Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1852-10-27
Commercial Circular Of W. F. HARRIS & Co.


4 Commission Merchants, Macon, Georgid.
4 Having tested the Southern market for one
ssyear, we prepared to make suggestions to
6the growers of produee-whieh, if improved, may
senable farmers and shippers to obtain better prices
for the products.
Heretofore the rude of putting up produce
for market and then the want of speedy conveyance
TO market have operated much against the interest
iof shippers. But as the railroad have penetrated
gfurther into the heart of the produce secti0n and
hese roads are more extensively equipped the strong
probability is, that hencefOrth there will be deten-
on difficulty in reaching market, at any of
.ghe year.
4 Middle and Southern Georgia, viii always more
or less need the products of Tennessee and afford to
pay prices for them, that will handsomely
gate the growers for their trouble in producing and
Ipreparing these products for market But to realise
hese far prices two things necessary TO be done
.!irst on the part of the farmer
LIST. The article itself must be of the best quality
4 I'd. The article, whatever it may be, must be put
sup in the very best in order to be presented
;for sale in market, in good condition.
4 Surprising that every farmer shipper will select
scnly the best articles, offer directions to
prepaing them for safe transportation and preserv
cling them in good order
= A few of the leading articles may sufiice.
a APPLEs-Apples should be well selected free from
bruises and rotten specks and shipped in barrels per-
serated with anger holes, that the air may pass
Through. The same remark, to the manner Of
tshpping apples to Lsh Potatoes and Onions; all of
(which should be shipped at intervals from Septcm-
Sber until June.
81 Georgia pays thousands of dollars to New York
Sand New England, annually for these three articles,
lwhe Tennessee can furnish better qualities of the
i5same for the same prices.
81 DRIED FRUIT.-BOth Apples and Peaches should
sbc peaed well dried and sent to market in barrels
Gas green apples.
q CABBAGEs-Should be sent in crates.
q BACON.-It is unquestionably the right policy to
send bacon to market rather than live hogs, because
Sit will pay the farmer more money, if properly man
Jagged.
4 TO make merchantable bacon the hogs should be
sswell fattened corn and after killing well trim
amed, sailed thoroughly, smoked and cured dry be-
4fore boxing the bacon for market. Hams and shOul
3ders should be trimmed after the Baltimore Style
that is, the shoulders nearly square, and the hams
Grounded at the top; not forgetting to of the legs
just above the knee joints and the tail from the ham,
ESides should be free from backbone Clear sides
wOrth cent cent per 10. than the ribbed side
Mt NEED not be added that there is in trimming and
3curing the same GUILTY. of pork, difference of from
1.-TWO to tour - IS per h. The Lore neatly bacon is
strimmed, the better will be t,,c price.
i LARD.-The better plan is, to assert he lard,
Excepting the leaf from the enra lard and send ii to
market in cans, containing from 100 to 200 lbs
Mice cans of 100 lbs. will usually bring one cent
smore per pound
BuTrEP.-Buter should be made of rich milk: the
nilk and water entirely ,rorked Out and the butter
rmly in nice cans, holding from 40 TO so lbs. Nail
akegs, old barrels and boxes not suitable vessels
sfor butter, as is sometimes seen in market.
BEEF HANS. Dry Beet Hams, well cured, COM
snand as high prices as bacon the year round. Let
she farmers try this article in the Georgia market
] BEANS and PEAS. White Beans, well asserted,
care much sought for diet and command high
sprices. The same is true of the White Lady Pea,
swhile there is constant demand for Stock Peas
Let Eeans and Peas be sent in sacks containing two
Bushels.
EGGS. Let Eggs be shipped in barrels, packed in
lseed oats
l Flour. With an improvement in the grindingaud
shoting and then by packing the flour in nice barrels
Sb0und with fiat white oak hOOps-branding the bar
srels neatly, the Tennessee Flour might be made to
drive all Northern flour from the Georgia markets.
sand thereby Tennessee would receive the ten thou
sands of dollars that annually paid to northern
smarkets for the single article of -four. Buck wheat
Flour sells well in the winter and spring.
] Conn MEAL. Let it be ground Of strictly white
flint cornpreviously famed and free from silks and
shusks-and boted and sacked in two bushel sacks
while cool. Meal intended for shipping to foreign
ports, should be kilndried and packed in barrels
And this would pay well if properly undertaken
FEATHERS. Good assorted Geese Feathers are in
demand during the fall winter and spring
HAY If Farmers would get Hay Press and pack
heir hay somewhat after the manner of cotton bale
their meadows would yield them rich return. for
labor bestowed Instead of getting 36 CTS TO 40 cts
nay, JHey nSut get on 10 ~ CTS per IUO IDS, al
ter paying all expenses of transportation commits
.siOns for selling, &C.
This fall and winter will be n favorable time to
commence, as the supplies from the North will be
small and prices consequently rule high the crops
'are short on account of drought during the early
part Of summer This step is insisted on, because
if the Tennessee Timothy and Glover hay once find
its way into the Southern markets. superior quail
ity will keep up the demand, and be a continual
source of revenue to the farmer.
n L D.
quality, will, every year, find market in the South
and should be sent in two bushe Sacks the latter
part of the or first of the fall.
Corn. Corn should be well dried on the ear and
the white separated from the yellow before shelIinc
when shelled, the silks, husks, nubs of cobs and
trash of all kinds should be separated by tanning
i'm the same manner wheat is cleaned: and sent 70