Co-op Research
Parmer owned modern foods are
cooperatives do more than significantly Improved over
produce and market some of their fore-runners of 20 ycors
the highest quality food in ago. And many of these
the world. Many co-ops also improvements have come
maintain extensive research from co-op laboratories and
staffs who probe for better research farms.
ways to grow, process and Faster Cabbage Harvesting
preserve the agricultural Yields Better Kraut
products of their farmer Sauerkraut is probably
members. America's favorite form of
In fact, most of our cabbage. But this everyday
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nutritional bargain might
well have disappeared from
grocers' shelves had it not
been for the foresight of
grower groups like Pro-Fac
Cooperative in Rochester,
New York.
The farmer-growers who
own Pro-Fac market their
well-known Silver Floss
sauerkraut throughout the
East and the Midwest. Ten
years ago, most of their
cabbage crop was hand
harvested. Workers with
large butcher knives walked
down long rows of cabbage
plants, severing them from
their roots and throwing
them on a pile.
At today’s labor costs, this
kind of harvesting technique
would be quite expensive.
Recoginizing the need for an
improved mechanical
harvester, Pro-Fac growers
with the backing of their co
oop management, began
experimenting with different
types of machines.
Through that program,
one Pro-Fac grower
developed an improved
harvester which is now being
used across the country. The
machine travels down the
cabbage rows, slashing the
heads neatly from their
stalks and loading them onto
a truck, all automatically.
The harvester cuts labor
costs way down and helps to
keep sauerkraut prices more
reasonable by letting one
man dotiie work of four hand
harvesters.
An added bonus of
mechanical harvesting is
that the cabbage arrive at
the processing plant sooner.
Because they’re fresher,
these cabbages help make a
higher-quality product.
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Tatamy, PA 18085
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Better Eggs front
Midnight Snacka
What does a chicken do
when you turn the hen house
lights on at midnight? She
cats.
This is not a schoolboy
riddle; it's a fact about
chickens that has now
generated some very careful
scientific scrutiny leading to
management practices that
help keep eggs one of
America's best nutritional
bargains.
Poultry scientists have
been turning on the hen
house lights for many years.
Among the first to throw the
switch were the researchers
who work for Gold Klst, Inc.,
a poultry producers’
cooperative based in
Atlanta, Ga.
The egg that a hen lays in
the morning has been for
ming in her body all night.
The formation of the egg
shell can put a tremendous
strain on the bird’s calcium
reserves. If she runs low on
calcium, she will lay eggs
with thin shells.
When hens turn in for the
night, the egg-making
process goes into high gear.
If it weren’t for the midnight
snack that Gold Kist growers
“Volatile Fruit Essence Recovery” may not mean
much to you, but it means plenty to the people who
make savory jams and jellies from grapes like
these. Welch’s devised an essence recovery
technique that makes today's grape spreads
tastier than Grandma's.
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give their hens, the shells on
the eggs produced would be
thinner and more of them
would crack.
Cracked eggs are wasted
eggs, and waste drives costs
up, both for the farmer and
the eventual consumer.
Other cooperatives have
also been successful in their
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These chickens aren't night owls,
but they sure act like ones; while the
rest of us are safely in bed, these Gold
Kist layers spend their nights bathing
in incandescent light and snacking on
top-quality feed. Gold Kist found that
layers exposed to light and a late
night snack yielded eggs with strong
shells.
The Flavor Stays In
and
South Race St.
attempts to improve the
quality of the foods they
produce through science -
including jelly makers!
Welch Foods, Inc., the
famous grape growers’
cooperative located in
western New York, uses a
special technique for
recovery of volatile fruit
essence. Simply stated, this
means that the molecules of
pure fruit flavor that used to
“go up in steam” in earlier
jelly and jam manufacturing
processes are caught and
forced back mto the boiling
fruit mixture.
The result is richer fruit
flavor, flavor so good that
some independent taste
testers feel that it beats the
jam and jelly put up in
Grandma’s kitchen.
Better Food for
a Better Future
All of this research, and
much more, has helped
farmer cooperatives bring
American consumers food
products of unrivaled quality
at affordable prices. Co-op
efforts have benefited all
American agriculture, and
consumers as well.
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