New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-17
COOPERATION AMONG FARMERS.
THE OFFER OF TIE ENGLISH Co-oPlRAToRs-AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICAN FARMERS.

THE OFFER OF TIE ENGLISH Co-oPrR,TORs-AN
OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICAN FARMERS.
To the EDITOR OF The Tribune.
SIR have read the letter Of your Washing
ton correspondent giving account of Tho EFFORT now
being made by the English Cooperators 10 induce our
Changers 20 unite with them for trading or, a. they eat
it commercial rnrposcs" hope that suoh an arrange
ment will not be entered into. The English Cooperators
have large surplus OF money that they find difficult to
invest probably 70 home, they want our farmers TO
help the They wish 10 employ their surplus capi-
t IN bnyins En- .sh ships and employing Enslsh sea
men 10 transport our bulky products 10 England
where our grain furnishes food for their aborers-and
our cotton &C. material 10 keep their mills running The
products of those mills VIII then BE- brought bacE by the
same vessels and sod to faim,rs The profits appear
tc be almost wholly on the Tngllshmens side The OBJ
jeet Is very plainly only employ protaby the surplus
capital OF the Cooperators II is not because they wish
particularly 10 aid our farmers II they could invest
their money prohtaby ut home our Changers wouid
never have such proposition made to them American
asreuursts do too much TO enrich the soils OF foreign
countries aud I'm the purses of foreign traders We snip
grain, cottcn. and other raw products 10 lofetn
markets paving the freight ourselves IN the reduc'I
prices receive for such PRODUCTS ana ihe refuse ii
occurs in their consumption anl conversion go.I 10 nc
want il az home. II our English irlcnds Nsh ~ htip 9o
American farmers, let then send their surplus capital -
this e.uuiry ard buy vacant lands and fcfeh lcVc
Ia cultivate them and WORK M the rninetS i'ie. ON
g al an extent 10 one crops Those OF ne gam
growing States should rase less gram, ana moro Nunl'
fax hemp. which shoud be Ianuaciuieu mo ctrih
thread. Sc IN tie neigEborood whore produced. Ihe
siacs should devote more space to me siOwS %
their own food. and should have thcr cotton nfiilic
taied into IabF-s near the place Oh pFu1uctlo' III
fhjs way Ire surplus That could not be
used at home w0dld be shipped to distant
ia rbcts in it, condensed 'oinI thus SAVING NE
enn1n0ns tax OF transportation on bulky raw Iiaiial
and commissions and profits paid to traders They world
aso the ofI. aud return II ~ manure 20 isrtaize
their own instead ~ fert ziug the soils or ioreisn
countries OF dAIing into the sewers ami r'oys OF or
large cities Tat feel Is thet ne miicy can see
40 why IL. 20. 30, more farmers cannot he VIC
prime nal shal' holders OF 81 factories aud mus ths
work the products farms. BY tue above plan
IN ny of orr traders wOgd have to give up Nor cali
in, and become farmers, which Lave no dou9t ihcy
wonld find leasanier more beautiful morally and phys
cay ami N the eni just profitable. Al present 1t al-
prar> Tire business OF our farmers To produce crops
10 b. handled and spccnlated in by trGcrs and furnish
God ard material Oreih manufacturers VINO gel Tue
lps Stare vi the Profits. Agriculture being the source
Of wealth, agIcuGrs,s certainly ought ~ ENJOY tne
,,.5.u ~ i,nir .,,rr, l,b,r A. al.
Baltimore, July 10, 1873.