858 
July 1 , 1923 
The cost of a pound of yellow coriimeal 
in New York retail stores is 12 cents. 
We recently paid 24e for 2 lbs. That 
day corn was quoted at 70c a bushel, or 
less than l*4c per lb. It is doubtful if 
the farmer who grew it got more than 7 c 
a pound. If so. he got S^c on the dol¬ 
lar. Publisher's Desk is trying to cor¬ 
rect abuses in trade, but the real monu¬ 
mental abuse of the present age is the 
barefaced robbery in the distribution of 
food. The Iloover administration fas¬ 
tened it upon us with a completeness of 
detail that we never knew before. The 
government has fastened the burden to 
our shoulders. If the government were to 
step aside we would be able to rid our¬ 
selves of this system, but while the gov¬ 
ernment stands by and protects what it 
helped to create, we are like a horse in a 
treadmill. We are serving the masters 
who provide the endless platform that we 
tread. Is the tradition of political pre¬ 
judice worth it? 
I bought a can at auction and paid $3 
for it. Now I have a letter from Shea & 
Crimmins, attorneys for the Milk Dot- 
tiers’ Federation, saying 1 am liable for 
a $50 tine and offering to settle for .$25. 
Please let me know what you think of it. 
New York. j. s. 
I was shipping milk and had two of 
my cans missing. The company sent me 
two cans in place of them, and told me to 
use them until mine came back. That was 
four or five years ago, but mine never 
came back. I never heard anything about 
it until someone took the cans from my 
wagon last July, and now I get this letter 
threatening a suit if I do not pay a hue 
of $25. What would you do? j. M. a. 
New York. 
These letters are typical. We have 
known a great many petty abuses in our 
time, but this milk can nuisance has been 
pursued under cloak of law longer than 
any other swindle that has ever come to 
our attention. 
It says that a person is liable to line 
for having cans in his possession without 
the consent of the owner. That is fair 
enough. No one has auy right to the 
property of another without the latter’s 
consent. But the law goes on to say that 
possession of marked cans is presumptive 
evidence of violation of the agricultural 
law, unless the person using it has the 
permission of the owner. If the farmer 
has no proof of consent available, this 
provision makes it possible for an agent 
of the dealers to board a farmer's wagon 
and take cans with a dealer’s marking, 
even though the farmer had bought and 
paid for them, or if he had received them 
from a dealer in exchange for his own, or, 
as in some cases, he is using them on a 
rental from the dealer. 
Under such circumstances we advise 
dairymen to refuse to pay a cent. We 
think they ought to sue to recover the 
cans, and we repeat our offer to defend a 
farmer at our own expense on the first 
suit brought where the farmer has used 
cans under such condition. 
That “presumptive evidence” provision 
of the law should be changed. We shall 
again request the next Legislature to 
change it. 
C. C. Stillman, secretary of the Morgan 
Horse Club, reports the sale of more than 
SO stallions, mares and geldings from the 
United States Morgan horse farm at Mid- 
dlebury, Vt., since February, 1919. The 
sales included 10 combi nation saddle and 
harness horses, five carriage pairs, 10 sin¬ 
gle harness horses, 10 stallions and eight 
•brood mares. These horses went to many 
different States and foreign countries. Mr. 
Stillman says there are more inquiries 
and orders for Morgans, particularly sad¬ 
dle horses, than can be filled.—City Paper. 
We make no complaint because the gov¬ 
ernment goes into the business of breeding 
a fine type of horse for the carriage and 
saddle trade. But while the government 
goes into this and other business enter¬ 
prises readily enough, it cannot in good 
faith maintain its argument that it re¬ 
frains from demonstrating the economic 
cost of food distribution because it is on 
principle opposed to going into business. 
If the favored interests that get the big 
end of the consumer’s dollar were shifted 
around to the 35-cent end of it, the gov¬ 
ernment would find no more objection to 
business iu demonstrating the necessary 
cost of food distribution than it now does 
in breeding geullemou's horses. 
‘ihe Rural new-yorker 
On Terms 
Oue reason for rcnewtng is because I 
like the paper, and the other is because 
you saved me $50 by exposing the. Platt.s- 
burg Carbide Company, which l took 
stock in, but, thanks to you, I did not pay 
for it after your exposure of the slick 
bunch. 8. j. M. 
New York. 
We would like to be able to feel that 
we could save every subscriber on our list 
$50 a year in one way or another, or 
help him make as much. It is too much 
to say that our ambitions are always real¬ 
ized, but to that end we simply do our 
best. 
I am enclosing a $10 bill. Please tiso 
as you think best for someone who is 
needy. You have plenty of chances, and 
this may help someone really in need I 
have had a good many favors in the past 
and if you don't mind would like to send 
you a little more later. Find inclosed 
stamp for reply to let me know if you 
receive this hill all right; also if I may 
trouble you more in the same way later. 
The Lord guide you ever as in the past. 
Ever your well wisher. MISS J. C. 
New York. 
There are big-hearted, generous people 
in the big city. Ask them for something 
to help the poor and the sick, and they 
give it. But here is a good woman nearly 
300 miles away, seeking, in the fullness 
of her heart, to repay favors to herself 
by providing comforts for others. It is 
not a response to a request, but a volun¬ 
tary generosity. 
There are plenty of opportunities to 
dispense worthy charity in a big city. It 
is only a question of time and menus. No 
one can relieve it all. We wanted this 
voluntary donation to go to an especially 
worthy cause. We found it in a small 
apartment in a tenement section. The 
mother died six months ago of consump¬ 
tion. She worked, the neighbors said, 
almost to the last day, to provide for the 
four little children. The father had been 
out of work for some time, but has found 
a place at a modest wage. lie could pay 
the rent and provide scanty food for 
himself and the children, but they needed 
clothes and shoes. The little housekeeper 
of 12 years, with three younger babies to 
care for, was sadly iu need of clothes. 
The donation from the country, supple¬ 
mented by local relief, has contributed to 
the needs of these little motherless chil¬ 
dren. Their young lives have been made 
happy and their tender hearts have been 
elevated in thanksgiving for the timely 
gifts of their unknown benefactress. 
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IF you own a silo it will pay you to own a Papec Ensilage 
Cutter also. Figure it out for yourself. The cutter crew fills 
your silo hurriedly. After it is gone, the silage settles and 
settles until your silo is about one-fourth 
empty. With your own cutter, you fill mod- 
We are inclosing circular letter re¬ 
ceived from the Eagle Retail Egg Com¬ 
pany, 212 Madison street. New York, so¬ 
liciting our eggs. We will greatly appre¬ 
ciate your opinion of these people and 
their business standing. W. V. F, 
New York. 
This Concern is not listed in the agency 
books, nor do we find any reference for 
them. A request for information as to 
their standing elicited the reply that they 
did not care to give any information, as 
they were going out of business or else 
move to some other location the end of 
June. They carry only a small stock, 
and it is impossible to learn the names of 
the owners, but the party in charge is be¬ 
lieved to be Samuel Rosniek. At any 
rate, the reference is not sufficient to war¬ 
rant shipments from country producers, 
and we advise caution. 
eratelyand cut close; there is little settling 
when you finish and that little can be easily 
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hired crew arrives. In either case, the silage does not have full feeding; 
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give you the highest quality of silage. The stock will clean up their silage 
closer and get more nourishment from it. Besides, there is a very consider¬ 
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for u Paper in two seasons, and it will atill be nearly as good as new. 
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I am enclosing a lot of correspondence 
with Bradley Bros., Makanda, HI., which 
is self-explanatory. T doubt very much 
if you will be able to got anything out 
of them, but if you cannot, you will still 
be able to give them a lot of free adver¬ 
tising. Relative to their extravagant 
claims for the pieplant, at this date, the 
few that did grow, the stems are thin, 
about (i in. long, and are starting seed 
stems; soil is very rich. It looks to me 
ns though it was their intention to have 
the plants arrive in a condition so they 
would not grow, in order to hide the 
fraud. The plants were oacked with com 
mon dry excelsior, no moisture at all. 
Virginia. s. rc. H. 
Bradley Bros, are still running true to 
form. This transaction amounted to 
$20.25, and the result is a total loss to 
the purchaser. In publishing the many 
complaints against this firm, we only hope 
to save others from a similar experience. 
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A Kansas newspaper says: “We wish 
to apologize for the manner in which we 
disgraced the beautiful wedding last 
week. Through an error of the typesetter 
we were made to say ‘the roses were 
punk.’ What we should have said was 
'the noses were pink.’”—Auckland (New 
Zealand) Weekly News. 
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