Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-09-14
BUYING MACHINERY.



chase Tools and Implements.
It's an easy matter to buy machinery
In this day and age Spring, summer,
autumn and winter the farmer Is beaet
by agents and dealers TO buy machin-
cry, no matter if he already has an
outfit, he is urged and urged to buy the
latest. buy the best, buy any thing, buy
every thing. II makes no difference
whether he has the cash or not. He
can't get off by pleading inability or
lack of ready means
sJust as lief wait on him as not
Little scratch Of note to show the in
debtedness bearing enough interest to
save loss on the transaction" etc,
etc.
Enterprising agents never let trade
fall through for want of cash. Cash is,
Of course, quite as acceptable to them
as to all other business men; but If all
their customers paid cash, their (the
agerts') profits would be much smaller
than they are now.
The farmer who buys on time, no
matter IL he does give his note bearing
good rate Of interest, haggles but
little as to the price of the goods ANY
machine agent will admit that he gets
from ten to twenty per cent. more for
an implement that he sells on time. An
agent will sell mower for $55 cash to
one farmer while he gets note Of $40
from another for like machine.
The principal, or the manufacturer,
ostensibly frowns at this style of doing
business, while in reality he enCour-
ages 1t.
The farmer who pays q fair rate Of
interest on his note should get his ma
chine as low as the cash customer gets
his. He is required to give property
statement note, which can be discount
ed at the nearest bank at any time, ii
the holder wishes to realize money
upon it.
If an agent or dealer will not give
bottom prices on a note transaction,
would it not be better for the farmer to
raise the money himself and thus get
the benefit of whatever reduction could
be obtained through cash transaction
The farmer who pays cash can also
deal where he pleases. He is not at
the mercy of single local dealer and
obliged to buy just such line of goods
as this agent offers. There are argu-
ments in favor Of dealing with local
dealers provided they carry what the
farmer wants and will deal upon fair
basis. The farmer has better oppor-
tunity of learning from those who have
already purchased just how the ma
chine operates. The machine is before
his eyes and he can tell much better
what he is buying than he could II he
ordered from the manufacturers
While the manufacturers are uni
form in their prices, as a rule, they car
get no better terms from them than he
can from the dealers whom they sup
ply.
There is now hardly a section O.
country but in which the farmers have
access to several dealers in farm i'm
plements Every small town has it,
dealer or dealers. Some of these deal
ers will be pretty apt to carry the good
the farmer wants. When he finds
good, square dealer, who handles first
: class implements, he should deal will
him exclusively.
Cheaply made, worthless implement
are creeping into the market ever,
day. We can not expect the imple
| ment trade to be entirely free fror
this evil in such an age of imitation an
cheat. No farmer should buy imple
ments without first testing them, o
obliging the agent to give them good
I thorough trial. Nor should he sign tn
: scratch of paper in the form of an OF
, der. receipt of machine, or any othe
, dodge to fasten the trade upon hin
| before he knows whether or not h
; wants to buy.
7 When the farmer comes to the cor
l clusion that a certain implement or m5
chine will prove profitable on his farm
, he should proceed to look about hiI
, for the best make of that kind OF ms
chine. The proper place to ascertai
t this is among practical farmers VIII
. have the machine in actual use, nj
a among the dealers altogether, unles
0 the farmer is already informed as to h
q needs. As the outfit of machinery an
i implements on an ordinary farm wi
. cost not far from 81, 600 the farmer ca
: not we'll be too careful and considerat
of his ultimate wants in making his in
T, plement purchases Western Plov
u man.