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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01

accomplished these two capital operations he
has made enough to make his business profit
able, aud to give his wife and children some
OF the luxuries and advantages in which the
families Of the Aourishiug middle.meu are
commonly INDUCED.
An association which promises him such re.
suits, aud which at the same time yiudioa,es
the independence Of him and his class, opens
TO him prospect full Of roseate aud radiant
hues as compared with the servle aud beg
carly condition from which he is rising.
Heretofore be has taken what was offered
and given what was asked. Henceforth he
WILL like other classes of men, combine with
those whose interests are identical, and do
himself the justice Of which he has been so
long deprived. His power in virtue of thi:
widespread and coherent organization may
well be considered tremendous. A million
Of members to-day will be two millions by
the next spring, and when they begin to hold
back crops or send them forward according
to their own good pleasure, New York and
Chicago, Wall street aud the produce ex.
changes, will begin to count new aud ter
rlble' because unknown aud unmanageable,
force in the business Of the country.
To the granger the grange is an unmixel
good to the Spectator an unmixed evil
The manufacturer and wholesaler fiud their
accounts in the certain sales aud the cash
payments which are part of its economy
so that nobody but the bloodsuckers, the
spectators in grain, the middIe-men and the
politicians have anything to fear.--Poris-
mouth Chronicle.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01
What Is the GrangerI

But who and what is the granger after
all He goes of to deliberate in room with
the blinds down, has passwords and signs aud
grips and allows nobody to hear what he says
or to SEQ what he does. He must have many
secrets. Most assuredy he has. In the
first place, they relate entirely to his own af-
fairs, aud it is for that reason alone that he
has failed to crafty tho general curiosity by
publishing them at large. For instance, the
grangers make their hard living by tilling
the soil When one of them begins life it is
a great matter to him to get his reaper,
mower, his thresher, and his hundred other
machines and Implements as we'll as the
household furniture, bis clothing, his gro
ceries, his one.horse shay" and his parlor
organ at something near half the price of
the retail merchant, or the manufacturers
agent This he does by cooperation with
others situated like himself; but how aud
where he does it is one of his secrets, aud a
very precious one at that.
la like manner when at the end Of sea.
son of incessant toll he sees his fields yellow
with the harvest of bread and his fatted herd.
lowing 10 the pasture, he reflects that he aud
the consumer Of all this produce are frequent
ly situated far apart, and that host of in
termediate agents and traders absorb large
portion of its value in money He resolves
to put into his own purse the difference be,
tween the price paid by tho consumer less
transportation, aud the price usually paid to
the farmer He does this by means of the
grange but the precise method Of it is an
other Of his grand secrets. When he hal
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01
.N,eIu York .N0rEes.

Dec. %.
Flour-The general market was steady,
with moderate demands for nearly all
grades; there was limited export inquiry
on account of scant freight room, and the
local demand without marked activity.
Wheat. Sales 5000 bushels mt $l.l2 to l. 10
for No Chicago spring ailuat; LII afloat
Tor Northwest; LA to LIS in store for No
Milwaukee, spring and l. Is ati0at for do;
l.O9 to LII for No 3 spring; 100 to l.25 for
ungradea spring; LIS to | &c for No spring;
leo to les for red winter; leg to 100 Tor
amber winter; .2S TO l. 81 for white winter;
the market was quiet and prices nominal:
the high price and firmness of freghtS check
ed business. Corn. Sales 100000 bushels
mt 95c in store for old Western mixed 81 to
81 for do atloat; $50 on track; IS to SIC
aiioat Tor new Western mXcd SO to 81 for
Southern new yellow; closed firm with fair
export demand for old and new. Oats.
Sales $1,000 bushels ut SO to Csc for mixed
on track; 6Gl to Csc on track for good state
and Western mixed; II to 72c for white in
store; Western mixed ahDat held mt II to
re with buyers at 20 to 70Ac; tho sales were
mostly track lots mt 81, 6Sl to 60. Corn meal.
$3.50 to ASS for Brandywine; AIS to 425
for Western yellow; 4.25 to 4.35 for Western
white; TO 4.50 for Jersey and Pennsylvania
yellow: l.50 for Baltimore coarse; old LIS;
new l.60; fine sifted old LIB; new do ga
bolted yellow l.75; bolted white l.75. Pork
nominal ut S20,25. Tallow quiet and steady
ut Sbc. Coffee in active demand ut full
prices, owing to light supplies for ut least 30
days; sales slow ut lc advance. Refined
sugar steady and in fair demand; yellow
to DC; extra q "a to "a; standard A asc: off
% to ale; standard crushed 10y to l0sc;
powdered l0sc; granulated l0sc; sugar loaf
u to HE. Cattle. Receipts 900 head; mar
ket dull and slow at 10 to l3lc for common
to best; prospects bad.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01
The Grange the Farmers University.

The perfection Of the grange will be reach
ed only when those who have been reared
under its influence are as intellectual, as re-
fined and as polished as the best class of the
inhabitants in our larger towns and cities,
without their follies, lmmoralities and vices
BY joint efforts, through the medium of the
grange, libraries can easily be procured, lee
lures delivered, and various means Of instruc-
ton and entertainment provided at trihing
expense to the individual, but Of the greatest
value to all. Each of one hundred members,
by contributing the small sum OF one dollar
towards the purchase Of grange library,
wouldcthereby place it ia the power of each
membr to enjoy the advantages ola hundred
dollar library, all for the incousiderable
sum of one dollar.
Such is the value Of cooperation. Thus,
through the instrumen.ality Of the grange,
do we place in our homes hundreds of good
books, and scores Of conveniences and pleas
urcs which are practically uuattainable by
the individual.
1t will have been noticed by all who are
observant, that those farmers who are best
informed are the most prosperous and most
contentod. This is true Of other co0pera-
lions as well as that Of farming, but it is
OF the cooperation Of agriculture only that
we speak at this time Farmers generally,
and especially farmers wives, are overwork-
ed. They work too many hours in a day,
too many days in a week, and too many
weeks in year. Nothing is gained in the
end by thus shaving the life away. Though
/ f,rt rl - TO vat IL
through the grange We are to learn better
aud the sooner We set about it, the sooner
shall we see that we might have done so be-
fore. Let us get together in the grange
and, by thinking little, devise some plar
of dividing our hard work with the sleek and
wel-ied middeman, and Of sharing portion
of his elegant leisure. Of course he will
object to this show of generosity on our part
but we must press our generosity upon hin
until there shall be something like fair dis
tribution Of the good things Of the world be.
tween US. We do not demand extraordinary
privileges we demand justice. We do mol
labor to put others down we labor to builC
ourselves up. Six thousand years Of single
handed efforts has failed to accomplish any
satisfactory results in this direction, and it i!
| but part Of common wisdom to try other
means to tighten our labors and enhance ouI
profits
The grange is the salvation of the farm
er, aud needs only to be maintained by en-
ergctic intelligent and, above ali, harmonic
Gus action to accomplish all the desirable
results within the scope of of any human in
stitutiou. Stand by the grange then Sus
tain it by jealous labor, and the persistence
which of itself insures success. With it you
are sovcreigus with your scepter in your
hands Without it you are on the high road
to vassalagc.-NortherR Ora niger.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01
Valcour.

Last summer community Of free lovers
established themselves on Valcour Island, in
Lake Champlain. We have said nothing
of them, beyond giving the bare announce
unless the strong arm Of the law is invoked,
the moro they are let alone the better il will
be for the community. The constant talking
about such a concern as that at Valcour,
which has been kept up in some Of the pa
pers, instead of bringing them more generally
into adherence, creating public sentiment
against them, or calling the attention of the
authorities aud the force of the law to bear
for the suppression Of the evil, only gives it
notOriety among those naturally either weak
or vicious and draws them to this society as
place where under cover of pretended
peculiar religious belief they can with impu.
nifty practice those immoraities to which
they are addicted.
This beautiful community, this paradise
on earth, this well.spring of all purity and
goodness, has just been more forcibly brought
to our notice by the following item which is
going the round of the state papers
FIRST Gun From VALCoUR.-La Monday
evening the circle of Valcour communists
residing on the Shpmnn farm, in Colchester,
was enlarged by the appearance of tho first
glove child The mother is Miss May. and
the father was present and accounted for.
| Miss May is described ms n fine young wo.
man, firm in the faith, and willing to prove
| it by her works.
The community, when winter came upon
them, found themselves unprcpared to meet
it on the isalnd and so removed their quar-.
tiers to the Shipman farm mentioned above
for the winter, intending, as We understand
to return in the spring to their island para.
disc.
Vermont having furnished Brigham Young
10 Smith, and several personages of like
iIlustrious renown, we protest that she has
done her share in the way of countenancing
defiance of the laws both of morality and Of
the state and nation, and there is nc
need of our fostering sush nest oil
rottenness as the Valcour community on
Vermont soil, to send forth its corrupting in.
Huences into every home in the state. Yer.
mont has proud record, through the length
aud breadth of the land, as the abode of pur.
ity and morality, and we trust that fair fame
may never grow less.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01
General Jews.
Gold LIE.

Gold LIZ.
There are grave fears that when the Louis
lana legislature convenes there will be dis.
turbance and bloodshed.
The difficulties between Russia and the
Turcoman tribes are reported to have been
settled without bloodshed.
ex-governor Yarmouth, of New Orleans,
killed Editor Byerly in scuiile, but as
Byerly first attacked Yarmouth with a stick
the latter will probably be acquitted.
On Wednesday of last week both houses
of Congress adjourned to Jan. 5. The
House fixed upon Jan. for the discussion
Of the Senate finance bill. 1t is said the
bill will pass the House. 1t has been ac-
cepted as a party measure, and the demo-
Gratis vote against it.
The Neto England Journal Of Education
weekly paper, is to be published at Bos'
ton under the auspices Of the American In
stitute OF Instruction and the state teachers
associations of New England. Thomas A.
Bicknell will be the editor.in.chief, and will
be assisted by an able corps Of state assis-
tants aad instructors. We understand Rev
II. I. Fuller, Of st. Johnsbury, will have
charge of the Vermont department.
The Louisiana returning board has made
its report, which gives 46 conservatives and
AZ republicans to the House Of Representa-
tives, and declares the election of con-
servatives and 2 republican Congressman.
The democracy must be pretty strong when
1t takes republican returning board two
months to Ggsre up the returns SO as to gel
a majority of one in the House. A few more
bayonets are needed down there.
A detective of the Delaware and Hudson
Canal company arrested in New York, on
Friday, Mike McGue, known in Whitehall
as "Smiler MeGue." Two years ago this
man outraged young lady at Whitehall
and stole the postmaster's watch. When es.
Gaping, he took freight train on the Rens.
selaer aud Saratoga railroad, and paid the
company by throwing out Of the car guam
tity OF goods.
The best plan yet offered for the govern.
ment of the District of Columbia, comes
from Senator Wright, Of Iowa. lie propo
ses a municipal government, and board Of
works to be appointed by the president and
the city council. Property is TO be taxed l !
per cent, and Congress shall appropriate al
equal amount toward the current expenses
aud the work Of improvement. The council
has no power to add to the debt of the Dis.
trict. aud the most careful restrictions are
attached to every Office. 1t has failed to be
demonstrated that the laws conoected yeal
ago, Of which the gag law was a part, arr
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01

Wilson, the patentee of the sewing ma
chine feed, the possession of which sustains
the sewing machine monopoly in this country,
will apply to this Congress for u second eN-
tension of the patent, it is said. We hope it
will be peremptorily refused. On the occa-
sion of the previous extension, Wilson sold
out his right to the quadrangle of companie les,
Singer, Grover IL Baker. Wheeler d Wilson
and Howe, for $50, 900, and if he did not ask
n big enough price, it was his own fault. At
all events, under that extension, the sewing
machine monopOlists have charged the Ameri-
can people S25, 000,0 900 a year for machines
that didn't cost fifth of that sum, and which
would have been sold ut II reasonable profit
to manufacturers and middlemen for two
iiiths of it ut most. Meantime, the machln cs
have been exported TO foreign countries, and
sold ut prof thalf fro what they are
sold for mt home. Half million dollars
worth have been sold in England. the past
year, in the face of Birmingham, and II q uar-
ter of million in Germany Tho patent
has already run 81 years, and ought TO be
allowed to explre.-Repubiican.
When it is remembered the parties
have made independent fortunes already, out
of this patent, and that thousands of women
in the cities are working on starvation wages
with their needles, and from utter inability
to support life 10 that way are being drawn
by wholesale into ruin, both body and soul,
selling their honor, their modesty, their souls,
for the means Of subsistence, many of whom
could procure a machine if they were sold at
anything like fair and reasonable price,
but who are now compelled to compete by
hand with the machine work Of those more
fortunate and when it is remembered that
thousands of farmers wives are doing their
sewing without machine because the cost is
so high and when it is remembered that
millions of money is being paid by the peo-
pie Of the country who do buy machines on
account of this patent, which goes to swell
the fortune Of men already rich, we do not
wonder that there is to oppression the re.
newal of their patents. But the fact that so
much money is being realized from the pat
ent is sufficient to cause US to more than half
expect that the extension will be granted.
Not only are large and wealthy corporations
pretty sure to get whichever legislation they
consider for their interest, but this winter
there are larger number Of congressman
than usual who are serving their last term,
and consequently, having no fear of the con-
stituent before their eyes, they can be more
easily "inhuenced" than if they looked for
ward to future election.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01

Camp says he only referred to the county
buildings question when he said that he
should publish nothing editorially that any
one could take offense at and that we mis-.
represented him. He says he always has
and always will say what he darn pleases,
"without fear of giving ofFense." We'll, we
remember to have seen him preach morality
AMI honesty, and then puff swindling lot.
terry advertisement, without apparent fear
Of giving offense-to Thos. L. Bramlcttc.
And he has printed a good deal of sound
temperance doctrine, aud then advertised
1.-THE greatest variety Of choice liquors in the
Eastern Townships, without apparent fear of
giving ofensc--to Porter & Wiley. He
prints a virtuous and moral sheet, in which
we fnd advertisements of the peabody
Medical Institute" one of the most democrat.
iziug advertisements in the country, and
various others Of a questionable character.
He's brave one to talk about "garbling,
msstating, and working in a sly, secret aud
mean way"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01

Pool.-The same firm tone is noticeable
in the market for all kinds of lueces. and tho
snles, although not very extensive. have
been ut full prices. The advance on neecos
has been from u To &c from tho lowest poin [
few weeks ago, aud any FURTHER advance
viii depend somewhat on the turn the goods
market takes with the new year. Holders
feel that fleece wool is good property to carry
ut present. are very Indifferent about selling,
ana large portion of the stock continues to
oc Withdrawn from the market for higher
prices. 10000 lbs Ohio have been taken
uurlng The past week, principally XN nc 55c,
anu chulce No ! ut So to Soc, and the market
y irnl at these prices for straight lots. In
Michigan llccccs Gs,OOO lbs have been sold
mostly NJ 81 10 52c and firm.
Combing and dolanu continues in steady
nemand ut previous prices, selling mostly in
the range OF 20 to 62c, and this DESCRIPTION
continues to he sold up close.
There IS sill dull feeling for low grades
OF pulled aud 1t is difficult To place vt salts
factory prices. Choice Maine and Eastern
still Keeps up mt good prices. hut consider
able western on the market could not he
lOrCel of ut over 40 to ijc
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01

TUESDAY, Dec. 30.
At market this week Cattle 3g7. Sheen
and Lambs 2iO7, Swine -. Number from
Vermont, Cattle liS, Sheep and Lambs
Prices Market Beef-A few choice 10 rs
to ii OO;oxtra 10 90 TO 10 50; first quality 90
to $50; second quality @ 50 to so; third
quality IS 90 to 6 90.
Prices of Store Cattle Working Oxen DR.
pair from $780, 800 l75 to 2lO.
Mich Cows aud Calves from S35 to SO
extra 6j to %. Farrow cows 90 to SO.
1earlings $40 To Is; two years old 20 to
%; three years old 30 to H.
Prices OF Sheep and Lambs i'm lots rs,
800, 3 IS TO 4 90 each; extra A so To g IS
per head Or from to &c pr h. Fancy
Prices ofiIidcs, Tallow and Skins--Brisbt.
ton Hides 81 to &C pr lb Country Hides
y to S3c.pr 3D.. Brighton Talow &c pr Id:
Country Iallow sic pr Id,
Peils LOO to l.50 each. Calf skins l5c
per Id.
CLASSIFICATION OF CATTLE AND SHEEP.
n. Ii. Beef-Chocc grade includes moth
ing but stabilized 100 to 400 lbs bullucks.
Extra and first quality includes the best
large, fat oxen. Second and third quality
includes oxen and two aud three year old
steers.
REMARKS.
Cattc-Northcrn arrivals 307 head. In
consequence Of this light run butchers were
considerably fast to secure u few head to
make out their complement Tor the week.
The meat market is weak Still they must
have something for II supply. They are buy
ing some Chicago dressed beef in the city.
Several lunches of very nice Northern oxen
were sold, and owners secured full &c adj
vance from last figures. j Dow sold 2 fine
! oxen to Sanders ~ Co ut lO}c per Id, ID w,
some OF his own raising, years old, ut Nor
riSville, VT, weighed iiSO lbs ut home; also
one stag years, ut o., ID w. A S Mouton
sold 26 oxen to III Bird Il Co ut Zoe. To dress
1850 lbs each b Il Wood sold . of his best
oxen ut lOc, ID w, 1900 lbs dress; , ut $40 70
per cwt, ID W. ut l0ic, and . thrcc-year-
old steers ut &c, dress $50 lbs each.
Shcep-Dcaers little stiff on prices for
sheep and butchers paid with reluctance &c
for good Hooks, or ut an advance of full 4c
per Id; &c is not intended for very fancy lots
but good marketable sheep. j Dow sold 60
sheep. average 80 lbs ut Gle. NJ n Rose
Grant sold 100 sheep, average l03 lbs, ut 7c
]. Jones sold SO sheep, average IS lbs, mt sic.
NJ / Shackett sold 1873 sheep, average 20 lbs,
| ut SIC.
Poultry-Arrivals are light and prices re-
main unchanged. The city is crowded with
dressed poultry from all sections, and prices
are kept low. We quote turkeys and chick
ems ut l2i to l3c; geese ut 8 each.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01

The CdledOHidR understands that of the
seven parties who put in bids for the con-
tract to supply the Z. o. Department with
scales, the Fairbanks company was the
only one which could furnish all the scales
ut the specified time. As ii requires about
5000 scales, of notifications ranging from
four pounds TO one ton, to be furnished in u
month, the extent Of the work can be imag-
ined.-EGchaRgG.
Il x Z Fairbanks & Co. are known the
world over as the largest scale manufacturing
company in the world. II the awarding
of that contract was withheld until the last
moment when they could fill the order, it
was known that no other company would be
able to ell it, and the Fairbankses would be
sure of the contract. The award was so
withheld They got the contract. But, as
it is said they got the contract for consd-
cradle percentage less than it was considered
worth by other scale manufacturers, we don't
see as those who pay the taxes need to find
much fault. If the Fairbanks company
have saved six or seven thousand dollars to
the government, all we have to say is, we
wish there were more Fairbankses to do all
the other public work, aud do it on the same
principle.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01
Summed up.

lnasmuch as the commercial papers have
been engaged in summing up the losses ac-
| cruing to the oranges through the failure of
presenting a statement Of account from the
standpoint of the Patrons themselves.
What have they gained?
LIST. They have gained some knowledge of
the ways that are dark and the tricks that
are vain, used by their enemies, that will be
OF service to them in the future.
%. They have gained confidence in them
selves and their organization that will insure
their more harmonious working and ultimate
success.
Sd. They have gained, in that their trial
has discovered the weakened and worthless
in the order.
4th. They have gained, in that the divis.
ion of their losses has united them in closer
bond of sympathy and oemented brother.
hood worthy the name.
9th. They have gained independence.
9th They have gained victory over the
wheat ring, the extent and completeness OF
which will be measured by failures certain to
occur in the immediate future.
What have they lost ?
LIST. Nothing Of integrity.
ID. Nothing Of determination.
Sd. Nothing but 100000, which, SET
over against the previous gain of $4,000,
600, is so small a sum as to be scarce worthy
of monton aud this 100000 being volun
tarily shared by the 1900 or $4,000 Pat
rons Of the state is still further reduced so
as to be absolutely trivial Then in view OF
the fact that this 100000 has been lost il
an attempt to inaugurate a system of bust.
ness which, il successful, will save the farm
ers of California hundreds of thousands OIL
dollars annually, it should be regarded sim
ply as an Investment. Further the practical
bility of the new system having been fully
demonstrated, the Sl00,000 invested in it,
inauguration land supposed to be lost) come,
to be considered as the most profitable in
vcstment the farmers of California have ever
made.-CaiyorBia Granger.