Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-02-03
FARM Ann HOsJsEisO,.D.

Last winter not q hundred miles
from where hold forth several car
loads of organs were distributed
through the country at a high price
on time. A little later the sulky pillow
men ravaged the same region selling
plows for thirty-six dollars on twelve
months time that could be made for
ten or twelve dollars. Most of these
plows are lying in the corners OF the
fences. A few insist that they are
good, but too high-priced,
Time passed and the hot weather
brought the ten dollar wheat men.
You could buy twenty-five bushels Of
wheat for your note properly secured
for $3.50, payable in thirteen months,
and the company bound itself to take
fifty bushels-twice as much as you
bought for ten dollars per bushel by
receiving two dollars and fifty cents
for commission! Rather heavy charges.
but as wheat had not sold for ten dol
lars i'm long time it was considered
quite generous all around. Seven
dollars and fifty cents for wheat was
enough to make poor farmer who
had been selling his crop for seventy
five cents generous! 1t is pertinent to
add that his wheat business was con-
Quoted by an incorporated company
in the State; no foreign company try
ing to rob farmers but a legitimate or
ganization which the Hon. so and so
and Judge Blank and many Others
certified was sound and safe. Some
went as far as TO prefer the bond of
this company to anything Uncle Sam
could issue. Well. the wheat is grow
ing and the notes which were 70 be
paid out of next summers crop have
long been hawked among the brokers
The other day the fifteen-dollar Oat
men made their appearance. You
buy ten bushels Of oats and give your
note approved for $50 payable out
OF next years crop at ten dollars. |
am credi6ly informed that the notes
are sold for fifty per cent asked
nsishbOr Brown how many he could
grow rom the ten bushels. He re-
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t,.bl NV.a. sid s3O,O for n
chance lika TIA? Why didn You
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~ rho ricast comfy towns in the
world where wealth. culture and in
teIIicenca abound and where a fair
was held last September. which. to
get money. allowed almost everything
except highway robbery TO ply the
trade of deception upon simple a.ri-
cultursl folk who went TO see the
sheep and hogs and cattle. and pro-
auctions of grand old county, and
saw all these and the elephant Iii
censed inside) and left their hard
earnings behind them when they re-
turned to their home sadder If not
wiser by the exhibition. Is the indict-
ment full enough? The tree peddler,
the nostrum vendor and others are
omitted for the present.
Is it any wonder SO many farmers
unable to keep both ends together
and want to go to something else? 4
farmer said to another, shortly, that
he couldn't till farm, pay his rent
honestly and live. He thought he
should engage in horse trading, Why
not,
have written this with the hope
that some one NAV be kept from the
various swipdlers living in wait.
EASTERN SHoRENAN
p. S.-Ten bushels of oats at a Weld