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and guarantee to give him fifty per cent of the money back if she 
is not in pig, he ought not to expect all of it. If she is in pig and 
has good care she will farrow the litter. If she don't get that kind 
of care, I never feel that he ought to expect anything. The third 
pure bred sow I bought at private sale was in good condition and 
was in pig. I fed her and when she farrowed she had eight live 
pigs and two she failed to have because I fed her too heavily. It is 
not always lack of care but over-feeding so that a man may think 
he is doing the right thing. We should fulfil our guarantees in 
the catalogue, and if we know reason for fault in the sow it is all 
well and good to meet the man half way. If we don't know the 
circumstances, I never feel that it is our duty to go half way after 
we have fulfilled our guarantee." 
Mr. Harding gave his views as follows: ''I agree with some of 
this talk and some of it I do not. In regard to a sale guarantee, 
I think that we should fulfill our sale guarantees. That is all right. 
But every party that buys a sow should have interest enough in 
what he is bujdng to see what the guarantee is before he buys her 
and if he buys that sow under the guarantee in the catalogue he 
should not expect any more than that guarantee. I have always 
tried to be liberal and help a man out if he has trouble but yet 
he has no right to expect any more than is in that catalogue. I 
had one case where I made a statement that a sow was not in pig 
to the date given in the cataolgue but I guaranteed her to another 
date. Now the man bought her and then came back and said she did 
not come in on the date in the catalogue. I didn't expect her to 
and made the statement on sale day myself and had my clerk make 
the same announcement and yet he said he never heard of it. Who 
is to blame? I believe that the time is coming when we must put 
sows in the sale which carry their own guarantees. I might say 
this too, that I have before now sold sows that did carrj^ their own 
guarantee and were shipped back claiming that they were not in 
pig. Then there is another question that comes up that is rather 
hard to handle. Some men expect this period to be on the abso- 
lute date. There is not one sow in a dozen that will farrow on the 
exact date. If a soav should go over six weeks I would naturally 
expect that there was a mistake and should be responsible. I do 
not like shipping a sow back to a man because if I pay the express 
both ways I am doing a losing business and if the other man pays 
the express he is doing a losing business. Why not settle on a 
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