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•Uhe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
September  9,  191 G. 
Frc«Qwo<5ecJ  IRU”  as  in  RUBY, 
C.9iy^  N  YtSf:4P-  :  OH '  ^c.o 
I  found  that  I  bad  nn  patience  with  them 
again  and  as  the  cost  of  operating  is  very 
small  my  iron  was  in  use  all  Winter. 
I  have  no  doubt  that  there  are  “fakes" 
on  the  market  as  well  as  good  irons,  for 
usually  any  good  thing  is  imitated,  but  a 
good  reliable  self-heating  iron  is  an  un¬ 
told  blessing  and  very  efficient. 
New  York.  mrs.  L.  f. 
The  following  letter  gives  the  exper¬ 
ience  of  another  reader  with  self-heating 
irons.  The  guarantee  received  from  this 
company  does  not  obligate  them  to  re¬ 
turn  the  money  and  under  the  circum¬ 
stances  this  correspondent  has  no  redress. 
Tn  your  paper  of  Aug.  20  T  saw  the 
experience  of  12.  II.  B.  with  the  Peerless 
Mfg.  Co.  of  tlineinnati.  O.  J  will  give 
udne.  May  27  I  sent  them  $5  for  an 
iron  and  they  acknowledged  the  same. 
After  writing  them,  July  27  I  received 
the  iron,  paying  "7  cents  express  charges 
on  it.  I  tried  it  hut  it  would  not  work 
at  all.  I  wrote  them  :  they  sent  me  the 
same  directions  as  with  the  iron,  'but  it 
would  not:  work.  I  shipped  it  back  to 
them,  telling  them  it  was  a  fraud  and 
worthless;  would  not.  give  two  cents  for 
it.  I  have  not  heard  from  since,  so  have 
charged  $5.27  up  to  experience  with  a 
fake  company..  I  hope  this  will  save 
some  other  person  from  being  swindled 
b.v  them.  I  enclose  their  guarantee. 
New  York.  p.  ji.  r. 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
Will  you  pass  your  opinion  concerning 
the  enclosed  advertisement  of  W.  A. 
Eshbach,  Indianapolis,  Ind.?  p.  J. 
Ohio. 
In  this  advertisement  Mr.  Eslibach 
proposes  saving  wheat  growers  about  half 
on  their  seed  wheat.  The  following  il¬ 
lustration  is  taken  from  the  advertise¬ 
ment  : 
If  you  sow  20  acres  you  will  use 
around  40  bushels  of  your  wheat 
(at  2  bu.  per  acre.  Perhaps  you 
will  clean  and  grade  it  and  sow  1*4 
bu.)  40  bushels  are  worth  at  mar¬ 
ket  price  about . . $50.00 
We  will  send  you  a  better  var¬ 
iety,  almost  Winter  proof  and  ex¬ 
traordinarily  productive,  to  sow 
the  20  acres  for .  2,0.00 
The  first  RU-BER-OID  roof 
was  laid  nearly  25  years  ago. 
It  was  a  novelty. 
But  it  made  good. 
RU -BER-OID  became  the  stand¬ 
ard  prepared  roofing. 
Time  has  proved  it  the  best  and 
least  expensive  of  all  roofings. 
RU-BER-OID  roofs  laid  more 
than  20  years  ago  are  still  giving 
good  service.  Many  of  them  have 
not  cost  one  penny  for  repairs. 
You  can  distinguish  genuine  RU-BER- 
OID  from  imitations  by  the  “Ru-ber-oid 
man  ”  on  the  wrapper. 
Your  dealer  will  show  you  RU-BER-OID 
in  Slate  Gray,  Tile  Red  and  Copper  Green. 
You  will  have  cash  left . $20.00 
Those  answering  this  advertisement  re¬ 
ceived  a  big  batch  of  literature  from  the 
O.  K.  Seed  Store,  Indianapolis,  Ind..  of 
which  J.  A.  Everitt  is  owner.  Mix  J2v- 
critt  and  the  O.  K.  Seed  Store  received 
so  much  publicity  last  Spring  in  connec¬ 
tion  with  a  fake  “free  seed  offer”  that 
the  advertising  now  is  put  out  over  the 
name  of  W.  A.  Eshbacli.  Mgr.  Some 
years  back  Everitt,  or  the  O.  IC.  Seed 
Store,  sold  the  Miracle  wheat  under  the 
name  of  “Marvelous”  and  advocated  that 
farmers  only  needed  to  use  half  the 
amount  of  seed  that  they  used  of  other 
varieties.  While  the  advertising  and  lit¬ 
erature  now  contains  no  mention  of  the 
name  of  the  wheat  offered  for  sale  it.  is 
evidently  a  continuation  of  the  old  Mir¬ 
acle  wheat  scheme.  Regardless  of  what 
name  Everitt  operates  under  his  meth¬ 
ods  are  always  the  same.  We  reprint 
for  the  benefit  of  new  readers  the  verdict 
of  the  National  Department  of  Agriculture 
on  this  much-exploited  Miracle  wheat: 
This  variety  of  wheat  has  been  exten¬ 
sively  exploited  as  one  of  unusual  tiller¬ 
ing  ability.  Extensive  tests  by  the 
United  States  Department  of  Agriculture 
and  several  State  experiment  stations 
have  shown  that  it  is  not  at  all  extraor¬ 
dinary  in  tillering  power.  It  is  just  an 
ordinary  variety  of  wheat  of  the  Ful- 
caster  type  and  lias  never  given  better 
than  average,  yields  in  variety  tests.  The 
results  at  experiment  stations  do  net  in¬ 
dicate  that  more  tillers  per  plant  would 
be  formed  by  this  wheat  than  by  other 
ordinary  sorts;  in  fact,  most  of  the  ex¬ 
periments  indicate  that  it  is  hardly  so 
good  in  this  respect  as  several  of  the 
other  common  varieties.  Attempts  have 
been  made  to  charge  exorbitant  prices  on 
the  basis  of  this  statement.  I  do  not  be¬ 
lieve  that  those  who  make  these  state¬ 
ments  have  any  evidence  to  support  their 
claims. 
Mr.  E.  W.  Carpenter,  pretending  to  he 
an  ordained  minister,  came  to  me  May 
26th  soliciting  for  some  (trey  Institute, 
a  society  for  the  benefit  of  wayward 
girls,  lie  bad  a  long  list,  which  I  think 
was  correct,  of  people  who  had  given 
from  $.‘{  to  $5,  and  I  wishing  to  be  a 
little  charitable,  gave  him  $2  also.  On 
Sunday,  May  28,  Mr,  Carpenter  and  bis 
wife  spoke  in  our  Baiting  IIollow 
Church,  as  he  had  done  in  many  other 
churches  in  this  vicinity,  telling  of  the 
splendid  work  they  were  doing  in  New 
York.  Today  I  have  heard  that  lie  is  a 
fraud.  I  feel  that  this  is  quite  n  ser¬ 
ious  matter,  as  he  must  have  taken  a 
few  hundred  dollars  from  this  count y,  as 
well  as  the  harm  it  will  do  other  gen¬ 
uine  benevolent  work  in  the  future. 
New  York.  l.  y.  r. 
The  information  received  from  reliable 
sources  regarding  the  Rev.  (?)  E.  W. 
Carpenter  corroborates  the  suspicion 
which  the  subscriber  expresses  in  the 
above  letter.  The  alleged  Grey  School 
for  wayward  girls  seems  to  be  a  myth. 
This  party  claimed  to  conduct  a  school 
under  this  name  at  one  time  at  White 
Plains,  New  York,  but  reports  from  that: 
vicinity  are  in  effect  that  they  only  had 
two  girls  in  this  so-called  Grey  School, 
and  that,  these  girls  paid  their  board. 
The  reputation  of  Mr.  Carpenter  is  any¬ 
thing  but  enviable.  We  know  of  no  form 
of  dishonesty  that  is  more  to  be  Con¬ 
demned  than  that  of  appealing  for  funds 
for  charitable  or  benevolent  objects  and 
appropriating  the  money  thus  received 
for  selfish  purposes.  Such  cases  frequent¬ 
ly  discourage  charitably  inclined  persons 
from  contributing  to  really  worthy  move¬ 
ments.  We  trust  that  no  other  country 
communities  will  he  imposed  upon  by  the 
Rev.  (?)  Mr.  Carpenter. 
BUILDING  SUGGESTIONS 
Any  hooks  you  check  on  this  list  will 
he  sent  you  fret.  Write  your  name  and 
address  in  the  margin  and  state  what 
kind  of  building  you  arc  planning. 
_  Roofing  a  Home 
Building  n  Poultry  Hotl&c 
_  Building  a  Bungalow 
_  Building  a  Bara 
_  Building  Vour  Own  Garage 
_  Covering  Your  Factory 
ZJ  Artistic  Roofs 
THE  STANDARD  PAINT  CO. 
575  Woolworth  Building,  New  York 
BOSTON  CHICAGO 
Also  makers  of  Ru-ber-oid  Shingles,  Amnvud  Wall 
Board,  and  Impervite  W  aterproofing  for  Concrete 
The  Paraffine  Painl  Co.,  San  Francisco,  (Under  License) 
The  Standard  Paint  Co.  ot  Canada,  Limited,  Montreal 
We  have  received  the  check  from  - 
- .  and  wish  to  thank  you  for  tin* 
great  service  yon  have  rendered  us.  I 
wish  you  would  print  the  following: 
“I  wish  to  show  the  readers  of  The 
Rural  New-Yorker  what  it  can  rlo  and 
lias  (lone  for  us.  We  shipped  two  cases 
of  eggs  on  .Tune  17th  and  two  on  .Tune 
20  to  - ,  New  York,  and 
didn’t  get  returns.  We  wrote  them  three 
times,  but  could  get  no  answer,  and  it 
commenced  to  look  as  though  we  bad 
lost  them,  Then  we  happened  to  think  of 
The  R.  N.-Y„  .and  wrote  them  about  our 
trouble  with  the  firm.  In  less  than  three 
weeks  we  received  the  check  in  full ; 
thanks  to  The  R.  N.-Y.  J.  G.  w. 
New  York. 
We  are  complying  with  the  subscriber’s 
request  to  publish  his  letter.  This  sort  of 
service  is  universally  appreciated  by  sub¬ 
scribers.  A  receiver  of  produce  or  other 
business  house  may  ignore  the  rights  of 
an  individual  farmer,  but  if  the  concern 
has  any  regard  for  its  standing  and  ex¬ 
pects  to  continue  in  business  it  will  not 
ignore  The  R.  N.-Y.,  with  160,000  back 
of  it.  Claims  or  transactions  of  a  per¬ 
sonal  nature  between  a  subscriber  and  in¬ 
dividuals  not  catering  to  the  public  trade 
we  have  little  influence  on. 
Enclosed  find  hill  for  damage  to 
peaches  which  the  Express  Company 
refused  to  pay.  They  have  by  their  let¬ 
ter  acknowledged  they  were  Stacked  one 
<>n  top  of  each  other,  when  they  should 
have  put  (hem  on  the  side  and  it  would 
have  been  impossible  for  them  to  be 
mashed  in  any  way,  and  even  if  packed 
in  reason  one  on  top  of  another  they 
would  liol  have  caused  the  damage  they 
did.  Out  of  all  the  peaches  I  ever  shipped 
Hi  is  is  the  only  route  I  ever  had  any 
trouble  with,  and  it.  is  or  was  purely 
downright  ignorance  or  carelessness  on 
the  part  of  the  express  company  that, 
these  goods  were  damaged  as  they  were. 
If  you  can  do  anything  for  this  claim 
or  advise  in  any  way  will  greatly  oblige. 
I  am  satisfied  if  it  goes  before  a  jury, 
if  it  can  be  got  in  court,  it  will  be  paid 
in  full.  If  you  cannot  collect  do  you  ad¬ 
vise  bringing  suit  for  it?  J.  D.  L. 
Virginia. 
For  a  just  and  reasonable  complaint 
this  is  one  of  the  most  difficult  claims 
we  have  had  to  collect.  There  was  no 
question  about  the  loss  and  the  evidence 
was  all  in  favor  of  the  shipper,  hat  the 
express  company  made  evasive  excuses 
and  for  a  long  time  refused  payment. 
The  amount  of  the  claim  was  $80.  and 
this  has  now  been  paid  in  full.  When 
Tiie  R.  N.-Y.  began  to  collect  these 
claims  the  work  wias  referred  to  in 
sneers.  The  small  collections  now  aggre¬ 
gate  from  $12,000  to  nearly  $20,000  a 
year,  and  we  have  never  seen  any  sus¬ 
picions  of  sneer  from  the  people  who  got 
their  money.  We  rather  suspect  that  the 
habit  of  paying  these  claims  may  have 
made  collections  easier  for  some  who  for 
that  reason  do  not  need  to  send  them  to 
us. 
Chicago  Chicago 
The  New  International  Harvester  Kerosene  Tractor 
Latest  in  Design  — Backed  by  Over  Ten 
Years'  Experience  in  Tractor  Building 
A  FTER  years  of  searching  tests,  the  new 
Titan  10-20  takes  its  place  in  the  regular 
line-up  of  International  Harvester  Kerosene  Tractors. 
Here  are  a  few  of  the  features  you  want  to  know 
about: 
It  develops  full  20  mechanical  H.  P.  in  the  belt — 10  at  the 
draw  bur. 
,  It  works  on  kerosene  —  common  coal  oil  —  a  fuel  saving  of 
about  $200  on  au  average  year’s  work,  over  gasoline  at 
present  prices. 
It  has  a  smooth  running  twin-cylinder  engine,  6\"  bore  and 
8"  stroke. 
Entire  crank  case  enclosed — no  dust  or  grit  can  get  to 
engine.  Shields  over  drive  wheels  help  to  keep  out  dirt. 
No  batteries  needed  —  start  and  run  on  magneto. 
Automatic  oiling — keep  the  oil  tank  full  and  the  engine 
does  the  rest. 
Two  forward  speeds,  1.85  and  2.50  miles  per  hour  —  and  one 
reverse. 
Powerful,  flexible  chain  drive  to  each  rear  wheel. 
Turns  in  28-foot  circle.  Handles  like  au  automobile. 
Powerful  brakes  on  both  rear  wheels. 
Length  147“,  width  60",  height  66 1".  Approximate  shipping 
weight,  5,225  lbs. 
Titan  10-20  is  now  ready  for  delivery  in  limited  quantities. 
Orders  will  be  filled  in  turn  as  received.  Now  is  the  time  to  get 
posted.  Write  for  complete  information  about  the  full  line  of 
tractors,  from  8*16  to  30-60-H.  P.  sizes. 
^International  Harvester  Company  of  America^ 
A\  (Incorporated)  (gt 
9)  CHICAGO  USA  (I! 
After  reading  in  the  Publisher’s  Doric, 
page  1118  your  criticism  of  self-healing 
irons,  I  wish  to  give  ray  experience.  In 
June,  1915,  I  bought  n  gasoline  self-beat¬ 
ing  iron  from  a  New  York  company,  and 
after  over  a  year  of  Service  I  am  still  as 
satisfied  as  ever  with  my  iron.  It  is  gen¬ 
erated  in  two  minutes,  in  five  minutes  is 
sizzling  hot  and  ready  to  work  with,  and 
keeps  just  so  every  minute.  The  heat 
may  he  regulated  the  same  as  an  oil  stove 
or  lamp,  by  simply  turning  it  off  a  little. 
I  can  iron  on  the  porch  <>r  in  any  cool 
spot  I  may  select,  for  a  gentle  breeze  does 
not  disturb  it  after  it  is  started.  I  have 
no  doubt  a  strong  wind  would  put  it  out. 
I  imagined  when  1  fir.  r.  got  my  iron  that. 
I  would  go  back  to  the  stove  hods  in  the 
FalL-whei)  we  use  coal  in  the  range  but 
