Centre Hall reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1868-1871, 1871-03-03

pohAinlri ohlN one EftAtic ~ hhc iiilih0ht'
For instance, suppose farmer living oI
the cool clays of Niagara or Wayne
County, sends 10 New York ten barrels
Of soft fall apples. and in the same loi
ranks No. | spitEenhergs On reaching
the wharf, the merchant sees the soft
apples must be sold az once Perhaps
he trades right away with pie-makcr al
81. % a barrel. Thss little lot Of spitzen-
beres lac knows viii keep till March
bat he is dealing in fall apples The
buyers of hard apples are not in market
he offers them 10 the pie man for Sl50,
and he takes them. The farmer could
have got 81. so or 81 for those apples il
he had kept them till mid-winter, or sent
them with large lot as soon as freezing
weather is over. This is AN illustration
Of the mistake that farmers make in APP
pies. They use the same indiscretion IN
butter, cheese, dried fruits, eggs and
4 poultry. Most of the New York mef-
chants do driving-not 10 say slash
dash-bnsiness Large sales and large
profits, If they can get them. Large
sales. any how. The vice of the metro
politan system should be destroyedh by the
farmer, and provided against Classi.
~ NJ home. Send No. butter in good
company fat chickens with Eat chickens,
and big red apples only with such rs are
big. and red. and hard.
Let the single farmer, unless his means
are very limited, 60 20 New York as
often as once year, and make acquain-
tances among the commission merchants,
and learn the ways Of the metropolis.
( He NAV hit upon soma worthy citizen
who will offer 60 give him 90 cents the
year round for 10 pounds a week of sweet,
/ yellow, firm grained butter who viii
take his honey, his lard. his iellies, his
currant wine, his maple syrup, his fresh
laid eggs and his plump chickens, at the
same good figures
WHAT CONCERTED ACTION MAY ACCOMPLISH.
The farmers life is often praised be.
I cause il is so independent; and when that
independents amounts 20 isolation, aud
a refusal 60 eo-operate with his neigh
hors, hls independence is somewhat like
/ the liberty Of Billy Bo~legs and Spotted
+ Tail a baFhanous freedom that strips
I him Of half his eomfori, his possible
gains There are hundreds ~ towns in
which the profits FOR four or six months
I is from butter. Each dairy makes after
I their own fashion the rolls are kept un-
der cloth in cool pantry tin about 10
pounds are saved ID il then Rmmed
I into an oak or hemloek keg. set into the
I front end Of the sleigh. taken 90 depot.
and shipped 10 great butter house ON
( Front or Water streets. Arrived, the
I long steel gauge is pushed through il,
\ and the tub or keg goes with 10 others
ut single taste and al wholesale rates
f and the pooreSs roll OF butter in that tub
I 0ires pr-ioe 70 ne arho'e.
Now suppose o dozen butter-nRkers
were 10 act in concert, appoint. one OF
their number TO classify the balls, and
pack No. / with nothing but No. ]. In
\ this way ten kegs may he collected, eight
Of which would be uf the finest quality.
F II these families had friend IN New
York, or should send good market-man
f from their number, he could engage those
eight tnbs al the highest retail price.
Ten cents pound on 500 pounds would
I give $50 as the gain from the concerted
action in the sale Of one article.
Farmers clubs are organizations
through which much Of purely business
character can be accomplished Before
the discussion Of the cveningis taken up,
appoint a committee and vote him a
small sum for his expen,es; his time in
winter he can afford 70 give for a mutual
benefit. Send him 10 New York with in
struciions 90 learn how the farmers com
4 prising the club can obtain the best pri-
ees FOR their eggs. poultry, butter and
dried fruit Send the best business
man you have, and lct him act for
all. with the same sagacity and wisdom
I that he displays in the management OF
/ ilis own Affairs. / will not believe that
such qualities are not 10 he found. The
greed Of the metropolis is creeping out
ward know, and shooting its views into
/ the pedder veins Of rural manhood bnt
there are great arteries in the body poll
tic that rs yet. thank God. are pnmmne
only pure blood supplying brains that
are clear to see right, and hearts that are
warm in the love Of virtue and honor.
II is not impossible 10 send 10 this as
sembly men who are quite superior 10 q
per ccntage. or a bonus. or Job Such
1 men will see that no class deserves the
fostering care OF lSw-givers so much "a
| the order that il fundamental and indis-
pensable 10 all the rest the order with
out whom the engineer mustbo1 his the
odolite, the merchant lock mp his ware.
house, the lawyer burn his red tape, and
I the editor chew both ends OF his quill.
When the farming interest is duly repre-
sented in our Assembly. when working
producers outnumber talking men. and
ambitious men, and lobbyists, and the
hunters for soft places, You viii have
laws regulating business on city wharves,
by which whe&t sewers and bakers viii
be brought face 10 face. The city house
keeper viii see the very hands that do
her churning, that handle the curds FOR
her table. and cook the delieacies which
she reserves for the end of her banquet.
Such Legislators will draw the wind from
the craft of our middle-mcn, and they
viii become like 0thelo when his oc.
cupation was gone. Necessity win force
them to eat honest trade, or 10 GO hun.
gry.--Rcpoyf Of gss Nt,c York STATE Agri-
cultural Committee, NOR first published.