OCR Text |
Show THE WHY OF IT Alfalfa seed dropped. Many ugly remarks were current. Much suspicion sus-picion of skullduggery was rampant. To all of which we say; Dun's Review, Re-view, the leading financial paper of the U. S., reports that the month of October, 1921, had 1713 commercial fialures recorded. 61 of these were failures of more than $100,000.00 each ! These sixty-one aggregated $29,043,711.00! Some money: Hence, the big fellow, brother producer, pro-ducer, is just as much hurt as the little fellow. And no one cares to risk his own money to hold a market. mar-ket. In other words, all buyers, whether of seed or wheat or what not say in effect to you, "Hold on your own money. We'll buy only when we can sell, and not before." Were profits In buying large enough, why yes of course buyers would even borrow bor-row to grab up the good things; but when pickig 1b on a close margin for the middleman, which of course the present trend makes It, the market will be active only just preceding turning It over. Idaho is shipping in a great number num-ber of cattle. That state is determined deter-mined not to be behindhand in getting get-ting to itself the good tilings that make for prosperity. |