We Prepare for Seeding 



[their implements to a new-comer when not in 

 iluse, but it naturally happens that in busy seasons 

 ithe would-be borrower has to wait, and yet such 

 %s the urgency at these times, that a few days* 

 i^delay may mean a golden opportunity missed. 



I therefore started out to interview the various 

 ^implement agents. These seeders sow about 

 •twenty rows at once, some sowing the seed behind 

 [a shoe or short cultivator and others after a 

 bmall disc. Now, we had agreed that we really 

 f could not afford to pay cash, but if we could get 

 [one on payment of one-third and the balance 

 lafter harvest, it would be well to have one, and 

 I so make ourselves independent of borrowing. 

 After a good deal of talk and inspection of different 

 ^implements, it appeared that an agent had a 

 ^seeder of United States make of which I had 

 heard a good account, which had already done 

 some work, so was not quite new, which he agreed 

 to let us have on the terms named for seventy 

 dollars, and also a set of harrows on the same 

 terms for twenty dollars ; and the bargain was 

 struck, we agreeing jointly to sign the lien notes. 

 It need hardly be pointed out that such trans- 

 actions are undoubtedly often helpful to the 

 beginner, though as such notes carry interest at 

 8 per cent., and as there is a lien on the article 

 sold, should the crops prove a failure, especially in 



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