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Grain it should be sold in the fall / Even if the price it should be small, / For if you keep it till the spring / Sometimes a less price it doth bring.
For grain with whole world doth compete, / You cannot raise the price of wheat, / Then at once you should embark it / On its way to world's market.
We hope our views you don't despise, / For grain doth shrink in weight and size, / If you sell wheat you can get gold, / Retain it, damp may make it mould.
Remember too that of your wheat / The rats of it will fondly eat, / Sell it and money then invest, / And you can get good interest.
The same remarks apply to cheese, / It shrinks and frosts make it to freeze, / Then careful man you have to hire / At great expense to keep up fire.
If you your produce quick do move, / The business soon it will improve, / And then mankind will you bless / For alleviating their distress.
And it pays best to sell each pig, / Plump and young, not old, fat and big, / Young and tender now's the vogue / Either in cattle or in hog.