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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 11. 1922 
closing his offer. I am a subscriber, and 
would like your advice whether or not to 
answer his letter. f. m. n. 
Perkins is a new artist in the game of 
cajoling $19 ..ill of those having farms 
for sale. There are now nearly a dozen 
of these pirates located, mostly in the 
Central West, advertising in country 
papers and in some farm papers. They 
make no serious effort to sell farms, and 
still they cannot be convicted of intent to 
swindle farmers who Send them money. 
The individual loss is so small that no 
one has ever tried. Ostrander invented 
the scheme and D. It. Cornell & Co., 
Great Barrington, Mass,, but now oper¬ 
ating from Troy. X. Y„ has improved on 
the Ostrander plan by sending out 
agents to get a listing fee of $25 or more, 
telling farmers they can just as well get 
one or two thousand dollars more for 
their farm from city men who do not 
know farm values. That sounds so good 
that the $25 comes easy ; then, after some 
years have elapsed, the owner linds him¬ 
self booked for a withdrawal fee also! 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters to Publisher’s Desk depart¬ 
ment must bo 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. 
In the January 21 issup we announced 
the failure of F. W. Wells, trading as 
Wells’ Wholesale Nurseries, Sheerin's 
Wholesale Nurseries and Pomona Nur¬ 
series, at Pansville, X. Y. In response 
to many inquiries from readers we desire 
to say that F. W. Wells and the nursery 
names under which he did business has 
no connection whatever with the nursery 
house of Maloney Bros. IV ells Co. of 
the same place. 
About throe weeks ago a friend of mine 
asked me if I wanted to give 10c for The 
II. X.-Y. for 10 weeks. I handed him a 
dime, and didn't care whether I got the 
paper or not. Now I have had three or 
four copies, and I do know now that I 
don’t want to miss a number. Inclosed 
herewith $1 for one year’s subscription. 
New York. j. c. e. 
The K. N.-Y. is the only paper wo 
know that ever made a success of 10- 
weeks new subscriptions. In the- first 
place, the plan requites devoted friends 
among the old subscribers, who are will¬ 
ing to go out of I heir way to interest 
their neighbors for love of the paper. The 
other reason appears from the above let¬ 
ter. The paper must have something to 
please and serve the new subscriber, so 
that he will want to renew after the 10 
weeks have expired. We try to make that 
kind of a paper, and our old friends do 
the rest. We thank them. 
1922 Is A Good Year 
To Build A Dairy Barn 
T UMBER and other prices are well down, carpenters and com- 
/ mon labor want work and contractors need business badly 
enough to figure closely. 
Costs have so lowered that you can now have a James planned barn, 
with James way insulation, double glazed windows and silos, com¬ 
pletely equipped with Jamesway ventilating system, stalls, stanch¬ 
ions, drinking cups, manure carrier, feed truck, cow pen, calf pen, 
bull pen, etc., for 30 cows for about $53.00 a month—$1.75 per cow. 
Indeed, drinking cups alone may pay % the cost of the entire barn. Tests in 28 
herds proved that with milk at $2.50 per 100 lbs. and labor at 25c an hour, James¬ 
way cups increased profits from each cow $14.01 during the cold weather season. 
Building costs are not likely to decrease for some time. When prosperity- is again 
in full swing, labor, lumber, cement and other materials will be in great demand. 
In any event, the profits a Jamesway barn will make for you each year you use it 
will far offset any possible saving that can be effected by waiting. 
If you take advantage of the Federal Farm Loan system, you may get money at 
low interest for as long as 40 years, paying off a little each year. If you are not 
familiar with this method of financing the building of a dairy barn, write us for 
full information. 
About two weeks ago I asked you to 
give me some information about the I’ig- 
gly-Wiggly Stores. You told me to avoid 
the proposition. Last Saturday the agent 
<ame again to my home and asked me to 
buy some stock. Then I told him I had 
received no good information about his 
proposition. So he asked me to show 
him your letter, which I did. but when I 
asked for the letter, he wished to lake it 
to his office. The agent told me it was 
not right for you to give me such informa¬ 
tion, as he was positively sure the propo¬ 
sition was all right, and his boss will 
send you a letter asking you what censor 
you hod to give me such information. 
New Jersey. h. w. 
We do not expect stock salesmen to 
agree with the advice we give our sub¬ 
scribers about stocks peddled around in 
this way. We shall he very glad to have 
this young man’s “boss” enlighten us, and 
if he can show us that the “Piggly-Wig- 
gly” stock has anything hack of it to 
commend it as an investment we shall 
welcome the information. It is only a 
speculation. The enterprise is said to 
have improved in the amount of sales dur¬ 
ing the latter part of 1921. We do not 
advise our people to put their savings in 
the stock of any enterprise not well es¬ 
tablished. To do so is taking a risk. 
I am enclosing copy of an order given 
to II. M. Whiting, who represented him¬ 
self as being front Geneva. Will you tell 
me what you know of this man and 
what you think of his method of doing 
business? Tie showed large orders given 
by prominent farmers around here as evi¬ 
dence of his integrity. I think I have 
been stung, and know the order could he 
filled by reliable firms at about half the 
price. It will not he so bad if 1 can he 
sure of getting reliable trees. M, it. M. 
New "ork. 
Mr. Whiting’s reputation, which is any¬ 
thing but desirable, has many times been 
referred to in these columns. On this 
order. Mr. Whiting charged $25 for 25 
apple trees, described as 4-ft. trees, and 
$2 each for cherry trees. The catalog 
of one of the best nursery growers iu the 
State quotes apple trees 4 to 5 ft. at 55c 
each in lots of 10. and cherry trees at $1 
each. The farmer iu this ease has 
paid, or will pay, $15 for Mr. Whiting’s 
“guff,” otherwise known as salesmanship. 
JAMES MANUFACTURING COMPANY 
Fort Atkinson. Wis, 
Elmira, New York 
Poultry Book No. 30 
Tells about new type 
of poultry house — 
warm, but gets rid of 
foul air and moisture. 
Dairy Barn Book No. 30 
How to build,ventilate 
and equip a practical 
up-to-date dairy barn. 
Free on request. 
60 Distinctive 
Practical Homes 
In the New Bennett Book 
Buffalo, January 10.—Comparative fig¬ 
ures in advertising, such as $20 values 
for $10. should he eliminated, declared 
Louis Blumenstnck of St. Louis in an ad¬ 
dress to the National Advertising <'nm- 
mission of the Associated Advertising 
Clubs of the World. “To continue such 
advertising is to injure the press by de¬ 
stroying public confidence in the truth of 
wlial i! reads.” lie added: ’‘Advertising 
wastes are appalling and untruth is the 
greatest evil. The highest idea's in busi¬ 
ness can never be attained until truth as 
the foundation of all advertising. This 
must begin with the retailer, because he 
is the one who comes into direct contact 
with the buying public.” Daily Paper. 
This corresponds with the standard 
maintained for the advertising appearing 
in The Rukal New-Yorker. “A dol¬ 
lar’s worth of seeds for 10c” is not an 
unusual offer to sec In the farm press. 
But no one believes that such an offer is 
genuine, and it only destroys the confi¬ 
dence of the buying public. This is the 
extreme of extravagance, but the most 
common attempts at deception are “$5 
value for $8.24.” etc. The price at which 
the goods arc offered is the best guide *o 
its value. Then there is the deceptive 
“free” offer which provides that you buy 
one article and get another with it—hut 
the article isn’t free at all, because the 
price covering Ihe value of both is includ¬ 
ed in what you pay for one. No such 
deceptive offers are permitted in The It. 
N-Y„ while occasionally some extrava¬ 
gant statement, gels by our censorship. 
We have often had occasion to refer to 
the good work the Associated Advertising 
Clubs of the World arc doing along the 
line of advancing truth in advertising and 
bringing advertising frauds to justice by 
publicity and criminal prosecution. 
THE New Bennett Book—(you should get a copy) illustrates 
more attractive, cosy houses and shows greater money sav¬ 
ings than ever before. You can rely on the Bennett prices. 
You know before you start just how little your new home will cost. 
Bennett’s standardized parts—cut, notched, marked Bennett’s 
location and shipping facilities, save you $300 to $800 cash, 
and one to two months’ building time. 
Bennett Homes are designed by famous architects for beauty* 
comfort, convenience. They are COMPLETE. We guarantee 
to furnish all the lumber, lath, shingles, finishing lumber, doors. 
Please hand to some one you think might 
want to get rich quick. Well, there’s one 
born every minute, and two to catch him. 
New Hampshire. F. h. r. 
These remarks accompany the circular 
letter from the Quiseuberry Feed Mfg. 
Co., Kansas City, soliciting investment 
in the preferred stock of the company at 
$1 per share. As on inducement, stock¬ 
holders are promised feed at wholesale 
prices, a form of sucker bait that we have 
yet to see result in anything other than 
loss of money to those who bite on it. 
ON YOUR 
NEW HOME 
If only interested in standard 
length lumber and building mate 
rials, ttend for the Bvnnatt Mill 
Work Catalog No. 902 and take 
advantage of our Low Whole¬ 
sale Prices. 
Last year one of your subscribers com¬ 
plained to you about not getting seed corn 
he ordered from the Moore Seed Com¬ 
pany. Philadelphia Pa. lie would have 
been much worse off if he had got it and 
planted it. I bought several dollars’ 
worth of vegetable and flower seeds from 
them, and unfortunately for me they sent 
the seeds. I have never received so 
worthless a lot of seeds in my life before, 
and think they should be stopped from 
using the mails to defraud the people. I 
arn remailing you today one of their price 
lists, which reminds me of the advertise¬ 
ments of a circus. E. S. 
Sometimes blessings come to us in dis¬ 
guise, and there is no question that a 
farmer is better off not to receive seed 
ordered and paid for when the seed is 
worthless, as above described. Nothing 
can he more important than starting with 
reliable seeds. 
Farmers need to be cautious in placing 
their orders for seeds. We find in a re¬ 
cent single issue of a farm paper five 
advertisements that we have rejected be¬ 
cause farmers cannot buy seeds of them 
without hazard. 
Better-Built' 
Ready-Cuu 
BENNETT HOMES. 
9020 Main St.. No. Tonawanda, N. Y. 
Gentlemen: 
Endowed iiIchhc find stainjm for 
Catalog No. 902. 
Name 
Number and Street (or P. O. Box) 
Town and State 
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. 
Have you any information regarding 
the reliability of Bradley Bros. Makandn. 
Ill.? I have just received their catalogue 
and might get a few things if they are 
reliable. 8. J. u. 
Connecticut. 
It. seems necessary to repeat that Brad¬ 
ley Bros., Makandn. III., lias established 
the worst record we know in the seed and 
nursery trade. And this record has been 
of 25 years’ .standing. 
For Sale by RURAL NEW-YORKER 
335 West 30th Street, New York 
I wrote M. M. Perkins, Columbus, Mo. 
about selling my place for me. I am en 
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