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October  14,  3  010. 
VThe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
I  regret  haviDg  to  call  your  attention 
to  a  little  trouble  with  F.  \Y.  Wells 
Wholesale  Nurseries,  Danxville,  X.  Y., 
whose  advertisement  I  saw  in  The  R- 
N.*Y.  about  four  years  ago.  1  bought 
over  500  peach  trees  four  years  ago  from 
this  firm,  unci  they  bore  a  light  crop  of 
peaches  last  year,  except  200  that  were 
bought  for  Niagara  and  turned  out  to  be 
a  little  worthless  white  poach,  that  Lore 
very  heavily.  1  bought  a  few  to  fill  out 
a  block  of  Early  St.  John  and  they  bore 
Elbe  it  as ;  bought  n  few'  Fosters  and  part 
of  them  wrere  anything  but  Foster. 
I  have  been  trying  ever  since  August, 
1015,  to  get  a  settlement  with  them.  I 
offered  to  settle  if  they  would  give  me 
anywhere  near  half  what  the  damage  is  to 
me  ou  the  200  peach  trees  that  bore  lit¬ 
tle  worthless  white  peaches.  Mr.  Wells 
agreed  to  come  and  see  me  in  December, 
1015,  but  failed  to  come.  lie  agreed  to 
come  later,  but  failed  to  come.  I  saw 
Mr.  Wells  at  the  Fruit  Growers’  meeting 
in  Rochester.  lie  agreed  to  come  and 
see  me  in  two  weeks,  hut  failed  to  come. 
I  attended  the  Western  New  York  Hor¬ 
ticultural  Society  at  Rochester  ami  saw 
Mr.  F.  W.  Wells  again,  and  he  set  the 
date  that  he  would  come  to  see  me  w  ith¬ 
out  fail,  but  failed  to  come  and  failed  to 
write.  This  is  the  first  of  your  advertis¬ 
ers  that  has  failed  me.  I  certainly  have 
great  confidence  in  those  who  advertise 
in  The  R.  X.-Y.  I  have  lost  all  confi¬ 
dence  in  Mr.  Wells,  and  trust  that  you 
may  be  able  to  do  something  for  me. 
New  York.  J.  s. 
Since  receipt  of  the  above  letter,  we 
have  had  considerable  correspondence 
with  Mr.  Wells  of  F.  W.  Wells  Whole¬ 
sale  Nurseries  regarding  this  complaint. 
Mr.  Wells  at  first  wrote  us  that  it  was 
his  intention  to  visit  the  grower  just  as 
soon  as  he  was  able  to  examine  the  fruit 
in  bearing.  When  we  later  reminded 
Ml*.  Wells  of  his  promise  he  then  takes 
an  attitude  in  effect  that  the  complaint  is 
none  of  The  Rubai,  New-Yorker’s  busi¬ 
ness.  We,  however,  regard  a  complaint 
of  this  kind  not  only  of  concern  to  The 
It,  N.-Y.,  but  of  concern  to  every  fruit 
growler  in  the  laud.  The  amount  fruit 
growers  have  suffered  through  misfit  trees 
can  hardly  be  estimated  in  dollars  and 
cents.  Mr.  F.  W.  Wells  is  not  only  con¬ 
ducting  jthe  F.  W.  Wells  Wholesale  Nur¬ 
series,  but  is  also  conducting  the  Pomona 
Teu  Cent  Nurseries,  Inc.,  and  Slieerin’s 
Wholesale  Nurseries,  all  of  Duusville,  X. 
Y.  In  the  Sh email's  Wholesale  Nurser¬ 
ies  Mr.  Wells  succeeds  Mr.  C.  E.  Sheer- 
in,  whose  reputation  was  notoriously  bad 
in  the  nursery  trade.  The  Pomo¬ 
na  Teu  Cent  Nurseries  Mr.  Wells 
organized  some  few  years  ago.  through 
which  he  apparently  markets  a  cheaper 
line  of  stock  than  he  sells  under  the 
other  names.  It  must  be  understood  that 
Wells  Wholesale  Nurseries,  Shcerin’s 
‘Wholesale  Nurseries  and  Pomona  Teu 
Cent  Nurseries  are  only  different  names 
used  by  one  man,  F.  W.  Wells,  in  con¬ 
ducting  bis  nursery  trade. 
I  take  pleasure  in  enclosing  my  cheek 
for  $2.50  in  settlement  of  your  attached 
bill,  and  wish  to  advise  you  that  I  never 
paid  an  advertising  hill  more  cheerfully 
than  I  do  this.  I  am  pleased  to  state 
that  I  received  something  like  20  first- 
class  replies,  and  believe  that  out  of 
these  I  could  collect  a  half  dozen  couples 
who  would  prove  satisfactory.  It  is 
quite  evident  that  your  paper  reaches  the 
intelligent  class,  and  from  my  own  point 
of  view  I  should  say  that  it  is  the  most 
interesting  agricultural  paper  which  I 
can  find.  B.  M.  G. 
New  York. 
The  above  letter  refers  to  a  little  ad¬ 
vertisement  in  Subscribers’  Exchange 
department  and  w*e  are  printing  it  for  the 
benefit  of  the  readers  who  may  be  in 
need  of  similar  service  and  do  not  realize 
that  the  use  of  this  Department  would  in 
all  probability  solve  their  problems. 
Twenty  years  a  go 'the  creamery  shark 
w  as  a  very  familiar  figure  in  practically 
every  dairy  community  in  the  Northern 
section  of  the  country.  Ilis  plan  was 
to  secure  the  influence  of  a  prominent 
man  in  a  neighborhood  by  favors  of  cash, 
stock  or  otherwise  and  through  this  in- 
fiuence  prevail  upon  the  community  to 
start  a  cooperative  creamery  and  equip  it 
with  expensive  machinery.  Very  often 
these  cooperative  creameries  were  start¬ 
ed  in  neighborhoods  where  the  amount  of 
milk  produced  precluded  the  possibility 
of  operating  the  creameries  profitably, 
and  furthermore  the  creameries  were 
handicapped  by  a  capitalization  some¬ 
thing  like  double  what  it  would  cost  the 
farmers  t>>  duplicate  the  plant  on  (heir 
own  account.  It  would  seciti  that  a  first 
cousin  of  this  creamery  shark  is  now  be¬ 
ing  worked  in  the  Southern  field,  by  .1.  M. 
Bain  and  others  of  Pittsburgh,  Pm.  Our 
records  show  Mr.  Bain  has  been  active 
in  land  promotion  schemes,  having  pre¬ 
viously  been  connected  with  the  Alvarado 
Construction  Co.  and  .Tautha  Plantation 
Co.  of  Pittsburgh.  The  Mobile  Tribune 
of  Mobile.  Ala.,  in  a  recent  issue  reveals 
the  plan  of  these  Southern  promoters 
coming  to  a  farmer  and  after  ascertain¬ 
ing  that  he  was  financially  responsible 
presenting  their  proposition  about  as  fol¬ 
lows  : 
“You  have  lots  of  pasture  land.”  the 
promoter  would  argue.  “Sufficient  to 
support,  say  10  cows.  Now,  the  cream¬ 
ery  company  will  send  you  10  cows  and 
put  them  here  in  your  pasture.  The 
company  will  also  build  fine  silo  for 
you.  And  you  will  of  course  require  a 
separator.  This  the  company  will  also 
supply.  Of  course,  these  things  will  cost 
money,  but  you  ivill  not  have  to  put  up  a 
single  cent.  You  will  be  permitted  to 
pay  for  them  with  cream.  All  that  you 
have  to  do  is  to  pasture  the  cows,  milk 
them,  put  the  milk  in  the  separator,  ex¬ 
tract  the  cream,  send  the  cream  to  the 
creamery,  and  the  creamery  company 
will  take  out  35  per  cent,  of  the  cream 
you  send  and  credit  it  to  your  account 
as  part  payment  on  the  cows,  the  silo 
and  the  separator.  The  other  S5 rU  of  the 
cream  you  produce  will  be  paid  for  by  the 
creamery.  Thus  you  see.  you  are  given 
a  valuable  dairy  plant  by  the  company 
for  which  you  will  pay  out  of  the  profits 
the  plant  produces.” 
Then  the  promoter  in  an  indifferent 
manner  as  if  it  were  of  little  importance, 
asks  the  farmer  to  sign  a  promissory  note 
for  something  like  $900  which  could  be 
readily  discounted  at  the  local  bank.  Wo 
understand  from  the  report  that  the 
scheme  fell  through  in  this  particular 
community,  but  the  joker  in  the  whole 
transaction  was  to  get  the  farmer  to  sign 
a  negotiable  note  ou  the  strength  of  these 
representations  of  the  promoters.  It  ap¬ 
pears  that  when  the  promoters  were 
asked  to  make  the  contract  with  farmers 
a  condition  of  the  note,  the  bubble  was 
pricked  by  this  pen  point.  The  report 
is  a  very  good  illustration  of  the  way 
these  slick  promoters  induce  farmers  to 
sign  notes  or  other  obligations.  If 
farmers  are  to  dual  with  strangers  and 
promoters  of  this  sort  at  all,  they  should 
insist  that  every  representation  made  by 
the  agent  should  be  included  in  the  con¬ 
tract  which  they  sign. 
A  receiver  has  been  appointed  for  the 
Auto  Owners’  Supply  Company  of  Fre¬ 
mont,  Fostorio,  Carey  and  Toledo.  When 
the  receiver  arrived  on  the  job  lie  found 
nc  books,  record  of  stock  sold  or  any¬ 
thing  else.  Meanwhile  the  farmers  and 
other  automobile  owners  who  bought 
stock  in  this  Owners*  Supply  Company 
are  wondering  the  whitherness  of  their 
money. — ( >liio  Motorist. 
This  is  what  usually  happens  to  con¬ 
cerns  selling  stock  to  the  public.  Just 
now  the  “woods  are  full”  of  automobile 
concerns  looking  to  the  public  to  furnish 
money  for  automobile  enterprises.  It.  is 
doubtful  if  many  of  them  will  get  beyond 
the  stock-selling  stage  and  at  best,  put¬ 
ting  money  into  the  stock  of  concerns  not 
yet  established,  is  a  wild  speculation. 
I  am  sending  express  receipts  for  two 
cases  eggs  sold  to  one  G.  S.  Carl,  738 
West  End  Avo.,  New  York,  at  a  price 
agreed  upon  by  us.  i.e.,  2c  almve  quota¬ 
tions  on  day  of  arrival,  this  being  under¬ 
stood  to  mean  nearby  Stale  and  Penn¬ 
sylvania  fancy  hennery,  white.  The  re¬ 
turns  have  failed  to  arrive  for  these  two 
cases  shipped,  as  you  will  note,  on  Aug. 
4th  and  8th,  though  the  first  case 
shipped  him  was  promptly  paid  for  at 
the  price  agreed  upon.  Looks  as  if  the 
first  payment  was  simply  bait.  Repeated 
requests  for  settlement  have  brought  no 
answer  so  that  I  aiu  convinced  he  is 
working  some  sort  of  game.  If  I  am  cor¬ 
rect  the  price  on  those  two  days  was  38c, 
so  that  he  owes  me  .$21  on  the  two  cases 
at  4 On  per  do*.  I  wish  your  department 
would  look  into  this  man’s  methods,  and 
perhaps  save  others  from  similar  loss, 
and  if  possible,  force  him  to  a  settlement 
with  me.  I.  c.  J„ 
Pennsylvania. 
Another  person  who  is  getting  rich  at 
the  farmer’s  expense.  Mr.  Carl  lias  re¬ 
moved  and  left  no  trace  of  liis  new  ad¬ 
dress.  Ilis  present  venture  has  been  so 
successful  we  would  not  be  surprised  to 
learn  of  a  new  attempt  from  some  other 
location. 
GLUE  io 
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9  sizes  and  styles — 2  to  8  quarts. 
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When  you  chop  sausage  meat  use  the 
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MACHINE  MFC.  CO.  N 
Dept.  D,  Warren,  Ps.,  U.S.  A. 
Before  buying  any 
*  K  engine  at  any  price 
>  Rl ImAJ  he  surotowntefor 
my  now  free  book, 
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prices.  Good  Canvas  Wagon  Covers,  7x12  ft,.  $3.80, 
prepaid.  Boat  and  Stack  Covers.  State  size  requi red. 
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LET  US  TAN 
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Cattle  or  Horse  bide.  Calf,  Pog,  Deer 
or  any  kind  of  ok  In  w  Uh  iia.r  or  lur  on. 
We  ten  and  (tnlnh  Itiwn  right ;  make 
them  into  coals  (foriu.-a  ami  women), 
robes, rags  or  glove*  when  onli'i-oil. 
Xourfuruvode  will  cost  you  leas  than 
to  buy  Ihum,  ana  be  worth  more.  Our 
Illustrated  dialog  f.'lvug  a  lot  Of  ill 
formation  which  every  stock  ralw 
should  liaro,  hat  wo  never  tvntlout  this 
valuable  hook  except.  upon  r>-<juuBt. 
It  rolls  I ww  to  toko  oil  and  care  for 
bill,-:  how  and  When  wo  any  the  freight 
both  w»y«  ;  about  onr  mto  dyeing  pro¬ 
cess  which  is  a  tremendous  ad  vaniairv 
to  the  customer,  especially  on  horse 
bides  and  cell  skins  ;  about  the  fur 
kimkIs  and  game  trophies  wo  soil,  taxi- 
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your  correct  address.  -  , 
The  Crosby  Frisian  Fur  Company, 
671  LyeU  Ave..  Rochester.  N.  V. 
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Department  70 
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