, * OUR Business Code SL* tOU/ To accomplish these objectives we will endeavor to observe the following standards of practice in our relations with customers, competitors, suppliers and others. To operate an adequate place of business wfth , suitable display rooms and whll-equipped service sh6p. To maintain stocks of new equipment and re placement parts properly to serve the surround ing trade area. To employ competent well informed salesman, efficient parts men, skilled dependable service shop mechanics and accurate accountants. To promote the most approved methods of soil conservation farming and ascertain the equip ment desired, and best suited to the needs of our farming community. To understand and to explain thefunctions of all equipment sold, in ordei that such equipment may serve each owner most economically and effectually. To furnish all such services to customers on a price basis that will assme prompt continuous service during the normal life of the epuipment and afford reasonable compensation for the ser vices rendered. If your local dealer observes the standards suggested in this Business Code, he de- serves your support and needs your patronage. Some ways that you can help him to serve you better are as follows : 1. Have your machinery checked and overhauled dur- ing winter months so that the dealer can keep his trained servicemen for the spring and summer months when you need them most. 2. Place orders or give an indiction of your need for repair parts, supplies and machinery as long ahead •as possible. 3. Pay open accounts when due or make satisfactory arrangements for credit terms as dealers must pay repairs, labor, rent, etc. with cash, not promises, 4. Read instrucation books and follow suggested maintenance and safety precautions. 5. When you need .new machinery and supplies support the nearest dealer who provides adequate service for the kind of machinery you use. GOOD MACHINERY MAKES A GOOD FARMER BETTER YOU NEED YOUR LOCAL FARM EQUIPMENT DEALER Sponsored by The Lancaster County Retail Farm Equipment Dealers .. . f Lancaster Farming, Friday, November 18, 1955 AS A Farm Equipment Retailer, we recognize our obligation to serve the public. We are aware of our continuing responsibility to farmer customers’ and our duty to promote the improve' xnent of Agriculture. We believe : HE NEEDS YOU—SUPPORT HIM Farm Equipment must solve a human need ; It must release the farm family from drudgery , It must lower farm operating costs and met ease farm production. It must give farm people more time for leisure and oppor tunity to raise to a still higher plane the standard of hv i ig on American farms. To avoik all unfair acts and practices in re lations with competitors to seek trade only upon the merit of the merchandise sold or the services oerformedj: to adhere strictly to sound and honorable business methods. * To encourage the development and advance ment of employees so thev msy better serve all farmer customers and the community, and thus contribute their share to the building of a higher type of citizenship. v* To cooperate with other business men and fellow citizens in promoting community welfare, to foster and promote all sta‘e and national organizations interested in agricultural programs whose objectives are to improve farming methods and to maintain farm equipment mer chandising on a sound basis. To make this orogram a worthwhile contri bution to the welfare of humanity and thus de velop among all farm equipment retailers ajusti able pride in their mdustn' as well as the es sential service it renders tc Agriculture. e Only ng Day si istmas
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