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and your dealer as to what service he shall render and what you 

 shall pay for that service. Remember all the way through that the 

 thing that really talks is the cash. 



107. Order in advance. — If you order in advance the dealer can 

 know how much to buy and if you have the right relations with 

 him he can buy at the right time and price for future delivery. 

 Feed is usually the cheapest between May 1 and October 1 each 

 year, the so-called " grass price" usually obtaining in these 

 months. We will illustrate this in the case of the four feeds chosen 

 above. All prices quoted are on the basis of the Utica, New York, 

 freight rate from western points in carloads, wholesale, for cash, 

 draft attached to bill of lading, which means that the draft must be 

 paid before the car can be unloaded. 



108. Time to buy wheat bran. — The following little table 

 shows the highest and lowest prices per ton in each year named for 

 the ten years 1912 to 1922. We have broken the year to run from 

 May 1 to April 30 of the next year because prices usually begin to 

 break in the feed market about April 1. 



A glance at this table shows that bran is cheaper as a rule in the 

 summer months and that a normal summer price is $20 to $23. 



109. Hominy. — The hominy table shows that the best price on 

 this feed is likely to come later in the year after the new corn 

 comes on the market, although the low price on this feed varies all 

 over the year. The clearest thing in the table is that $20 to $25 is 

 about the price to pay most years. 



