The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-01-24
FOR THE FARMERS.
Farmers should Form Combinations ano
Associations for their Own Protection
Against Monopolies.
Earns should bc well supplied with Glass
Windows celery Culture-Sheep for
Pasture Land.
TWO SCALES OF PRICES.

Everything the farmer has to sell Is
ycry low; cycrything, or ut least nearly
crythine. that the farmer has to buy
: 60 parat vely high Wheat over u
large proport on OF the region inwh,ch
It is reduced br ngs the raiser but ..
cents cr bu,hel, The price OF grain
harycs.ers and self-b nders, however,
rcna rs the same 10 when wheIt was
wo III n dollar a Blu hcl in the pla G
where IT was raised The same is the
ease W ia the pioN that turned the FUR
VOW, the harrow that pulNer zed the
soil, and the >eeder that put in the crop.
Everything that turned off from the
farm is very cheap, but erything that
; turned out from the factory s dear.
The old scale OF pr ce, forf rm products
has all been changed. but the >cale OF
p ices 70, products Of nanut ctor es re-
ina rs unchanged. Beef. mutton, and
wool are all low, but posts and wire
niece ;sary to fence Il pasture co n
much a they ever did The cost OF
procuring materials and of putting them
tog the so rs TO afford protection to
animals during storms md in w.nt II
has not been reduced W tn al the de-
q n, in farm products. The prce OF
cloth IS not affected ap reciably by the
! fall in wool. A farmer may get small
| price for the hides he HIS to di pos of,
but he pays b oh p ice for the boots,
shoe. , and harnes that he is obi ged to
purch Sc Potatoes a'e cheap, Tut the
! bags N which they are put and the wag'
on that i u,ed for taking them to mar
! llet cost a> much "a they d d whe; 70
tatoes brought twice the money they dc
! ut pre- acnt 1t is also noticeable thai
the rates Of transported on and the com
miss on merchants charges for selling
them a,e as h oh as when potatoe,
brought dollar bu 'hel.
Form orly tn price OF articles requir'
Cd for food governed the price Of al.
mot all other articles. The price oi
almost everything vas governed by
| that Of wheat, a. that was regarded a
tac most important OF all products. All
this is changed nov, Farmers have
nothing to do in regulating prices. They
take what 5 offered ior their p oduct,
! Tacy are too numerous and too. widely
| scat rel to comb ne. The price o.
nearly every article they are oblig d t,
purchase. however, IS regulated by a.
so,iationS and ,ombinat ons formed
among manufacturers The manufa
tnrerS o ne rly every important article
comb n TO limit pruduct on and to kecE
up rr.ccs. They even combine to pre-
vent the c;tabl shmeDt o. munufa to ie:
similar TO their own. To many depart
meuts Of manufactur ng there ne
compel ton betwe n d tiercnt csiabl sh
ments. A uni orm scale o. prices i
adopted which is rig;dly adhered to
Tue western farmer learns the pr,ce o
wheat aud FORK by read ne he market
REL orts OF Liverpool He gets no in
formal on about the prices OF cloth anc
articles made from lion and steel ty
consult ng the quotations in the papers
OF Manchcst T, Sheffield, and Birming
ham. These quotations areo' no value
n this count y, except it may BE- to gu
able our cntcrprising manufacturers t.
double the figures. The producers o
art cles Of food in this country are Oh
Ii ed to compete with the producers o
similar products in every part OF thu
world, tat our manufactur ~, whos'
goods tarners are OIL god to have, have
40 comp t,ton except among them
selves. A. betora. stat q, tn y gcner
ally manage to Prevent such competi
on. W th UGH state OF affair, it il
no great marvel that farmer, are not
pros e Gus