The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1889-12-31
BUYING MACHINERY.
Hints For Farmers Who Intend to Pur-
chase Tools and Implements.


1t is an easy matter to buy machiner.
In this day and age. Spring. summer
autumn and winter the farmer is bese
by agents and dealers to buy machin
cry, no matter If he already has al
outfit, he is urged and urged to buy tn
latest, buy the best, buy any thing, bu.
every thing. 1t makes no difference
whether he has the cash or not. II,
can't get of by PLEADING inability Of
lack of ready means
''Just as lief wait on him as not
Little scratch of note to show the in
debtedness bearing enough interest tt
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 al
their customers paid cash, their (the
agents. profits would be much smaller
than they are now.
The farmer who buys on time. no
matter If 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 it
The farmer who pays 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 a property
statement note, which can be discount
ed at the nearest bank at any time. If
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 if he
ordered from the manufacturers
While the manufacturers are uni
Iorm in their prices, as rule. they can
get no better terms from them than he
caH from the dealers whom they sup
ply.
There is now hardly a section OF
country but in which the farmers have
access to several dealers in farm i'm
elements. Every small town has its
lealer or dealers. Some of these deal
RS will be pretty apt to carry the goods
he farmer wants When he finds
rood, square dealer, who handles first
lass implements, he should deal with
Tim exclusively,
Cheaply-made, worthless implements
ire creeping into the market every
lay. We can not expect the imple-
nent trade to be entirely free from
his evil in such an age of imitation and
heat No farmer should buy imple-
nents without first testing them, or
bliging the agent to give them good |
trial Nor should he sign the
cratch of paper in the form of an or
er, receipt of machine, or any other
odge to fasten the trade upon him,
efore he knows whether or not he |
Tants to buy.
When the farmer comes to the con-
fusion that a certain implement or ma
hine will prove profitable on his farm,
e should proceed to look about him
,r the best make of that kind OF ma
hine. The proper place to ascertain
his is among practical farmers who
ave the machine in actual use, not
mong the dealers altogether. unless
lie farmer is already informed as to his
eeds. As the outfit of machinery and
Implements on an ordinary farm will
ost not far from 81. 900 the farmer can
OF well be too careful and considerate
his ultimate wants in making his i'm
Iement purchases. Western Plow-
ian.