Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-11-06

ehurns Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and so on. Saturday the huckster
comes and takes the butter, paying 25c
pound for what he sells In Wheeling
next Tuesday or Wednesday for 30 II
40c, pretty fair per eentage, on which
the huckster soon gets rich, or at least
able to buy IN average Ohio farm if he
manages well, and saves even as well a.
the farmer. a. Us. -. -
A little cooperation in selling the
butter and milk. and the boys to do the
smilking, would do much to help tbs
state of things, and either give the
4 farmer the benefit of better price for
his butter, or our town friends would
1 get their butter cheaper, or both. Re
Gently we had occasion to spend few
days in Moundsville, w. Va, at the
"best hotelI in the place. The butter
was very bad. Some one there told us
that if farmer came to town with but
ter, fresh from his wife's milk house, he
could not sell it to a citizen, but
had to go to store, where may be q
dozen people were waiting with plates
to pay the extra per cent. which the
store keeper charged. On this account,
said our informant, we get but little
good butter, and pay high prices for it.
All goes at the same price. No encOur-
agement to the farmers wife to produce
good article of butter.
THIS is BUTTERING THE WRONG SIDE
of ones bread. We are inclined to think
that what Uncle John states as to the
kind ofhelp is too true. Yet there are
other elements which come into the
price Of butter. In that neighbOrhOoG
and at Point Mills, eleven miles from
Wheeling on the Hempfield Railroad
and National road, they ship their
milk to Wheeling morning and even
ing. We think we have heard Mrs.
CASTOR, of Point Mills, say that she
sometimes made over so per year to
the cow from the milk. The COWS are
worth from SS5 to $50, pretty fair gain
for the capital invested. But it does
not pay us to do this, although we live
less than two miles from the railroad.
The road we have to travel is in the
way, but that brings up the road ques.
ton, which We will not discuss, only
remarking that for the past year there
has been six months of which we could
not get to the station with can of
milk, unless we walked aerossthe fields.
As long as we work on as farmers,
each one for himself, and your city
green grocers fix the price on our pro-
ducts 10 suit their idea of supply aud
demand, we may expect this state Of
things.
Yes, there are other elements enter
ing into the price besides hired help.
When boy we used to hear it said as a
Catch" "Well, butter is going to be
cheap" "Why?" "Oh! our hired girl
scratched her head while churning this
morning" We could not see any point
in this beyond the fact that dirty
milkmaid made dirty butter, which sold
cheap, and this has about as much to do
with the price Of butter as Uncle Johns
reason may be, which, as butter is
handled now, is very little, for no mat
ter how dirty the hired girl makes the
outer, the huckster pays thesamc price
for this as for that made by Mrs. W., in
the cleanest manner, and kept all the
time besides the coolest spring.
THE WAYS AND MANNERS OF FARMERS.
Their isolatiOn-want of contact with
one another-and consequent growth of
selfishness, and lack of confidence in
one another. They do not take the
papers and but few of them are posted
in the markets. They do not meet to-
gether and get one another's expert
ence, although some have experience
meetings" in their church, We believe,
which is all well as far as it goes, but
unfortunately does not help the price
of butter, nor the farmer to sell his
wheat, nor prevent corners in grain;
helps neither to grow or sell his crop.
They used to have grange up ut
Point Mills, mile or so above Uncle
John Sisson's. Bro. CASTOR built q
nice hall for them over his
store. He kept the store and
it was run on the
OLD COMPETITIVE PRINCIPLE, NOT CO.
OPERATION,
yet called "grange" store. Bro. Gas
ton was as honest as an eight day clock,
when in order regularly wound up, but
he did not seem to understand the
grange. As we have said they met in
his hall, over his store once or twice
month. He charged them $50 per year.
There We're not many of them, and as
they had to make this in selling butter,
&C., it bore heavily on chem. They
met in their hall, opened out, sat and
looked at one another awhile then
closed. Bill or Joe were afraid to tell
what they got for their hay that day for
fear somebody would learn from their
experience and get more, so of corn and
wheat. In fact they seemed to visi-
tor in their grange, much like a set of
men gathered to thresh out crop.
The machine was "set," and they all
"set" around as if expecting the
machine to do the work without their
turning wheel. OF course the threSh-
ing was not done, and so Point Mills
grange did not run long lift ever run"
in fact. We fear it was simply "set,"
never even oiled.
Neither did the store. They had an
other one at Potomac. Both of them
were run" by old storekeepers," who
bought what the Wheeling merchants
called Granger" goods. Please do not
ask us what these were. But they were
not what the specifications" called for,
viz: pure and unadulterated goods.
These "old storekeepers" had too much
of old ideas, and business was suspended
with loss, we are told, to all concerned
at Potomac, in a financial and moral
way, as we'll as loss to the Grange in
this section. At Point Mills only the
Grange cause and Brother CASTOR
suffered; yet he still has his hall for the
Use of every tramping cause which
comes along.
BARTIMECS WAS BORN BLIND.
We do not recall these things in an
ger. or in spirit of criticism; rather in
sorrow. We will suppose all did the
best they knew. Bartimeus was born
blind, you know. Some had too great
expectations: wanted to put the roof on
the edifice before the foundation was
completed. Uncle John did not belong
to the Grange, although we believe he
was friendly to it, and his influence
would have been great help.
The reason that he gives to influence
the price of butter is but minor rea-
son, we are inclined to think mere 4
sIDE-sHows TO THE MAIN CIRCUS.
Why do the hired girls leave the
country, and why do the boys leave the
farm? Because of farm-life being so
dreary. They like company. They
get it in town and city. Often they get
less wages in the city, but life is at
trantiye and more social Why