When to Sell Grain and Farm Produce + 

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. + 