Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07

as you uiu III your laSI ISSUE, WHO are
doing perfec;ally legitimate bust
ness, and because they happen to run
upon a better printing office in Cole
brook to patronize when they are
there. Ifpeople want to by goods
at auction, or go to show, they are
going to do it, and all your cheap
talk or granting won't stop them.
Farmers are learning the lesson that
there is nothing certain and alb ding
products and prices, in this change
able world. At one time q certain
staple bears a good price, with like
prospective, but in a little time it
strikes bottom, and away go hopes
and anticipatons. Beef with us has
gone slow for sveral years, and Because
OF this farmers have got we'll started
in dairying, and now the price of but
ter rules at about sixteen cents
pound for nice. And the ou,. look is
not very hopeful for high prices, or
even paying prices, in the fall. Last
winter in these columns, we told of
one great reason Of low prices, and
gave statistics, Of the new manafac-
tured butter, that is largely taking.the
place of the genuine. At the last
session Of the Legislature of New
York, bill was passed, obliging all
manufacturers of the new material
to stamp it as such, the imitation being
so good, that buyers are often deciev-
ed. But we propose to say a few
words about beef. In conn. ction
with the live stock business of the
Unite states, there is just now moth
of greater interest, than the shipment
of fresh meats from this country to
England and France, and the CONT
nent generally, as the trade will,
spread. The shipping If fresh meats.
means increased profits to us. Every
carcass shipped means, reduction of
the surplus here. The English farm
er is the one on whom the burden
will fall. From twenty-five to thirty
hundred tons per week, of American
meats are received at London ant
Liverpool, and in addition TO this, il
the last six months, sixty five carcass
es were delivered on the Clyde. Sucl
quantity of flesh meats thrown upol
their markets so suddenly, and 81
continuously, must have a seriou;
eject upon the stock raising interest
there. These American meats ar
sid in their markets for from two Il
three pence per pound cheaper, thai
their home raised English beef. |
has been found that this new dcman
for American beef requires the higl
est grade alone. One can seem {
govern all stages of the production
domestic animals from their birth t
the butchers block, that is, the poo
est costs as much as the best, an
pays back bnt little, if any, more tina
cost. These facts, and this new d.
inand, will tend to stimulate the pr,
, duction of highly bred animals fc
breeding purposes, and to furnish
better quality of beef, for our ow
markets. The British re not slo
in figures. They estimate their a
nual beef consumption at $1,000
lbs. and at two pence per pound les
they would save 100000, 900 annua
~. These figures look large, b.
they are Of their own making.
course it will take time for this trat
to develop and to establish itself upc
irregular and permanent bases.
the first it was but an experiment al
there were losses, but now science al
act have combined to produce carr
ing vessels that will deliver their ca
Cos as fresh and sweet as when kill
here; or If shipped alive, to deliv
them in first-rate trim. This ira,
will not take enough over the su
plus, as to make any material dife
ence i'll prices Immediately, but it W
be a gradual growth and devclopmer
And the feeling is, that prices of 20,
beef will be firmer the present seas,
than for several of the past. Il
same is true of good mutton sheep,
they are shipped, and are in demai
in the English market. And it mi