. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, May 13. 1916. As a social necessity on the farm a telephone has won a place years ago. As a business proposition it has a place, but not what it might have, and not what it will have. The place the telephone has in the business end of farming is related to the disposing of farm productsâthe sales end. There are times when a good many days pass without any such work presenting itself that would make use of the phone. On the other hand, when it is wanted it is wanted pretty bad. One of the places where the average farmer, who
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, May 13. 1916. As a social necessity on the farm a telephone has won a place years ago. As a business proposition it has a place, but not what it might have, and not what it will have. The place the telephone has in the business end of farming is related to the disposing of farm productsâthe sales end. There are times when a good many days pass without any such work presenting itself that would make use of the phone. On the other hand, when it is wanted it is wanted pretty bad. One of the places where the average farmer, who sells the usual farm crops besides the staples of corn, wheat and oats, loses is in taking stuff to the markets without a previous sale. Here is where the phone can and must be used if the top price is realized by the salesman. Suppose that there are a dozen bushels of good apples to sell. Maybe there are all of one kindâBald- wins. The market is paying 75 cents for such apples. You drive to town without a sale by phone, and the gro- cery or dealer knows that you won't be apt to haul them back to the farm again, so he says they're full of apples but they'll give you 50 cents or pos- sibly 60 cents for the bunch. What do you do ? Why, you sell. What did you lose? Just enough to pay for a couple of months' telephone rent. Now there's another side to this. Every time a foreign or even a home farmer drives to town with a few bush- els of apples or other truck that isn't sold, he sets a lower price for the oth- er farmers in the section. That is not fair for him and surely not fair for the remainder of us. That's another place where all farmers are too far apart. This phone plan will eventually be a step toward co-operation. If all of us farmers would stick by the regular price there wouldn't be other prices offered. And nobody would lose ex- cept the dealer, who makes enough anyway. But there is one important point to be watched carefullyâvery carefullyâ and that is the descrip
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