The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-05-24
How to Cooperate.

saw in the Rural few remarks in
regard te cooperation among farmers.
You say the apparent necessity for such
an organization on the part Of farmers is
conceded. Allow me to make few sug-
gestions. The necessity has weighd heav-
lily on my mind for a long time. | have
often spoken Of it to my neghbors and
friends, and they generally agree with me
that it would be a good thing if it could
be carried out. The great trouble is to
get practicable plan, aud then to get
our agricultural and some others to advo-
cate it.
The great necessity for cooperation is
in marketing our crops. When we have
large crop we all 60 pell nell to work
and sell as fast as we can; and the result
is no pricc-a great crop, but nothing for
it, Many times men sell and deliver their
whole crop before they get any money,
and then they are told by the gracious
purchaser that he has not got any money
for them, but will have some in a few
days, and farmers run after the purchaser
until patience is exhausted before they get
their pay, and then, perhaps they are
turned off with checks on a bank that
will cost a days use Of horse and bug
gy, and dollar or two in cash each, to
90 the bank for it. In many cases they
never get the money at all, but are cheat
ed out Of it entirely.
A farmer should never be peddler,
but should have some convenient place
where he can take his produce and offer
it for sale and if he can't sell it for
what it cost him to raise it, keep it until
he can. The present mode Of hauling a
load to town and selling for what he can
get, instead of getting what it cost to
raise it, is bad policy-just as bad as the
other plan of delivering the whole crop
before he gets any money.
| will suggest a plan which | believe
could be successfully carried out at the
present time but years ago it would have
been imperative. Let every community
or town build a market place or store
house at the most convenient depot, and
there take the proiuce and offer it for
sale, having a specified day as a market
iay-say one day in a week. People
who have anything to sell will bring it
there-say cattle, horses, sheep, hogs
(which may be driven home if not sold, J
or grain, butter, cheese Or pork and il
they do not find buyer to suit, leave it
in store until next market day. This be.
ing understood, people that want to buy
will 90 to the market place to buy, there.
by saving a great deal of Inconvenience
both to buyer and seller; money will be
paid and property delivered, and all &C
home the wiser and better for the days
association and cooperation
1t would be n town fair--a selling fair
not horse race, nor a great National
horse show, where five or six old scab;
are trotted and jockeyed to fool ten
thousand people. 1t will eventually dc
away with these great agricultural shows
that are of no earthly use to the agricul.
turist, but are TO railroads, hack drivers
great town eating saloons, whiskey shops
and pickpockets.
by the above mode oil marketing, farm
ers can cooperate together one society
can confer with another; they can learn
the state of the crops Of the country, and
shape themselves accordingly. They will
soon learn to help one another. The as
ISOLATION will do them good; it will ere
ate a sympathetic feeling; they can com
pare the products Of their farms and talA
over the best mode Of producing, ant
the country will grow rich and prosper
Gus.
In order to accomplish this great worl
We must have the assistance Of the agri
cultural press Without the press, no
much can be done in any great reform
We, as farmers, are entitled to the assist
ance of our agricultural papers, wheI
there is n reform 50 much need as this
without pay. C. ", p
Riga, Monroe Co., n. Y.