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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 21, 1922 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer's full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
During the year 1921. Publisher’s Desk 
received 2.163 claims for collection, to¬ 
taling $65.704.09. During the year it 
collected 1,584 claims, amounting to $45,- 
804.23. It received 873 claims from 
transportation companies amounting to 
$8,880.38, and collected 382, amounting 
to $7,648.47, There has been a notice¬ 
able improvement in the express company 
claims over previous years. There are less 
of them, and the claims are paid more 
promptly. This is no doubt due to the 
better class of help and careful handling 
by the companies, and also to the fact 
that shippers are packing their goods in 
better shape for transportation. 
The department collected 1.202 miscel¬ 
laneous claims, amounting to $38,155.76. 
During the year we wrote 25,360 let¬ 
ters in the collection of the claims, and 
have answered 26,240 inquires for in¬ 
formation on various subjects, including 
ratings on concerns and individuals, char¬ 
acter of stocks and bonds as investments, 
and a wide range of miscellaneous infor¬ 
mation. 
The record of collections since 1910 
stands as follows: 
1910— 406 
1911— 539 
1912— 558 
1913 743 
1914— 800 
1915— 921 
1916— 1,192 
1917— 1.630 
3918—2.232 
1919— 2.500 
1920— 2.493 
1921— 1,584 
400 claims 
539 
collected, 
$9,665.45 
12,110.63 
10,926.51 
10.112.91 
10.665.50 
13.021.12 
18.131.54 
23.961.21 
37.425 54 
44.6S4 29 
45.592.74 
45,804.23 
The total is 15,598 claims collected, 
amounting to $282,201.67. 
This work is not a regular part of a 
publishing business. If the effect of it 
were to be measured by the dollars and 
cents collected, we are not sure that it. 
would be worth while. In many cases, 
however, the money has given material 
benefits, but it is. in our judgment, worth 
more in a general way to have the facts 
established that even an isolated farmer 
has means of presenting bis rightful 
claims, and that his just demands cannot 
be lightly put aside or ignored. 
On a little reflection, we think our 
friends will realize that we cannot at¬ 
tempt to collect local claims, or attempt to 
adjust other disputes between themselves 
and other peojde in their own neighbor¬ 
hood. The facts of such cases are known 
better to the people of the local commun¬ 
ity than to us, and in most cases it would 
cost us more to get all the information 
than the amount of the claim. It is not, 
therefore, practical for us to adjust 
claims or disputes between our subscribers 
and their neighbors. When persuasion 
does not avail, the local courts are al¬ 
ways available for such cases, and the 
cost is not burdensome. 
When, however, our subscribers and 
friends are imposed upon by individuals 
or concerns outside of their own reach. 
we are often able to help our friends and 
we are always glad to do so. In such 
cases, as a rule, fanners are not in a posi¬ 
tion to help themselves, because the of¬ 
fending parties live at a distance, often 
in different Stares. Often they are large 
concerns nr corporations that ignore just 
complaints of individuals in the expec¬ 
tation of neglecting the complaint until it 
is given up or forgotten. The distance, 
the time and the expense makes it impos¬ 
sible for the isolated farmer to pursue 
such claims: and when we can interfere 
in the cause of right and justice we are 
glad to do all we can for our friends. This 
is a proper and legitimate function of a 
farm paper representing the best inter¬ 
ests of farmers: but meddliug in little 
local affairs is uo part of our service. If 
would be highly improper. We believe 
our friends who appreciate the service 
we are able to give in distant cases will 
appreciate this distinction and excuse us 
from meddling in local disputes. 
A young man named Putnam just 
called, soliciting subscriptions for Farm 
and Fireside. I said I have uo use for it 
or the-, as I was a dirt farmer 
and take The R. N.-Y. He theu volun¬ 
teered the statement that his concern, 
the ('rowelI Publishing Company, con¬ 
trolled The R. N.-Y. I replied that when 
they controlled either Mr. C’ollingwood or 
Mr. Dillon I was ready to pass in my 
checks. lie then qualified his statement 
by saying that his company owned 60 per 
ceut of The R. N.-Y. stock. w. t. 
Ulster Co.. X. Y. 
As required by law. the names and ad¬ 
dresses of stockholders of The Rural 
Publishing Company are printed in the 
paper twice a year. It is all owned by 
three men who work daily on the paper. 
The Crowell Publishing Company does 
not own a dollar of it, and never did. No 
responsible member of that company 
would claim anything of the kind. Ever 
since McCann and the milk trust started 
the systematic propaganda to weaken 
farmers’ confidence in Tin: Rural Xkw- 
Yokkek, stories and insinuations of one 
kind or another are reported from coun¬ 
try districts. Most of them are about as 
silly and fully as untruthful as this one, 
and yet it would be strange if someone 
did not give them credence. As a matter 
of fact, while they are generally repudi¬ 
ated by our old friends, someone occa¬ 
sionally believes them. This particular 
story we wish to repudiate and deny. If 
we were to make any changes affecting 
our policies, our friends and subscribers 
would be fully and frankly informed. 
Whether this man is an agent of the 
propagandist or not we have no way of 
knowing. If not, he plays the subtle 
game well enough to merit the suspicion 
that he gets his inspiration from the same 
source. 
SP ECIALS-TOD AY 7 ! 
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Give Mrs. Cow her say and she’ll choose silage 
every time. Nature put in her the craving for the 
sweet, succulent food so necessary to cow health 
and to milk production. 
Give your stock silage from a Harder Silo. The 
smooth, heavy stave walls, sealed air-tight, pre¬ 
serve the silage best. Your Harder will be built 
to fill your individual requirements. It will be 
built to last a lifetime. 
Write for free booklet on silage and situs 
jM HARDER MANUFACTURING CORP. 
Box 11 Cobleskill, N. Y 
George Stromblad was arrested by 
Deputy Sheriff Iloffmire in a downtown 
office building yesterday morning ami re¬ 
leased under $750 bail by Judge William 
L. Raruum after entering a plea of not 
guilty to an indictment reported by the 
grand jury last March for alleged obtain¬ 
ing of signatures to a written instrument 
through fraud in violation of section 932 
of the penal law. Specific accusations jn 
the indictment refer to signatures of 
Francis Baldwin and Cecil Roberts, both 
of the town of Clay, to documents which 
it is said they believed to be orders for 
acetylene lighting systems. The papers 
proved to be notes, which were discounted 
later at the Baldwinsville State Bank. 
—Syracuse Post-Standard. 
This is the same George Stromblad 
who promoted the Farmers’ Standard 
Carbide Company, having organized the 
company some two years ago in Canan¬ 
daigua. After milking tlie farm public in 
the sale of the worthless stock, lie 
abandoned the ship, and has since or¬ 
ganized the United Fertilizer and Lime 
Company, Syracuse, N. Y., selling stock 
on the same get-rich-quick basis. The 
transactions which formed the basis of 
the above indictment took place when 
Stromblad was acting as agent for the 
Abner Manufacturing Company, Wapa- 
koneta, (>., manufacturers of acetylene 
lighting plauts. Since that time Strom¬ 
blad lias had a liberal education in high 
finnuce and has adopted means of getting 
other people’s money in exchange for 
worthless paper without leaving himself 
liable to the criminal laws. We again 
warn farmers to have nothing to do with 
Stromblad’s get-rieh-quick scheme under 
the guise of United Fertilizer and T.ime 
Company advertised in a New York State 
farm paper to catch suckers. 
Insulation Against All Weather 
THE NAPPANEE SEAL-TITE SILO will keep your 
silage in the coldest weather that blows, because of all 
materials of which silos are conraucted, wood offers the best 
insulation. The Nappanee wood silo is guaranteed wind 
and weather proof. 
Every farmer who does not have a silo knows that he is wasting one-half 
his corn crop everyyeat. He should know also tint the NAPPANEE 
SEAL-TI rn SILO will pay for itself the first season. It will keep your 
silage sweet and wholesome, and will not only pay for itself the first year, 
but will return big dividends thereafter. 
fP rite for Our Big Silo Book, Which Explains 
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Dirty milk, full of disease-breeding bacteria, comes 
from dirty cows. Their “ragged" coats catch manure, 
stable dust, etc., which drops into the milk pail. 
F. W. Wells, trading as Wells Whole¬ 
sale Nurseries, Sheerin’s Wholesale Nur¬ 
series, and Pomona Nurseries, Dansville, 
N. Y„ was adjudged a bankrupt on De¬ 
cember 27, 3921. Liabilities are reported 
to amount to $20,960.38, with assets, 
aside from exemptions, of $7,412.62. This 
is the result of one uiau trying to do 
business under three names where one 
would suffice. His nursery trade was in 
no sense a “wholesale” business, and this 
fiction has been pretty thoroughly elimi¬ 
nated by the houses in the retail trade. 
Uy tlie time the assets go through the 
machinery of the courts there will be but 
little left for creditors, and it will be 
hardly worth while for creditors having 
small claims on account of unfilled orders 
to file claims with the referee in bank¬ 
ruptcy. Delmar M. Danin. Addison, is 
the referee. As none of Mr. Wells’ ad¬ 
vertising was accepted by The R. N.-Y. 
in many years, few of our renders will he 
affected. Late advices show that Mr. 
Wells has been arrested by the Postoffice 
authorities, charging fraudulent use of 
the mails. 
and every three or four weeks on udders and flanks. Makes, cow cleaning 
easy—and is a big help to CLEAN MILK with low bacteria count. It’s the 
practice of leading dairymen everywhere. - Compulsory in many sections in 
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Clip with the Stewart No. 1—for years the world’s standard clipping ma¬ 
chine. Sturdily built—easily operated. Same machine for cows, horses and 
mules. Price reduced to $12, At your dealer’s, or send us $2 and pay 
^balance on arrival. 
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IT. SI Hi. t o., I»»pt. IIM, Amsterdam, N.Y. 
Special Sale of 
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We sell direct from our factory. No agents. 
Prices run from 1100.00 up. depending on size. 
All silos in this sale are highest grade. Pennine 
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your Station. On payment of small deposit wo 
will hold silo for Spring shipment if desired. If 
shipped at once no eaah in advance. Yon enn 
save money hy got Hi g ur order In now before 
these aro gone. Advise Size desired. 
This attractive 234-page book has some of the 
best of the Hope Farm Man’s popular sketches 
philosophy, humor, and sympathetic 
human touch. Price $1.50. 
For Sale by 
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INTERNATIONAL SILO CO. 
113 Flood Building Meadvilie, Penna, 
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