Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1876 — Early Things Pay Best. [ARTICLE]

Early Things Pay Best.

A chicken which comes to this market in July, and is large enough co make any show when broilea and placed on a piece of toast, will sell for fifty cents. Feed the chick till it is four or five times that size, which will require it to be kept till about Christmas, and it will bring a quarter of a dollar. Most farmers follow the latter practice, and declare that raising poultry for the market does not pay. Spring lamb retails in July at twentyfive cents per pound, and the market is seldom supplied, even at that price. Keep the lambs till November, ana the meat will rnoßt likely retail at twelve cents per pound. Continue to feed the lambs till they are sheep, and their flesh is denominated mutton, and the latter can be disposed of at about six cents per pound, though there will be little demand for it. Most farmers think there is no money in mutton.

The first quart of strawberries, raspberries or blackberries that appears in the market brings about as much money as the last bushel of these fruits. The same is true of the first cherries, peaches and apricots. Nothing sells more readily in April than pie-plant, and nothing is less salable than the same substances (wo monthrlateri' TBC first asparagus in the market is canght up at fifty cents for one bunch, while the last that comes finds slow sale at the rate of five cents per bunch. The first cucumbers in the market sell for from twenty-five to fifty cents each; late in the season a bushel brings about the same sum. Nothing produced from the soil pays better than early vegetables, and hardly anything pays as poorly as late vegetables, unless it be late small fruits. After one variety of fruit that succeeds another comes into market, the (rice for the former immediately falls, tis like a garment no longer in the height of fashion. Early poultry, meat, fruit and vegetables class as luxuries, and there are always persons enough to purchase luxuries at any price. In every large city there are persons who do not hesitate about the price in the matter of gratifying their appetites. The demand for luxuries does not seem to decrease during hard times, neither does the patronage of expensive restaurants. The high-priced luxuries that farmers can derive benefit from are the things that can be marketed early.— Chicago Time*.

—“Aterrible.temptation” in real life lias been brought to light in the recent libel suit of Dr. Uapip against the Troy (N. Y.) Budget. According to the testimony of a Mrs. Goddard, of Albany, Dr. Camp procured a young infant for her from the county house, some time ago, At a cost of twenty-five dollars, and she got her husband, who had been a traveling musician with Sheridan & Mack's minstrels, to believe it was his own offspring. The woman wss childless, and took this means of retaining the regard of her busband. The deception worked well until Dr. Camp, in an effort to control the woman’s action in reference to the libel suit, informed the husband of the true state ol again. - • ' • A Grout ah has so far deciphered the hieroglyphic records sufficiently to prove that one of the pyramids was bnilt 3,010 yean before Christ, which is 1,000 years earlier than any chronological date previously established.