Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-02-14 | Page 6 | Big Assistance to Farmer

BIG ASSISTANCE TO FARMER Smart Buyers of Live Stock Make Good Money Outguessing Owners Own-ers Scales Prove Profitable. (By A HIRED MAN.) Our boss says: "No more guesswork guess-work for me." He has put in a pair of scales, having found out many years too late that scales make knowledge definite. "Before I put in the scales," says the boss, "I did not know anything for certain and sure." Smart buyers of live stock count on making good money just because they are better guessers than farmers and they are always anxious to buy on a guess. You can bet your last dollar that these fellows never view a farm scale with a friendly eye. A man feels mighty cheap to learn that some slick buyer has bought his hogs at guess weights and sold them at advances ranging from 25 to 50 pounds per head. In these days there is no reasonable rea-sonable excuse for farmers to persist per-sist in selling their stock and crops at a guessed weight. A set of farm scales furnish facts that help to put farming on a business basis.