Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-03-18
BOHEMIAN OATS.
Adrian Mich March {

NldlCll lOOD.
q. ID. WALDORPH,
Brockway Centre. Mich.
DEAR SIR:
Your postal came to-day and as
Father Kellogg is at Fentonville, have
taken the liberty to answer as .well as
possible your questions concerning the
Bohemian Oat Go. don't think | can
say anything that would influence you
as much as the few clippings from our
"Daily Record" and one from the In
dianian Republican, published at War
saw, Indiania. These from the Record
are only few taken from late issues.
They have operated III our Co., Lenawee,
and Washtenaw and don't or rather
cannot learn of the farmer who has had
any dealing with them at all, and who
came out of the transaction without
being numerically swindled. don't
know the Cos name but would suggest
that you give them wide berth, if they
are like the ones here and in Ohio and
Indiana.
If you would like any more papers
containing their doings just let me
know and can furnish any quantity
am very Respectfully,
Your Cousin, FRANK G. SEGER.
Bohemian oats at 81 bushel and no
buyers in Monroe. Why buy Bohemian
oats at one bushel when it is known
that $40 bushel will buy all that man
wants?
\ German farmer of Blissfield is
deeply worried i'll consequence of note
for $500 which he gave for twenty BUSH
els of Bohemian, oats. 81 no care SO
much about mlneself," remarked the
honest toiler in a tone ofIagitation, "but
| veelS very sorry for de man vot buys
my note, for they don't can COLLECT some
tings Ouf me-" This is rare case of
disinterested sorrow Time may per-
haps assuage it.
1t is now the turn of several Ridge
way parties to live on Bohemian m)ote
meal. They have been sued for the
little sums agreed to be paid for the
rare and glorious seed. They still have
the offspring on hand, and it is not sold,
the agents being derilict in that respect.
1t can be truly said by some: The har-
vest is long passed, the summer is end
ed, and my Bohemian oats are not sold
but my notes are
A good story is told of n. b. Hayes,
one of the solid men of Michigan, who
was approached by a Bohemian oats
agent. Mr.. Hayes agreed to give his
note for Sl0,OOO on condition that the
same be deposited in some bank until
due, when the agent should pay him
the $500 profit, but the latter couldn't
see it in that light and no bargain was
made.-Port Huron Tribune.
The following must strike the general
reader a little peculiar. If horse is
taken from your barn, the owner can
pursue it and claim it If he proves his
property in an innocent purchasers
hands, and the purchaser is the loser,
but if Bohemian oat man steals your
signature to note. (for what else can it
be) your note turning up in the innO-
cent purchasers hands, especially in a
bank, it is then all right, and you can
then walk up and pay 1t and be glad
that the amount is not larger.
A couple of Riga farmers last season
bought Bohemian oats. The agents
agreed to sell the crop for % per cent.
commission and pay them in notes.
They got the notes, which are not worth
hoorah in Chicago. The contract it
seems does not specify that the notes
shall be good. All the same they have
their pay in notes. The parties making
them are worthless. and it is claimed
that they got a dollar apiece for signing
their names to them. This is not a
warning against Bohemian oat agents.
Warnings do very little good.