Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1884-12-04

the general production. The process how
ever, must necessarily be slow one, as the
worlds supply cannot be expanded or con-
tracted, the same as anything regulated by
ap automatic machine. at an instant's no.
tlce; SO that the trade need not be alarmed
lest they should wake up one fine morning
and suddenly find that the constant stream
of arrivals from one part and another had
been stopped, and that there was in conse-
quence sugar famine staring them in the
face. Such a day, If it does come, is far dis
tant yet, and buyers may count on prices
continuing extremely moderate for the next
twelve months at least.
We have already seen the application OF
the principle of creating an artificial dimin-
utlon in the supply Of sugar by our refiners
repeatedly retrenching their daily or weekly
output, and both wholesale and retail gro
eers have only the refners to thank for the
tactics they have resorted to in order to
force up prices of moist goods Is to 3s above
their recent lowest point. The refiners, no
doubt, think they have done well in pro-
ducing one-third less than their average ca
pacity during the last few months, and de-
rive additional satisfaction from the advance
in quotations that has finally rewarded them
tor their determination not to manutactur
sugar at a loss. With the dealers the case
is different. as they have no option but to
buy when they are obliged and sell when
they can; so that, occupying the position of
middle men, they can neither hinder the de-
mand from the retailers nor resist the high
expectedly out OF stock. All these circum-
stances have to be borne in mind when there
is rising market, such as we have Witness
ed within the last fortnight but they are as
mere feathers in the scale when the whole
question of supplies is fairly weighed and
considered. as they have no immediate effect
upon the actual condition of the market, and
as this is regarded by producers generally
as very unfavorable to their interests, they
are taking steps 10 retard or lessen the sr2-
ply OF sugar as much as possible, until it
corresponds more nearly to the prevailing
demand, when IA leveing up of prices, so
much desired, would probably ensue.
Besides the efforts of the retiners here to
curtail their outturn to the dimensions OF
the existing wants of the trade, there are
the sugar manufacturers OF Germany estab-
fishing an association to look after their
common interests. so as to restore the trade
to sound and healthy oasis, and also to
protect themselves against the serious evils
with which they are now threatened. But
the most astounding of all the measures they
propose for their relief is that which refers
to the sugar boun ties. as these, they allege,
are responsible tor much of their misfortune
and some of the advocates of reform even
go as far as to assert that the sugar boun-
ties must be abolished" Strange confession
this, to be eXtorted from the lips of those
who have thriven so Immensely from the
payment by the State of these very bountes.
And next To such total reversal OF the old
order of things comes another arbitrary and
sweeping proposal, to stop " the excessive
cultivation of beet sugar" Not content
with mere expression of words the apos-
ties of the new faith in remedial measures
being at once applied to the unsound state
OF the beet sugar trade, have resolved to
take speedy action in the matter; and at an
asseinbage of their fraternity in Germany
recently the manufacturers there decided
upon calling general meeting of the trade
for the lsr proX., to consider what ought to
be done for their benefit in the present un-
paralleled crisis. We, in Grssmon with
many others, await the issue of these inter-
esting proceedings.-LOndo Grocer.