Show AN advertising TRICK FOR WESTERN FARMERS real estate agents go after men with land for sale and reap rich harvest A smooth scheme for separating farmers from their money has haa been worked with much success in south dakota an oily grafter calls on a farmer and makes a bid for his bis land tho the figures aro are absurdly low at first but by degrees are raised as high as 60 an acre and the farmer consents then the visitor explains that lie he Is only on an agent but that ho can sell the land at the price named it if tho the owner will agree to pay for advertising at the rate of fifty cents an acre the agent promises orally that tha the advertising ver money will not be 0 payable until the lan d Is sold but this st stipulation Is not contained in a contract act that the farmer signs in a few days he receives a copy of an ad and not over courteous demand for money it lafaid la said that twenty two agriculturists were caught with this bait in drown brown county and that one of them gave up tip others de dare claro hotly that they will not pay but they will make a fight in the courts |