Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-02-12

be shipped to England. There are one han.
dred tons Of machinery employed, aud about
two hundred men. A large tin shop is con-
nected with the establishment, as the COM
pany make their own cans. At present they
are killing 20 head Of cattle week, and
will soon do heavier business. This busi-
ness has raised the price of beef, as the COM
pany's agents are paying 81 and SS per hun
dred for beef. l hope soon to get addition
al particulars for you.
As to markets, the Sherbrooke market is
Aourishing affair. They have large mar
ket building in which stalls are rented, which
are open and occupied every day, but there
are three special market days every week,
Tuesday, lThursday, and Saturday, when
the large yard adjoining the building pre-
sents lively appearance. English speak
ing people and French are mingled together
hetereogenousy, while hogs, whole hogs and
half hogs, hams, sidings, and sausages, be-
side heads (hogs heads meau) which you
can buy if you choose, aud beside there are
beeves by the quarter or steak, butter, eggs,
poultry, vegetables, and what-not, and if you
can get through the crowd without buying
something you will do we'll. The greatest
experts in selling are those who can talk
both English aud French, and keep up
running conversation with parties of each
ilk at the same time, spicing the English
with French and peppcriug the French with
English. The rules for the market are that
those who hire stalls can deliver meat, &C.,
about town, but no one else, and nothing can
be bought at wholesale until 10 o'clock, a.
m. This is to prevent buyers from going
on the grounds early aud buying up the
goods in large quantities and controlling the
market, and hence gives daily consumers an
opportunity to get their supplies for the day
previous to any wholesale transaction. This
rule holds in all cases, 50 that even one sim
gle tub Of butter cannot be bought, nothing
more than u few pounds, until ten o'clock
AL persons who choose to 60 to Sherbrooke
on market or other days can occupy stand
on the grounds By paying ten cents for the
days privilege, whatever he has for sale OF
meat or produce, and may sell until ten
O'Clock at retail and after that at wholesale
or any way he chooses. The market is a
success
But Of our Coaticook market | cannot
say as much. 1t does not amount to much.
In fact it is closed up and amounts to moth
ing. There have been one or two attempts
to make it Co. but they have tailed. The
meat aud vegetable business is carried on
principally by Messrs. LOthrop and Hesel-
tine, who are doing an extensive business in
the grocery and provision line, as extensive
as any firm in the province, aud very few ev.
en- equal them. They sell mOst,of the meat
about the village, driving a splendid cart
which is presided over by our Erred" who
does the thing in good style.
There are two or three other men in the
meat business who are doing something
But our market, that is a fzzle. The corpo
ration meant to make it pay, and while they
only charged $40 a year for stall, charged
$40 for license to drive cart about, bu
as there were but two market days in th'
week and tho carts wert to the very door'
of the people they did the business. A
first four or FIVE stalls were occupied in thu
market, but they dwinded down until soil
tary Frenchman had hog cut up for sal
there one day, and then there was nothing
there and the market exists now only il
name.
There is a rise in beef now even in Coat
cook, owing perhaps to the extra demand TO
cattle made by the meat company at Sher
brooke. Lothrop K Heseltne now pay s.
to 81 instead OF 81 to So, their old price
aud We cannot now get beef any Cheape
than you can, steak now being IA cents
aud it may be higher yet, so that farmin
business is still on the rise, although mechan
les are not doing any better than when L las
wrote.
A few houses are being built by some @
our French residents, but not much is doing
l mentioned in my last that the clotho
pin factory was to suspend operations bu
the establishment has been bought out b.
four gentlemen two oil them being the Messrs
Lothrop & Hesetine, and business is goin
on. All the work is now to be done by tn
job or piece. NJ.
COaticook, p. O., Feb. 4.