Show FOR TRACTORS farmers carlp by black mart gradually deteriorating prewar machines and implements plus a shortage of rural labor are the two principal factors responsible for or development of 0 a flourishing black market in tarm farm equipment according to manufacturers and dealers groups who have pronounced the situation fairly widespread secondary circumstances which support the existence of this particular black market are the unparalleled height of farm income and the apparent determination ot of the nations tarm farm population to advance to new levels of 0 mechanization thus the demand for farm arm equipment continues to be almost insatiable even eden the heavy un inter erupted output of the entire farm arm equipment industry has failed to still the clamor of 0 the hungry market it has been conn comi un nn n n practice this summer tor for farmers anners to pay huge premiums on such pieces ol of equi equipment p as tractors hay bay balers and corn pickers all ot of which have customers on dealers waiting lists tractors priced at 1000 have s sold id for or as high as or hay balers which are used on hay bay three times a season and have other farm arm uses have been finding buyers at double or triple the list price pointing up these mal practices on the part of individuals one manufacturer fac referred to the particularly bad black market in combines when one wheat farmer for or example has his crop crop harvested someone will drive up and ask him how bow much he paid tor for his combine the farmer might say 2000 when the stranger asks how bow much he be would sell it for or the farmer picking a number am out ot of the hit hat might wy say then to the farmers farmer a surprise the stranger peels off 30 bills and takes the combine oft off his bis hands the farmer would have got if he be had asked it be jeanse the stranger took the combine north and sold I 1 it tor for 1000 |