Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-12-07
Local Matters.
MOrristOWn Farmers Club.
MEETING OF FRIDAY, DEC. 2, 1870.
President, III. Stafford.

be understood In the reports of the Is
says, Speeches, &c, that only the leading
ideas of the speakers are intended to be
given, and that sometimes makes the sen.
fences brief and unconnected this applies
as well to the past evenings as the pres.
ent.
Essdy---by sandford Slocum.
| shall attempt to relate little of my
experience on farm of about 100 acres,
the soil Of which is clay and sandy loan.
In my experience, especially on sandy
soils, it is best to plough in the fall, as it
not only forwards the work in the spring,
but the action or the frost prepares the
soil in a better manner for the crop--es-
pecally for small grains. l plough land
for corn six inches deep; for potatoes,
eight to ten inches. Plant what corn
can manure with hog manure in the hill /;
can raise from 30 to 40 bushels per acre
without further manuring. Generally make
about 20 or 80 loads with two hogs, by
using muck and the slops from the house.
In this way | raise fair crop with but
littl, manure and have quantity left for
other crops; think it pays as well and
keeps the farm in better condition than to
use more on corn. For potatoes put on
% loads to the acre, harrow, and with a
small plough mark out the rows and cover
three or four inches. In good seasons
raise from 200 to 800 bushels to the acre
[ always plant on the sod, never keep my
land ploughed but two years at time. |
think it bad to plant more than two years
in succession, 1T either reduces the land
to a ruinous extent or much manure will
be used which is needed elsewhere. What
manure | have left after planting corn and
potatoes draw out on land to be seeded
down, and SOW not over three bushels of
oats per acre and seed with herdsgrass
and clover, and have always got good
crop Of grass on land treated in this man
ner. SOW oats as soon as the frost is
out, by so dong | get a better crop
they are not so liable to lodge, and get a
better stock. In my judgment there is as
much value according to the cost, if they
are harvested in the right time, in oats
as in any crop | raise. cut corn as soon
as the husk begins to turn; think the corn
equally good and the fodder is worth twice
as much as when allowed to stand till ripe.
Having MANFRED my land lightly while
ploughcd, | top-dress in Sept. with manure
made during the summer, and so keep up
the strength of the land, and have six or
seven acres of ncwly-seeded or top-dressed
land to NOV each year, and go over the
whole of my tillage land once in six or
seven years. ..t.
Discusslon-topic: How shall We dispose
Of our farm products--to our dealers at
home, to commission men in market, or
to consumers direct, and if to consumers
direct, how shall we deal with them?
A. r, Bailey. have had some expe-
riencc in dealing with men at home, and also
with commission dealers.
If you have dealer whom you know
and can trust, you can sometimes do bet !
ter to send him your butter and sometimes
not. Sometimes the market declines and
you realize less than you would to have
sold at home, and if it advances you re-
alize more. Most commission men dea
more or less on their own account, and if
they have lot and the market falls they
sell their own first and the farmers LIST.
| sent some one year that | paid 33 cents
for, aud after keeping it for months only
got 10 cents, and it was good butter, too.
| think if farmers would take more pains
to make d nice article of butter they could
always get good paying price at home
which would be better than trying to sell
to commission dealers or to consumers d.
rect
I'll. ID. Bryant. This matter of dispos-
ing of farm products is one of much i'm
portance to farmers. All cannot be cat.
tle-brokers or stand in the market to sell
their butter and cheese, and men who are
acquainted can sell produce better than
those who are not. The first car of cattle
| ever sold was the hardest work to get
fair prices | ever had the buyers seemed
to consider me legitimate prey for them
TO seize upon. '...
Men who buy produce have to buy af-
ter allowing for the Quotations of the mar
ket, and they act accordingly; sometimes
they lose heavily, and again they make
handsome profit. | think if farmers could
have a man who was "square-toed" in all
respects to whom they could send their
butter they might do better than in any
other way, but the trouble is to find the
man. All in all, in my Judgment, the best
way to dispose Of our produce is to send
to some man who will sell direct to gro
GERS to retail, or to consumers. Such
plan has been adopted by the Labor Reform
Club in their purchases, and it works nice
ly. Farmers Clubs, or farmers not in
Clubs, might send one of their number to
sell their products and pay him fair price
for doing the work.
A. X. Bailey. | think a GOOD way
would be to find q good reliable grocer
and send butter or cheese to him and from
3 to ) cents per pound more would be re-
allied.
|. A. Dwinell The nearer together
we bring the producer and consumer the
larger profit we can realize on what we
sell, but there are great difficulties in the
way---so few farmers are acquainted with
grocers or consumers that "midde man"
seems to be necessary, as things now are
we have several.
The one who buys here usually buys Oh
commission and sends to the house in mar
ket, which often sells again at wholesale,