Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1901 — One Farmer’s Experience. [ARTICLE]

One Farmer’s Experience.

The story is told on a good and industrious farmer residing in the northern part of this county, near Fair Oaks, that h& troubled himself much during all of last summer to fatten 118 turkeys so as to have them in the best paying marketing condition at about Christmas time; that when he got-, from some concern in Chicago, ,au offer of 13 cents per pound for his turkeys, which of course was a little better than he could get at the home market—and that he, trusting to the honesty of the flattering promises of the liberal paying concern in Chicagb, to send him the pay for his birds by first mail after they had been received and weighed, sent them and is now free from any further care as well as for the pay for them —which he has not yet received. The same gentleman also shipped a lot of potatoes to InIndianapolis from where he had received a bigger offer than the home market made, and after they had been graded down, netted about 10 cents per bushel on them.—Kentland Democrat.