Show BUYING HORSES think the farmers often pay par far too much several years ago when hen agents of eastern horse concerns sold a large number of stallions in this north country at fancy prices a certain loose jointed animal with an exceedingly cee bad leg found buyers the slick tongued salesman made the farmers believe that that animal was almost perfection and they got a splendid price our informant came in touch with a little englishman along with the horse at that time and asked him in a casual way what such an aa animal cost in england hi dont think the bagents would want me to tell but ill hi dont mind tellin you like that one cost cabout one hundred pounds this was a fair sample of the way the farmers were bilked at that time and as they are being bilked to today day if our informants inform antis correct in his assertions horses sold there for and more are said to be plentiful in france for less than 1000 and few brought into the united states cost there more than 1500 the method of securing a sale at a fancy price is to secure a certain number of share takers and then present some very influential man in the community with two or three shares for the use of his name when some man high up in the community thus sells himself I 1 sales of animals are consummated easily for the farmers have confidence in the judgment of the certain man who has been secured by a present the farmers can well afford to investigate thoroughly before they purchase stallions at fancy prices bogan logan republican |