The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-25
PRODUCE MARKET.
The Big Business Done During
the Present Year.
SOME HINTS TO PRODUCERS.
The Difference Between First Glass and a
Second Glass Article-Railways
and Business.
BY E. z. RICH.

The present year has been both favorable
and unfavorable for the farmers of Utah;
favorable, on account of good markets,
good prices, and ready sales that they have
been able to make; unfavorable, on account
of the unusual drought, which caused a
partial failure of the crops. In looking
back over the season just closed, many sug-
gestions present themselves to the mind,
some of which may be briefly touched upon
at this time. With our constantly increasing
population, many of whom are Don-pro
ducers in an agricultural point of view,
consisting for the greater part of me-
chanics, merchants, and the various trades
and professions, all consumers, it can read
lily be seen that our farmers are bes inning
to find themselves in a position to be able
to realize a reward fer their years of toll,
which in the past have not been very re-
munerative to them. But there are some
things yet which the farmers of Utah must
learn. One is to properly sort their pro-
duce before attempting to market thesam
We may take almost any crop we desire,
and ask the farmers to send sample of it
to the shipper or manufacturer. Can the
farmer furnish one car or more cars ac-
cording to sample! The experience of
shippers in the past has been that when
we come to carload transactions, and it is
upon that basis that we are now doing bus
mess, the shipments will not correspond
with the sample, but will invariably be
mixed. This is, perhaps, not SO much the
fault of the farmers themselves, as it is the
fault of country storekeepers, who receive
ORDERS FROM SALT LAKE,
the business centre and distributing point
of Utah. We take for example the staple
article of wheat. The farmer who takes
pains with his crop, guarding carefully
against cookie, smut, sunfowers, and other
damaging elements, takes his wheat to the
nearest store to market. He is told wheat
is worth % cents per bushel, without ref
erence to grade or quality. His more care
less neighbor takes his wheat to the same
place for the purpose of marketing, and
receives the same price for wheat that is
absolutely unfit for shipping or milling
purposes. Both lots are thrown together
in the same bin, and the whole becomes
second or third grade wheat, when half is
of the finest quality. All our wheat,
before shipment is made, should be thor
oughly cleaned, so that freight will not
have to be paid upon the trash so often
found in conjunction with what would
otherwise be marketable article. Our
markets demand a gradation of farm pro-
ducts, and with none is this more essential
than those with which we supply our
neighboring states and territories; let
everything that is not strictly first class be
kept at home for domestic purposes; by
this do not mean for farmers to feed their
families upon the refuse, but there are or
should be plenty of animals about the farm
that can use all such stuff to advantage to
the farmers.
Every variety of barley should also be
kept by itself, and