Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-08-13
SOME SUGGESTIONS
BY A FARMER AS TO SUPPORT OF
HOME INDUSTRIES.
He shows How the Principle OF
olive and Let Live" May He Is
tabiished and Maintained - A
Little Plain Talk by a Practical
Man.

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ED. STANDARD:
| l see an article in your paper
! recommending more care in support
+ ing home industry. think it needs
attention. 1t appears to me that
dealers in meat give Il preference to
buying outside of Thurston county.
They tell about beef being high but
farmers don't see anything vi it only
when they so to the shops to buy.
When they have any to sell it is diff
cult to sell at any price. Some ex-
cuse is given, that it is not good
enough in some way. Yet ii Il farmer
wants some good, tender meat, he is
much more likely to get it when he
kills it himself. In many places in
the States they have established mar
ket days in towns and villages-say
two market days i'll week-where
farmers take to market what they
have to sell, and deal directly with
the consumers In the case of meat,
arrangement could be made to have
each neighborhood have the market
on Il certain day, SO Us not to have too
much in market at once. That would
be Il good way also to compete with
the Cinnamon. If farmer now
brings any vegetables to town he finds
that heather Chinese has been to
every house, and perhaps already
started what money he got for China.
If regular market days were estab-
lished, purchasers that would prefer to
patronize citizens could depend upon
supplies. The market days are we'll
liked wherever tried by both producer
and consumer.
| knew man that made several
barrels of good cider vinegar. The
merchants of Olympia offered only
eight cents gallon for it, and said
that they could get wine vinegar in
San Francisco for that price. A
clerk in one of the stores told me
the merchant got barrel at that
price and by adding some acid made
two barrels of it, and sold it for forty
cents gallon.
A few years ago man bought
first class fruit dryer, and dried some
fruit as good as it could be done. The
merchants refused to buy it. He sent
it to San Francisco, and the return
boat brought back the most of it to
fill the orders of Olympia merchants.
know this year of parties sending
to Tacoma for fruit boxes, when they
could get them half-cent cheaper in
Olympia. A shoemaker in Olympia
put some of his work in a store to sell;
the merchant charged him half for
selling. He thought it high COM
mission. The merchant showed by his
Eastern bills, that he made more than
that on his purchased stock.
A few years since physician recon-
mended man to get some port wine
for his sick wife. He went to a saloon
to get it. The man told him he had a
first rate article, but it was in his
store-house, and was too busy then to
get it; to call ut noon and he would
have it ready. He called before noon
and found the man making the wine.
I am unable to say whether it would
be best to patronize home industry to
that extent. 1t might perhaps be
better to to attempt to get older wine,
though it be at risk of repeating the
experience of the man who paid
great price for a bottle of wine be-
cause it was claimed to be over hun
dred years old, and when he drew the
cork fly flew out. 1t was never
known before q fly lived so long.
EARNER