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Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
April 8, 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. 
I am sending you my renewal, together 
with a new subscriber. Some one sent 
mo the paper last year, and I am passing 
Hie good work along. The more 1 see of 
The Rural N’ew-Yorkeb the better I 
like it, I have seen more good tilings ill 
one issue of it than in a whole year’s 
numbers of some other farm papers. 
Keep it coming. W. It. L. 
Michigan. 
Many people ask how it is possible to 
publish this paper for a dollar a year 
and keep up the quality. The above is 
one of the answers. We do the work, 
and put in the best that is in ns; hut it 
is the confidence and friendship of sub¬ 
scribers that makes it. all possible. It is 
the old. old rule. On both sides we get 
back in proportion to what we give out. 
fan you help me? A few years ago T 
took a New England farm paper, and 
paid $11K for one share of stock. They 
tiaid interest at six per cent for a while, 
ami then stopped. I then refused to pay 
for the paper, as they owed me. fan I 
collect the money paid them? FARMER. 
Massachusetts. 
I’nless you have conclusive proof of 
fraud you cannot collect from anyone to 
gel back money you pay for stock in a 
company. When you buy stock you be¬ 
come owner of a fractional part of the 
business. If the business makes money 
and is run on the square you get a divi¬ 
dend on your share. Tf it does not make 
money you can get nothing. Even if it 
does pay majority stockholders- cau vole 
themselves big salaries and use up all 
the profits of (lie business in that way. 
The only way to get your money back is 
to sell the stock, but you would have 
difficulty in selling a publishing company 
stock that pays no dividend, and if you 
did. you would be cheating the new buyer 
as you have been cheated yourself. Mor¬ 
ally, the publisher who sold joii the 
stock is under obligation to take back the 
stock and return the money. Legally, 
lie does not owe you. and you have no 
red ress. 
We have persistently cautioned our 
people against investment, of their sav¬ 
ings in publishing paper certificates of 
every kind. Experience has always justi¬ 
fied the advice. 
T am an old subscriber to your paper, 
and an interested reader of your Pub¬ 
lisher’s Desk department. What can I 
do about the enclosed claim against New 
York Central Railroad? The meal was 
wet and caked, due to leaky roof, so as to 
be unsalable, as noted by agent on freight 
bill. I have bad two or three letters sim¬ 
ilar to enclosed from them since last Sep¬ 
tember. There is not that much profit in 
the dairy business. Please let me know 
what you can do. C. c. B. 
New York. 
We took up this claim with the Nc*v 
York Central Railroad and were able to 
get a settlement, but it. took pretty nearly 
a year to get them to acknowledge their 
responsibility. This is not. fair to ship¬ 
pers. but railroads and express corapaniea 
should have some method of investigation 
of claims that, would enable them to de¬ 
cide on the merits of the claims and close 
them out in at least: two months. The 
shipper, on his part, will do well to get 
bis claim in promptly whenever there i« 
any loss. 
Please advise mo if you know anything 
about the Zip Products Company. 
(’onvent Avenue. New York. These peo¬ 
ple have sold a man here about .$450 
worth of their materials and have his 
trade acceptance on it, which we lake it 
is about the same as a note. The man 
who has the material does not seem to 
be able to sell it, and they claim to have 
disposed Of the trade acceptance, and he 
will have to pay. Do you know anything 
about tbe reliability of this company? 
Connecticut. t. p. 
We gave our views of Zip Products 
Company a few weeks ago. Convent 
Avenue is a residential section, and the 
'company has no established responsi¬ 
bility. This is probably a sales agency 
for some stock food manufacturer, and 
from the similarity of literature our 
guess would lie the Federal Stock Food 
Company. Mifilinburg. Pa. A “Guarantee. 
Health Indemnity” on live stock, 50 per 
cent profit to agents, a Ford automobile 
free, etc., are inducements offered by both 
companies. We have record of cases 
where the courts have refused to protect 
apparently innocent holders of paper 
which had been secured on a fraudulent 
transaction. 
T have been receiving literature from 
Dr. Eugene Christian for some years, and 
thought lie was doing good with his les¬ 
sons in correct eating. But my suspi¬ 
cious have been aroused by these oil stock 
circulars. If you have information to 
offer perhaps it would be of benefit to the 
Ru rat. family. a. c. w. 
New York. 
Perhaps Mr. Christian's oil promotions 
has little bearing on his correct eating 
advice, but for ourselves we think the 
doctor injects a pretty large percentage 
of “bunk” into both propositions. The 
most, effective variety of bunk contains 
just enough truth to induce the prospec¬ 
tive victim to swallow the fiction without 
suspicion. We unhesitatingly advise our 
readers to avoid Dr. Christian’s wildcat 
oil proposition, and for ourselves we shall 
try to get along in the future as we have 
in the past without his advice on correct 
eating. 
T HIS piece of lead pipe had been buried in the 
ground nearly 1900 years when it was dug up by 
workmen excavating for a sub-cellar in Rome. 
Vespasian was emperor when this pipe was made 
—the inscription tells that. When Vespasian laid 
water-pipes of lead in the streets of Rome, he followed 
the example of Julius Caesar, who sent plumbers with 
his legions into barbarian lands. Lead pipe laid by 
these Roman invaders has been dug from English soil. 
1 have two breeding sows, nml wished 
to feed a hog tonic. I saw in an agricul¬ 
tural |taper the Wilbur's hoy-Louie adver¬ 
tisement; scud 10c and one $1.50 package 
would be scut; enough for a “0-dny trial 
fur two bogs. So I did. ami after some 
time a package came, with six packages of 
tonics, six 10-oZ. packages of concentrated 
tonics* each marked $1.50—two for hogs, 
two for stuck, and two for poultry. They 
scut some advertising matter along, and 
a blank to be tilled out and signed by me. 
One package is a free one. The other five 
are to be used by me or sold to my neigh¬ 
bors. I tim feeding the free package as 
per directions. The other live are laid 
up on the shelf, hardly knowing if the 
tonics are ast represented, or if the E. H. 
Marshall Co. of Milwaukee. Wis.. is a re¬ 
liable firm, putting out reliable goods to 
tbe public. Not knowing. 1 do not wish 
to try to induce any neighboring farmers 
to purchase without knowing something 
of them. Through reading Publisher's 
Desk I thought, perhaps you could help. 
If their way of doing and their products 
tire not what they should be. it would be 
a great help to me and possibly to many 
Others to know it. r. C. M. 
Massachusetts^ 
The report, indicates the fnky diameter 
of the E. B. Marshall Oo. Its methods 
and that, of its successor, the Wilbur 
Stock Food Company, have been exposed 
by Tiie R. N.-Y. a number of times- dur¬ 
ing the past, dozen years. The concern 
has always advertised in a catchy man¬ 
ner, and seized any pretext to ship a 
quantity of goods, and then try to brow¬ 
beat the farmer into paying for it. under 
the threat, of lawsuit. We can arouse 
little faith in the merits of the goods that 
must be sold by such disreputable meth¬ 
ods. 
For centuries lead’s non-corrosive 
qualities have made it the favored 
metal for water-pipes. Lead gutters, 
^ r pipe-heads and leader pipes have been 
used for hundreds of years to carry off 
jj the rain from the roofs of buildings. 
, , Such lead work is often very beautiful 
and ornamental. 
Often you see a steel skeleton, a bridge, a roof, a 
railing that has been painted a flaming orange-red. 
This brilliant coat is red-lead, an oxide of lead. “ Save 
the surface and you save all” is an imperative maxim 
where exposed metal surfaces are concerned, and red- 
lead is the most reliable protection against rust that 
has yet been discovered. 
You are surrounded by lead, in your home and on 
your travels. There is lead in your rubber boots, in 
the tires of your automobile, in the bearings of the 
machinery that makes things for your use or trans¬ 
ports you from place to place. 
*3? *3? 
Civilization has found hundreds of uses for lead and 
its products, and of them all the use of white-lead in 
paint is undoubtedly the most important. 
Paint is used to decorate and preserve almost every¬ 
thing that is built or made, and the principal factor in 
good paint is white-lead—made by corroding pure 
metallic lead and mixing it with linseed oil. 
Most painters simply add more linseed oil to the 
white-lead, in order to make the paint they use. Paint 
manufacturers use white-lead, in varying quantities, 
in the paint they make. The quality of any paint is 
largely dependent on the amount of white-lead it con¬ 
tains, for it is the white-lead that gives to good paint 
its durability. 
“Save the surface and you save all’* means that paint prevents 
decay and ruin. The highest protective power is found in those 
paints which contain the most white-lead. 
National Lead Company makes white-lead of the highest 
quality, and sells it, mixed with pure linseed oil, under the nams 
and trademark of 
Dutch Boy White-Lead 
Write to our nearest branch office, address Department G, 
for a free copy of our “Wonder Book of Lead,” which interest¬ 
ingly describes the hundred-aud-onc ways in which lead enters 
into the daily life of everyone. 
NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 
New York Boston Cincinnati San Francisco 
Cleveland Buffalo Chicago St. Louis 
JOHN T. LEWIS & BROS. CO., Philadelphia 
--figZZL* NATIONAL LEAD & OIL CO.. Pittsburgh 
A year ago I gave Knight & Bostwiek. 
Newark. N. Y.. an order for trees, 
amounting to $26. They were to be de¬ 
livered last Fall. Before the trees arrived 
their agent called, and I placed an' order 
with him for some peach trees for Spring 
delivery, The first bunch of trees arrived 
last October, after being on the road over 
three, weeks. The trees had no wrapping 
or packing of any kind around them; only 
a string tied around them to keep them 
together. 'The roots were all dried tip, 
and the bark badly bruised. I wrote them, 
telling them in what condition the trees 
arrived. They ignored my letter, and the 
only thing they answered was that, they 
wanted their money or would sue me. I 
sent, the money, but told them if that was 
(lie kind of business they did. I would 
cancel my order for peach trees, amount¬ 
ing to $7.50. Sixty per cent of the trees 
they sent me are dead. Now they write 
me I will have to take the peach trees or 
they will sue. P. D. 
New Jersey. 
The above letter thoroughly illustrates 
the business methods of nursery houses 
selling trees by the agency system. After 
the farmer once sends an order, the only 
consideration he is- likely to get from this 
class of nursery houses is a demand fur 
settlement. We do not believe they will 
sue if you cancel the order for the peach 
trees and refuse to accept them. If they 
do, we think they will fail to convince a 
jury that you should pay for them. All 
they could collect in any event would be 
their profit on the $7.50 order. 
Some Products Made by National Lead Company 
Dutch Boy White-Lead Came Lead 
Dutch Boy Red-Lead Electrotype Metal 
Dutch Boy Linseed Oil Oxides, Lead 
Dutch Boy Flatting Oil Shot 
Dutch Boy Babbitt Metals Lead Woo! 
Dutch Boy Solders Litharge 
Basic Lead Sulphate—White and Blue 
Harold ran back from the lion in the 
museum. “Don’t he afraid, dear,” grand¬ 
mother said: “that lion is stuffed.” 
“Yes.” said Harold, "but mebbe he isn’t 
stuffed so full that, lie couldn’t find room 
for a little boy like me.”—Our Dumb 
Animals. 
