New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-30

.,,,ho- ,,ro o,a that man was actually robbed OF
four q, 6vo cants ON every bushel Of that grain
Those Milwaukee dealers will mix that goou "nos'
with lot that is dirty or light and sell the whole
for q halter nrice That Is one reason why say
.ht our Grain ought TO go directly to tho consumer
,v;,hort an much handling by those fellows VINO
steal mart of the price of our produce ana chafgo
us for the service"
LABOR SCARCE AND DEAR.
"Noyy we don't ask anything unfair or unreason-
oblo Of the railroads. We say let them be economi-
caly operated; let them stop paying such enormous
salaries to their officers and give us fair treatment
and we are willing to pay them reasonably for their
services But they need not expect that we are go
ing to allow them to earn interest on the money
that we ourselves have put into the roads; we are
determined on that point"
Col Coohrane says that the cost of farming in this
State has been greatly increased by the building OF
railroads OF at least since their introduction Before
the war no could hire who were capable OF con-
Quoting his farm without his supervision, for less
money than he now has to pay for hands who bard
" know enough to hitch up team and 30 into the
field to work unless somebody tells them how 10 90
it, The only hands he can now hire are Dutch u
suppose he meant Germans), and they do only ABOUT
half as much work as the Americans he used 10 get
The same is true of work in tho houses; no matter
how able and willing the farmer may be to hlre ser
wants his wife must be drudge. 1t is almost I'M
possible TO find he SAID. girl who knows enough to
cook meal and who will hire out to do houseworK'
The servants are Of the most inferior kind and even
they can't be depended on to stay at the very time
they are most wanted. If you make contract WIN
them in the Spring for the season. and agree to pay
them 50 week and board, when the hot
weather comes they begin to Cumbe. and when
~, bor stand tlp
longer and the next thing you hear they are Dnu-
ing in the harvest field for dollar day While the
farmers wife is left alone with from dozen 10 -
harvesters to provide for. These bardships tne
Colonel attributed largely TO the ralroads-they pau
unskilled labOrers better wages than the farmers
could afford to- and they opened up new country Tor
homesteads for the better class of who formerly
worked out by the month. Ihough these might DC
calamties to the large farmers In the older parts OF
the State il seemed to me that society had on the
whole been benefited by the improvement IN the
condition of these wOrkiDgmen. and that II TINS was
the only ground of complaint against the railroad
companies the farmers would get little sympathy
But am convinced that 1t Is not
SAVINGS by THROUGH SHIPMENTS.
Col. Cochrane's idea in regard to the necessity
of making through shipments is a very important
one, and in almost every case where have heard OF
its having been tried it has resulted in great saving
TO the farmers. A striking instance came to my
knowledge recently met on the tram the owner
of tho largest cheese factory In the state. DuilhS
a part Of the Spring and early SUMMER ne used
10000 pounds of milk day and made 1000 pounds
of cheese That cheese he shipped to New Ork,
paying 81 hundred pounds for freight, so that he
received here at his factory in Wisconsin, within one
cent pound of the market value of his cheese IN
New-York. The cheese he makes is as good as that
made in New-York State, sells for the same
price. and, / believe. is sent East I'M
branded. Poor cheeses made in New-YorTI
and Pennsylvania, | am told, are marked
branded New York" suppose four or five cents ut,
farmers selling price and the New York market
price of cheese il it sold first at the factory,
then shipped to Chicago and sold again and finally
reshipped to New York and sold third time. OF
course every farmer who sells his milk at that
factory is benefited by this direct dealing between
the producers and the New York merchant, for they
get about twice as much for their milk. The gem
tIeman TO whom 1 refer is Granger, and pays to
patrons one dollar hundred pounds for their milk,
or takes the milk, makes it into cheese, boxes 1t,
ships and sells it, paying all charges and returning
the money to the farmers for a commission OF AZ
cents a pound. The price of good butter in the
country in this State is about - cents pound The
rates above given net the farmer about four times
as much for his milk as he gets by making butter at
that price,