Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-10-28
Remember the Printer.

Who furnished the hrcntY nHiiioHS of doi
lars to pay for Vermont railroads Not Yer
mont. But the real estate of this state has
risen in value. as direct consequence" of the
introduction ofrairoldS, to an amount almost
equal to the entire cost of these roads Your
marble, slate, lime, iron. manganese, are now
in high demand, and the sale of thcS" articles
is adding immense wealth to the state. The
limbs are Topped off from the trunks of pine.
spruce, birch, and maple trees. and these
trees are trausplantcd, even from our own
county to the sca-hoard. Horses, cattle.
sheep, swine enter the cars, when the trlc
graph wires say that prices in market are
high and IN II hours or less, they are at
Brighton or Cambridge, unimwirod in flesh.
Garden vegetables are raised In VT, and sold
fresh in the city market. Milk, in the eastern
part of the state. is drawn from the COWS ut
evening. and sold III the city at day-hrcak-
Butter goes, when the market is high, packed
in ice, and arrives fresh and purr, Cheese
is transported without damage, or becoming
mouldv ON the way. If butter is high. YOU
make butter, and are sure of the price. If
cheese commands the highest price, YOU
make cheese. Everything that farmer can
raj Sc on his farm. from an OK to II hogs hriStlc.
finds Il surcr market, and IL higher price. in
consequence of the construction OF railroads
and these same raiiroadS W0uH net Yt hHrc
been bUW bnt for Ih"t aid rhich hat bccn rem
dcrcd them by thc prcss'
But How Is IT WITH THE PRINTER Grain
rarely is offered him in payment for his pa
per. which cost him money Ills hin is empty,
and rats starvr in his empty granlry. Ppta-
toes have doubled in value. Butter sells for
twenty or twenty-five cents, which ho once
obtained for twelve. Beef is twenty-five per
cent higher. ChccS, sells for eight and nine
cents. wnirh was his once for six cents. DO
grain, butter and cheese come t. the Print r :
door now-a-day Hardly pound of butter
or cheese. or huShcl of grain, has been Of
cred US for the newspaper, within II year past
Our readers ago farmers, and as what they
produce brings the cash to their own doors,
it is doubtless as convenient to pay us cash,
For fourteen years. we have laborcd hard for
their and our bouott. We have prospercd,
and SO have they But they are far ahead OF
us, We pay them more than twenty-five per
cent higher prices for everything they bring
as. than we once did. We give them Il paper
nearly twice as large us our first number in
lS+9. They get their papers free of postage,
and get h'Y pay as Hdi dH' cent mare tor M
paper than whcn producc waS ioir, and rh0
IRE pail three u,St,dd Of fire doAiarr a rc0m for
our papcr We rejoice at your pr spcrity,-
for it we have laborcd ;-bUt, forget not the
Printer in the times of your plenty, who has
aided YOU in your adversely.
The very railroad which aids to carry oil
your products brings back the cheap paper OF
the city, We country printers are brought
in competition with Them and it is Il shame
to our farmers and mechanics, that they will
pay, yes, pre-pay one dollar for city news
paper full of sickly love tales, whose editor
neither knows, nor cares, nor does anything
for them.
lfy you, Reader, are our paying subscriber,
we ara yours truly" II not, become one,
and ask your neighbor to become our reader
also. Farmers and Mechanics of Franklin
County in the days of your prosperity, RE
MEMBER THE PRINTER 50. 1HdnS McSScn ger.