COST OF AGRICULTURAL TRACTORS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 252, 19 July 1920, Page 6

COST OF AGRICULTURAL TRACTORS

Sir,—ln' reference to your report in this moruinpr's issue of a fanner' complaining about the higli cost of agricultural tractors, I beg to point out that this.farmer does not take into any consideration the other part of. the picture, nnmely, the cost "of obtaining a farmer s order. ' Any trader who has sought to market implements, machinery, or homo c'.mforts, could write, a book upon tho difficulties in relation to marketing and tho procrastination'of the average farmer. In my own biisjni'sf nf gns-eooking and light for thoso dis nut from a city service, I have.discontinued, chasing the rainbow by all roads, and at prohibitive cost and personal lnc.oiivenienco, contenting myself witli Government work,, where those responsible ar« always ready to investigate ™>ry point of a new proposition, and to make up their minds with promptitude and decision. It would be far more to the point if this farmer, instead of bewailing the liitrli cost of marketing, practically self-imposed, could propound some scheme wherebv farmers would conio into closer touch with tlitfsc who seek to erne.them. -I am, etc.. QUAfst "