158 • BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



we have only a small quantity to send to market, and these 

 must bo combined together. From the town of Warren, where 

 the milk went, there was a carload went every day to Boston, 

 and before it started from Warren, it was sold at a stipulated 

 price. Now, a great deal of the cheese that goes from tlie fac- 

 tory is sold in the factory, and we sell it at the best price we can 

 get, studying the markets in the different places to know wliat 

 they are ; but we have sent some to the city of New York, and 

 never have paid over five per cent, for selling it, and usually we 

 have paid half a cent a pound, or less. If we thought we could 

 do better than that by having an agent in Boston, of course we 

 should adopt that plan. It is for the interest of the farming 

 community to study the markets, to exercise the best economy 

 they can, and endeavor to get these things from the farms wdiere 

 they are grown to the consumer, without letting too much of the 

 profit go into the hands of the middle-men. 



I look upon the agricultural interest as the foundation of 

 everything else. Every man must have his breakfast before he 

 goes to -work, and then his dinner and supper, and it all comes 

 from the farmer. There you get down to the foundation. If a 

 man makes five hundred dollars a day, by buying and selling 

 stocks, is the world any richer ? He has got an accumulation 

 of labor and earnings. The money is not made rapidly ; it 

 comes out of mother earth in some way, and by gradual and 

 slow processes, and if ho gets five hundred dollars a day, he 

 does not get it because he has made the world five hundred dol- 

 lars richer ; but what a man gets out of the earth, wliat he pro- 

 duces, makes the world so much richer. If anybody raises a 

 bushel of grain, he has made the world a little richer. It seems 

 to me, that every one of us should aim to do something in some 

 way, to make the world a little richer. 



lion. Charles G. Davis. I wish to allude more fully to one 

 fact which I consider important, in regard to this matter of open 

 markets. I think the present system grew up from the fact 

 that originally everybody in this country was a producer, and 

 that the i)resent system of marketing in the neighborhood of 

 large cities, has destroyed all the small producers. For instance, 

 Mr. Moore says, the people up in Concord raise so many straw- 

 berries, that they could not sell them in these open markets. 

 That remark leads to an illustration of what I think would be 



