Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-06-22

second Monthly Fair and
Market Day on
june 3Oth.
II Will BE More of a success
Than the First
..s One.

ket day, on June Both, promises to be
q great success. The executive COM
mittee are in correspondence with
buyers from Superior, Duluth. st.
Paul and Minneapolis, and without
doubt there will be several times the
amount of stock here that there was
at our first fair,s and, as the feed has
been Of he best this mont the stock
will be in good shape. Little Falls,
herself, consumes monthly about one
hundred and twenty to one hun
dred and sixty head of stock, and
local buyers therefore cut quite a
figure where they choose to. Mr..
Williams kindly agrees to pasture all
stock purchased at these fairs,
gratis, in his pasture one mile from
the city.
AS business proposition a person
cannot lose money buying young
stock at these fairs and holding for
fall market.
The scarcity of money the last
twelve months has caused a great
many people TO sell stock they
would otherwise have kept for feed
ing, and now that times are bright
ening up we hope our farmers will
replenish their herds and pay more
attention to stOckraising, as Morri-
son county with her cheap hay and
other stock feed can produce cattle
and horses at a good profit. Being
so close to a good market, the par
ties who follow out raising stock
enough to consume all their feed,
and pay more attention to hogs and
sheep, will be our successful farmers
OF the future.
These. local fairs should be en-
|couraged, as they are to stock raiser
and producer what mans heart is
to his bOdy-the medium of circula-
ton All produce, hogs. sheep and
poultry find 4 ready market and are
sold early in the day, and it would
he we'll for the farmer to have enough
| of these at this fair to supply the
market, ii possible. New milch COWS
find a ready market at any time IN
the Little Falls market with prices
Esteadily advancing, and one Of the
buyers ON the 30th will want a car
load of mich COWS for the Duluth
market. AS we all know, we are the
nearest agricultural centre to
many of these Northern towns, and
there is no reason why they should
go by us to get any of their supplies.
Get these people and their country in
the habit of coming to us for their
wants and our future is assured.
Our merchants can cater to and
get their trade in this way. They
will not only help themselves, but be
a great aid to their customers. In
this line we have always been weak,
and with one or two exceptions the
grocery man and produce buyer has
always looked for local market.
Now let us all go after this out
side market. We do not advocate
buying produce and placing it with
commission houses for sale, for, as a
rule, that is not profitable, but a
list of good and reliable merchants
in twenty of our northern towns will
be furnished our local buyers upon
application to the secretary of the
fair executive committee.
All this trade can be worked up by
a little personal effort ON our part.
Let each one of us see what he can
do to push Little Falls and her oun-
try to the front in this matter.
Oar people should also look well
to the home meat markets who pat
ronize the home producer, and they
should be encourageds by our con
sumers in their endeavors to make a
good local market. After. the Goth
there can be no possible reason for
their buying foreign meats. Many
OF them have given the excuse for
not buying local beef that it took an
extra man and team to go around
and do the buyings With these mar
kets arrangements can be made to
have their beef delivered as they
want it. II
| For parties having horses to ex-
change for cattle or cattle to ex-
change for horses this is an oppor-
I tunity. And again, if you have a
mismatched team this is the place to
match up. d. ......
Let each farmer see what he can
do to make this market day a sue
cess, and heWill soon see the benefit
of his labors. At the last fair our
merchants bought all the produce
which made its appearance on the
market and they will do it again.
Remember tire day Saturday.
June Goth, and the last Sat urday ii