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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 8, 1922 
cnees, sind who has no financial standing. 
The only safe way is to investigate before 
shipments are made, and never ship a sec¬ 
ond case of eggs before the first one is 
paid for. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The Tri-States Music Company, Lines- 
ville, Pa., and other addresses. 
We have many complaints about this 
company, and several bills to collect from 
them. It seems they started several stores 
in (Western Pennsylvania aud Eastern 
Ohio. They sold stock of their company 
iu the local places, and contracted debts 
for lumber aud material and workman¬ 
ship of various kinds. They abandoned 
some of the stores without notice, and 
several creditors issued attachments 
against their effects. There seem to be 
complications in these attachments owing 
to the claim that, the goods in sight do 
not belong to the company. The creditors, 
therefore, who file the attachment will be 
obliged to put up bonds before the effects 
can be sold on the attachments. Tn view 
of all the circumstances, we can see little 
encouragement for the creditors aud none 
whatever for those who bought the stock. 
'We are having so many inquiries iu re¬ 
gard to the standing of concerns offering 
radio outfits at prices so low as to he im¬ 
practicable that we print the following 
advice from one of our readers who has 
succeeded in getting an outfit in opera¬ 
tion. The reputable concerns are willing 
to give information and advice, and it will 
be wise to stick to them while this work 
is in its infancy. 
About one month ago I wrote you ask¬ 
ing to see what you could do for me in 
regard to an order placed January 4 with 
a radio house. I received the order in June. 
The apparatus (for a radiophone set) 
was satisfactory, hut the delay of five 
months was not, I would advise anyone 
buying radio apparatus not to patronize 
any mail order houses in the present state 
of the wirelss business, if there is any 
way of buying direct from a reputable de¬ 
partment store or electrical supply house, 
even though it may moan a trip to the 
city. All sorts of extravagant claims 
are being made for radio goods, so to 
avoid disappointment and loss the novice 
should be very careful from whom he 
buys, and insist on a demonstration and 
a guarantee. The writer has had five 
years' experience with wireless and made 
most of his set. yet he has spent over $100 
on apparatus with a normal everyday 
range of 250 miles and an occasional 
range of [>00 miles. At present a good 
radiophone will cost as much as an ex¬ 
pensive phonograph, but the results are 
good and especially valuable to the iso¬ 
lated farm homes. c. H. w. 
New Jersey. 
-with DUMORITE 
save still more 
money by using the 
latest, c h capes t 
blasting methods. 
Filling and Tamping 
the Hole 
A FTER the hole has been made under the stump and 
the charge properly primed and loaded, the next step 
is filling and tamping the hole. The purpose of this is to 
seal the hole tightly so that the gases from the explosion 
will not escape, but will exert all their pressure against the 
stump. The success of the shot depends very largely on 
careful and thorough tamping. 
Moist clay, free from gravel and stones, fine sand or 
moist loam makes excellent tamping material. 
First, fill up four or five inches of the hole with this 
substance, and tamp it down gently with a rake handle 
with end sawed off square, or similar tamping stick. Then 
continue to fill the hole, tamping more firmly, until the 
top is reached, and the passage securely sealed. 
Stump blasting has become a cheaper operation since 
the development of Du Pont Dumorite. This new explo¬ 
sive has the heaving action of 20% dynamite and the 
strength of “40%,” stick for stick. And you get 135 to 140 
sticks of Dumorite at the same price as 100 sticks of 40% 
dynamite—more per dollar. 
Buy Dumorite at your local dealer’s and write us for free 
104-page "Farmers’ Handbook of Explosives,” which gives 
full instructions as to the use of explosives for land clear¬ 
ing, ditching and tree planting. 
A. W. Humphries, proprietor of the 
Westminster Kennels, High Tower, Ill., 
was sentenced to 90 days in jail and $800 
fine on two counts charging him with 
using the mails to defraud. Humphries 
conducted a mail order dog business and 
advertised in many sport papers. The 
dogs were advertised as pedigreed, and 
fancy prices asked for them, but the dogs 
delivered were common mongrels, and 
when returned to Humphries he neglected 
to refund the money. The matter was 
taken up with the Post Office Department 
vitli the above result. I inclose a bill against Dave Scheaffer, 
128 Princess St.. Newark. N. J„ for three 
eases of eggs, shipped to him May 4. 
1920. I have never been able to get any 
returns from him. I had shipped to him 
twice previous to this shipment, and the 
returns came promptly, but for my last 
shipment I can get no reply. I also in¬ 
close you a copy of express receipt. It 
may be they were not delivered, c. v, ic. 
Pennsylvania. 
David Scheaffer lias disappeared. Ill a 
previous complaint we asked our attorney 
to look him up. but it was impossible to 
locate him. and there is no hope of doing 
so now. The shipments were delivered to 
him. and the express company holds his 
receipt, and it is evident he gathered in a 
nice lot of goods and found it convenient 
to take the receipts and himself to a new 
field. Keep this experience iu mind if he 
endeavors to repeat the operation. 
A salesman for the Piggley Wiggley 
Stores, Inc., called on me and asked me 
to buy one of their notes at $100. on 
which they pay 8 per cent, and which 
may be redeemed at the end of a year, at 
which time I will also receive a bonus of 
one share of common stock, I am entire¬ 
ly unacquainted with this corporation, 
outside of having seen one or two of their 
Stores in operation. I would, therefore, 
greatly appreciate auy advice you may 
have to offer. W. w. G. 
New York. 
The Tiggley Wiggley Stores arrange 
groceries and other articles of home use 
on shelves around the store. The cus¬ 
tomer walks in through a gate or door, 
picks up what he wants and makes his 
exit at another door. At this ex t a clerk 
checks up the articles taken from the 
shelves by the customer and collects the 
pay for them. The customer than carries 
iier purchases home. Chains of these 
stores have been established in the West, 
and it is reported that they are now to be 
established in the East and in New York 
City as fast as they can be financed. 
There is no objection that we know of 
to the stores where the promoters of them 
put them in operation at their own ex¬ 
pense. But we see no reason in the 
world why the public should finance them. 
One of the stores has recently been 
opened in the writer's neighborhood, but 
there seems to be no good reason to pat¬ 
ronize it iu preference lo the other stores. 
We do not do so. No statement has been 
furnished to show profits in the Eastern 
store. The argument is that they can be 
run more economically later on. Our ad¬ 
vice is to let the promoters pay for their 
own experiments. The present plan is a 
speculation with other people’s money. 
We can see promising prospect for a total 
loss of an investment, but no encourage¬ 
ment for a profit or the return of the 
money. 
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO., I 
Equitable Bldg. 
NEW YORK 
Fulton Bldg. 
PITTSBURGH, PA 
Harvey Bldg. 
BOSTON, MASS. 
NON-HEADACHE 
NON-FREEZING 
A man is trying to interest me in stock 
of the Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation; also 
II. W. Dnbiske & Co., 220 South State 
Street, Chicago. What is your opinion? 
New York. A. \v. U. 
This company has been organized for 
the purpose of taking over established 
concerns engaged in the production and 
distribution of fruits. The capitalization 
is said to be heavy, and the prices asked 
are high for new and untried issues with 
no regular market. Wo consider the stock 
speculative and would not recommend it. 
We are not favorably impressed with the 
stocks handled by the Dnbiske Company. 
PER 
ORDER DIRECT FROM FACTORY 
We will send you as many gallons as you 
want of good quality red or brown 
DIRECT FROM FACTORY 
ALL FREIGHT PAID 
BARN PAINT 
CORRUGATED 
PLAIN — V CRIMP 
SHINGLES — SPOUTING - GUTTER 
upon ivcelpt.of remittance We «ru |»iint special¬ 
ists and can supply you witji paint for any pur- 
f iose. 1'ell us your uauls and let its quote you 
ow prices. We ran save you money hy shipping 
direct from our fuotorv, SatisfaolionGuaranteeo. 
On ord-i.. fur thirty Kslioim oi ovet w* will pfcimy the 
frelithl within * radius of three hundred inllen, 
AMALGAMATED PAINT CO. 
Factory: 372 WAYNE ST.. JERSEY CITY. N. J. 
PITTSBURGH ROOF & FENCE CO. 
Box 1231 —PITTSBURGH, PA. 
WORLD'S BEST IRON AND STEEL MARKET 
I cannot thank you too much for the 
kindness you gave me in the matter of 
complaint. Thanking you seems so little 
in return for what you did, but I want 
you to know that I sincerely appreciate 
it. I heartily agree with everyone in this 
community when they say "If Tite R. 
.\ T .-Y. cannot get your returns no one else 
can.” E. I>. ». 
We are not always able to help a sub¬ 
scriber as easily as we did in this case, 
ilmt we appreciate the courteous acknowl¬ 
edgment. We may fail to get the "re¬ 
turns” in some cases, but it is through no 
lack of effort or desire to help. No stone 
is left unturned as long as -there is a 
chance to serve our readers. 
\Study y 
A w/ -K/T O J 
our wheat 
A year ago we were shipping eggs to M. 
R. Berger, then employed by the railroad 
company, living at Merchantville. Since 
then he has moved to Beverly, N. J. This 
man owes us $203.02 for eggs shipped 
him. We trusted him, thinking he was 
'honest. At first he paid promptly and 
I toward the Inst got in arrears lo this 
amount. Will you look into this matter 
for us ? m. ft. h. 
Maryland. 
M. R. Berger is another of the egg 
dealers who find it a profitable business 
to solicit egg shipments from country 
people and*neglect to pay for same. lie .. ,, .. 
has followed the custom of these unknown makes promises, 
parties, and having laid in a nice surplus New York, 
from his failure to pay for the shipments. We have other cl 
departed without leaving an address. The Whiting which hav 
post office cannot locale him, and attor- two years past. We 
neys have been unable to follow his trail, lecting F. W. L.’s e 
The shipper is, therefore, out over $200 solicited by Whitinj 
because of his faith in a party who is or maple syrup shoe 
unable and unwilling to furnish refer- fore parting with tl 
Hus the clover and Rrrass made a 
good set in the stubble? 
if not, wlij not? 
Six years of potash starvation 
lias hail its effect on wheat lands. 
Enough Gerinaii Potash has now 
come forward, so (tint those who 
wish con liny wheat fertilizer 
with I to ti per rent, of potash. 
Potash prices are now much 
lower. 
Tell your dealer now what you 
want and insist on having it. 
O E course, you are very busy 
then but it will pay you to 
tube time to llnd out not 
only the yield but the real 
quality. 
Is tlie weight tier struck bushel 
up to the standard? 
Does it grade high enough to 
bring tiie top price In your mar¬ 
ket? 
Is the weed seed box free from 
light chaffy wheat grains? 
Potash Pays 
SOIL AND CROP SERVICE, POTASH SYNDICATE, H. A. HUSTON, Mgr. 
42 Broadway New York 
