Hardware merchandising September-December 1919 . of manufac-turers and the trade, expressed his be-lief that the material in the hands ofusers was limited. Crop prospects inthe early part of the season, he said,made the buyer cautious, and he didnot book heavily on this account. Stocksare therefore not large. Business men whom I met were optim-istic and in good spirits. There were noevidences of unemplloymenlt; no com-plaint regarding conditions. The cropoutlook improved very materially towardthe latter part of the summer, affordinga supply of rrreen feed for the stock andenabling the farmers
Hardware merchandising September-December 1919 . of manufac-turers and the trade, expressed his be-lief that the material in the hands ofusers was limited. Crop prospects inthe early part of the season, he said,made the buyer cautious, and he didnot book heavily on this account. Stocksare therefore not large. Business men whom I met were optim-istic and in good spirits. There were noevidences of unemplloymenlt; no com-plaint regarding conditions. The cropoutlook improved very materially towardthe latter part of the summer, affordinga supply of rrreen feed for the stock andenabling the farmers to take care of thecattle as it was feared they would notbe able to do. The lake cities of Port Arthur andFort William looked good to Mr. Leslie, and there was considerable activitythere. Two of the big elevators therewere being added to extensively. Thiswould afford much increased accom-modation for the grain coming from theWest. Speaking of the movement of grain,Mr. Leslie thought that the earlier ship-ping of grain had served to relieve what. W. S. LESLIE President of A. C. Leslie & , Montreal. might have been congestion, and whichis sometimes serious at this time of theyear. Altogether, the optimism andspeedy manner of doing things in theWest, and particularly in metropolitanWinnipeg, impressed Mr. Leslie mostfavorably. Says That Every $100 Carried More Than 30Davs Costs Merchant Real Money ~~>ROM information at our disposalthere is less credit business .be-ing done at the present time thanever before, said the Credit Manager ofa larTe Toronto hardware firm in dis-cussing business matters with HARD-WARE AND METAL. Merchants arerealizing that ev^ry hundred dollarscarried on their books for more thanthirty days costs money. This bit of advice was given when thequestion was asked if the retailers wereasking for extended credits from thewholesaler so that they might, for in-stance, buy Victory Bonds. The answerwas that there was no tendency eitherto ask and, possib
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