I  am  sending  with  this  letter  corre¬ 
spondence  and  contract  of  Itico  Bros.. 
Genova.  N.  Y„  concerning  100  strawberry 
plants  which  I  agreed  to  purchase  of  their 
agent,  Mr.  Hale.  The  forepart  of  May 
they  mailed  me  a  package  of  plants, 
marked  f  17  plants.  I  did  not  want  to  be 
bothered  with  two  jobs  of  setting  so  few 
plants,  so  put  the  plants  in  water  and 
wrote  them  to  send  remainder  of  order. 
The  latter  part  of  the  month  of  June  I 
received  another  bundle  of  plants,  but 
with  no  tag  giving  any  name  or  descrip¬ 
tion  of  variety.  Consequently  all  plants 
died.  You  will  notice  that  the  contract 
calls  for  delivery  of  strawberry  plants  in 
the  Spring  only.  Perhaps  June  20  is 
Spring,  but  I  did  not  see  it  that  way.  I 
feel  that  I  am  justified  in  refusing  pay¬ 
ment.  Would  like  your  opinion. 
New  York.  r.  n. 
Under  the  circumstances  as  outlined 
above  the  grower  is  fully  justified  iu  re¬ 
fusing  to  pay  for  the  plants.  The  nur¬ 
sery  houses  selling  through  agents  seem 
to  feel  that  they  can  fill  orders  in  any 
manner  they  choose  or  with  any  kind  of 
stock,  and  compel  the  grower  to  pay  for 
it.  Nursery  concerns  of  the  Rice  Bros. 
Co.  class  rely  upon  the  well-known  aver¬ 
sion  of  country  people  to  lawsuits  to  col¬ 
lect  claims  under  circumstances  of  this 
kind.  The  only  way  to  avoid  annoyance 
and  trouble  with  this  class  of  nursery 
and  seed  houses  is  to  refuse  to  have  any¬ 
thing  to  do  with  their  agents  when  they 
come  around. 
Because  of  the  unavoidable  delay  in 
accumulating  funds  for  our  first  invest¬ 
ment,  we  did  not  care  to  invite  many 
members  to  the  Rural  Savings  and  Loan 
Association.  \Ye,  however,  have  ac¬ 
cumulated  enough  to  place  a  loan  with 
one  member  on  a  truck  farm  within  50 
miles  of  the  office  for  $6,500  at  six  per 
cent.  Our  funds  are  accordingly  safely 
invested  at  a  prevailing  rate  of  interest. 
Every  member  will  share  in  the  earnings 
iu  proportion  to  the  amount  be  or  she 
has  invested.  When  we  accumulate 
enough  membership  iu  the  Land  Bank 
we  shall  do  still  better.  We  hope  from 
now  on  to  receive  many  memberships 
from  subscribers  who  will  become  fam¬ 
iliar  with  the  system  and  then  organize 
an  association  in  their  own  neighborhoods 
and  transfer  thuir  membership  to  it. 
There  is  no  better  way  to  learn  to  save, 
and  no  safer  place  to  put  small  savings 
than  in  a  Savings  and  Loan  Association. 
Membership  may  begin  with  the  payment 
of  one  dollar  or  any  larger  amount. 
Last  September  a  young  man  called  at 
«mr  home  soliciting  subscriptions  for 
Rocky  Mountain  Magazine  and  Spare 
Moments.  Ho  gave  bis  name  as  J,  Lynch 
and  saiil  lie  was  working  for  an  educa¬ 
tion.  Ilis  plan  was  this:  H  ho  secured 
a  certain  number  of  subscriptions  he  was 
to  have  a  free  scholarship  iu  some  col¬ 
lege,  "and  Sltrely  we  would  not  see  him 
deprived  of  an  education  when  UK  cents 
would  help  him  so  much,"  He  was  work¬ 
ing  for  a  Binghamton  concern  which 
styles  itself  Chenango  Circulating  Co. 
"The  Spare  Moments,”  a  small  monthly 
publication,  arrived  in  due  time,  but  the 
Rocky  Mountain  Magazine,  the  panor  J. 
Lynch’s  mother  thought  so  much  of, 
never  came.  I  have  written  the  Chenango 
Circulating  Company  several  times  but 
thoy  flatly  rohisr*  to  acknowledge  receipt 
of  my  letters  and  a  neighbor  of  ours  wrote 
them  three  different  times  and  even  reg¬ 
istered  a  letter  to  them,  so  we  are  sure 
they  received  same,  but  no  reply. 
New  York.  l.  j.  w. 
For  our  part  we  think  the  subscriber 
would  be  subject  to  congratulations  if  be 
did  not  receive  the  ".Spare  Moments” 
either,  for  the  reason  that  such  a  collec¬ 
tion  of  nauseating  fake  and  swindling  ad¬ 
vertisements  we  have  never  seen  any¬ 
where  else  os  between  the  covers  of  this 
publication.  We  can  only  judge  the 
Rocky  Mountain  Magazine  by  the  com¬ 
pany  it  keeps  in  employing  the  same 
methods  as  "Spare  Moments"  to  secure 
subscriptions.  Of  course,  the  disposition 
of  young  men  to  get  an  education  is  very 
laudable,  and  many  subscription  agents 
realize  that  such  a  claim  is  the  easy  way 
to  get  the  sympathy  of  country  people, 
and  merely  use  it  as  a  pretext.  Young 
men  who  really  desire  an  education  and 
whose  purposes  are  right  can  earn  the 
scholarship  by  taking  subscriptions  to  de¬ 
cent  periodicals.  We  do  not  need  to  sug¬ 
gest  the  reception  the  agents  of  the  Che¬ 
nango  Circulating  Co.  of  Binghamton, 
N.  Y.,  deserve,  should  any  of  our  other 
readers  be  approached  Tty  them. 
Jake  Bianco,  fruit  and  produce  dealer 
at  4621  Liberty  Street,  Pittsburg, 
Penna.,  received  some  $1,800  worth  of 
goods,  closed  his  store  and  disappeared, 
leaving  no  assets.  Watch  out  for  him 
if  lie  appears  in  some  other  location. 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
The  following  report  from  a  local  paper 
in  the  State  of  Iowa  is  of  interest  to  far¬ 
mers  everywhere : 
A  case  that  will  be  of  interest  to  the 
farmers  <>f  Hardin  County  was  decided  by 
Judge  McCall  in  district  court  in  Story 
County  last  week  when  he  held  that  when 
seed  sold  by  an  individual  or  company 
does  not  come  up  to  the  quality  or  is  not 
of  the  variety  represented  by  the  sellers, 
the  purchaser  may  recover  damages  iii  the 
amount  of  the  difference  between  the  value 
of  the  crop  raised  and  the  value  of  the 
crop  that  would  have  been  raised  had  the 
seed  been  as  represented. 
The  case  was  that,  of  Seward  Nelson 
vs.  L.  P.  Gunson  &  Company  of  New 
York.  Early  in  this  year  men  canvassed 
Story  County  selling  seed  oats  repre¬ 
sented  to  be  a  variety  known  as  the  Mam- 
nioth  Cluster,  which  grew  to  a  great 
height  and  were  sun  posed  to  yield  all  the 
way  from  100  to  150  bushels  to  tlm  acre. 
The  seed  was  sold  iu  10-lmshel  lots  at 
$2.50  per  bushel.  Many  farmers  of  Story 
County  bought  some.  When  the  crop 
grew  it  showed  that  a  large  per  cent,  of 
the  seed  was  of  the  ordinary  small  va¬ 
riety,  much  of  it  had  smut  mixed  in  it, 
and  the  grade  was  not  as  represented  as 
to  the  yield. 
A  bunch  of  farmers  in  Story  County 
turned  the  matter  over  to  Attorney  Lee 
of  Ames,  and  lie  brought  action  against 
the  company  in  nine  counts,  asking  dam¬ 
ages  in  the  sum  of  $100  in  each,  as  well 
as  the  amount  paid  for  the  seed.  The 
case  was  tried  before  Judge  McCall  at 
Nevada,  and  lie  held  in  favor  of  the  plain¬ 
tiffs  and  issued  a  judgment  in  the  sum  of 
$1,240  against  the  company. 
Many  of  the  purchasers  in  Story  Coun¬ 
ty  had  bought  a  small  amount  of  seed, 
sowing  it  on  their  best  ground  with  an  idea 
of  raising  a  quantity  of  the  oats  which 
they  would  be  able  to  dispose  of  for  seed 
at  a  fancy  price.  As  a  rcRiilt  they  grew 
a  bunch  of  mixed  and  smutty  oats,  which 
were  inferior  to  the  ordinary  variety 
grown  in  that  locality. 
While  the  judgment  is  issued,  it  is  un¬ 
derstood  that  the  concern  is  execution- 
proof  and  there  is  little  chance  of  recov¬ 
ering  on  the  judgment.  A  number  of  the 
farmers  who  did  not  pay  cash  for  the 
seed,  but  gave  notes  due  upon  the  har¬ 
vesting  of  their  crop,  have  refused  to  pay 
the  notes  and  other  litigation  will  prob¬ 
ably  follow. 
The  R.  N.-Y.  has  persistently  and  con 
si.stently  exposed  the  methods  of  the  Gun- 
sons  (there  are  two  seed  concerns  bear¬ 
ing  that  name  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.),  for 
-a  -good  many  years  back.  The  Imva  case 
is  a  fair  sample  of  complaints  from  our 
subscribers  in  the  Eastern  States.  The 
Gunson  plan  is  to  send  out  smooth¬ 
tongued  agents  who  tell  plausible  stories 
about  the  "wonderful  new  varieties  and 
enormous  crops”  their  seeds  will  produce. 
And  they  have  a  new  lot  of  these  won¬ 
derful  varieties  each  year.  They  inva¬ 
riably  turn  out  to  be  some  old  variety 
with  a  new  name  or  some  very  inferior 
seed,  as  the  Iowa  farmers  found  to  their 
sorrow  Thy  beginning  of  the  new  year 
is  a  good  time  to  make  a  firm  resolu¬ 
tion  to  have  absolutely  nothing  to  do 
with  this  class  of  seed  and  nursery  agents. 
Those  who  get  into  trouble  through  list¬ 
ening  to  their  "guff”  cannot  say  that 
The  R.  N.-Y.  failed  to  warn  them. 
SAVE  GASOLINE  MONEY. 
YOU  CAN  BUNN  WORTHLESS  BUBDISM  IN 
LEFFEL  s  TE„“  " 
BuT^roal.  womj  nr^  m^vr 
acaldin^ 
bjlity  onjGLraprwuo 
JAMES  Quality 
Always  the  Same 
\I/H ETHER  you  buy  this 
\  V  slad  i°r  54.75,  or  pay  510  for 
the  complete  feature-equipped 
stall,  you  get  the  one  standard  JA.VIIiS 
stall;  same  steel  piping,  square  hori¬ 
zontal  pipe,  dust-proof  fittings,  Triple 
Curve  Stall  Partitions:  same  heavy 
galvanized  stanchion  anchors,  same 
system  of  anchors  for  easy  erection; 
same  stanchion,  cow-proof  lock  door 
knob  type,  lock  open  clip,  everlasting 
lunge,  double  chain  hanger  with  fiat 
links,  wood  lining;  same  baked-on 
enamel  finish:  same  system  of  ship¬ 
ping  assembled;  same  style  and  dur¬ 
ability.  It  is  the  JAMES  510  stall 
w'ithout  some  of  the  special  features. 
JiMBUfFIL&CO. 
Box  3<>e, 
Sprlnyfiold,  Ohio 
JAMES 
ALONG  CHES.flL  OHIO  RY- 
At  $15.00  au  acre  and  up.  Abun¬ 
dant  rainfall,  rich  soil,  mild  winters, 
plentiful  labor,  excellent  markets, 
x  Write  for  free  illustrated  Farm 
Home  booklet,  "Country  Life  in 
53  Virginia," and  low  excursion  rates. 
Address  K.  T.  CRAWLEY,  In- 
—4  dustrlal  Agent,  C.  &  O.  Ry., 
Room  1003,  Richmond,  Virginia 
If  you  intend  to  build  or  remodel,  find 
out  about  this  set  \  ice  of  barn  cxperis 
— the  service  of  crttsiualors  of  sanitary 
barn  equipment  ideas,  of  successful 
barn  and  equipment  builders 
JAMES  line  includes  Stalls,  Stan¬ 
chions,  Pens,  Carriers.  Ventilators. 
Watering  buckets,  etc.  Tell  us  how- 
many  cows  you  own  and  when  you 
expect  to  build  or  remodel  and  receive 
copy  of  JAMES  WAY  Rook— free. 
James  Manufacturing  Co. 
,  D-S.  30  Cane  Street 
Ft.  Atkinson,  Wis, 
Seven  Hundred  Acres 
FINE  BUILDINGS  AND  LOCATION 
FIFTY  UFA  L>  HIGH  G  R  A  l>  E 
HOLSTEIN  STOCK  EASY  TERMS 
Form  within  ♦  miles  of  two  rail  road  stations  and 
luni  M-ts;  laud  lays  gently  rolling.  300 acres  tillable; 
1  000. 000  feet  standing  umbel',  lot)  head  of  stock 
usually  kept.  Creamery  with  full  equipment  on 
farm  Also  dreameries  and  cheese  factory-  w  itliin  4 
miles.  250  tons  of  hay  in  hat  n;  4  houses.  t>  barns,  2 
garages,  hennery  for  1,000  linns.  The  eentia  group 
of  buildings  are  new  and  consist  of  moderi  house 
with  running  hot  and  cold  water.  Steam  In-ai.  ce¬ 
ment  cellar,  open  plumbing  electric  light-,.  Thu 
main  barn  will  hold  100  head  of  stock  on  ground 
tloor, and  if  t-hreo  stories.  %|  i' ''UxMO:  uiuuing  water 
to  each  animal;  2  largo  silos  Fields  watei ed  by- 
springs  and  creek.  Tools,  gasoline  tractor,  saw  mill. 
3  farm  gasolinoeiigines,  dynamo,  full  equipment  of 
reapers,  seeders,  plows  and  all  other  tools  Price, 
$:iO,UOO;  terms,  $10,000  ea-  h .  Rend  for  our  free  cata¬ 
logue  HIRAM  MtNTZ,  2IG  Phelps  Blrip  .  Binghamton.  N.  V. 
7>  desirable  Chautauqua  Co.  tar, -us  for  .sale.  Send 
for  farm  list.  Strong  &  Bnulley.  Dealers  in  Real 
Estate,  Stocks  8  Bonds.  1-2-3  Gokey  8lock.  Jamestown,  N  Y. 
F  ARMS— V I R  G I N I  A— FARMS 
Booklet  free.  JOHN  £•  WALKER,  Salem,  Ya. 
Your  spare  time  ia  worth  $10  a  da/  demoimrat* 
the  1317  Model,  Steel,  18-Ln-l  Automatic  wJ 
n  Hand |. Tool.  Kquala separate  tools coxting $1L0.  Lift- 
ias  aud  pulHogjkds;  fence  building  tool;  stump  and 
post  puller;  baler;  press;  hotel;  vine;  etc.  No  expert- 
e nee  needed.  Demonstrator  free.  Credit  given.  Kxclu- 
slve  territory*  Writo  to r  special  factory  azeucy  otfer. 
Chas.  £.  Beoefiel  Co.  311 -A  Industrial  Bldg.,  Indianapolitj  led. 
Wheat  and  Rye 
Separates  chaffs,  blasts 
out  oats,  chess,  etc. 
Keeps  screenings  free 
of  cockle  and  all  black 
seeds.  Uses  the  new 
principle  wild  ont  separ¬ 
ator.  (trades  all  varlct.ca 
of  w  lo  ut  perfectly. 
ifN,  4  Romo  yea 
VJ'C&tS  talc-  ui  u«- 
lord,  and  alt 
black  weed  Beods.  The 
scalper  throws  out  straw 
Jo) ufs,  chair,  and  thtstlo 
bads.  Kaies  separately 
all  timothy  and  grass 
seeds.  Uradoi  out  twin 
oats,  pin  oata;  makes 
perfect  sample  of  plump 
uniform  oate  for  drill. 
Barley 
ales  all  wood  acedii  and 
foreign  grain  Including 
oats  and  ivtld  outs. 
Beans&Peas 
Removes  splits,  pods, 
shrunken  tx-ann.  Muk»" 
an  eight  pound  picker  a 
good  sample.  Handles 
cow  peaa,  soy  beans, 
however  threshed. 
C*  _ _ !il.-i«t»coli«,olui(T. 
Y-OrilflhlS-  ttcnmv.. 
prok«n  4rr.il  mm. 
Bhoo  tipi.  lmtu  und 
uneven  kemsl*;  frractes  tjut, 
wen  grains  fur  y8'p  yurt  vet 
crop, 
LlOVGrb,“’k‘i°^  & 
62  u  i-li  o  r 
weeds.  S:iv*n»  nn.i  •«v&r*tc4 
elbikd  and  lUuolhy. 
Timothy 
gTAea  and  33  other 
euve»  voIunt,  »*r  timothy  (torn 
oate  and  wheal. 
There’s  Big  Money  in  It 
No  matter  where  you  live,  no  matter  whnt  crops 
no  matter  v\  tint  size  your  form.  YOU 
AttK  t .031  NO  AT  LEAST  $KM>  THU  fcKASON.  unless 
you  nro  «ci'-utlfl<-ully  <-!eautng  and  eroding 
your  Sor«l  (.ram  nticl  Need!  The  chances 
er2'.Lr'“  ar*1  loriuuovtMl  more.  —  ffta*.  *30*.  ttno.  MOO 
orUOOT  per  year.  Thousands  tiimu  thouivindg  of 
farmers  la  your  borne  state  tuiv«  proven  this  Im¬ 
portant  fact  to  their  satisfaction  and  delight. 
Write  for  Free  Book  — 
The  arrest  of  Harold  C.  Cottrell  and 
Roy  M.  Grey,  agents  of  the  Interna¬ 
tional  Automobile  League,  Buffalo,  X.  Y, 
accused  of  obtaining  money  under  false 
pretenses  at  St.  John.  N.  B.,  was  reported 
in  these  columns  a  few  weeks  ago.  One 
of  the  local  papers  contained  the  follow¬ 
ing  report  at  the  time  the  prisoners 
came  before  the  court : 
The  Attorney  General  moved  to  have 
the  prisoners  arraigned  on  the  fifth  count 
of  the  indictment,  to  whieh  the  prisoners 
pleaded  guilty.  They  were  not  prose¬ 
cuted  on  the  other  10  counts  charged 
against  them.  The  judge  suspended  the 
passing  of  any  sentence  and  let  the  pris¬ 
oners  go  on  their  own  recognizance  of 
$1,000  each,  and  warned  them  that  they 
must  refrain  from  acting  as  agents  of  the 
International  Automobile  League.  The 
Attorney  General  felt  justified,  lie  said, 
in  taking  this  course  of  suspending  the 
sentence,  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the  pub¬ 
lic  welfare  would  be  sufficiently  served  by 
preventing  the  operation  of  the  Interna¬ 
tional  Automobile  League  of  Buffalo  in 
this  territory.  He  felt  that  although  the 
prisoners  had  made  improper  and  untrue 
representations  they  were  to  a  certain 
extent  victims  of  the  system  pursued  by 
the  aforesaid  company  for  the  purpose  of 
getting  money  front  the  public  without  in¬ 
tention  to  give  :tn  honest  return  for  it. 
The  publicity  nf  these  proceedings  would 
in  itself  bo  a  protection  for  the  public 
against  any  further  attempts  of  this  char¬ 
acter,  and  if  the  suspension  of  sentence 
were  conditional  upon  the  prisoners  ceas- 
in  to  have  any  connection  with  the  com¬ 
pany,  lie  felt  it  would  not  be  necessary 
that  they  should  undergo  any  further  pun¬ 
ishment. 
Hanson  Cami-iuox 
My  sensational  Crop i  Rook  "A .  HARVEST  OF  COLD,”  tells  the  entrancing 
story  ol  multiplied  VV  beat  Yields;  extra  bumper  Corn  Crops;  bountiful  Oat 
yields;  record-breaking  Harvests  or  Hurley.  Flax,  Tlmotliv.  Clover  Alfalfa 
etc.— all  results  from  nowlns  CI.I'IANlil)  a  tide  KADED  Need  Grain' 
A  large  part  of  the  story  is  told  by  farmers  themselves— In  their  own  exact 
words.  It  Is  a  handsome,  Illustrated  Book  apd  Is  fully  protected  under  U  3. 
Copyright  Laws.  Worth  $100  to  any  farmer,  but  yours  for  the  asking-. ' 
CHATHAM 
Grader  and  Cleaner 
-win  remove  thn  font  Weed  Seed  from your  Seed  Grain  and  Grass  Seed.  Will  yet 
rid  of  the  small,  sickly,  weaurued.  Imperfect  grains.  Then  you  can  plant  only 
big,  plump  healthy  fellows.  AikI  i;rea(  wilt  be  your  rew  ard  at  harvest. 
ThtB  double  rtiske  191ft  model  machine,  with  Its  sclenttncally  coostrncted 
screens  and  riddles. will  clean,  irritdo  amlautomal'eaUy  basonyamlalt  kinds 
of  Binall  Grain  and  Grass  Seed.  VVorka  amu?.-  £M 
Ingly  fast  and  Is  so  perfectly  made  U  almost  AUr 
turns  Itself.  Over  tlO.WO  now  la  active  use. 
The  price  Is  surprisingly  low  and  terms  most  /a  ’■[  '1 
liberal  (ao  days  trial  with  cash  or  Kali  pay-  wB 
tnent  terms),  and  for  tho  next  80  days, 
Instead  of  charging  for  tho  Horn  grading  $Oi|  jft 
equipment,  1  furnish  It  Free  with  tbe  l  j  A  ■  rvf  r 
Chatham  Mitt.  F  '  wMj  L-P9 «//  fsfflf 
Heed  this  warning;  AU  Seed  Grain  (due  /  '  py-  /er 
to  Che  wet  weather  last  numntorj  is  t  If  V  [N.liy'Tjj 
fearfully  foul  this  your.  Clean  an<l  f  ?  f  fr  M.*  "  ■  *^1  I  ^.1 
grade  yours,  thereby  uddlntf  a  big  t.  i  f  ‘  II I 
urn  to  your  crop  profits.  f  l.feH'rl  |  J|j 
Write  now  t  Merely  say,  "I  want  your  k  /  r  J I 
Book."  It  will  come  by  return  mall.  “  r  'll/ 
Manson  Campbell  Co.,  Dept.  W-l  " 
Detroit,  Mich.  Kansas  City,  Mo.  Minneapolis,  Mina 
Alfalfa  &  Flax 
IG  rnovca  dotldar  nn>1  fulLuil: 
ticaUa,  strujQ,  fibre*,  wib) 
oota,  QiUMtnrd.  barhvartl 
prana,  faloe  Hax.  brokcu 
vvlieat.  Bbwitoout  «#hrunkon, 
ft  oiou  or  druuirhtod  toed. 
Ask  to  Ry* 
and  Vo  I  oh  absoiutf.ly 
When  you  write  advertisers  mention  The  R.  N.-Y.  and  you’ll  get  a 
quick  reply  and  a  “square  deal.”  See  guarantee  editorial  page.  :  :  : 
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