
" 'They are the same kind, son,'
the old gentleman replied, 'but some
customers want a barrel opened at
the top and some at the bottom.'"
By MATTHEW S. DUDGEON.
« Copyrigbt. 1 > 14. W* i«ro Newspaper L nion. <
HOW THE GERMAN FARMER SELLS HIS BUTTER IN THE CITIES
shipping in their potatoes in carload the manager why he did not sell in oth-
lots and they did not care for the few er cities—Milwaukee, for example,
bushels we had. Even the hotels had where the retailers should be willing
. ( ti . t\ i either bargained for their year s sup- to pay good prices for good fruit. His
Pliny the Elder, writing In . , A. D., , o(_ would not make a contract with reply was that he had been utterly
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Mustard an Ancient Remedy.
Mustard Is one of the most ancient
of medicines. Pythagoras, who flour-
ished between 500 and 600 years be-
fore Christ, mentions It Hippocrates,
who was born In 460 B. C-, employed
It.
describes three different kinds of
mustard, and says the seeds were
Imported to Italy from Egypt origin-
ally.
The Romans used It as a stimulant
after a cold bath; they mixed mustard
oil and olive oil In equal parts and
used this as a liniment for stiffness of
the muscles. They knew the virtues
of mustard poultices and of mustard
as an emetic. As a remedy for the
stings of scorpions and serpents, they
pounded It. mixed It with vinegar and
applied It to the wound.
They also made a drink out of It,
fermenting the seed In a fiery spirit.
The liquor thus produced they called
mustum ardens, which means burn-
ing wine. The word mustard Is prob-
ably derived from this.
Berlin, Germany.—Here In Germany
the farmer successfully sells his prod-
uct direct to the city retailer while in
America It is almost impossible for the
farmer to get into the city. In fact
American cities are practically quaran-
tined against the farmer so far as
selling direct Is concerned.
"The farmer who tries to sell his
product in the city is up against it,"
said the president of a New York cor-
poration. At the suggestion of one of
our officers we laBZ year raised a
small lot of very fine potatoes on some
of our vacant lands. We thought we
were business men but selling those
potatoes was too much for us. We
found that the retailers had contracts
with jobbers for their year's supply.
The jobbers and wholesalers were
from you the wholesalers will suggest
that I buy my pineapples and bananas
of you too. I tried It once. It did not
take them long to get wise. I was in-
formed that if I ever did that again I
would not be able to buy any fruit in
the city. You can't blame them for
they think they are protecting their
business in the only possible way."
Inquiries of retailers in other parts
of the city brought the same answer.
It was absolutely Impossible for the
grower to market his fruit in the city
of Denver.
Bayfield, Wis., is in the midst of a
new fruit country. There they have
a high-grade of cherries, strawberries
and other small fruits. A small local
co-operative society is marketing all
their stuff In Minneapolis. We asked
invone who could not furnish all that
they might need during the year.
"In fact no one in the whole city
wanted our potatoes. We were com-
pelled to practically give them away.
It opened our eyes. We know now
what the farmer is up against in the
city markets when he has anything to
sell. The farmer can no longer sell
a product without going from house
I to house as a peddler. As business is
now conducted his situation is hope-
j less. It seems to me that It is co-oper-
unable to find any Milwaukee retailer
who would take his fruit because they
said that they must deal only with
those who handled a full line of
fruits; that If they bought cherries
and strawberries of him they would
find themselves unable to buy the
other fruits which he did not handle,
such as bananas, peaches, pineapples
and the like. The aame condition ex-
ists everywhere. The retailer will
not buy in small quantities nor will
they buy of those who cannot sell
A Sure
Favorite
—saves the house-
wife much thank*
less cooking—
Post
Toasties
The factory cooki them
perfectly, toasts them to a
delicate, golden-brown, and
tends them to your table
ready to eat direct from the
sealed package.
Fresh,
and
crisp, easy to serve.
Wonderfully
Appetizing
Ask sny grocer—
Post
Toasties
Colorado Peach Grower Has Trouble.
Nowhere on earth do they raise bet-
ter peaches than In Colorado. Recent-
| ly in an exceptionally good year one
. grower marketed 10,000 boxes of fine
] peaches In the usual way expecting
| big returns. When the final settle-
j ment arrived he took it home so that
his wife and children who had helped
with the work might enjoy it with
! him. When he opened the envelope he
j found first a long and detailed state-
I ment which he did not fully compre-
! hend. But turning to the accompany-
j (ng letter he read this paragraph: "I
think we are fortunate indeed, in view
of all the circumstances, to find that
j no liability stands against us. If you
I will send us your draft for $50 this
! will close the account and no further
! liability will attach to you." Finally
It soaked In that the result of the en-
tire year was a loss of $50.
But he possessed himself In pa
! tlence and thought It all over. From
i Inquiry he learned that while retail
! prices were good, the peaches had
passed through the hands of six to
eight persons each of whom had taken
out a profit. No one person had robbed
him. No one had been dishonest No
| one had made excessive profits. Each
I one had simply looked out for himself.
The farmer had been fool enough not
to do the same thing.
Farmer Tries to Sell Direct
The next year at the opening of the
season the grower went to the Denver
retailer who had handled his product
He was glad to find that his peaches
of the previous season had arrived In
good shape, bad been readily sold, and
| had brought a good price. The dealer
i said he would be glad Indeed to han-
dle his peaches again If possible. Then
the griper demonstrated with pencil
and paper that the grower by selling
directly to the retailer would double
: his own return, double the retailer's
profit and still leave ample margin for
I all expenses intervening. The retailer
gave a respectful hearing but slowly
shook bis bead Nothing doing," he
said "if I buy my peaches directly
WOMEN FROM
45 H 55 TESTIFY
To the Merit of Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Com-
pound during Change
of Life.
Wentbrook, Me. — "I was passing
through the Change of Life and had
pains in my back
and side and was sc
weak I could hardly
do my housework.
I have taken Lydia.
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and
it has done me a lot
of good. I will re-
commend your med-
icine to my friends
and give you permis-
sion to publish my
testimonial." — Mr3. Lawrence Mar-
tin, 12 King St., Westbrook, Maine.
Manston, Wis. — "At the Change of
Life I suffered with pains in my back
and loins until I could not stand. I also
had night-sweats bo that the sheets
would be wet. I tried other medicin®
but got no relief. After taking one bot-
tle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound I began to improve and I
continued its use for six months. The
The score card Is In duplicate, the pa;n8 jeft me, the night-sweats and hot
* " ' flashes grew less, and in one year I was
a different woman. I know I have to
thank you for my continued good health
ever since." — Mrs. M. J. Browxell,
Manston, Wis.
The success of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, is unparalleled in such cases.
If you want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi-
dential) Lynn, Mass. Tour letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman, and held in strict confidence.
Make the Liver
Do its Duty
Nine times in ten when the liver ii
right the stomach and bovrels are right
CARTER'S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS
gently butfirmly comj
pel a lazy liver to^
do its duty.
Cures Con-.,
•tipation, In*
digestion.
Sick
Headache,'
and Distresa After Eating.
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
FREE TO ALL SUFFERERS
ative marketing or nothing for the far- j them a full line of supplies. A repre-
mer." sentative of the Society of Equity of
Wisconsin went to Chicago to work
up a trade direcUy with the retailers
of that city but gave up the plan In de-
spair. He concluded that either the
co-operative marketing concerns must
combine upon broad lines in order to
be able to protect the retailers who
bought of them, or else the consumers
must combine and buy co-operatively
of the producer. In short, the Ameri-
can farmer cannot, unaided, invade the
larger cities Even the smaller co-op-
erative organizations find themselves
too weak to go into the city markets.
Federates to Invade Cities.
But here in Germany, and In fact
in many other countries, the farmer
does successfully luvade the cities,
large and imall He does It through
the federt/ted association of co-opera-
Uve societies which thrive everywhere.
These organizations do a tremendous
business. They are enormous con-
cerns, capable of taking big contracta
and making good on them, fully able
to hold their own In competition with
privately owned concerns. The Ger-
man retailer knows that when he deals
with such a concern or organization
he can get all that he wants whenever
be wants tt
We have just been Investigating the
methods of one of these federated sale
societies, the United Pomeranian
Dairiea, a concern which represents
thousands of farmers. We found the
manager a most businesslike lndlvldu-
1 al with an amazingly wide knowledge
of all matters connected with the mar-
keting of the products handled by him.
He has at his tongue's end the an-
swer to all questions, whether they
have to do with the technicalities of
the product Itself or with the business
methods of the concern. The retailers
do not hesitate to deal with this con-
cern for they can rely upon tt to sup-
ply all of their needs, all of the time.
Union of Co-operative Concerns.
"This Is an association of associa-
tions," the manager stated. "It Is not
connected with any Ijuidschafton or
Relffeson bank. Our assc latiois are
original to be kept at the central office,
and a carbon copy to be filled out and
forwarded to the producer. The card j
j states that the quality of the shipment |
| received has been marked upon the fol- i
J lowing points: (1) Geruch (smell); |
(2) Geschmack (Flavor); (3) Ralz
(Salt); (4) Bearbeitung (Well j
Worked); (5) Konststenz (Texture);
(6) Verpacking (Packing), (7) Klassi-
flziert (Classified); (8) RemarkB.
The manager continued: "If we find
a creamery is not sending us a high-
grade product we send someone to
make investigation and to help im-1
prove the quality. As things now are j
no creamery supplies any butter of
a grade less than the highest which it
is capable of producing. The score
card is of course a great help in keep-
ing up the quality. We keep the orig-
inal score card ourselves and send a
carbon copy of it to the producer who
is thus able to know in what particu-
lar his butter is less than it should be.
In this way each creamery gets a re-
port every week upon its butter so
that it knows at once if there is any
falling off in quality. We are now mar-
keting the butter produced by from
six hundred thousand to seven hun-
dred thousand cows."
An Outside Opinion.
Naturally anxious to bear what a
dealer who was not a co-operator and
had no interest in the co-operative
movement had to say about co-opera-
tion, we went to the manager of a
Jobbing concern dealing in dairy prod-
ucts. We found him Intelligent and
ready to talk "This Is a wholesale
company privately owned," he said.
"I deal with many co-operative dairy
associations. My, experience with
them has been excellent They have
better machinery, better organization,
better business methods, produce bet-
ter butter than do private creameries
and are altogether satisfactory. There
is another thing which should not be
overlooked. We like to deal with a
concern which can furnish us in large
quantities in absolutely uniform qual-
ity. This is what the co-operators do.
No single creamery could give us but
ter in such quantities as do the coop-
erative associations which market the
product of several federated creamer
ies. Neither can we get such an abso-
lutely uniform quality elsewhere. We
do not say but that at times a private
ly owned creamery will produce just
as good a grade of butter. It is al-
ways a problem with us. however, as
to each creamery. We have to know
the creamery itself and have to know
whether or not they continue to have
the same butter maker. With the co-
operative concern, however. It 1b dlf
ferent. Nothing gets by them unless
it is up to standard. They give us
better stuff and they get better prices
Danish Butter.
"We do not buy Danish co-operative
butter to any extent It is too high.
Besides that there is a duty of ten
marks for a package of fifty kilograms.
For example where we can buy Ger-
man butter for 125 marks ($25) per
fifty kilograms we would have to pay
138 marks (($27.60) for Danish but-
ter. The difference Is greater than
the amount of the duty because Da-
nish butter has a reputation; also be-
cause there is a demand for Danish
butter everywhere. Most of the Da-
nish butter goes directly to England.
Cream Is admitted to Germany free
of duty. We have tried to ship cream
CARTERS
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the®® d! -* *•• and woudkhftl cut by
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THERAPION
the remedy for rocm own ailment. Absolutely FREE.
Ho 'follow ap* circular*. NooMipatt ni T>ft. LsO xaO
Mid. ('o.. Hatkkstock Rp.. HiirtTr<r>, !> . * lxa.
w« wajtt to raoT* thzjuno* will eram roc.
Music of the Spheres.
First Wag—What is a moonstone?
Second Wag—A moon's tone is a
lunaUck.
Naturally.
"Where do you think are the worst
baggage smashers to be found?"
"I should think on the trunk lines."
In giving everybody
do not forget yourself.
a square deal.
Putnam Fadeless Dyes are the
brightest and fastest Adv.
Husbands of pretty women are apt
to be more useful than ornamental.
Oklahoma Directory
JASPER SIPES COMPANY
c£™2i; FURNITURt
Opera Chairs and School Supplies
OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA
PATENTS BtmCLO
THE PATENT MAN. BA88ETT BtDQ , UBS
NO. BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA city, OKLA.
Mi CHOLERA
by uss of And Hog Cholera Scrum manufac-
tured under Government Inspection. Writs
today for frss particulars. Wichita-Okla-
bomi Serum Co, Stock Yards, Okla. City.
My Free Book
from Denmark and make butter here. ! on Chn>nlc Diseases of Men. 9* pages mailed
but It has not succeeded. It Is too 10 address on receipt of two ceot Mamp.
' 15 years la Oklahoma City. All correspond-
ence confidential, and solicited. Dr G. P.
troublesome a process Everybody In
Germany will admit thst the Danish
butter Is as good as our best German
butter; most think It Is better. It Is
necesssry for us to handle the poorer
grade of butter for some of our trade.
We get some Siberian butter which is
considered of the second and third
quality."
Specialist, tl«S W. Msin St, Okls. City. 0kis.
Cholera
Serum Will Save
Your Hogs From
Write for free booklet. We manufacture oof
Serum at our plant at Oklahoma City. Oklahoma-
State Veterinary In charge. OKLAHOMA STOCK
YARDS SERUM COMPANY, PHONK
NUT im. OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA
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Blair, H. S. The Drumright Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1914, newspaper, April 10, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc147719/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.