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members would have implicit confidence that they would be treated 

 as liberally in the future as in the past. I repeat, "Send in your 

 order." 



We are also asked to recommend some certain make of supplies. 

 To this we have to answer that the National is ^•ery friendlv to AL1> 

 manufacturers, consequently cannot recommend some particular 

 make as more desirable than another. 



\\'hat to DO if you are undecided upon the make of supplies to 

 buy, is to look over the columns of the Review and write all the supply 

 manufacturers that are patronizing us and send to them and get their 

 new 1914 price list of supplies, and after looking them over you ought 

 not to have very much doubt in your mind which are making the kind 

 suitable to your needs. We can assure you that those manufacturers 

 M'ho are advertising in the Review at the present time are tlie best in 

 the li'orld, so you cannot make a mistake by patronizing them. 



Remember, we are brokers. You send us your money, the same 

 price you would pay others, and we will take the casJi and buy your 

 supplies for you direct from the manufacturer, and we assure you that 

 with this way of dealing you will not have the bad debts to pay that 

 are unavoidable with the credit system now in vogue with the jobber. 

 Remember that we have no price to quote you in advance, you re- 

 mitting the manufacturer's price quoted you in the list that you order 

 from. Everything co-operative. 



Buy Your Supplies in Car Lots. 

 In several localities, especially in the 

 West, producers are "getting their 

 heads together" and talking of making 

 up a club order of a full car of sup- 

 plies. There are many advantages in 

 buying supplies by this method. In the 

 first place you will get your supplies 

 delivered to you about as clean and 

 nice as when they left the factory. But 

 the main object will be that they can be 

 bought cheaper in car lots than in less 

 number, and no small object in long 

 shipments is the saving of a consid- 

 erable in freight charges between car 

 load rates and local rates. Notice. 

 Western buyers, that if you buy your 

 supplies in the East, that the freight 

 rate will be equalized with those of 

 Chicago, so in looking up freight rates 

 simply ask for Chicago rate and you 

 will have it very close. It takes some 

 little time to get the several who will 

 ■want supplies together and get them 

 in line so as to be in shape to make 

 the order, so it is none too soon now 

 to begin operations if you want to re- 

 ceive your suppHes in time to put them 



up before the busy season ; so "get 

 busy" and get your order on the road 

 as soon as possible. The better plan 

 is to do your business through some 

 bank. Select some one of your number 

 who is most competent to take charge 

 of the order. After making out the 

 list of goods that is wanted by the dif- 

 ferent members, this list is handed to 

 the one selected to do the ordering, he 

 in turn will estimate what the goods 

 will cost after allowing for freight 

 charges, then the member will deposit 

 said amount in the bank decided upon. 

 We will order the car of goods shipped 

 "to our order," drawing upon you for 

 amount through the bank you desig- 

 nate when ordering, bill of lading at- 

 tached. The bank pays for the goods 

 and delivers the bill of lading to you 

 when you can get the goods. This plan 

 is not new, for most business is done 

 in car lots on this same plan. The 

 National is here to serve you. Make it 

 more valuable to you this year than last 

 by allowing them to do your buying for 

 you. "The greatest good to the great- 

 est number" we hope will always be the 

 slogan of the National. 



