The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1874-01-09
A Word about the Oranges.

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among the farmers IN McMinn and ad
joining counties, would like to say
something to them concerning the Pat.
rons OF Husbandry," as, perhaps, they
are not familiar with the "0rder." An
institution that is calculated to do them
so much gooi, every way, ought to be
known and appreciated by them. IL
will save them, every year of their lives,
hundreds of dollars. This is a bold as
sertion, but | am prepared to prove it,
In the first place they have been, here
tofore, in the habit Of either sending
their produce to commission merchants
(middle men) in the South to sell for
them, or selling il to their home mer.
chants and spectators. at their own
prices. If they have sent II to commits.
sion merchants, they have had to pay
enormous charges in tho way of COM
missions, freight, drayagc, storage and
insurance, besides being subject TO har.
RAISING delays and vexatious troubles of
one sort or another. Now all this they
want TO avoid. They don't want to fall
into the hands of two many middle men
to have their substance devoured by
them. Is it not much better for them IL
they can sell their produce direct TO the
consumer? Does not common sense
and the dictates OF self.prescrvation say
they ought to do so? All this they can
easily do through the grange organiza-
ton. will explain. An East Tennes.
see grange opens a correspondence with
a Georgia grange, informs it that ii has
five hundred bushels Of wheat, one
thousand bushels OF corn, Gvs thousand
pounds Of bacon, one thousand pounds
of lard, two hundred pounds Of butter,
aud so on, that it wants to sell. The
Georgia grange replies that IL wants all
the articles named, and as much more
through the year. The price is agreed
upon, and the Georgia grange forwards
its orders with the greenbacks accompa-
nying them. There is no circumlocu-
ton in this transaction--no parleying
with the middle man--no drayage, store
age, insurance and all that. IL Is direct,
and soon over. Besides the top Of the
market is paid. The Georgia grange is
simply trying to do wha! the East Ten.
nessee grange wants TO do-buy its sup
plies direct from tie producer. main
tain that the farmers Of your section,
and throughout East Tennessee, could,
in short timc, establish q perfect sys-
TEN in the sale Of their produce, IN the
way indicated, to tho Southern oranges,
and thus save hundreds Of dollars.
But they want to bug as well as sell.
They must have sugar, coffee, molasses,
salt, iron, cooking stoves, sewing ma
Chimes wheat drills, plows, roapers and
mowers, threshcrs and the like. Nor
do they want to buy them of middle
men If they can get them direct from
the wholesale dealer and manufacturer.
This, too, they can shun through the
grange organization, for it has complet-
ed its arrangements whereby they can
get all they need from head quarters,
and in this way save from ten to forty
per cent, and, in some instances, even
more. ] pledge you my word that n
sewing machine, for example, that costs
in the hands of the agent from seventy
to ninety dollars, can be had for about
thirty-fve dollars, and reaper and
mower that costs about two hundred
dollars, can DC bought for about one
hundred and thirty-fve. There is moth
ing strange in this when you remember
that the middle man has TO bo paid n
big commission. and all this is saved to
the purchaser. G. w. CHARLTON.
Knoxville, Tenn, Dec. 27, 1873.