Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-11-26
FAnn Ann noUsEnoLD.


comparatively high. Wheat over large
portion of the region in which 1t Is pro-
daced brings the raiser but fifty cents
per bushel. The price Of grain harvest
ers and self-binders, however, remains
the same as when wheat was worth 81
bushel In the place where 1t was raised.
The same is the case with the pillow that
turned the furrow. the harrow that pull
verised the soil, and the seeder that put
in the crop. Everything that Is turned
of from the farm is very cheap, but
everything that is turned out from the
factory is dear. The old scale of prices
for farm products has all been changed,
but the scale Of prices for the products
of manufactures remain unchanged.
Beef, mutton and wool are all low, but
posts and wire necessary to fence pas
ture cost as much as they ever did. The
cost ofprocuring materials aud ofputting
them together so as to afford protection
TO animals during storms and in winter
has not been reduced with all the de-
cline in farm products. The price Of
cloth is not affected appreciably by the
fall in wool. A farmer may get a small
price for the hides he has to dispose of,
but he pays a high price for the boots,
shoes and harness that he is obliged to
purchase. Potatoes are cheap, but the
bags in which they are put and the wagon
cost as much as when potatoes brought
twice the money they do At present. 1t
is also noticeable that the rates of trans
portation and the commission merchants
charges for selling them are as high as
when potatoes brought a dollar bushel.
Formerly the price of articles required
for food governed the price of almost all
other articles. The price of almost every
thing was governed by that of wheat, as
that was regarded as the most important
of all products. All this is changed now.
Farmers have nothing to do in regulat-
ing prices. They take what is offered
for their products. They are too numer-
Gus and too widely scattered to combine.
The price of neatly every article they
are obliged to purchase, however, is
regulated by associations and combina-
tions, formed among manufacturers.
The manufacturers of nearly every i'm
portant article they combine TO limit
anG keep up prices. They even combine
TO prevent the establishment of manu-
factories similar TO their own. In many
departments of manufacturing there ia
no competition between different estab-
lishments. A uniform scale of prices is
adopted, which is rigidly adhered to. In
many cases our patent laws and Tariff
system enable them to establish and per-
petuate the most oppressive monopolies.
The Western farmer learns the price OF
wheat and pork by reading the market
reports of Liverpool. He gets no infor-
nation about the prices of cloth and arti
cles made from iron and steel by con.
sulting the quotations in the papers of
Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham.
These quotations are of no value in this
country, except it may be to enable our
enterprising manufacturers to double
the figures. The producers of articles of
food in this country are obliged to COM
pete with the producers of similar prod
ucts in every part of the world, but our
manufacturers, whose goods farmers are
obliged to have, have no competition
except among themselves. AS before
stated, they generally manage to pre-
vent such competition. With such a
state of affairs it is no great marvel shat
farmers are not prosperous.-Ch Chicago
Times.
FEED FOR Cows.-Frank S. Peer,
Mount Morris, N. Y. speaking Of eco
nomical grain feed for cows, says wheat
bran and middlings have given him
the best results. In comparing bran
with other grain, it should be by weight
and not by measure. Next to bran he
favOrs ground oats, then cotton seed
meal. He has had as good results from
feeding one pound of bran to one OF
corn meal as from two pounds of corn
meal. Half oats and half bran, by
weight, price considered, give better
resu, Is than oats and corn. He is no
advocate of corn, except for pork or
beef. Next to oats he finds cotton seed
meal cheaper than corn or oil meal.
Under his practice he finds the most
economical food to be four pounds
bran, three pounds ground oats to one
pound cotton-seed meal. He ia expert
menting with pea meal, in place of cot
ton-seed meal, with equally good re-
suits, aud believes for those who would
raise the peas that the latter would be
found more economical than cottGn-seed
meal.
PEPPER HAsH.-One peck of peppers
-oi half peek of peppers and half a
of cabOage-half pint mustard seed, one
ounce Of cloves, pepper, and allspice.
Chop peppers. and cabbage If used fine,
sprinkled well with salt and let them
stand two days; drain thoroughly, and
mix with the spices, cover them with
cider vinegar, and stew gently two
hours. A chopped onion may be added
If liked.
BEET SALAD.-Slice cold, boiled beets.
cnt into neat strips, line salad bowl
with white crisp lettuce, heap the beets
In the centre and pour mayounaise
dressing over them just before it goes
to the table, or you can pass the dress
ing with the salad in an ice cold pitcher