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but if the purchaser would take them from the celhir, he would be 

 welcome to them. These potatoes could have been delivered in New 

 York for twenty-five cents per bushel, but before monopolizers or 

 middlemen would have allowed them to come into market at the 

 price they could be afforded at, they would have purchased them and 

 thrown them into the river. A friend of mine in Cambridge, Illinois, 

 sold his wheat at Geneseo depot, on the R(x;k Island Railroad, for 

 seventy-five cents per bushel, and carted it ten miles. I do not 

 recollect the pi-ice of flour in New York at that time, but I recollect 

 the impression made on my mind, that I could not comprehend the 

 low price of wheat on a railroad in Illinois, and the high price of 

 flour in New York. It is unnecessary to particularize any further 

 the burdens the community have to bear in consequence of productive 

 labor not reaching the consumer through the legitimate channels of 

 trade. Just so long as capital sufhcient for margin in speculating or 

 gambling in the productive resources of the country can be controlled, 

 and the telegraph wires reaching every western country town, by 

 which information can be communicated, and answers returned with 

 lightning speed, just so long will the consumers of the productive 

 industry of the country be compelled to contribute their hard earn- 

 ings to the support of tlie most bloodthirsty set of vampires that ever 

 disgraced a community with transactions they call business. There 

 are many other grievances in market regulations than what I have 

 named, or in the neglect of them, that are burdensome to the public, 

 and prevents the producer from realizing his share of the]")lunder that 

 is extorted from the connnunity by middlemen, which call for reform. 



MrcK. 



Mr. James Frisbie asks the Club to give their experience in the use 

 of muck as a deodorizer, and its value as a manure. 



Prof. J. A. Whitney. — The acids of muck are just suited to fix 

 and correct the alkali of decaying matters. Hence a mixture of muck 

 with bad smelling things about a yard. The worse the odor the more 

 it will be improved by muck, and the more muck will be improved 

 by it. Raw muck has little plant food in it, that is, little of lime, 

 potash or phosphate. As a rule I doubt whether it will pay to get 

 it out and cart it over a mile. 



Mr. J. P>. Lyman. — The best results I ever saw from raw muck 

 was on a field in Connecticut. The muck lasted six or seven years, 

 and the corn was a half bigger. But it was mostly rotten leaves 



