New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-06-25
Economics in Granaries. Cellars, Fuel.
Transportation. NC.

would result from an assembldgc OF three or tour
hundred families inhabting large AID noble edi-
| fee, in which they would find suits Of room. OF
| various prices, covered communications. tables at
different prices, varied functions in short, every
thing that could asrdge, facilitate and give
charm to Industry.
| In going into details We will first examine the
advantages Of Association in granare. and cellars.
The three hundred granarics or barns, which three
hundred farming families require, would be re-
placed by a vast granary divided into special com
partments for each Kind Of grin and even for each
variety. All advantages fdryne,' ventilation and
Of locality, could be observed and attended to
advantages which the farmer cannot now thak Of
for often his house and barns are badly situated for
the preservation Of his produce. An Association
of two thousand persons would always make choice
of the mos, favorable location in every respect for
its Ediiice or rural Palace. The expense Of walls,
doors, frame work, machinery precautions against
FIRE, insects, &c. Of this vast granary, would not
cost one-tcnth part Of what three hundred barns,
at bes, but dciectively constructed now do. Ten
doors and window. only would be necessary where,
with the present system, three hundred required,
and every thing else in proportion.
1t is above all in precautions against fire and other
accidental waste, that the profits become colossal.
An measures of public security are imprac,icabo
with three hundred families, some being too poor
to take ssary precaution, others too careless OF
Indifferent. We frequently hear Of whole town
having been consumed by the imprudcnce of single
family. Precautions against insects rats &c. be-
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between these families lfby great care ono farmer
DESTROYS the rats his granarics he u soon assacd
by those of the ncgboring bar and fields tina, have
not been cleared of Them for the want OF system 1t
general cooperation, which is impossible with the
present diversity of interests
Association will give rise TO important economies
in operations which are now deemed productive
for example, three hundred farming families send
to markc, not once but fifty times in the course of
the wear: if few chickens or pounds Of butter
10 be sold a day is lost in town; th, amounts, for
the three hundred families, to an aggregate loss OF
fifteen thousand days work, without including In
expense Of teams which il twenty fold that OF Asso-
c,ton. In the latter order al these prodscts would
he .oa in large quantities as sales and purchases
would take place only between Associations oil
oicb..cn hundred TO two thousand persons. i'y
avoiding this complication of sales, tae waste, for
.x.mpln. of sending three hundred persons to
market. to make three hundred separate n'.o-
,ia,ions instead of singh one, we slmphy and
economic an important branch of operations
If one Association sells five thousand bushels If
wheat to three others, the care of milling and
storing doe. not extend to three hundred families,
but only To three Thus, after having saved IN the
sale of the produce ninety nine hundredhs OF the
dstrbutiyc labor this economyis repeated Units pre-
para,ion Cor use Ii is. consequently, an economy
of ninety-nnc hundreIths twice repeated and how
many will take place ot tins magnitude
1t i. 10 be remarked thai the economies OF A'So-
citation are smos, always hike those above OF a
compound nature, which, 10 the saving IN selling,
adds that in storing and preparation The same
system il applicable TO liquid'-'uch AZ wines,
Oil. &c. Three hundred families have three hun
drcd cellar, ia the care OF which, ordinarily as
much ignorancc as want of skill, Is to be found.
No economy il acknowledged more urgent than
that of fuel: its saving viii be enormous in Asso-
ciation. The EGince OF an Association has only
five chens instead OF three hundred, which the
prescn, systen requires
| One for extra tables;
! Three for table, Of the l.i, 2d and Sd class OF
prices;
One for preparations Tor ANIMALS
Tho whole operation can be carried on b! three
l,,,s fires. which, compared with the three hun
d,rd kitchen fires OF three hundred households,
would Weld an economy on fuel OF nin"teaihs.
/ The economy Would be equally great IN Parlor and
other fires. Besides, the cold would not De I''t
in the interior of the Edhce; there would exist
Throughout the building, covered galleries OF nails
which would communicate with all It's parts and
which could be comfortably warmed: li' lhhaoi-
tauts consequently could 20 10 the manufactures
bazars and dmng-halls parties ara balls without
the necessity of cloak, or fur., and without the
IlsA OF catching colds and caiarrhs. These covered
communications would extend also TO the stables.
We cOald cnumcruic u great many other econo-
mics which might take place IN operations which
could be- avoided or rendered unnecessary: ~e viii
call them Hcgatirc economies, in opposition to the
preceding, winch arc posture economies, or labor
abridged, but without being suppressed.
\ branch OF negative profits which $ immense
asd which can BE- rendered unnecessary in Asso-
ciation is prccaution against larcenes
Tin, ri.k of thelis forces three hundred families,
or Mt least one hundred of the richest, who can
ason! il, to an uuproductive expense OF one ha''-
drcd walls. fences, bitches. waich-doss, guards,
trap. or Other means OF defence against thieves.
All these useless and expensive precautions would
toe entirely done away with IN Association "i'0A
would eiicctua.ly prevent larceny. We shall see
bo, in the social relation. OF the combined order,
a rogue could make no use Of stolen property ca
sept money. Besides population living at 'he'i
ease. and imbued with honorable feelings, would
not think OF thcits, or o; forming any projects o
the kind.