Show stick to your parm trade in manufactured goodsil good sis playing some queer pranks nowadays A man or a company may work hard expending much time and money in perfecting some article of general use and suddenly finds that elsewhere some one has been at the same work and can sen the results for less money A few years ago england was the only country that manufactured cotton prints for export while the idea of any one competing with her in her own home markets was laughed aasa bit insanity bait today to day american prints are being worn by operatives in english cotton mills having been found cheaper prettier and better now we hear that agents of german cutlery have been to sheffield heretofore the acknowledged center of the cutlery trade of the world and sold their goads at pricey c therome the home manu mandac ac could not sheffield will continue to make knias and scissors and no american Ane rican will be foolish enough to hope hat the english print works will be closed but the illustrations which we have given of the fluctuations of trade will show the american farmer that businesses which he mournfully considers more profitable than his own are subject to drawbacks and dangers which the agriculturist never knows breadstuffs Bread stuffs and food ma of every kind are always in demand and have a tolerably uniform value the world over no competition no new that may be developed can ever afflict farmers with a lock out such as workers in the trades are constantly experiencing nor in tremendous failures like thos which arc constantly startling the commercial world the overa stocked manufacturer cannot cat his superfluous knives or prints corcan the locked out operative dideon his copis but in the worst season the firmer is sure ati least of a full stomach and his head sensible is he if instead of grumbling at his lot he makes the best of t and realizes in the long run he is better off than many whose occasional successes he envies t |