The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-19
Western Competition.

NEARLY ill pt1IIS VI Clc AdI ul1uS
world, are, frightened at the prospects of
Western composition. Not only all
Europe but the Eastern States of this
Union acknowledge sorrowfully that it
is useless to struggle in competition
with the main articles produced in the
Mississippi valley. Mr.. Gladstone, in
his recent speech at West Calder, Eng,
tells the British farmers some plain |
truths on this subject. He says the
struggle of the English farmer is not a
struggle with all of the United States,
but rather with the Western portion of
the States; the portion remote from the
seaboard. He comforts his people by
telling them the competition is more
keeniy felt in the Eastern half of the
United States than it is in England.
The English farmer, he thinks, need
not expect relief in reciprocity and
protective tariffs, but rather upon a
more diversified agriculture; the .crllti-
walton of superior articles on small
scale; the cultivation Of Vegetables, of
flowers, of fruits of every kind-articles,
in fact, which rise above the ordinary
character of farming production and
rather approach thatx6S the garden:
More attention, he thinks, will have to
|'be given to the growing of a variety OF
objects which are sure to find market
in q rich and wealthy country like
England. =.
and Eastern. States are also seriously
inquiring what they shall do in the
future. The Eastern press is especially
exercised on the subject. They have
been of late awakened by finding West
ern goods taking premiums in their own
markets over their own productions.
Nor is this all. They find the Western
article called for and preferred in the
markets. The notion that good dairy
ing can only be successfully conducted
ir3the New ENGLAND States or the val
l4tsof New York. New Jersey or Penn
sylvania,. has /. to be abandoned. And
the truth is now seriously impressed on
them that the great West and North
west are successful competitors in dairy
products as we'll as in grains and beeves.
This leaves them nothing except their
nearness to msrket. Theyplsinly see, in
ne fact that;the dairy and Beef feeding
lands OF the West are Of almost unlim-
tied extent, and that the capacity of
their productions is not tenth deyel-
oped, the matter Of successful competi-
ion is presen as one of serious. inn
port. They do not, however, recon-
mend their farmers, like the British. to
turn their attention to fruits and flow
en-; but appeal to their dairymep for
"a more diversified dairy product in
orderfto promote home consumption;
and certain delicacies Of ttta dairy, such
| as clotted cream, various kinds of soft
cream cKeeses, will give the East some
advantage. in inanafactur6 by reason
of its nearness to the searboard
cities, where such / goOls enter
| into quick consumption. An effort
should be MAIDS lin tallipussible ways
10 promote 1.-THE consumption of dairy
goods lat. home. Dairymen must not
look SO exclusively to the great cite
and foreign markets for the dispose
'lof their products, but strive to pro-
mote consumption of these goods in the
interior. There are hundreds Of vii
lagos and towns in the interior where
large quantities of cheese, Of cream in
variety Of preparations, would find
quick sale at good prices. But all these
must be in attractive form and of q
EQUALITY that will, whet the appetite, and
induce people to have it constantly on
the table. This is the province OF the
Eastern dairyman, who has good mar
ket almost at his own door, if he hal
enterprise enough to occupy it. !"
The New York american DGsrys'sGs
recommends just what we have insisted