Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-09-24

as the demand would bear? And what il
true of CORD, is true of pork or wheat.
Mr.. Smith is quite mistaken. also, when
he calls farmers " foolish for being misled
BY the "smart sayings" respecting the law
of supply and demand. The manufacturer
of calicoes or OF reapers respects this law,
and is obliged, whether he wants to or not,
to obey it. When he gluts the market with
his commodity his profits are less than when
the demand exceeds the supply, and he may
and frequently does actually suffer loss. The
manufactures, however, does what the far
mer does not do he 50 far respects the law
of supply and demand as to stop production
at the limit where the demand allows it to
be prof table. When be cannot make cali =
Goes at peo6s he stops making calicoes,
aid # the .a:mer would stop raising corn
when be caan,5 sell is at the COST of produce
tion farmers would SOON have as much con-
troll over the pr ce Of corn as manu- facturers
have ovec the price of caIic1es. The tro uble
with the Illinois farmers is that their soil, as
w as toe So o; much of toe ives Tern and
sootn western pociion OF the United States.
produces coro in great abundance SO great
an amount in fact that much of il has to be
transported thousand miles or more to
market. Now does farmer Smith know why
the calico makers of this country do not sell
thelr manu- features in England? Is it not
because they ctunot sell them there and
make anything by manufacturing them? Yet
If they should make calcoes year after year
and send them abroad and Annually sell
them at loss Gas they would if they tried
the EXPERIMENT. they would be doing just
what Mr.. Smith says the farmers of Illinois
are doing with their corn; that is sending it
year after year to market and selling it
for less than cost. Common sense would tell
the calico maker that his remedy was not to
business profitable, but to quit business
which didn't pay, and take up some other
Industry. The farmers of Illinois are not
compelled to raise corn. If manufacturing
is 50 much more profitable 1t is open to
them as well as to the people of New Eng
land Why not try that, instead of produc-
ing more corn than can be sold at remuncra-
tive prices?
This question is not asked in any unfrieni
ly spirit. While the producer and consumer
are widely separated, both suffer, as trans
p0rtation, under the most favorable circum-
stances, must cost something. The remedy
for the producer is to get nearer the consul
mer, and as the corn fields cannot be moved
the consumer must be. Cheaper transporta-
ton does some Of this work, but it will only
be perfectly. accomplished by DEMONSTRATING
the consumer in Illinois and other western
states. Freight both ways will then be
saved, the cost OF living will be lessened to
the manufacturer and his product will thus
cost less. The farmers of the west must
soon fnd that respect for the laws that
have governed trade aud commerce. since the
beginning of history, AMI which will govern
them so long as the world stands, is the only
way to make any Industry, whether that of
the manuacturer who turns the raw IN tterial
into fabrics or that of the farmer who tills
the SOIL profitable. CIV W.