Show AN advertising TRICK FOR WESTERN FARMERS real estate agents go after men with land for sale a and nd reap rich harvest A smooth echeme scheme tor for separating farmers from their money baa has beten beta worked with much success in south dakota an oily grafter calls on a farmer and makes a bid for his land the figures are absurdly low at first but by degrees are raised as arf high as 60 an acre and the farmer consents then the visitor explains that he Is only an agent but that becan he can sell the land at the price named it if the owner will agree to pay for advertising at the rate of fifty cents an acre the agent promises orally that the ad ver money will not ve bol payable until the land Is sold but thi tion Is not contained in a contract that the farmer signs in a few days he receives a copy of an ad and not over courteous demand for money it Is said that twenty two agriculturists were caught with this bait in brown county and that one of them gave up others declare hotly that they will not pay bat but they will make a fight in the courts |