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‘Ibt RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 12, 1M22 
The Phillips Drag Saw Manufacturing 
Company, Kansas City, Mo., induced me 
to send them $113 for their 1021 drag 
saw outfit. After waiting nearly three 
months I received an outfit, the descrip¬ 
tion of which please find in toy letter to 
them, which is herewith attached. I 
shall be grateful indeed to you for any 
assistance that you may be able to ren¬ 
der me in bringing this concern to time. 
Thinking that it might facilitate your 
acquaintance with the matter I have en¬ 
closed their letters and pamphlet, and 
the cheek I paid them with. 1 feel that 
as I am asking assistance of The R. 
X-Y., the square deal paper, I shall get 
the best of service. f. s. w. 
Connecticut. 
The purchaser contends that the Phil¬ 
lips Drag Saw Manufacturing Company 
sent him a used outfit, which he described 
as being worn out, and he has been un¬ 
able to get any service from it. lie says 
the job was assembled with rusty nails 
for cotter pins; that the clutch is worn 
out. and that, the engine has not sufficient 
compression to perform any work, Iu a 
letter to tfie subscriber, in response to 
his complaint, the company admitted that 
the machine had been used for demonstra¬ 
tion purposes. The claim is that the saw 
was used only “several hours one day,” 
but this statement does not correspond 
with the purchaser's description of its 
condition. At any rate, it was not a new 
outfit, and being unsatisfactory and in 
the purchaser’s opinion worthless, we 
have asked the Phillips Drag Saw Manu¬ 
facturing Company to accept the return 
of the outfit and to refund (ho customer’s 
money. This the firm refused to do, and 
having no financial responsibility (the 
company is given no rating by our com¬ 
mercial agency) the purchaser has little 
prospect of securing redress through the 
courts, oven though the expense of such 
a process was not prohibitive. Wo are 
printing this history of the transaction 
■for the guidance of other readers in their 
dealings with this firm. 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
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ment must be sigued with writer's full 
name and address given. Many inquiries 
are answered by mail 'instead of printing 
inquiry and answer, hence unsigued let¬ 
ters receive no consideration. 
I received a threatening letter from the 
Wolf Mercantile Agency of Cleveland, O., 
stating that they were making a draft on 
me for $17.50 through the First National 
Bank of Hudson, which, if not paid, will 
be turned over to their attorney. This is 
a case where one of the numerous paint 
concerns iu Cleveland sent me 30 gallons 
for n half barrel, and 1 remitted for 25 
gallons as half barrel, and wrote them 
that the balance was here subjec t to their 
orders, so that if said draft comes in I 
will not pay it, and will pay a good law¬ 
yer rather than be flim-flammed by them. 
New York. W. S. 
Here is a reader who does not propose 
being imposed upon by the paint sharks. 
It is a deliberate scheme of this class of 
paint sales agents to get country people 
to sign an order for a half barrel of paint. 
The order blank is silent as to how many 
gallons constitutes a half barrel. The 
buyer usually expects to receive 10 gal¬ 
lons. In this case the Acorn Refining 
Company states in a letter now iu an ef¬ 
fort to compromise that “a half barrel 
runs all the way from 35 to 40 gallons.’’ 
We will show the statement false by the 
testimony of five houses of unquestioned 
reputation and standing in the trade. We 
quote: 
A barrel of paint, is usually under¬ 
stood to contain 50 gallons, although 
sometimes they run as high as 55. If the 
manufacturer merely mentions a barrel, 
be refers to 50-gadon quantity, 
Half barrels are half that quantity, or 
25 gallons. There are also 30-gallon bar¬ 
rels, which can be supplied at the half¬ 
barrel price per gallon. 
A barrel as at present understood m 
the paint trade holds from 50 to 53 gal¬ 
lons. In old days we used to have half 
barrels holding 25 to 32 gallons, but they 
have gone out of use, and we now have 
kegs holding 10. 15 and 20 gallons. As 
all paints are sold by the gallon and not 
by the barrel or half barrel, the capacity 
of the container is not a vital feature. 
Our full barrels contain approximately 
50 gallons of paint, and the half barrels 
approximately 30 gallons each. 
The barrels contain anywhere from 45 
to 00 gallons, and half 'barrels approxi¬ 
mately 25 to 30 gallons. 
Our standard barrel of roof paint, wood 
or steel, contains approximately 50 gal¬ 
lons. or steel half barrels 30 gallons, wood 
half barrels ranging from 25 to 30 gal¬ 
lons. 
It is therefore established that in the 
paint trade 50 gallons is recognized as a 
barrel and 25 gallons -a half barrel. If 
the order specified the number of gallons 
there would then be no deception about't, 
and as usual with this class of houses 
when they run against a man who knows 
his rights aud will fight for them, then 
an effort is made to compromise the case. 
Acorn Refining Company will have the 
pleasure of going to this subscriber’s 
place and getting the 14 gallons excess 
shipment. 
Would you inform me in regard to a 
company called the Equitable Syndicate 
Royalty Company, main offices at Musko¬ 
gee. Okla.? It seems that all lauds sold 
to au oil company, the owner receives 
one-eighth of all oil produced, and this 
company buys one-half of the owner’s 
one-eighth, which is one-sixteenth, and as 
long as the wells are productive they get 
one-sixteenth of the production. What¬ 
ever amount of money you put iu they 
guarantee 3 per cent a month on invest¬ 
ment. To illustrate, if you put in $500 
you draw $15 per month. F. o. 
New York. 
Such claims are sufficient to brand the 
proposition “a get-rich-quick” scheme. 
Why should anyone sell oil lands that are 
sure to make profits like that? 
clean (to avoid au.v muss in the house) 
I received my pay for the case of eggs and when the machine is brought back 
after I sent the receipt to you to collect, and put together they have found a mnn- 
and thank you ever so much. I do not her of parts (hat were bent or worn, so 
see how yon can do so much for nothing, have replaced them, and your bill comes 
If all farm papers v ould expose these to several dollars more. I have recently 
swindlers ns you do they would be a been swindled out of $12 this way, so 
lit lie more scarce. G. A. E. wish to give a warning to others. 
New York. Connecticut. mbs. n. J. b. 
Wo simply do not count the cost of We are glad to co-operate with this 
this kind of service to subscribers. It woman who has been swindled, with view 
is a pleasure to recover money due farm* to heading off the fakers when they reach 
crs. Wo are not always successful; but some other farm community. Farmers 
if shippers would look up the standing cannot ho too cautious about trusting 
of produce houses before making ship- strangers prowling around country dis- 
ment fl great deal of annoyance and loss tracts presenting one slick scheme or an- 
would be avoided. Publisher’s Desk is other. This sewing machine repairer 
always glad to furnish this information, seems to he a new breed of trickster. 
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^v~ PORTLAND i 
I had the following experience with 
John Q. Adams, Stony Creek, N. Y. I 
saw the advertisement in The R. N.-Y. 
1 sent $8 for a ben turkey, and got. a 
fowl right back. It was very small and 
not all feathered out. but I said nothing. 
Along towards Spring it began to look 
and act like a gobbler, and l wrote him. 
No answer. Now it is surely a gobbler, 
and all I had was my old gobbler; have 
no hen at all. It is a great loss to me. 
About two weeks ago I wrote Mr. 
Adams and said if lie would send me a 
nice hen or my money I would send this 
one back, but no answer. G, m. c. 
New York. 
Dir. Adams ignores our letters regard¬ 
ing this deal. Sending a gobbler instead 
of a hen turkey may have been an error, 
but we can see no excuse for ignoring the 
complaint. The only conclusion to draw 
from the transaction is that Mr. Adams 
is not a desirable man to deal with by 
correspondence. 
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