WHAT'S THE MATTED
WITH US AIYWAY?
P.-ices J-'or i arm Products Are
(:ood and the Man Who Farms
as He Should is Making Money.
What is getting the matter with
our people any how? Wo have
15 cent cotton, ten cent to 70
cent tobacco, 80 cents to i?l corn.
S2O to £25 hay. tiO cents to po
tatoes both Irish and sweet ."?1
onions, 11 cent pork, apples 150
cents tosl per bushel: butter 25
cents to -10 cents, milk nine cents
to ten cents per quart and other
prices in proportion. It looks to
me as it here was variety enough
of high-priced products to enable
us to plan a rotation of crops
without resorting to the use of
one low-priced product. Fertili
zers are very little, if any. high
er than they were ten years ago.
Planting and harvesting ma
chines are practically the same
in price as when prices of farm
products were one-third to one
half lower than at present. Good
sires, to sire high-priced meat j
animals, are practically the same j
price as ten or 15 years ago. '
when meat was bringing about
one-half its present price. Labor
in the South is perhaps 25 per
cent higher, but the increase in
the use of labor-saving tools
should easily offset that extra
cost. Horses and mules are
higher than ten years ago, but
these the farmers of the South
ought to be producing instead of
buying, by this time, and many i
are doing this.
The writer is well satisfied to
leave things alone as they are. j
and does not care to lend his aid
to push prices to such a point
that the residents of the cities
will demand the free entry of j
products from lands where labor j
and soil are so low in price as j
that a profit can be made in j
growing products at one-half the)
price theyjare commanding with :
us.
Let our country be tlooded with
Canadian hav, Argentine meat
and corn, European potatoes,
etc., and we will have something
serious to think about. If our
farmers today were making fair
average crops on their lands—
crops the lands is entirely cap
able of producing when properly
handled —we would hear less
about the lack of profit in farm
ing. It is the unprofitable acre
and not the price, in my judg
ment, that is keeping our farm
ers poor. I heard of a tenant
t t.acco farmer recently, who
said he had so much money this
lail, after selling his tobacco—
t;.ut he believed he would mix
i;.o olu cow up a mash composed
ui bran and dollar bills.
I would not slight the market
i g problem, for there are many
points connected with the dis
tnuution of farm products that
will bear the most careful study.
Many carloads of perishable pro
ducts are today shipped to mark
ets that are already glutted,
while other centers of population
would provide a market at re
munerative prices. Many mid
dlemen are undoubtedly taking
an unreasonable commission from
the producer, and this evil should
-and no doubt will—be remed
ied. Still I would not try to do
away with the commission mid
dlemen: for if we should, the
farmer must needs turn middle
man himself, and thus would his
time be taken from the produc
ing end—where it is so much
more needed. Then, too, he
might develop roguish tendences
and become as big an extortioner
as the man he would replace.
One would think our beef
growing farmers might co
operate now in the sale of their
products: for it is a fact that the
local butcher in the South cannot
be induced to pay what good
cattle are worth. Many lit
tle bunches of steers have been
marketed locally at from 3 1-2
cents to five cents per pound this
winter that were actually worth
50 per cent more. It would seem
EIGHTV-FOURTHOUSAND DOLLARS
Can You Grasp the Idea of
How Much Money This Is ?
And Then Part of This
$84,578.91 Was YOURS If
You Sold at Some Other
House Than Brow n's
This $84,587.91 Is the Amount the Farmers of Pied=
mont Section LOST Who Did Not Sell at Brown's
STOP! /Now Look At These Figures:
The total sales to date of this crop 20,050,096 Pounds for $2,802,228.62
Brown's sold 6406884 Pounds for $022,444.11
Other Houses 13643212 Pounds for 1870,784.51
Brown's Average $14.39
Other ouses Average $13.77
Difference of 62 C ts On Every One Hundred Pounds
Sold Out of Entire Crop.
Will you, an independent man, go ahead selling: at some other
house when you are losing money this way? Shake off the
yoke and sell where you get the most money. These are not
our figures but the official reports made to President of Board of
Trade. We hear that it has been intimated that we are not lead
ing in average. Look these figures over and then ask any one
to deny them. We sell tobacco and can produce the goods. Be
not deceived. Come on and sell the balance of your crop at
Brown's. The big sales are over. In fact the crop is nearly sold,
so you can sell at Brown's on first or second sale early and it is a duty you owe yourself
to come on to Brown's. We would advise you to sell now. The big companies are all
buying. We are expecting you with your next load and will put every pile to the top.
Your hard s working friends,
Brown, Carter, Simpson & Company
Proprietors Brown's Warehouse.
First Sale Days for February Every = - Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Hi
that by unity of action in time
of feeding and marketing, a
number of small farmers—hav
ing each a few head of steers
could unite and ship their pro
duct to a central market where
it would bring its real value.
The consumer in the local
territory is not profiting by the
low price the farmer receives for
his cattle; for the man vending
beef from 3 1-2 and four cent
cattle is, in the majority of cases,
charging city prices for his beef.
There are many important
changes that must be made in
our marketing system, but the
largeness of these problems
THE DANBURY REPORTER
should not obscure the main
point—viz., that a rich soil, cap
able of producing large crops of
fair-priced products, is what will
make the men on the land well-1
! to-do.
Prices may climb so high—dur
; ing seasons when crop damaee
lis worldwide as to make the
I working of poor land by obsolete
methods profitable, but thank
Providence such times come only
once during an ordinary lifetime,
and the thoughtful farmer while
giving attention to the minor
points connected with his busi- j
ness, will, all the time, "have his
ear to the ground" listening to
hear of better methods of con
serving and increasing soil fer
tility, and cheapening produc
tion. The world is going to give
us, for the bulk of our farm pro
ducts, just about what their cost
of production amounts to to the
average good farmer and a de
cent profit added, and the man
who fails to grow the average
crop, or who lets cost of produc
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tion run up on him, will see hard |
times.—A. L. FRENCH, in The ;
Progressive Farmer.
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