Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1916-10-11

The price of flour keeps increasing
and today it is quoted at $500 more
per barrel than one year ago. 1t
prices keep going skyward-
farmers will start in growing wheat
and ask the grist mill men to start
up the flour mill again. Good wheat
can be grown in Vermont and our
grandmothers made excellent bread
from native-grown wheat, milled at
the home ,grist mill. The bread was
not quite as white, but it was
pure and had flavor and the
digestive qualities that made healthy
boys and girls.-Waterbury Record.
The Tariff and Dale's Work.
The Republican campaign commit
tees are laying great stress on the
need of tariff protection to enable
American industries and American
products to meet a flood of commerce
from the old world at the conclusion
of the present war. That solicitude
is abundantly justified by the open
preparations the entente allies are
making even before the conflict ends
to ensure their domination Of the
commerce of the world, including the
United States.
congressman Dd1c, WIN ll1O OCCh
drafted by the congressional cam
paign committee, is well qualified to
to handle this subject, and advices
from the field indicate that he has
done effective work for the cause of
protection as we'll as to promote the
success of the Hughes and Fairbanks
ticket. To the dry subject of the
tariff he can add a literary turn if
needed. Vermont is for protection
even our Green Mountain democratic
dairymen being unable to appreciate
the fun of having free milk and
cream from Canada hit our markets
at a time when they are trying to
get their rights at the hands of the
Boston and New York middlemen.
Indeed Congressman Dale in advo-
eating a protective tariff comes pref
ty near speaking for a unanimous
| Vermont-Burlingto Free Press.
Try to Explain to Farmers.
The Barton Monitor presents some
interesting figures and asks a per-
tinent question. Government re-
ports show that on seven principal
farm products, the prices paid in
Vermont were materially lower in
| 1915 than in four other New England
states. Compared with New Hamp-
shire, the Vermont farmer received
$4.1O less per ton for his hay, five
cents per dozen for his eggs, three
cents per pound less for his chickens,
so cents less per hundred for his
hogs, $1.5O per hundred less for his
beef cattle, 80 cents per hundred less
for his veal and 1 II cents per pound
less for his maple sugar. And farm
ers of Maine, Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island received materially
more than those of New Hampshire.
The Monitor asks if the reason is
not a monopoly in the buying. This
certain localities where buyers are
few. A more potent reason is that
consuming markets are scarce in
long haul comes out of the producer
who has to compete in Boston and
other centers with those living
nearer The Vermont producer has
some compromising advantages
however, not to speak of the great
one Of living in the best state in the
union.-Randolph Herald and News
The milk in this section-in fact
in most parts of Vermont-is thick
with interest just now A battle roy.
al is being fought as between the
contractors at the Hub and the pro.
ducers back on the farms. The lat
ter are contending for a platform
price, and the fact that most of then
have refused to sign contracts fol
the next SIX months at the contrac
tors figures would indicate that they
mean business.
The flow Of milk from Vermont in
to Boston has materially decreased
and in lieu of the erstWhile generou:
shipments of the tactical fluid, butter
is being made at home, or the mill
is being put through the separator
and the cream is finding it's way tx
institutions where cream is turnet
into butter. Efforts Of the contrac
! tors to secure shipments at a Sigh
! advance over old prices have beer
: persistently withstood, and the Yer
mont branch of the New England
Dairyman's association promises t,
g stick to it's text and if necessary fnt
its own market in Boston and let tn
contractors whistle till they ge
: Ieduy W CoIHo luCO line Win tn
platform price.
l The outcome of this awakening O
I the dairymen's business consciousness
: in their own behalf-this attempt t.
: establish more satisfactory relation
! between the real cost of producin,
i the milk and the price they get TO
: twill be something worth watch
ing. If the dairymen hold together
they will win. If there is any pullin,
: apart, they will lose. The contrac
I tors will leave no means untried t
> get back their grip on the milk ship
: nents of the state without materia
y advance of the price; but it will b
up to the producers to see that sue
5 thing does not happen. The effect
: of the battle are already evident i
e predictions of milk famine in tn
I cities-a situation which would b
most deplorable. 1t remains to b
T seen which will come out q haad