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portaut question, and a good deal of trouble could be avoided if 

 the boars were recorded first. If he is rejected, then all the trou- 

 ble will be saved both the buyer and the seller." 



Mr. Reese said: "About eleven years ago I bought a couple of 

 sows from G. R. Sheets, of Cromwell, Iowa, and he said to me 'Let 

 me give you a little piece of advice. Don't guarantee a sow.' 

 And he pulled a letter out of his pocket that cost him $125 besides 

 attorney's fees, and he got $30 from the sow. He said he thought 

 the sow to be in pig and guaranteed her to be. He sent the sow by 

 express and later the buyer in some way proved that she was not 

 in pig. The lawyer said all he could do was to settle or stand a 

 lawsuit and probably get beat. I claim that we should not 

 sell any stuff unless we keep it until we are absolutely positive that 

 they are all right and make it definite in writing. But we should 

 not guarantee, because how do we know? We are dealing some- 

 times with men hundreds of miles away and we think they are hon- 

 est, but we have all found men that have not proved just what they 

 should be and for that reason I think we should not guarantee, and 

 should keep copies of letters written describing sows to another 

 breeder. ' ' 



Mr. Hockett made the following remarks: "I agree with Mr. 

 Reese to some extent and to some extent I do not. I look at it in 

 this wa}'. If I buy a sow in pig I am buying her for the good that 

 she is going to do to me, and I want to know if she is in pig. I don't 

 want to keep her for six months. I want recourse. If a man makes 

 a guarantee that the sow is in pig there shoiild be some condition 

 to the guarantee, either to take her back and refund the money, 

 to be re-bred, or to refund a certain percentage of the money. In 

 that way there could be no misunderstanding and no lawsuits. I 

 would not buy a sow from anybody without a guarantee of some 

 sort and I don't believe there are one-half of the men here today 

 that would do that if you expected her to be in pig. If you get 

 her for show you don't care so much." 



Mr. Turner said. "Men that are holding a public sale want to 

 get all the money they can out of their hogs and if you buy at a 

 sale you expect to pay more than the market price, and if you 

 are going to pay double the market price you want to be sure you 

 are going to get something. I had a little experience of my own. 

 I went to a public sale and in the catalogue in the foot notes of a 

 certain animal read 'We hardly know how to describe this brood 

 sow.' I bought the sow and paid $67 for her. When I got her 

 home she proved to be barren and I found out afterwards that she 



