Show How 90 Postcards Netted Man In th the May American Magazine are the results of a competition entitled The Best Beat Business Stroke I Ever Made One of the letters leters sounds like a a Monte lonte Carlo romance although it I s shows hows shrewdness work and foresight A grain merchant in the he Mississippi I i valley learned leared one year that the wheat i in n his hs section was badly winter killed kled So he sent circular letters of inquiry to smaller dealers throughout the country asking about the condition of th the wheat crop rop He received re replies replies re- re ples plies which covered the whole grain region They revealed the startling fact that winter killing kling was general genera that spring planting was retarded and that stock on OH hand was small Certain that that the government crop re report report r- r re- re port due in about three weeks would reveal these conditions and that a j Jump ump in iii price w would uld follow the merchant merchant mer mer- chant h bought all l. l the sr grain ln he could c uld l la lay ay han hands s on When his elevators were filled fied ho he s to New York drawing on his consignees f for r 75 per per percent percent cent of value of OC each bill bl pt of lading and instructing them to hold the grain off oc the marl market et By Dy using a large amount of money l left ett on deposit by farmer friends frends and thus drawing draving on 01 each vach a h consignment he I was abl able to buy and ship in three weeks bushels bushels' of wheat and bushels of f corn to which the same samo conditions applied His own o working capital was as only When the great groat crop crp report was wa published prices went skyward and he sold out clean cean realizing a a- anet net profit of oC more than |