Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . Why?—Bonds are the premier in-vestment for the farmer. How?—They resemble the Mort-gage, the farmers life-long friend orenemy. Why some stocks are a possiblebuy, with some consideration of whatconstitiites u sound stock purchasefor the farmer. The value of horse racing, as op-posed to some other forms of specu-lative The farmer has never been a bondbuyer. That was not the farmersfault, but the fault of the issuers ofbonds. In the days before the war the bond houses had made a catch judgmentto the effect that bonds could not be sold in th
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . Why?—Bonds are the premier in-vestment for the farmer. How?—They resemble the Mort-gage, the farmers life-long friend orenemy. Why some stocks are a possiblebuy, with some consideration of whatconstitiites u sound stock purchasefor the farmer. The value of horse racing, as op-posed to some other forms of specu-lative The farmer has never been a bondbuyer. That was not the farmersfault, but the fault of the issuers ofbonds. In the days before the war the bond houses had made a catch judgmentto the effect that bonds could not be sold in the rural communities, and let it goat that. The idea looked sound enough, tiU it ran up against the actual it came to a matter of selling Government bonds to finance Canadas partin the war, it became necessary to cover every field. The salesmen who weredeputed to handle the rural sections, went out with the fixed conviction that theymight about as well go fishing. Bonds never had been sold to the farmers, andarguing along that finely fallacious line of precedent they contended that theynever could be sold. When those salesmen came back to their respective busin-esses theie was a goodly amount of rubbing of eyes and scratching of bonds had been sold, and sold about as readily in the rural sections as in the cities. That set the bond houses wonderi
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