Show AN advertising TRICK FOR WESTERN FARMERS peal estate agents go after men with land for sale and reap ach R ch harvest A smooth scheme for separating farmers from their money has been worked with much success in south dakota an oily olly 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 high as 60 an acre and the farmer consents then the visitor explains that he Is only an agent but that he can sell th the e land at the price named it th the e 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 be payable until the land is sold but this 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 tor for money it Is said that twenty two agriculturists were caught with this bait in brown county and that one of them gae gaie up others de dare clare hotly that they will not pay hut but they will make a fight in the courts |