The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-28
Over 100000 Pounds.iof To-
baccO Sold at Bohmer's.
Under the System I'm Eject Buyers
Bid ON Every Pile offered for
Sale.
SOMETHING OF THE HANDLING.

Since starting sales at Bohmer's
warehouse upwards of three hundred
thousand pounds of tobacco have been
sold. The bidding at first was some
what lacking in animation owing to
the fact that the buyers had not
caught on to the system. OF late
however, IL has been astonishing
what competition has been developed.
Certain buyers, especially the smaller
ones. realizing that they do not get
the tobacco unless they are the last
bidders, have taken the keenest de-
light in running up prices on those
who actually have to have same.
Under our system buyer can bid
on every pile In the house making his
competitor pay an advance price in
order to get the pile. This he can do
on the warehouse floor in open COM
petition without II costing him one
cent, but he cannot do so at the barn
wagon yard or on the street. Why
do certain buyers go to the country
to buy? Why do they get up before
daybreak and try to buy at the wagon
yards, stating that certain prices are
all that they will pay. or that your
tobacco is worth? Can you blame
them for doing anything, saying any
thing TO get at the lowest price pos
sible the results of your twelve
months hard labor, considering not
the wear and tear OF your soil, the
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Would you not do likewise in trying
to buy horse OF anything else you
were compelled TO have? But sup
pose you could not get horse at
your own price, would you not, in
order to get him have to pay an ad-
vance over what the owner could get
from anyone else?
You have had no competition on
the sale of your tobacco: you have
been selling your tobacco at the barn
at round price and letting this sin
gle buyer not only take il at his own
figure. but letting MIN make all the
profit that there Is in raising tobacco.
| Tobacco when received at Bohmer's
warehouse is unloaded in large fiat
baskets. each grade 20 itself. The
farmers name does not appear on
tag as all tobacco is offered by num-
Der.
| When the tobacco Is weighed
the owner Is given a receipt showing
number of draft and pounds thereof
and a corresponding ticket Is placed
on each pile. After the auctioneer
has obtained the higest bid. this bid
is written on ticket and should the
owner. decide TO accept same. by rre-
senting sellers coupon and the re-
ceipt previously given him. the sale
Is made and the cash handed over.
Should the bid offered not be salts
factory II costs the farmer nothing
the tobacco can be offered the next
day or any other time thereafter.
Tobacco the moment IL enters the
house Is insured and the only charge
made is l 5 cents per hundred pounds
and 2 per cent commission when the
offer is accepted.
There are large number Of man
dhu htdA'lo III ANWhNAW
whose factories are hundreds Of
miles away from here. These buyers
will not go to the country to buy
crops round. will not buy on the
wagon. but will patronize the loose
floor as the tobacco loaded on bas-
kets can be run into a car and deliy-
cred to them In Louisville, Owens
boro, Henderson or wherever they
might be located. at comparatively
no expense. Competition is what
makes the price. You will get more
for your tobacco when offered to the
highest bidder in open competition
with twenty-five buyers trying to buy
than when you expect or require one
buyer to buy millions of pounds with
our competition at a round price at
your barn.
Do not beg a buyer to buy your
product. Remember he is just as
anxious to get possession of your to-
bacco as you are to sell 1t. Your to-
bacco has an intrinsic value and this
you can and should secure. II is not
Ionly due you but those dependent on
! lyou.