802 
May  20.  1016 
&he  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
Our  readers  are  cautioned  against,  pay¬ 
ing  their  subscriptions  to  The  Rural 
New-Yorkku.  to  Isaac  Rugar.  formerly 
of  Highland.  X.  Y..  later  of  Ardonia  and 
Poughkeepsie.  He  has  collected  subscrip¬ 
tions  for  which  he  failed  to  make  returns. 
Any  subscriber  solicited  by  said  Kugar 
will  do  us  a  favor  by  notifying  this  office 
promptly. 
I  am  sending  you  some  papers  and 
would  like  to  have  you  look  over  them.  It 
is  a  catch  advertisement.  T  did  not  send 
for  the  seeds  myself,  but  1  authorized  an¬ 
other  party  to  answer  the  ndv.  in  my 
paper.  Can  they  force  me  to  pay  this? 
I  did  not  think  so,  but  would  like  to  be 
sure  about  it.  It  is  only  the  small  sum 
of  50  cents,  but  as  I  know,  a  few  of  the 
neighbors  have  received  letters  just  like 
mine,  and  it  would  amount,  to  unite  a 
sum  in  all.  E.  u,  K. 
Ohio. 
The  above  letter  refers  to  the  fake  seed 
advertisement  of  O.  K.  Seed  Store.  In¬ 
dianapolis,  which  appeared  in  a  number 
of  papers  during  the  past  Spring.  Tt  of¬ 
fered  to  send  those  answering  the  adver¬ 
tisement  22  packets  of  seeds.  A  sub-head¬ 
ing  of  the  advertisement  read:  “Let  us 
give  you  this  great  collection  of  seeds  to 
advertise  our  business  and  introduce  new 
blopd.”  Those  who  answered  the  adver¬ 
tisement  and  reported  to  us  did  not  re¬ 
ceive  all  the  seeds  promised.  Then  it  de¬ 
veloped  that  those  receiving  the  free  seeds 
were  expected  to  send  50  cents  for  a  sub¬ 
scription  to  T'p  To-I  >ate  Farming,  pub¬ 
lished  by  J.  A.  Everitt,  who  also  con¬ 
ducts  a  seed  business  under  the  name  of 
O.  K,  Seed  Store.  E.  M.  E.  refused  to  be 
buncoed  into  subscribing  for  Everitt's 
paper  in  this  way.  and  now  he  gets  a  de¬ 
mand  from  a  collection  agency.  American 
Adjustment  Company  of  Indianapolis, 
Ind.,  to  send  50  cents  on  account  of  the 
claim  of  the  seed  store  and  the  publishing 
company.  As  usual  in  such  spurious 
claims,  the  threat  to  bring  suit  with  costs 
is  made.  The  assumption  is  that  anyone 
receiving  such  a  notice  will  rather  give 
lip  50  cents  than  be  subjected  to  such  an¬ 
noyances.  To  submit  to  such  injustices 
is  only  encouraging  Ibis  form  of  petty 
swindling.  The  publishers  who  helped 
Everitt  trick  the  public  b.v  publishing  bis 
fake  advertising  certainly  have  reason  to 
be  proud  of  their  part  in  the  scheme. 
I  am  enclosing  10c.  for  which  please 
send  me  more  Anti-Fake  Club  stamps.  T 
am  very  much  interested  in  the  Anti  Fake 
Club.  Don’t  you  think  it  would  be  a  good 
thing  to  have  some  reprints  of  the  letter 
from  the  Alpha  Portland  Cement  Co., 
published  in  this  week's  It.  N.-Y.V  It 
would  make  the  publishers  take  notice. 
You  have  been  printing  an  advertise¬ 
ment  of  the  American  I  tee  Journal.  They 
are  publishing  the  advertisement  of  II.  L. 
Earlier.  Chicago.  Ill.  Is  he  not  ou  the 
list  of  the  Anti-Fake  Club?  <’.  J.  C. 
Pennsylvania. 
\Ye  are  glad  to  have  suggestions  of  this 
kind,  and  if  members  of  the  Anti-Fake 
Club  would  like  reprints  of  the  letter 
from  Mr.  Hall,  we  will  be  glad  to  have 
some  of  them  printed.  We  have  fre¬ 
quently  paid  our  respects  to  the  Barber 
investments.  Advertisements  of  Ameri¬ 
can  Bee  Journal  will  not  appear  in  The 
R.  N.-Y.  again  unless  the  publisher  dis¬ 
cards  the  Barber  pud  all  other  objec¬ 
tionable  advertising. 
In  defining  to-day  more  dearly  than 
over  before  what  constitutes  dishonest  ad¬ 
vertising  through  the  mails,  the  Supreme 
Court  held  in  effect  that  advertisers,  even 
though  they  gave  purchasers  value  re¬ 
ceived  for  their  money,  are  guilty  of  fraud 
if  by  exaggerated  advertising  propaganda 
they  have  led  clients  to  expect  more. 
The  opinion  was  ainmneed  by  Justice 
McKenna,  reversing  the  District  Court  in 
Southern  Florida  which  quashed  an  in¬ 
dictment  against  officials  of  the  New 
South  Farm  and  Horn'1  Company.  The 
indictment  charged  unlawful  esc  ol  the 
mails  in  selling  ten-acre  farms.  The  Flor¬ 
ida  court  held  that  if  a  purchaser  received 
his  money's  worth  exaggerated  propa¬ 
ganda  was  not  fraud.  Justice  McKenna 
took  the  position  that  it  was  an  offence  if 
the  article  sold  did  not  serve  the  purpose 
represented,  no  matter  what  the  value 
might  be. — Daily  Paper. 
We  do  not  assume  to  say  whether  Jus¬ 
tice  McKenna’s  opinion  is  good  law  or 
not;  but  it  certainly  squares  with  com¬ 
mon  honesty  and  decency,  in  business 
transactions.  Too  many  otherwise  per¬ 
fectly  honorable  concerns,  consider  they 
are  licensed  to  make  all  sorts  of  unwar¬ 
ranted  claims  in  their  advertising  so  long 
as  they  are  giving  fair  value  for  the 
money  they  received.  We  are  glad  to  see 
the  Supreme  Court  put  the  stamp  of  dis¬ 
honesty  on  unwarranted  advertising 
claims. 
This  is  the  season  of  free  seeds;  tem¬ 
porarily.  I  have  joined  the  free  seed  group 
and  send  yon  a  sample  of  seed  corn  sent 
by  L.  P.  Oun son  &  Co.,  Rochester.  A 
sort  of  friend  from  a  distant  towu  came 
to  me  last  Fall  as  the  agent.  Fpon  his 
fair  words  T  relied  and  ordered  two  bush¬ 
els  of  the  Bride  of  Xishim  corn  at  $2.50 
per  bushel.  I  have  paid  the  price  and  do 
not  purpose  trying  to  get  it  back:  blit  I 
do  propose  assisting  in  advertising  L,  P. 
Onnson  &  Company.  For  a  dip  of  the 
hand  into  the  hag  brought  out  52  kernels, 
which  I  enclose.  I  excluded  one  good  ker¬ 
nel  and  one  poof  kernel,  and  then  found 
in  the  50  remaining  kermis  17  passable 
ones  for  the  planter,  or  84  per  cent,  fair 
and  (1(1  per  cent,  of  no  i’s«  hot  chicken 
feed.  IIow  like  the  25-eent  dollar  that 
does  look  ! 
I  wonder  if  these  Crimsons  are  the  same 
people  who  took  orders  for  a  wonderful 
millet  hereabouts  nearly  20  years  ago?  It 
was  going  to  grow  higher  than  any  of 
Jack's  beanstalks,  and  I  ordered  some  of 
it,  and  sought  advice  f"om  the  New  York 
Experiment  Station,  which  I  e.scd  in  such 
a  way  that  few  or  no  deliveries  were 
made,  for  the  station  people  were  confi¬ 
dent.  the  whole  thing  was  a  bawl.  If 
Nighna  has  no  bettor  corn  than  this  in 
her  elevators.  I  cannot  understand  why 
she  should  be  proud.  0.  w.  ». 
Con  neetieut. 
5 Ye  print  the  above  letter  without  com¬ 
ment.  as  we  have  so  often  referred  to 
these  Rochester  seed  houses  in  this  de¬ 
partment.  The  corn  upon  exam  'na  lion 
proves  to  be  just  as  G.  W.  D.  describes  it. 
I  have  this  day  received  cheek  for  $25 
from  the  Erie  Railroad  Co.,  in  settlement 
of  my  claim  of  $80  for  loss  on  apples 
shipped  February  10th,  1914.  One  of  the 
inspectors  culled  on  me  last  week  and 
made  the  above  offer  for  immediate  settle¬ 
ment.  and  I  accepted  it.  1  wish  to  thank 
you  for  your  assistance,  for  I  know  from 
his  talk  that  your  constant  prodding  Piem 
had  its  effect,  for  he  asked  me:  “Who  is 
that  Rural  X  E\v  -  You  KER-a  n  y  wa  y  ?” 
Xew  York.  A.  if.  w. 
It  took  two  ‘years  to  convince  the  rail¬ 
road  company  that  we  were  in  earnest 
and  would  accept  no  compromise.  They 
offered  adjustment  at  $2.50  a  barrel,  bur 
we  refused  it.  a 3  the  consignee  asserted  he 
would  have  paid  $4  for  the  apples  if  de¬ 
livered  in  good  order,  and  the  market 
quotations  were  $8.50  to  $5  per  barrel. 
The  apples  were  nine  days  on  the  road, 
and  frozen  so  badly  that  they  were  dis¬ 
posed  of  to  a  baker  for  $1  a  barrel.  We 
hope  we  have  convinced  the  Erie  Railroad 
Company  that  we  will  insist  upon  pay¬ 
ment  of  a  just  claim,  but  the  injustice  of 
it  is  that  they  will  not  credit  the  shipper’s 
veracity  and  settle  promptly. 
Charged  v:t’>  using  tb>-  mails  to  de¬ 
fraud  wealthy  persons.  W.  O.  Gandy, 
president  of  the  Wain-hula  Development 
Company,  of  Florida,  is  under  arrest  by 
Government  ope’alives.  Gandy,  it  is 
charged,  had  stated  in  letters  that  there 
were  no  incumbrances  on  the  property. 
It  lias  develonrd  that  the  AinerioeM  Trest 
Company,  of  Boston,  holds  a  $450,000 
mortgage  on  t  lit*  land. 
Besides  making  deceptive  statements, 
nur  records  show  that  the  Florida  land 
was  not  worth  the  money  asked  for  it.  Wo 
reported  the  experience  of  one  subscriber 
*  nine  months  ago.  who  found  his  purlieu-, 
lnr  tract  covered  with  water.  Inhabitants 
stated  that  during  the  Summer  the  sec¬ 
tion  was  covered  with  water  to  a  depth  of 
three  to  four  feet.  The  result  reported  in 
the  item  is  right  in  line  with  the  usual  out¬ 
come  of  Florida  land  promotion  schemes, 
and  confirms  our  advice  to  be  cautious  in 
making  investments.  Make  it  a  rigid  rule 
to  investigate  before  buying  any  property, 
and  especially  when  it  is  located  at  a  dis- 
t  nee.  It  takes  a  little  time  and  some 
expense,  but  you  will  save  money  in  the 
end. 
Ringworm 
Will  you  tell  me  how  I  can  cure  ring¬ 
worm?  If  not  ringworm  it  is  another 
thing,  tetter  they  call  it.  yet  it  looks 
like  a  ringworm.  Hair  all  comes  off. 
Now  Jersey.  o.  M. 
As  often  stated  hen*  ringworm  is  due 
to  a  vegetable  paras'te  which  lives  on 
damp  walls  and  woodwork  as  well  as  on 
the  skin.  To  get  rid  of  it  the  stable 
should  be  cleansed,  disinfected,  white¬ 
washed.  lighted  and  ventijated.  Scrub 
and  scrape  each  affected  spot  clean  and 
then  nib  in  iodine  ointment  every  other 
day  uutil  well.  The  disease  is  conta¬ 
gious.  A.  s.  A. 
Why  Lose 
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