Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-07
FARMERS WANT FOWL MARKET
Customers Want to Buy Where They
 Can Return Imperfect Goods.

Customers Want to Buy Where They
 Can Return Imperfect Goods.
 Judging by the number of chickens coming into town these days the sup ply must be fully up to the demand and probably beyond it, for the own CTS of the birds appear to have to do considerable talking as well as moving from one store to another before they dispose of their stock. Ducks seem to be more plentiful in the market this year than for some time past and any one who wants a goose or turkey needs but to say so to one of the residents of the rural districts and the bird will be delivered at his house at short mo- tice Some of the farmers claim that it does not pay to raise chickens unless one is in the business on q large scale and even in that way they claim that there is not much money in it. They want fowl market in Waterbury once a week or once every two weeks so that they could come into town feeling reasonably sure that they would meet lots of buyers One old gentleman stopped a reporter of this paper on the street yesterday and asked him to say something about inaugurating q fowl market in Waterbury to be held once q week at the north side of the green. He said it would be . great help to the farmers and would not injure the local trade ill any manner. He said that many farmers found it difficult to get q good market for their stock and often had to dispose of it at sac rifice: Most of them.. he said. have regular customers and experience no difficulty in dispOsing of everything they want to sell. but this is not the case with others. especially the new corners. He thought If there was q public market in town people would go there and that the stranger would then have as good a show as the old timer
 This is the farmers side of the story. but when you hear the house keepers version of it you will not have quite So much sympathy for the suburbanites The women folks are shocked at the high prices asked by the farmers for potatoes, turnips. cab bages and other things in their line. I'll never buy five cents worth from one of them again. said a housekeep- CT the other day to one of her neigh bOrs, at the same time putting her left hand against her ribs and using the other to fire q rotten head of cab bage into the back yard. ''There," :" she continued as she picked up the broom and commenced sweeping off d piece of cabbage that had fallen onto the veranda. lis what I got for my money. The next time that old fel- low stops here I'll give him call. He's like the rest of them. charges two prices for everything and then you can't tell whether what you get is fit to eat or not until you start to cook it. I'd rather trade i'll the store because if you don't get the value of your mon ey. you can take it back
 It is certain that provisions are high and there appears to be no sign of prices coming down and the worst thing about it is that the price of la Dor IS not advancing q peg. What will become of the people if the cost of living keeps crawling upwards while wages stand at the same spot and if they make q move at all. take slip backward Wouldn't this be good question to ask some of our law-ma- kerS who have been chosen to attend the constitutional convention.