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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 13,* 1022 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
All letters to Publisher's Desk depart¬ 
ment must be signed with writer’s full 
name and address given. Many inquiines 
are answered by mail instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigned let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
Have you any information on the 
standing of Birnberg A Kahn, 287 Green¬ 
wich Street, New York? 1 shipped them 
eggs, but the returns were below local 
prices at home? c. j. 
New York. 
This firm was organized in 1019. They 
send out a letter soliciting shipments of 
eggs, from which we quote the following 
paragraph: 
“We do a strictly jobbing trade only, 
thereby eliminating the middleman’s pro¬ 
fit. Why not shin direct to us and save 
that expense? The fact of us being 
strictly jobbers puts us in a position 
where we can place line eggs to much 
better advantage than those who are not. 
We have a wide and exceptionally good 
outlet, and feel confident that we can do 
you some good. We do not charge any 
commission for handling eggs, as we are 
not commission merchants, but if you 
decide to send us any eggs we will ac¬ 
cept them oti a merchandise basis, paying 
you the best prices obtainable based on 
quality, grade and quotation on day of 
arrival, less expressage or freight and 
cartage.” 
That paragraph ought to he a warning 
to egg producers not to ship the concern 
any eggs. They are middlemen, and no 
expense can be saved on the theory that 
they are not. They have the same mar¬ 
ket as other bouses in the commission 
trade. The commission merchants e 
obliged to take out a license with the 
Farms and Markets Department of the 
State and put up a bond to guarantee 
payment. If the return is not satisfac¬ 
tory from a licensed commission mer¬ 
chant an examination of the books can 
be made, and a fair accounting demanded. 
This concern is neither licensed nor 
bonded. By operating in this way it 
escapes license and bond and accounting. 
When you ship them eggs you simply 
say: “Here they are. Take them and 
pay what yon please!” Their own ap¬ 
peal for shipments is the lies! argument 
to ship to a licensed dealer. 
I read Publisher's Desk with mucli in¬ 
terest, and inclose clipping from a local 
paper regarding D. B. Cornell, the real 
estate agent., which may interest you. 
Troy, N, Y. it, j. M. 
The newspaper clipping states that 
Cornell accepted $200 as payment on a 
house in Troy. It later developed that 
the owner did not want to sell the house, 
and that Cornell had no authority to sell 
it. He, however, refused to return the 
$200; and lie was arrested on a larceny 
charge. Judge Byron held Cornell in 
$1,000 bail, and instructed the court offi¬ 
cers to hold him at headquarters until 
one o’clock, and if bail was not furnished 
by that time the police were instructed 
to place Cornell in jail. It is about time 
Cornell got a taste of the law which he 
is so fond of quoting in support of his 
own fake claims. Recently he has been 
threatening to bring a suit at Troy 
against a widow in Orange County, al¬ 
leging that her husband listed the farm 
with him 10 years ago, and that, since 
slie recently rented the farm, she is not 
in a position to sell it, and he demands 
$100. Of course he can bring a suit in 
a distant part of the State and put the 
woman to the expense of applying to the 
court for a trial in Orange County. 
When this is done, he drops the case. 
Ilis purpose is to scare the farmer into 
ranking a payment to escape litigation, 
annoyance and expense. If the Troy 
court puts him in jail, and keeps him 
there, it will deserve the gratitude of 
farmers everywhere. 
Can you tell me whether the Ohio 
Farmers’ Co-operative Agency, McCon- 
nelsville, O., is all right and safe to do 
business with? The literature they send 
out seems all right. S. H. 8. 
New Jersey. 
The above named concern is asking an 
advance fee of $5 for printing 1,000 de¬ 
scriptions of the property. It's, the same 
old “listing fee game” which is being 
worked by so many real estate agents un¬ 
der one guise or another. The Ohio 
Farmers’ Co-operative is intended to lead 
the public to believe that it is a farmers’ 
organization, instead of, as seems to he 
the case, two real estate brokers, looking 
for $f. easy money of farmers. 
In December. L. 8. Finch, f>2<» Fifth 
avenue. North Troy. N. Y.. came to Hart¬ 
ford and began selling shares of $50 each 
for the Great Northern Stores Corpora¬ 
tion (chain stores), of Union street, 
Schenectady, of which Henry Reed was 
president. The store in Hartford was to 
he opened in February, and a number of 
us paid up our $50 share (hen in full and 
got our certificates, The store never has 
started, and the man (Finch) went to 
Troy, saying that Reed was dead and he 
was to attend the funeral. We now hear 
that Reed is not dead. This Finch made 
believe to ns that he had a lot of signers 
in town who had paid in. as I told him I 
would not take a share until he had .30 
paid signers, lie came hack and carried 
the idea that he had them, when, in fact, 
he did not. He had a number that had 
paid in $10 apiece and four who had paid 
$50. winch I found out afterwards. We 
received a notice from a lawyer in Troy 
that bankruptcy proceedings will he start¬ 
ed against that firm April 18. Can you 
help us get our $50 back? This man 
should he advertised so that he will not 
go to other towns and do the same thing 
again. H. m. b. 
New York. 
We can see no prospects for this sub¬ 
scriber or the others who parted with 
their money recovering any portion of it. 
The stock salesman should he prosecuted 
for perpetrating a swindle, and we would 
suggest that the evidence he submitted 
to the District Attorney of the county in 
which the transactions took place. 
I have received from Isaac F. Tilling- 
hast. Santa Rosa, Cal., catalogue and 
leaflet containing oilers of “new crea¬ 
tions" of unusual merit in fruit, flowers, 
grains and vegetables, many of them 
claimed to he Burbank productions. Have 
yon any data as to the reliability of this 
dealer? An individual of this name, if 
my memory serves me right, was men¬ 
tioned in Biihlisher’s Desk department a 
year or two ago, and was referred to as 
a fraud and a swindler; it also stated 
that The R. N.-Y. had exposed him as 
such 20 years previously. The leaflet 
mentioned announces a “$1,000 prize puz¬ 
zle game.” with prizes ranging from $300 
down to $1. ^ E. II, E. 
District of Columbia. 
The subscriber's recollection is correct. 
We are not surprised at Mr. Tillinghast 
taking up the puzzle scheme, which is so 
popular with those who want to palm oil 
on the public some article or commodity 
that cannot he sold on its own merits. 
The “prize puzzle game” provides the 
bait to catch suckers. 
About, a year ago I bought, of the 
Anchor I’nim A Varnish Company, with 
office at Cleveland. Ohio. 10 gallons of 
red plastic cement roof paint, for which 
I paid $20, with the guarantee to keep 
my roof leak proof for 10 years. The 
paint peeled and washed off. and 1 wrote 
the company asking it to live up to the 
guarantee, and can get no satisfaction. 
If this is the way this paint concern 
strings country people along, it should 
be exposed. 
Virginia. 
We have taken this complaint up with 
the Anchor Faint & Varnish Company, 
Cleveland, and are advised by the Mer¬ 
cantile Adjustment. Bureau that the con¬ 
cern is in process of liquidation. There 
is, therefore, no possibility of getting any 
adjustment for the subscriber in this case. 
There are a number of paint liousjes in 
Cleveland selling paints and oils through 
agents which we have frequently advised 
our people to avoid. Our reports indi¬ 
cate that Hie quality of the paints and 
oils sold in this way a no inferior, and in 
many cases the orders are secured 
through deception and misrepresentation. 
One of the favorite tricks of the agents 
of this class of oil and paint, houses is 
to sell a farmer a lialf-barpel of oil or 
paint, leading the farmer to believe that, 
about 10 gallons constitute,s a half-barrel. 
In many cases on such orders! 39 gallons 
are shipped, and then the farmer is threat¬ 
ened under a lawsuit to accept the goods 
and pay for it. In the paint and oil trade 
a barrel constitutes about 50 gallons, so 
that there is no excuse for shipments of 
39 gallons as a half-barrel. Wc again 
warn our readers to beware of such agents 
traveling about the country. 
What, can you tell me about stock of 
Grow Tire Company, who have their fac¬ 
tory at Concord Junction, Mass.? 
Massachusetts, c. E. h. 
The Grow Tire Company is not rated 
by the commercial ngeticioB. The tire 
market is much over-manufactured, and 
putting money into the stock of an ob¬ 
scure unestablished concern would ho tak¬ 
ing u long shot, indeed. 
I N blasting stumps, the first thing to do is to 
make the hole to receive the charge of dynamite. 
The hole is made by driving a crowbar or driv¬ 
ing-iron, or boring with a soil auger, at an angle 
to the stump, through its roots, to a depth of thirty 
inches to four feet. Make sure that the charge is 
placed directly beneath the most firmly fixed part 
of the stump. 
The subsequent steps in stump blasting will be 
described in future issues of this paper. 
For utmost economy use Dumorite — the new 
Du Pont Farm Dynamite. It has the heaving 
action of 20% dynamite and the strength of“40%” 
stick for stick. And at the price of 100 sticks of 
“40%”, you can buy 135 to 140 sticks of Dumorite. 
This means that you can blast one-third more 
stumps per dollar. Dumorite is non-headache 
and non-freezing. Buy it at your local dealer’s. 
Write for your copy of free 1 04-page Farmer's 
Handbook of Explosives, which gives complete 
instructions on hou) to use dynamite for land 
clearing, ditching and tree planting. 
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., Inc. 
Equitable Bid);. Fulton Bldg. Harvey Bldg. 
NEW YORK PITTSBURGH, PA. BOSTON, MASS. 
OLIVER TRACTOR PLOWS 
We have for sale a few New OLIVER No. 78 
two anil three bollom tractor plows. Price, 
$65.00 for I lie two-bottom plows ami $75.00 
for thrcc-liottntn plow while they last. Further 
particulars upon request, 
STANDARD MACHINERY COMPANY 
453 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn. 
ie 
FRICK 
Tractor 
Always Dependable 
Is Well Suited For Farm Work 
U A C high guide and f ruction wheels, 
H ZiN approximately F»J$ in. clear- 
*mice under a xles and drawbar; 
wide trend long wheel base and low 
center of gravity; 
spiu'imiB platform, adjustable hitch; 
accessibility to all working parts. 
IS 
well protected from weather con¬ 
ditions; of strong construction and 
guaranteed. 
Write for Catalog and Price. 
Also manufacturers of Thrashars, Steam 
Traction and Portable Engines. Saw Mills, etc. 
FRICK COMPANY 
345 W. Main St. - WAYNESBORO, PA. 
When you write advertisers mention 
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