Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-12-07


always sold to purchasers here think
it would be an Improvement in our sys-
tenn If we could have regular market days
as they do in st. Adams. Butter has been
quoted there about 5 cts. igher than here
oman veragc this season.
w. w. Delano. Under existing cir
custances | know of no better way than to
sell at hothe.
Butter Is ohr main stay. and in sending
it to commission houses there is an uncer-
taihty as to what if any returns we shall
receive that do not wish to assume. |
had rather take what | can get and let it
go here. A market day would better
matters some if we could have one.
D. j. Stafford. If our farmers went to
St. Adams with their butter they would
find greater range in prices there than
here. A ''tip-top" article brings good
price and a poorer article much less price
than here; usually many of the buyers
are not merchants and do not hesitate
about cutting down the price for fear of
losing the sellers custom in their store.
A. r Bailey. | examined a stock
there (St. Albans) little while ago, found
some butter which brought 40 cents or
over and other as low as II cents. Most
of the buyers there belong there and buy
for themselves or on commission.
A. g.. West. | do not think it would
be practicable for our farmers to deal d.
rectly with consumers or retailers, but
think market day would be benefit
to us.
Ii. d. Bryant. There is very great
range Of prices in market, in some things
an unwarrantable range. Butter sells
from II to 40 cents and over, beef from S
to IA cents, &C., but yoa 90 to house
and try to buy woman's butter when it
is worth, say 35 cents, if NICE and if you
can't pay at least 30 cents for hers on ac-
count of its poor quality you must invent
some sort of an excuse to get out of doors
or you are in danger Of being kicked
out. Men feel hurt and misused because
they do not get the best prices for their
cattle or sheep when they are in poor or
der so that no buyer could pay prices any,
where near the best quotations and live.
There are not twenty 6rst-class feeders in
this county there are few in this town,
but only few,-they can almost always
get satisfactory prices. Buyers must look
forward to perhaps Il broken market when
they buy, and also look for a profit for
ID. j. Stafford IF we had a market
day Mr.. Bryant would not need to run
the risk Of being kicked out of doors while
running around after tutter, and one great
thing it would do for us would be to set
the farmers wits to work to make better
butter,--a man migh not acknowledge
that another's was better than his but he
WOULD see it if it was and try and find out
where his fault was.
W. W. Delano A market day is the
thing for us. Oar merchants deal in but
Ter and man comes in with butter to sell
which is not "the thing but he is good
customer and his trade must not be lost
so he gets the best price, and his neigh
'or who does make nice article has to
,elp make up the loss by a less price than
lie ought to have.
?. +. Spaulding. We must know what
'ur produce is worth and then we can dc
Is well at home as to send to market
Market days would help some by enabling
Is to compare our products with others
md so to improve.
j p. Davis. | came to learn but still
lave an opinion Of my own. Butter seems
o be most talked about, because there is
most sold and most is made out of it BY
think the best way for us to do is to
Employ a man to market for us and pay
lin II regular salary for doing it. He
nay take the butter and 90 from here
With it or live in Boston, but think it
would be better for him to live there and
nave it sent to him on regular days, and
We should take pains to have it sent from
,ere to the cars in decent shape which we
IAN do if we take sufficient care. We
support several middle-men now with our
iale, and don't expect they will agree
With me in my views for we should not
iced them all then.
p. L. Spaulding. | think more might
De saved on wool, pound for pound, than
else, by care in putting up and
| good agent to sell for us; several cents
Inference in price would be gained, be-
ieve.
W. w. Delano. | want to know if any
nan here ever sent yoke of cattle to
market and got more than he was offered
1t home for them?
II. ID. Bryant, Yes. M. N. Wheelock
ent yoke of oxen by me and rot SO
more for them than l dared pay him for
hem, and some ten men in Town received
rom to 2 cents per pound more for their
utter last year by sending by me than
'ould promise to pay them.
1t will be perceived hat most of the
Jlub do not have anything to sell except
'utter, although there are as many as one
'oke ofoxen, a horse and dozen or so of |
heep sold out of our town in the course
Il the year. CLERK
Extemporaneous speech, by G r. Small.
'opic; (given by the Presidency FeedingI
Stock. ...
This is subject every farmer should
e posted on, but many are not If, in
ceding, the animal does not gain, the feed
nd care are dead loss to the farmer.
lany farmers put fat young cattle in the
ard in the fall and feed them straw,
talks and coarse hay and III the spring
hey weigh 100 pounds less than when