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Show PERTINENT QUESTIONS. "J" or Fielding Asks for Belter Hone Markets for Our Farmers. 1- n I Feeling deeply iud-rcslt-d in the welfare of' our fanners here and tlie : county at large, I have heen led to j ask two questions, which J would like very well to have answered ly j Tut- Rrnrri. I f ...; 1. 1.. ' ; First, what iu the matter with j the merchants of Brigham City that j they don't furnish us a market for our products? S.-cond, what is the reason we haven't been able to find a market for our poultry? The j local merchants have refused to handle it and the traveling merchants mer-chants would not exchange goods for it. We read of the carloads that have been shipped through and into our Territory for Thnnksgiv- j ing Day and at the same time the) people in this north country are ! able to furnish a carload or two! and don't know where to sell them.! This may seem a trifling matter to the city people, but it is of considerable con-siderable i m porta nee to every farmer. There are perhaps thous- j ands of farmers scattered beiween Brigham and Malad City. I re- j eently heard a citizen of Portage ask a Salt. Laker where he could j sell a carload of chickens and 'was j referred to Ogden merchants. Brigham, where art thou? If Brig- j ham expects to be our guiding star, j she must be coming to the I fronl, and find or make a market to v grain, pork, po u I t ry, 1 u c e r n seed, etc., which are our staple' built ill our county. It nouKl be n good investment for unifone. Tho tact is well known that the town, county, state or government that does not produce something to export in excess of what it imports, is on tlie high way to ruin. And the same may truthfully be said o! the family. We will never become wealthy until we learn to produce mo-e than we consume, and so far as markets are concerned., they are in a bad state. There are too many petty buyers and the people are imposed upon shnrnefully in many in stances. " 1" nion is strength.'" Let us form some union that will encourage and protect the producer-Let producer-Let us learn to become self supporting support-ing and then we will prosper. We would like to see some town in onr county establish itself as n market plane for the rest of the e.nuntv. so that, we would know where to go to cash our products any time during the year. I have known of eases where lucent seed and oilier farm pro-duets pro-duets have been taken to Ogden. because there was nu place in the j county where it could be sold for cash. Combined effort would establish estab-lish a market for all hat is pro-I pro-I dueed in our county and there-I there-I by save the profits at home. J' F.elding, Ctah, De.'. 2li. |