Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-06

at your expense upon your ridge-pole.
The very butter-tub, box and pack
age of Vermont have been sought out,
and your own pure white spruce box
es and tubs are being copied, dupli-
Gated without the change of single
detail, here in the same factories in
Vermont, and into these this nasty
stuff is put in exact imitation of your
own dairy products; and to adulter-
ate even oleomargarine and lard and
farm products there were used last
year fifty million pounds of cotton
seed oil. l see no way for the hon
orable maker but to secure brand
and have it registered with the Board
of Agriculture as your trademark,
and with it brand every tub and pack
age, and on your own skill and repu-
tation go before the trader or con-
sumer. Some of the state boards of
agriculture in the western states have
become linked with this species of
fraud-all conspiring against the
pure article. Similar remarks can be
said about cheese, and unless a revo-
luton takes place in this industry a
loss of immense magnitude will occur.
In some states already have skim
milk cheese, rancid butter and grease
cheeses become so plenty in its manu-
facture that the use of this healthful
article is sensibly decreasing.
Attention has been called to the
Importance of
THE MAPLE SUGAR INDUSTRY
by many, but nowhere have l seen its
possibility fully stated. AS l travel
about the country and notice in the
cities all over the land great cakes
run in tin pans, black and nasty com
posed of beeswax, brick-dust clay,
hogs grease and cane sugar, favored
with maple sugar and labeled "Pure
Vermont Maple Sugar." and notice
the eager crowd of buyers, was as
sured by leading dealer in Boston
that there was a quantity of it from
Vermont. Vermont produces a bet
ter article than any other section of
the country, and yet this industry is
only slightly developed. There are
many crops and many industries not
now developed in Vermont that it will
pay to work. / will only speak of
places adapted to manufacturing now
remaining undeveloped, waiting the
coming of some one to clear away
briars and set in motion the proper
effort.
CONCERNING THE WOOL INDUSTRY
it is no time to sit down and suck
your thumbs because the president
thinks you can make more money by
selling your wool at less price or
going out of the business altogether.
Vermont has on several occasions
astonished the world by reason of the |
developments in the sheep and wool
industry she can do it again. While |
we shall contend for our interests, as
we understand them, let us remem-
ber that Jarvis, Campbell and Ham
mond carved out new avenues and in
them won fame and fortune. AS a
manufacturer having business rela-
tions extending over a wide section,
experience the necessity Of having a
fixed high standard for my products.
Let me urge the farmer seeking to
build up trade and reputation, of
the advisability of
MAKING STANDARD PRODUCTS;
also having made a good customer be
able to retain him by pleasing him
with articles always of the same
grade of excellence. Let me call
your attention to remark in the re-
port of the commissioner of agricul-
ture for 1884, as the result of the OBJ
in that office: "The settler
in new communities, the pioneer in
of wild areas, who avails
himself of the opportunity to select
the choicest lands, naturally and
rightfully expects to be benefited in
the future by increase of values. He
may hope that his children will de-
rive further advantage. His reason
able expectations are sometimes full
filed often they are disappointed :"
and that "values in agriculture are
enhanced by increase of non-agricul-
tural population - and that you can
not have in a new country. In the
ong run a farmer can acquire great
er wealth here in Vermont than in
5he South or West. From observa-
ion extending over the water where
begins to fade in oriental
splendor and semi-barbarism, across
our own continent to the golden
shores where the sun goes down in
,he great deep, say with the utmost
confidence Vermont homes are as
good homes as anybody's homes, and
\ great deal better.
M.0 |
There is one class of workers for
that ought to be, and in
,he main is, safe from gibe and ran
cor. 1t is woman upon whom the
curse of drunkenness rests most heav-
ly, and when woman unite to protect
heir homes from its blight their prov
1cation and aim should secure for
hem at least the respect of silence
from those who do not believe in their ;
remedies for an evil that none can
leny. Woman's suffering from drunk
en husbands. fathers, sons and broth.