Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1885 — OATS AND NOTES. [ARTICLE]

OATS AND NOTES.

W. R. Rideway, Ohio, writes us that the ’‘Bohemian Oats men” have been in his neighborhood selling seed oais at ten dollars per bushel, the farmers agreeing to sell to the venders twice the amount that they purchase, at the same price per bushel. Our correspondent does- not state the conditions of the sale very plainly, but as he speaks of “farmers giving their notes?” we are quite sure that inis “Bohemian Oat'’ is tne kind of oat that the farmers of Harding county and elscwmre should let aloue. Tnere is nothing in the buying of seed oats that should require the signing of a note. Farmers elsewhere should avoid every transaction which r, quires them to sign their names to any paper that goes into the hands of strangers. Be sure that names signed to an apparently innocent agreement, will- return to plague, the signers. Farmers, sign your name to nothing for a stranger.