Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-09-25
BUTTER.

few democrats to the legislature.
BUTTER
Under the influence of a dull trade
here and lower prices in the country
there is an easier tendency in the
butter market. The pressure is
mainly on early-made stock, but the
demand for all kinds has decreased.
and the buyers are looking for lowe.
rates all round. Although most O.
the late-made receipts are sold up, It
is safe to say that the best lots will
not bring within one cent pound as
much as last week, and in order TO
to move round parcels of ice house
stock concessions of at least 2 cents
a pound would have to be made. In
fact, in the present condition of tie
market it is impossible to tell whist
would be the result of forced sales.
The outlook is anything but favo1a-
BILE for those who are holding eany
made butter. Stocks here in New
York and in Canada have been az
cumulating the past two weeks, and
as there is no export demand at any
price near what the butter is valued
at, we do not see any chance for an
Improvement until there is a decided
falling off in receipts Private let
tiers from England say that the mar
ket there is well supplied with Irish
and French butter, and there is no
sale for American at the prices ask
ed. Some persons say that this de-
preston if only the natural result of
the ''boom'' three weeks ago, and
that when the home buyers COM
mence operations again the market
will recover it's buoyant tone, as the
consumption is equal to the produc-
ton. But others think differently
and contend that the speculative
movements carly in the season, which
forced prices up to 26 and 80
cents, and thus prevented foreign
shipments, are the main cause of the
trouble now. There is more butter
in the country than can be consum-
ed here at the price asked, they say,
and with the large make which is
now in progress in all the Western
dairy sections, the surplus will stead
lily increase. According to the Mon
treal papers, there is a large stock
in Canada waiting for an American
outlet, and the Western advices are
decidedly easier. The dispatch from
Elgin, H., dated September IS,
quotes butter at % to 2S15 cents, a
decline of 81 to 4 cents from the
prices sent here week ago. A ST.
Adams dispatch, dated September
10, also quotes a decline. 1t reads
as follows: ':Butter market dull.
General price, &c to % cents; Sc
lections, 20 to 80 cents fair to good
% to % cents Boston Journal.
A fact significant of the growing
wealth of the Western farmers is
their detsrmjHaRt5jf0pb 70 t5k hand Gn j G
their grain till they get ready to sell.
In former years it has been largely
the fashion to hurry the wheat off to
the nearest market as soon as it is
threshed, but they have changed all
that. 1t must be that they have
paid off their mortgages, stopped
their interest charges and have a lit
tie head for rainy day, if they
can afford to store their wheat and
wait till they are satisfied with the
price offered. This is altogether a
different thing from speculation,
which consists in buying and selling
wheat on paper and running the price
up and down without the possession
OF a single kernel. And it may have
a salutary effect upon the specula-
tors, if they find that the farmers are
generally taking hand in the bust
ness. They cannot control every
thing and everybody. The farmers
will prove hazardous element in
calculations, and the country will be
vastly better off, if the farmers sue
coed in holding their stores, ready to
come down, like an avalanche, in
case Of ''cOrner." If the farmers
are able to take the risks, they can
escape the clutches of the specula-
tors, and give the country the bene-
fit of the laws of legitimate demands
and supply.
The official count of the vote of
Maine, except three small plantations
yet to be heard from, give results as
follows: ROBBIE, 72,554; Plaisted,
60, 1856; Chase, 1898; Vinton, 262
Eustis, 305. Total vote, 1915.
Robes plurality is 1913. The re-
publican candidates for congress are
elected by pluralities little in ex-
cess of that for governor. The re-
publicans carry fourteen of the six
teen counties.