Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-12-18

Gerry line, by sending to Boston:
Granulated sugar, per h. Iol
Cooking soda, per To-, 81
Cream tartar, per ID. As
Silver gloss starch, per 10, %
Japan tea, perth, IS
Young Hyson tea, 10 cents-Very hest 100
Old Government Java Coffee roasted and ground %
~ pound boxes table salt, %
Nutmess, per ID, 1876
Ginger, IS
Cloves 20
Black pepper, 90
Rabbits best soap, per 100 bars, $50
Economical soap, per 100 bars, 400
The above are only few Of the articles
most in use, and are given as samples of
what can be done anywhere. A part of
these prices are below the retail prices in
Boston, but a good share of them are the
regular retail prices at which the parties
will sell to any one, and deliver anywhere
within 100 miles. Compare these prices
with what you have been in the habit of pay
ing the merchant and you can see-not his
profit, for he probably buys cheaper THAI
this council which has been in the business
less than month-but the amount that any
community can save by combining their Or
ders. Flour, salt and grain, are being
bought at greater reductions, and machinery
at any where from 80 to 60 per cent off from
regular retail prices, In the West, when
the Patrons undertook to buy plows they
found the manufacturers would not discount
to them cent. Were they defeated thus ?
No where there's will there's a way I;
they started a factory on their own account,
and now they sell the S2l plows for $3.50,
and those other manufacturers have been OBJ
liged to come down or leave off selling. They
chose to come down.
In one section of California, the Salinas
valley, the Patrons thought they were pay
ing too much freight to get their grain to
the coast at San Francisco, and they inter-
viewed the railroad magnates, but said mag.
mates would not bulge peg. Did the Pat
rOns give it up? No. They went to work
and built and equipped railroad of their
own to point on the seaboard twenty miles
distant, and commenced shipping their grain
that way. The result was that the other
railroad reduced its rates so that the Salinas
valley Patrons say the saving on the freight
on their grain crop in one year will pay all
the cost of their road, if they never run
car on it again.
The Sovereigns of Industry have arrange
ments with one Of the largest wholesale
clothing establishments in the United States
whereby they get ready made clothing at
prices which have proved to be not more
than half the regular retail rates, so far as
We have seen. Any council can get the adj
dress of this firm by writing to the secretary
Of the National Council. Patrons who are
near council can do better by q small per
cent,to hand their orders for clothing to the
council than they can by ordering direct, as
this house has only made these special ar.
rangements with the Sovereigns, who are
quite numerous in their section many of
them trading in person, showing trade tick.
cts from their council. But oranges can
get clothing for an advance which is merely
nominal, if they choose to order direct, and
what is best in this arrangement is, any
goods which fail to fit, or are in any way un-
satisfactory, can be returned as they came
G. o. D.,-aud the only loss will be the eK-
press charge one way, We take pleasure
in adding that we believe the Soveregns
have struck the very bottom on this line of
goods, and that they are dealing with house
which will deal on the square every time.
These are only few Of the benefits which
cooperation has brought to the working PeO-
pie, and still the ball keeps rolling. These
two orders keep increasing and the benefits,