St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-04
DOUBT ABOUT WHEAT.
They Want to Go Into the Cream
cry Business and Make More

cry buSfueSS anu MAKE more
Money.
Special Letter to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, Feb. 26.-Here we
are on the first of another month, and
longer month, and spring will be with
US whether we are ready for it or not.
We do hope it will bs good for farm
work. Whether any wheat will be tried
the coming season remains to be learned
later on. 1t was tried last spring, but
the chintz bug gathered it up before it
reached foot high in this world of
bright sunshine. Some farmers report
seeing the bugs plentifully ON their
farms. Others have seen nOne-not one
the past year on their possessions, having
searched carefully for them, too. yet
the bugs were not found. There is no
seed wheat around here that one can
learn of, only one farmer that has been
holding his wheat for four or five years,
and may have sold. so far as l can learn
at present. l can hear nothing at pres
ent of any movement among the farm
erS as to obtaining and sowing wheat
this spring. All seem too much inter-
eSted in the butter business at present,
and the fight will be a strong one, as
there will be many farmers in the
men of wealth that are running cream
cries and growing richer and the
farmer poorer. Wykoff, five miles west.
is now reported engaged III building an
other butter factory, in which the
farmers are the only interested stock
holders, and will manage their own af-
fairs
The creamery here will have 1000
cows belonging to the subscribers and
stockholders, besides some farmers that
have not as yet decided how many cows
they will have to en- ter, but what
cream they have has been promised
to the factory here, and they will
get from some of the town people who
own two or three cows, being quite con-
venient to cheap pasturage all through
the season. In fact. the whole of Fount-
ain township will fight for their right
to do as they please with their own
affairs. If the farmers had done this
years ago it would have been better for
them. But they have sold their cream
to men that built creameries to make
money, and have been badly fleeced
many times, and complaints availed
nothing. How the venture will turn
out remains with the coming of
years to determine the result.
Every one that ever thinks of the differ
ent ways of procuring livelihood has
learned that farmer has no choice in
prices for his produce; he has to sell
at the price some one else sets for
his productions. What he would like
he cannot have. but must take what
some one else dictates, while one or
more is growing richer by this very I'M
just way of doing business; and so it
will be until the farmers combine
together and demand their right
to live and have little money
in their own pockets out of
the products of their toll. As it now
stands the farmers have no war with
the railroads, only the One-giving spec
ulators the only right to build ware
houses along their roads. This is real
injustice, for after building their ware
houses they put in local buyer of all
the products of the farm, with the eX-
ception of butter and cheese. The local
purchaser does the best he can on both
sides, but usually knows the best of the
bargain is on the other end of the road,
but the buyer does the best he can for
his friends and neighborS, as well as
the man who pays him.
The experience of years has shown
that to band together as a political
party is not wise, for their losses have
been more than gainS-at least that was
the result when the grangers in Wiscon-
sin elected farmer governor, and if by
any chance you happen to mention his
name now in the presence or one of that
order, he or she will blush with sense
of shame for his misdeed.
Not much good can be done by form
ing political party to carry their work
through, and maybe that the newly
created cabinet Office of agriculture
may be the needed help of the farmers.
So mote it be! We are glad of it! !
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL. $