Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-10-15
FARM AND GARDEN.
Withholding Wheat.

Withholding Wheat.
An intimation had been made from
some quarter that the farmers of the
Northwest proposed to withhold their
wheat from market until it would bring
the cost of production. Upon this the
New York Economist, Pittsburgh Ga
zette, and several other papers attempt
to raise breeze. They charge that
such an attempt to interrupt the nat
ural trade of the country would be dis
astrous in the extreme, and would be
the last blow to destroy and defeat the
Patrons of Husbandry. These edit
ors are rather short-sighted as well
as illiberal to the farming interests.
The manufacturers of Massachusetts,
in council resolve to run on short time,
reduce the amount of their manufac-
ture, and hold their goods in store until
there is better demand. The iron fur
naces of Pennsylvania dismiss thou
sands of their hands and cease to feed
their fires until the demand for iron will
Justify its production. The lumbermen
of the pine regions have lately had a
convention and resolved that saw mills
will manufacture only certain reduced
per cent. of their usual production, and
raise the prices TO living rates. And
The various other interests combine to
regulate their respective branches of
business. And yet these editors see
nothing wrong In these movements.
But so soon as the farmers attempt to
combine for their own good, and the
regulation of their products, no epithet
is too bad for such conduct. 1t is styled
a combination against the public of
such character as to call for the inter
position of courts to dispense such con-
claves, and to impose fines on the per-
sons thus conspiring against the public
welfare.
The farmers have been and are yet in
the practice of taking their produce to
market and accepting whatever is offer
ed. They set no price, but throw them
selves upon the mercy of the purchaser.
And it is generally the mercy of the
tiger to the kid. The original cost of
an article has nothing to do with the
sale. All other interests are otherwise.
The wagon or plow makers haul not
their machinery to the farmers house
and take whatever the farmer is pleased
to give. On the contrary, he makes the
wagons and stores until the farmer hunts
them up and gives what the mechanic
demands. The farmer has no voice IN
the price. If he pays in wheat he has
not the privilege of selling at the cost
price of the article. The mechanic set
ties the price. The same is the way
with the merchant, lawyer, doctor,
taylor, blacksmith, &c. If the farmers
combine TO establish prices, as they did
last year with pork, the whole daily and
weekly press of the country are down
on them. and at the same time profess
to be the best friend of the farmer.
The fewer friends of this kind the bet
ter.
The entire Northwest should be SO
thoroughly organized that they could
control not only the sales but the pro-
duction of the staple articles. The
production beyond the demand will
always impoverish the producer. II
the Northwest would reduce the produc
ton of wheat from $50 millions dowr
to 125 millions, just as much would bt
obtained in the market by the farmer
and half his farm heretofore devoted
to wheat would be available for Other
productions. And to this end should
we organize, and to this the farmers
must come or continue In poverty
Farmers who have abandoned the whea'
production are making money, and liv
ing easier and better. 1t is apparentl,
only the improvident and those who art
unable to tear themselves from Thu
thralldom, who are continuing to chang
poverty Il beggary, and to reduce thu
richest fal ming land in the world t.
barren wastes, by raising wheat an,
selling for half the cost of production
The foreclosure of the mortgages nov
on their lands is apparently the onl..
thing that will change their policy
The present race will wear out them
selves and their land, leaving to tn
next generation to renew at great ex
pense, the exhausted farms, and at tn
same time practice lessons OF WISDOM
Des Moines Register.
To Keep Eggs Over Winter.
The Farmers Advocate, Londor
Ontario, recently offered a prize for th
best method of keeping eggs over wiz
ter. The recipe given below took til
prize.
Whatever excludes the air prevent
the decay of the egg. What / ha,
of doing so is to place a small quantii
of salt butter in the palm of the lie
hand and turn the egg round in it, $
that every pore of the shell Is closed
then dry a sufficient quantity of brs
In an oven (be sure you have the bra
well dried, or it will rusty. Then pae
them with the small ends down, lay
of bran and another of eggs, until yo'
box is full then place in a cool, d.
place. If done when new laid, they WI
retain the sweet milk and curd OF a ne
laid egg for at least eight or ten month
ANY oil will do, but salt butter never 3
comes rancid, and very small quantl
of butter will do very large quantli
of eggs. To insure freshness 1 r,
them when gathered in from the nest
then pack when there is sufiicle
quantity"
Much bother can be saved by markll
tools with their owners name, especial
II neighborhoods where communist
;Ssas prevail upon the subject OF t
ownership of plemeDts, and where CO
stant lending and borrowing are amol