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■Ghe  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
October  28.  1916, 
PUBLISHER’S  DESK 
The  managers  of  the  Inter-State  Fair, 
Trenton,  N.  .T.,  ejected  a  number  of 
what  are  termed  “strong-arm  men,”  from 
the  grounds  during  the  recent  fair.  The 
offending  solicitors,  we  regret  to  say, 
were  working  in  the  interest  of  certain 
agricultural  papers.  Any  sort  of  decep¬ 
tion  and  fraud  is  resorted  to  by  this 
class  of  solicitors  in  order  to  get  the 
name  of  a  fanner  on  their  book — pre¬ 
miums  represented  as  being  worth  more 
than  the  amount  of  cash  asked  for  are 
given  and  a  number  of  papers  .are  in¬ 
cluded  for  the  subscription  price  of  one. 
We  understand  the  men  whose  methods 
were  so  objectionable  as  to  cause  their 
ejection  from  the  Trenton  Fair  were  in  the 
employ  of  an  Ohio  subscription  agency.  We 
have  previously  warned  our  people  against 
paying  money  to  agents  of  another  agency 
— the  Higgins  Subscription  Agency,  Co¬ 
lumbus,  O.  Agents  of  such  houses  are  nev¬ 
er  authorized  to  take  subscription  to  The 
R.  N.-Y.  Home  of  the  prize  contests,  pic¬ 
ture  guessing  schemes,  etc.,  resorted  to 
by  farm  papers  and  papers  in  other 
classes  as  well  are  equally  as  objection¬ 
able  and  dangerous  as  the  methods  of  the 
fake  agents.  Under  all  these  plans  the 
person  receiving  the  publication  either 
isn't  paying  anything  for  it  or  is  led  to 
believe  the  paper  is  costing  nothing. 
Usually  it  costs  the  reader  indirectly  more 
than  the  cost  of  publications  which  are 
sold  directly  on  tboir  merits.  It  is  the 
greatest  fallacy  for  farmers  to  consider 
they  are  getting  a  bargain  in  these  pa¬ 
pers  that  cost  nothing  directly — such  pa¬ 
pers  care  nothing  about  the  interests  of 
farmers.  Their  revenue  comes  from  the 
advertisers  and  the  advertisers’  interests 
come  first.  The  columns  of  these  pa¬ 
pers  are  filled  with  deceptive  if  not  es¬ 
sentially  fraudulent  advertising  and 
while  an  individual  reader  may  escape, 
the  readers  as  a  whole,  indirectly  “pay 
the  fiddler.”  No  argument  is  necessary 
to  convince  any  intelligent  man  or  wom¬ 
an  that  it  is  true  economy  and  the  only 
safe  plan  to  read  the  papers  for  which 
they  are  obliged  to  pay  a  fair  subscrip¬ 
tion  in  order  to  get  them. 
My  mother,  Mrs.  Ella  A.  Crooks,  has 
five  shares  of  Orange  .Tudd  Company 
stock  on  which  no  dividends  have  been 
paid  for  two  years.  She  paid  $120  per 
share,  or  a  total  of  $000.  She  would 
like  to  get  her  money  for  it.  Can  you 
advise  what  the  stock  is  worth  and 
what  is  best  to  do  about,  it?  I  have  one 
Myrick  building  certificate  for  which  I 
paid  $15,  and  received  no  return  for  sev¬ 
eral  years.  Can  you  get  this  money  for 
me?  CLARENCE  A.  CROOKS. 
Rhode  Island. 
The  above  letter  was  received  on  May 
13th.  Since  that  time  we  have  been  try¬ 
ing  to  get  the  money.  The  Myrick  build¬ 
ing  certificate  was  redeemed  promptly 
enough,  but*  we  have  been  unable  during 
all  this  time  to  get  a  settlement  for  the 
stock  through  Mr.  Myrick,  and  we  have 
been  unable  to  find  any  market  for  it 
elsewhere.  This  stock  certificate  was 
sold  to  Till  vs.  Crooks  as  a  subscriber  to 
Mr.  Myrick’s  papers.  Naturally  she  bad 
confidence  that  the  editor  of  the  paper 
to  which  she  subscribed  would  give  her 
value  for  her  money.  She  paid  a  pre¬ 
mium  of  20%  for  the  stock  over  and 
above  its  face  value.  Mr.  Myrick  has  a 
service  bureau  in  his  publications  in 
which  he  advises  his  subscribers  as  to 
investments  and  other  matters.  This  in¬ 
vestment  was  undoubtedly  made  under 
such  advice.  Mr.  Myrick  has  the  $G00 
Mrs.  Crooks  has  a  paper  certificate. 
I  enclose  some  literature  that  I  re¬ 
ceived  some  time  ago  from  the  Gardner 
Nursery  Co.,  Osage,  la.  It  seems  to  me 
that  a  concern  of  this  kind  should  be  ex¬ 
posed  in  the  public  press.  If  you  will 
read  over  tlie  enclosure  you  will  see 
they  are  trying  to  make  it  appear  that 
they  are  giving  about  $100  worth  of  trees 
for  almost  nothing.  It  looks  to  me  as 
though  this  concern  was  the  type  that 
you  are  trying  to  protect  the  farmers  in 
the  country  against.  H.  w.  B. 
New  York. 
In  our  estimation  nursery  stock  is 
about  the  most  dangerous  place  in  the 
world  to  look  for  something  for  nothing. 
The  original  cost  of  the  stock  is  trifling 
compared  to  the  care  and  expense  neces¬ 
sary  to  bring  it  to  a  bearing  age.  If 
the  stock  proves  diseased  or  untrue  to 
name  the  damage  is  many  times  more 
than  the  cost  of  the  trees  or  plants.  The 
only  security  is  to  buy  of  houses  with  a 
reputation  and  standing.  H.  AY.  B. 
clearly  expresses  the  only  logical  deduc¬ 
tion  that  can  consistently  be  made  from 
the  Gardner  Nursery  Company  litera¬ 
ture.  TrrE  R.  N.-Y.  has  referred  to  the 
schemes  of  this  nursery  a  number  of 
times  in  the  past  ten  years.  None  of  our 
old  readers  are  likely  to  bite  on  the  “gift 
fountain  pen”  bait,  and  this  item  is  in¬ 
tended  for  the  guidance  of  recent  sub¬ 
scribers. 
Enclosed  find  a  letter  received  by  me 
which  I  think  explains  itself.  You  can 
publish  same  if  you  see  fit  and  save  some 
hard-earned  cash,  as  I  think  it.  is  a  fake. 
Pennsylvania.  K,  i\  v. 
The  letter  enclosed  by  the  subscriber  is 
sent  out  by  the  Industrial  Refining  Co. 
of  Cleveland,  O.  While  the  letter  is  a* 
printed  one,  it  is  evidently  sent  out  to 
a  large  number  of  prospective  customers 
offering  a  special  price  on  a  shipment  of 
auto  oil  which  had  been  refused  by  the 
consignee  because  of  delay  in  delivery  by 
the  railroad  company.  This  is  an  old 
trick  that  is  being  worn  threadbare  by 
paint  and  oil  houses  of  Cleveland.  We 
could  not  advise  dealings  with  concerns 
resorting  to  tricks  of  this  kind  to  sell 
their  gomls  regardless  of  the  merits  of 
the  product. 
On  Oct.  9,  1015,  I  sold  the  Dubois 
Fruit  and  Produce  Co.,  Dubois,  Pa.,  a 
bill  of  onions  amounting  to  $43.40.  They 
promised  to  pay  in  10  days,  hut  I  never 
was  able  to  get  anything  out  of  them. 
Will  you  see  if  you  can  get  anything? 
Ohio.  j.  b.  q. 
We  could  not  collect  this  account,  and 
a  suit  would  bo  of  no  avail,  as  our  in¬ 
formation  is  that  there  are  numerous 
other  claims  against  the  company,  and 
there  is  no  property  from  which  collec¬ 
tion  could  be  made  if  judgment  was  se¬ 
cured.  Insist  upon  a  good  financial 
standing  before  shipment,  and  save  these 
losses. 
I  am  asking  a  favor  of  you  and  will 
appreciate  anything  you  can  do  for  us 
very  much.  Wo  have  been  shipping  cream 
to  W.  H.  Dexter  Co.,  formerly  1210  Wa¬ 
bash  Avo,  but.  now  at  700-708  South  Dos- 
plaines  St.,  Chicago,  Ill.  We  always  re¬ 
ceived  our  checks  promptly  until  they 
moved;  then  they  came  slower  generally. 
The  last  can,  shipped  July  3,  we  have 
not  received  check  for.  Today  We  re¬ 
ceived  a  letter  from  our  hank  saying 
two  checks  had  been  returned  unpaid 
amounting  to  $0.31),  so  you  see  we  shall 
be  out  with  the  last  can  about  $14, 
which  we  can  ill  afford  to  lose.  Some  of 
our  neighbors  also  are  losing  and  would 
be  glad  of  any  help.  MRS.  E.  E.  W. 
Illinois. 
We  have  been  unable  to  get  any  re¬ 
sponse  from  the  Dexter  Co.  Other  ship¬ 
pers  will  want  to  pass  them  by  and  save 
similar  losses. 
Since  the  first  of  January  we  have  re¬ 
ferred  to  35  individuals  to  whom  farmers 
had  shipped  produce  for  which  they  had 
failed  to  receive  payment.  In  the  ma¬ 
jority  of  cases  the  parties  had  moved  and 
left  no  address,  and  in  others  deliberate¬ 
ly  refused  to  make  adjustment.  This 
produce  ran  from  a  few  dozen  eggs  for 
table  use  to  good-sized  consignments. 
The  amounts  ranged  from  $2  up,  and  the 
total  loss  would  reach  in  the  neighbor¬ 
hood  of  a  thousand  dollars.  In  our  files 
we  have  probably  double  this  number  to 
which  no  reference  has  been  made.  Our 
efforts  in  these  cases  were  not  successful 
and  the  record  simply  emphasizes  the 
necessity  of  looking  into  the  financial 
standing  of  all  houses  and  parties  before 
making  shipments.  We  cannot  emphasize 
this  too  strongly. 
A  fraud  order  has  been  issued  against 
Mark  B.  Miller  and  the  Piqua  Rubber 
&  Tire  Co.,  Piqua,  Ohio,  for  misuse  of 
the  mails.  Miller  is  in  jail  awaiting  trial 
on  an  indictment  by  the  Grand  Jury,  be¬ 
cause  of  the  scheme  to  defraud  in  con¬ 
nection  with  liis  tire  business.  He  adver¬ 
tised  guaranteed  absolutely  puncture- 
proof  tires,  good  for  6,500  miles,  and  is 
said  to  have  taken  in  $1,617.53  between 
May  1st  and  August  IS,  1916.  No  at¬ 
tempt  was  made  to  fill  many  of  the  or¬ 
ders,  and  parties  receiving  tires  com¬ 
plained  they  were  not  as  guaranteed.  The 
principal  argument  of  these  “gyp”  tire 
concerns  is  the  amount  of  service  their 
tires  will  give,  but  the  tire  does  not  live 
up  to  the  specifications,  and  the  company 
repudiates  their  guarantee,  aud  keeps 
your  money.  We  are  glad  the  Federal 
authorities  are  getting  after  these  people. 
Ailing  Animals 
Cough 
My  horse  has  a  bad  cough  and  at  times 
discharges  milky-looking  water  from  one 
nostril.  This  happens  two  or  three  times 
a  week,  but  his  cough  appears  to  grow 
worse,  lie  has  had  it  all  Summer. 
New  Jersey.  T.  A.  c. 
Employ  an  educated  veterinarian  to  ex¬ 
amine  the  molar  teeth  as  one  of  them 
may  be  diseased  ami  the  cause  of  the 
discharge,  or  there  may  be  n  collection  of 
pus  in  a  sinus.  The  tooth  would  have  to 
he  removed  or  the  pus  liberated.  If  no 
such  cause  is  found  wet  all  feed  and  give 
half  an  ounce  of  Fowler’s  solution  of 
arsenic  twice  daily  for  a  week,  then  three 
times  *a  day.  Gradually  discontinue  the 
medicine  when  no  longer  needed,  taking 
a  week  or  ten  days  to  the  work. 
a.  S.  A. 
Lameness 
We  have  a  horse  which  has  been  lame 
for  some  time  in  his  left  hind  foot.  There 
are  long  pieces  growing  out  around  the 
frog  which  have  to  be  cut  away  or  the 
horse  goes  lame.  The  entire  foot  is 
somewhat  enlarged  and  cracked  around 
the  heel.  There  is  little  discharge,  but 
the  foot  smells  very  bad.  Part  of  the 
hoof  is  dead  and  rotted  away.  n.  w. 
Connecticut. 
Soften  and  eleause  the  hoof  with  hot 
water,  then  cut  away  every  particle  of 
loose,  rotten  or  undcr-ruu  born  of  frog, 
sole  or  wall.  Now  swab  the  exposed  parts 
with  a  1  500  solution  of  corrosive  sub¬ 
limate,  then  cover  with  boric  acid,  ab¬ 
sorbent  cotton  and  clean  bandages.  Re¬ 
new  the  dressing  once  daily,  a.  s.  a. 
Pigment  Tumor 
Regarding  the  pigment  tumor  I  asked 
advice  about  on  page  1111,  I  wish  to 
state  for  the  benefit  of  others  that  I  have 
entirely  cured  it  now.  An  old  horse 
dealer  told  me  to  tie  a  rubber  hand,  silk 
thread  or  a  horse  hair,  around  it  aud  to 
keep  it  tight;  to  keep  it  disinfected  with 
any  coal  tar  dip,  and  it  Would  soon  come 
off.  I  did  so  and  one  would  never  know 
that  it  had  been  there.  This  is  very  sim¬ 
ple  and  inexpensive.  J.  D.  w. 
New  York. 
A  true  pigment  tumor  is  not  “cured” 
by  such  means,  being  cancerous  and  mal¬ 
ignant.  If  it  is  such  a  tumor  it  will  re¬ 
turn.  In  all  probability  you  have  been 
dealing  with  a  wart.  A.  s.  A. 
Obstructed  Teat 
I  have  a  two-year-old  heifer  which  had 
one  teat  dosed  at  the  end.  I  opened  this 
and  have  been  keeping  a  teat  plug  in  it. 
But  neither  the  calf  nor  I  can  get  any 
milk  from  this  quarter  except  through  a 
milk  tube.  What  else  should  I  do  and 
how  long  should  the  teat  plug  be  needed? 
Federalsburg,  Md.  T.  N.  W. 
The  teat  plug  will  bo  sure  to  cause  in¬ 
fection  of  the  quarter  and  that  will  mean 
ruinous  garget.  Have  a  veterinarian  use 
a  teat  bistou  y  to  slit  through  the  ob- 
struetion  near  the  end  of  the  teat.  He. 
will  out  in  four  different  directions  and 
possibly  have  to  ream  out  the  obstructing 
warty  growth.  After  Ihe  operation  strip 
away  a  little  milk  often  each  day  during 
the  healing  process.  A.  s.  A. 
Founder 
Will  you  advise  me  what  I  can  do  for 
a  yearling  heifer  that  is  stiff  in  foreward 
legs?  After  lying  down  she  can  hardly 
walk  for  a  few  steps.  I  think  she  caught 
cold  last  Spring  when  turned  out  to 
grass.  W.  B.  B. 
New  York. 
This  condition  should  have  been  prop¬ 
erly  treated  when  first  noticed.  It  may 
be  too  late  now  to  do  much  good.  Foun¬ 
der  seems  to  be  the  cause  of  the  stiff¬ 
ness,  hut  tuberculosis  always  is  a  possi¬ 
bility.  Give  one  tqaspoouful  of  powdered 
alum  night  and  morning,  and  gradually 
increase  the  dose,  if  good  results  are  not 
quickly  apparent.  Keep  the  heifer  in  a 
roomy  box  stall  bedded  with  shavings  or 
sawdust,  and  keep  the  bowels  active  with 
succulent  or  laxative  feed.  A.  s.  A. 
Swollen  Udder 
Recently  I  purchased  a  work  mare, 
aged  about  18  or  20,  blocky  built.  At 
the  time  I  didn’t  notice,  but  since  dis¬ 
covered  that  her  udder  swells  badly. 
More  so  if  she  stands  idle  for  a  day  or 
two.  No  swelling  of  limbs.  Seems  per¬ 
fectly  healthy  and  sound  otherwise.  In 
good  condition,  coat  bright  and  glossy. 
Her  rations  are  a  mixed  feed  composed 
of  corn,  oats,  barley,  rye,  bran,  etc.,  and 
good  hay.  1  have  been  giving  her  hypo¬ 
sulphite  of  soda  in  teaspoon  doses  three 
times  daily,  with  no  results.  W.  G.  A. 
Adams  Basin,  N.  Y. 
Allow  the  mare  a  box  stall  when  in  the 
stable,  but  never  let  her  stand  for  a  sin¬ 
gle  day  without  work  or  exercise.  Change 
the  feed  at  once  to  whole  oats,  and  one 
ninth  part  of  wheat  bran  dampened  at 
feeding  time.  A  few  ears  of  corn  may  be 
added  at  noon  in  cold  weather.  Rub  the 
udder  with  camphorated  oil  twice  daily. 
►Strip  away  any  fluid  found  in  the  udder. 
She  may  have  had  garget.  A.  s.  A. 
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