The Springdale news., 1889-10-18
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
Study the Markets.


 A familiarity with the nearest mar ket of importance is of much value to any farmer, livestock raiser or fruit grower.
 It is poor policy for man to plant his whole place in corn or cotton. if there is crying demand in his princi- pal market for potatoes and beans.
 The diversified cropis the safest one and nothing on the farm should be wasted, or fed to the hogs until it is positively known that there is no sale for it in the city.
 Farmers should bear in mind that nothing in the way Of farm products is produced in the great centers of popu- lation, and that every thing consumed there must come from the country.
 We know of small orchard that had been bearing well for several years, the fruit of which was wasted or nearly so. A few of the apples were dried. some eaten when ripe, but the bulk of them fell to the hogs.
 The place changed hands, the trees were pruned up, and as soon as the apples began to ripen they were promptly shipped to the city. By the first of September over one hundred and fifty dollars worth of apples had been sold, and the fall apples still on the trees.=
 Prices went down. and the latter ap- aples were gathered and disposed Of later at good figures.
 This summer six early June apple trees of the orchard mentioned pro duced twenty bushels of choice apples that sold for dollar busheI.
 Inferior fruit will bring an inferior price, but it is next to impossible to overstock market with choice fruit of any kind
 Apples or peaches always realize more when shipped in one-third bush el, or peek boxes. Barrels are too large.
 The apple or peach. with the "blash@ on it, taat is, bright red or highly eol- ored are in greater demand in the city than the duller colored fruit
 In string beans. tue round bean is much preferred to the flat pod bean, and sells from 5o to 75 cents more per box.
 Potatoes should always be assorted and cleaned before shipping. Put the largest and best by themselves, and small Bor=''pig" potatoes in separate barrels. \ few inferior potatoes in a barrel of choice ones are liable to con- demn the whole lot and bring the price down to their grade
 h shipping to q commission house il is well to get acquainted first Some men act fairly and honestly. but aet all. To underrate mans produce and make false returns fs just as much of crime as it is to steal his cash. such men ought to be caught up with and punished
 IL is said that in some of the South ern cities the green groeers and pro- duce men are ringed together in q sort Of a trust, and that there is no such a thing as competition among them. They set the price ahead for day or q week, as the case may be. and mono of them deyiate from il.
 This leads one to think that it is time for the producers to have their own agents in their respective city markets. Men paid for their services. and con- troled by the farmers, would soon smash all such petty trusts as the one mentioned.
 The idea is, for the producer to reach the consumer with as little tax on his produce as possible. These mid lle- men fleece the farmer, and then cut the other way by making the consumer pay double for what he gets.
 The dwelIcrs of the cities will hail the day, when the farmer brings his produce to them direct or with only the moderate cost of transportation and agents commission. Not the reg ular commission ''goager" but the farmers own representative.
 What sort of commission" or fair sale is it where the farmer gets 90 cents for a barrel of potatoes and the consumer pays $2 20 for them2 Or, the farmer $l. D for a barrel of ap- pies and the town man s a barrel? Talk about "taxes' '--here is where the farmer loses and the honest, hard working man of the city gets squeezed.
 Brush the middle man out of the way. Sall to the man who wants to eat, and not to the man who wants to speculate.
 Let the producer and the consumer divide the profits of the "go between, and have in its place a representative that is an agent only, pure and sim trusts Cor. Dixie Farmer
 
 The Cultivation Of Jute.