Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-11
HOME ENTERPRISE.


in the Lyndon Union the following:
The suggestion in the Union last
week, of putting home capital into
home business and under home man
ayers by enlarging profit paying
business, meets with favor with all
who give it thought. If there is $40
900 or $780, 900 ready to go into new
enterprise under the management of
stranger who assumes no risk and
has no interest in the place, that same
capital ought to be ready to go into
paying home enterprises under the
management of home operators with
successful business record and who
are interested in building up the vii
| lage. Foreign enterprises are expert
ments, which may prove profitable
and may not. The history of home
enterprises is known, some having
employed men and supported families
for years. Select the best of these
and they can be enlarged with profit
to increased capital. Call the owners
or operators before the people, learn
their methods, inspect figures of ex-
penses and receipts, study the market
for the goods, the expense of selling,
and thus learn, from men who are re-
liable, interested in the village and
| about the business, it's past, it's pres
ent and it's prospects. If the infor
| nation be favorable, enlarge the
plant, incorporate, organize, elect
| business directors, put a competent
man into the management and go
ahead. Do this with half dozen
small Industries in the village, and
the equivalent of two shoe factories
will be secured with the cost of one,
the business will be under the man
agement of men who have made it
pay, who are known as fixtures in the
village, with interest in it's prosperity
and growth.
The business to be preferred is that
which works raw material produced
here, and which reaches market with
only one freight. The business most
profitable to the village is that which
employs the most help on the least
raw material. The village wants not
the goods, but the increased opera
tives, with families to feed, clothe
and shelter and to increase demand
for rents and the value of real es-
tate.
AS an instance of building up home
industries, look at the Percival Manu-
featuring 90. of Barton, run for years
by G. F. Percival, Barton boy, who
made furniture in small way, gain
ing steadily, but slowly, by reason of
small capital. Noting success and
possibilities, others took hold with
of division of labor. A rapid growth,
profit, more people and more village
attractions followed. Last year this
concern sold about 5000 pieces of fur
niture, much of it of fire workman
ship and high price. Men are on the
road meeting with success in selling
and securing orders in different |
states.
If villages would prosper they must |
shape industries in way to benefit |
farmers, to give value to their forests
and lands, with good market for their
products. People in villages must
patronize home merchants and prac
tice the principle of taking dollar
out of one pocket, spending it at home
and putting part of it back into the
other pocket. Our people should keep
constantly in mind the tendency to
abandon the country and go West, or
bunch up in the cities, and should
study every method calculated to
counteract this tendency. They should
farm less land, farm it finer, and make
one acre produce the usual income of
two or three, which can be done with
out increase of capital or help. Villages
should establish industries for the
of raw material produc-
I'D by their respective localities, lum-
Der and granite being leaders here.
But the same principle should be OBJ
served in manufacturing as in farm
the most help posi-
Die on the least material. A few men
IAN send an acre of forest to market
n the shape of dimension lumber,
While small army would be employ
I'd in sending it in form of ready made
house finish, high grade furniture,
'roquet sets, chairs, tool handles, bob
'ins, small spools, buttons, etc.
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