Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-02
Association in Orcharding.
Editors Of the kenne5es Journal:

EdkoTS OF me heHfeoeS JoATta<s
Association or combination TO some
extent seems TO be taking possession OF
all kinda of production We are said &c
be an independent people and YET in one
sense OF the word we are as far removed
from inde pendsnce as possible
Business Of al kinds is so intimately
connected that you cannot change the
price Of wheat in liverpool without tbs
shock being felt from Dakota to Aus
traiia, and affecting that industry soon
reacts upon all others Thoughts few
wears ago when the price OF wheat began
TO tum ole that 1t would not affect me as
nv business was raising cattle But
soon learned that on the little island OF
Great Britain no less than million
acres which had been used for the cul-
ture OF wheat had been turned TO pasture
and meadow for the production If beet
and similar change In other places soon
reduced one third the price of cattle
The fact that one industry cannot bs
II jured without disturbing all othef
should be better Understood by the pro-
pie Cnmbnat on follows co pbination
so rapidly that W. almost conclude that
10 the near future the lone Independent
producer, will like the Indian and IN.
bufTtlo be only know BY few speci
| ne rs IL the national museum. We arc
living in a wonderful age. an age ii
which progress Is 20 rapid that its stride
will almost span cohtin Mt.
We learn that Vassalb no Is TO have q
creamery, one OF the means by which
farmers are uniting and Increasing the
advantages Of their business cream
- 10 IA.
grand march of progress
How much that town needs to estsb
lish one more association he farmt RI
OF Vassalboro and hina sell from SIX to
eight thousai d barrels Of apples every
year mostly for the Liverpool market
As it costs one dollar and Thirty five
cents to ship and cell barre, of apples
there when prizes are low nothing but
number ones ought to cross the water
and there should be m evapOrating fac
tory t. work up all the number twus and
let nothing but the best go whole upon
the market The factory might be run
upon the same principle as the cream
ery, a. Il the farmers or SO many OF them
as possible. should fur her unite in the
sale of their apples, secure uniform
or de and make them Just the same from
Que end OF the barrel to the other Thl-
facing a barrel with the best apples is 8
sham and a humbug that ought to he
discarded by al honorable men. The
one who estsbli h 5 reputation fol-
fair dealing and ofierieg nothing but q
choice article, witt greatly Increase his
profits This combination in selling first
class fruit In large quantities put up IL
the best manner will secure advantages
" hi, h can hardly be calcui d
here is an immense amount of apples
sent to Europe that is only fit TO feeC
swine. hav- seen many barrels OF thls
miserable stuff paeked for Liverpool
The great amount of porr quality sole
there gives the impresio that apples
are mu h lower than they are. have
bill before me now which shows tha
| number one apples Melted the shipper
here three dollars barrel on Oct. Pit
Though they have been 81 ling lowe
since | do not believe there has been sny
time that strictly first class fruit woulC
not net the shipper from kennebet
county one dollar and seventy-tive CT Mt:
per barrel which Is very satisfactory
price
Farmers have been altogether toe
thoughtless in regard to their owl
interests and have allowed the midi,
men to fix prices until they hive hat
almost as much il fluence upon farmer
profits as landlord has upon the pr d.:
of his tenant in foreign lands But the
good time is coming, though 1t has beer
long on the way it is aim st here wher
the farmers will realize the nobility o.
his calling and no longer allow either
middle men or the government TO bar
den hi. dusrry with unjust taxes
MANCHESTER f. COOK