The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-02-04
BUYING MACHINERY.

Hints For Farmers Who Intend to Pur-
chase Tools an implements.
lis an easy matter to buy machinery .
In this day and age. Spring. summer, /
autumn and winter the farmer 10 bese' /
by agents and dealers to buy machine
cry, no matter il he already has an !
outfit, he is urged and urged TO buy the
latest buzz the best, buy any thing, buy |
every thing. 1t makes no difference
whether he has the cash or not. he
can't get off by pleading inability or
lack of ready means
just as lief wait on him as not
Little scratch of a 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 coarse, quite as acceptable to them
as to all other business men; but If all
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 ne does give his note bearing
a 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 a mower for 500 cash to
one farmer while he gets a note Of $40
from another for like machine.
The principal, or the manufactures,
ostensibIy 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 az 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, 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 20
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 a better oppor-
tunity of learning from those who have
already purchased just how the ma
chine operates The machine is before
his eyes and be 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 rule, they car
get no better terms from them than he
can from the dealers whom they sup
ply.
There is now hardly section o.
country but in which the farmers have
access to several dealers in farm i'm
plements. Every small town has III
dealer or dealers. Some of these deal
ers will be pretty apt to carry the good
good, square dealer, who handles first
class implements, he should deal witt
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, @
obliging the agent to give them a good
thorough trial. Nor should he sign th
scratch of paper in the form of an o.
der, receipt of machine, or any othe
dodge to fasten the trade upon hin
before he knows whether or not b
wants to buy.
When the farmer comes to the col
clusion that a certain implement or mi
chine will prove profitable on his farm
he should proceed to look about hi
for the best make of that kind Of N;
chine. The proper place to ascertai
this is among practical farmers VII
have the machine in actual use. n
among the dealers altogether, unle
the farmer is already informed as to b
needs. As the outfit of machinery ar
implements on an ordinary farm wi
cost not far from 81. 600 the farmer CO
not well be too careful and considera
of his ultimate wants in making his II
plement purchases. Western Plo'
man.
ROSSiNFS LITTLE JOKE