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Dx RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 20, 1922 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
I)airymen in Crawford County, Penn¬ 
sylvania, and adjacent Ohio territory, 
have won the first fight with Reiek-AIo- 
Junken Dairy Company of Pittsburgh to 
get their money for milk delivered to the 
company last December. Tl will be re¬ 
membered that the dairy company sent 
checks to pay for this milk on January 
21, but the Conncautville Dank, on which 
the checks wore drawn, failed before the 
checks were paid, and the dairy company 
refused to redeem the unpaid checks on 
the ground that the dairymen had delayed 
collection. The dairymen asked Tin? 
lUnt.vi, Nkw-Yobkrr to intervene on their 
behalf, but we were unable to persuade 
the Roiek-McJuuken Dairy Company that 
it: was their duty to pay for the milk by 
putting the money in the producers’ 
hands, just as the dairymen had tail the 
milk into its possession. Alter exhaust¬ 
ing peaceable efforts we employed a com¬ 
petent firm of attorneys and brought a 
te.st suit on behalf of two of the dairy¬ 
men at Conncantyillc. On September 5 
the suit was tried in the local court, and 
judgment was given for (the full amount 
of the claims. If an appeal is taken io 
the Common Pleas Court of Pennsylvania 
it will act to suspend execution and de¬ 
lay payment, otherwise the judgment is 
promptly collectible. 
The first victory is with the dairymen. 
If this does not convince the company 
of their legal as well as their moral re¬ 
sponsibility. other suits will follow. 
There are, of course, technical legal 
points involved, because of decisions on 
record in city transactions, some of them 
in favor of the dairymen and some ap¬ 
parently favoring the company, but when 
all the facts arc made known and all 
considerations weighed we believe the 
judgment of the first court will be ap¬ 
proved and the dairymen will get paid 
for their milk. The fight is on to that 
end. 
Enclosed find circular letter to me. from 
Vital Products Company, Dos Moines, 
la. The patent they refer to is n clothes 
line reel. Is this a lawyers' combine, or 
would I really get an offer from them, if 
I do as they say? I certainly would like 
most any kind" of an offer. I had a 
sample clothes line reel made. Then my 
money gave out, and that, was as far as I 
got I shall he very thankful for your 
advice. ' F. tv. c. 
New York. 
The enclosed circular letter of the 
Vital Products Company, Dcs Moines. 
Ia., alleges that the company desires to 
hid for the patent of this subscriber, but 
that before doing so it requires a sworn 
and legal statement from the United 
States Patent Office that the subscriber is 
the owner of the patent and has not sold 
or leased any of the rights. This is fol¬ 
lowed by the suggestion that the patentee 
send $5 to the Vital Products Company, 
and that the Vital Products Company 
will then secure the information from the 
patent office without bother to the pat¬ 
entee. The proposition appeals to us as 
just an easy-money scheme of the Vital 
Products Company to get $5 from those 
having secured patents on various devices. 
The Vital Products Company has no es¬ 
tablished financial responsibility that we 
can find. 
Iu the early part of July I inserted an 
advertisement in The Run ax. New- 
Yorkek for the purpose of securing some 
pullets. I received a letter from George 
R, Mace, Alpine, N. A'., offering pullets, 
and I sent him a postoffice order for $25. 
I have not received the pullets, and my 
letters to him have been returned, with 
the exception of the one enclosing the 
money order. j. a. m. 
New York. 
We have, made investigation at Alpine, 
N. A*., and we received the information 
that George R. Mace received his mail at 
that postofficc for only a short time, lie 
claimed to he camping in the vicinity, and 
left uo address when he departed. If any 
of our subscribers to The Rural Nkw- 
Yorkkk should happen to know the gen¬ 
tleman and can give ns his present ad¬ 
dress, we shall appreciate it. Uncle Sam, 
as a rule, takes care of individuals of this 
kind, who secure money through the mails 
on false pretenses. 
As a reader of your paper I notice that 
you offer to help look up poor dealers 
who have got away with a shipment and 
cannot be found, so 1 thought I would 
like to give you a chance, as I am greatly 
in need of some help. July .‘!1 I shipped 
eight cases eggs, three coops broilers and 
one coop of hens to A. F. Rentard. 487 
Rergenline avenue. West New York, N. J.. 
and I have never heard one word from 
him. and the next week 1 sent him n 
larger shipment, and as the express com¬ 
pany could not locate, so telegraphed me 
for disposal, and I saved most of that. 
I hope you can locate him and choke it 
all out of him. J. K. n. 
New York. 
Several of our readers have sent ship¬ 
ments to A. F. Bernard, and their reports 
coincide with the above. Our investiga¬ 
tion resulted in failure, as Mr. Bernard 
1ms moved away and left no address. The 
posToffiee has no record of his new ad¬ 
dress. and the assumption is that he 
coll octet! in a nice line of goods from 
credulous shippers and decamped with 
the proceeds. There is no possibility of 
getting settlement, and it is just another 
case of losses through an irresponsible 
party. It shows the advisability of look¬ 
ing up references, and we are always 
ready to do this for our people. 
I am enclosing the return voucher 
from A. It. Shnbert, Chicago, also their 
letter. I asked them on the invoice en¬ 
closed in shipment to hold shipment sep¬ 
arate. You can note their excuse on en¬ 
closed letter. The furs were in first- 
class condition when 1 shipped pelts; all 
dry. ami I refioshed them before shipping 
and packed flat with paper between each 
pelt. 1 am enclosing my grade what 
Eastern dealers would have paid me for 
the same shipment. I have been a trap¬ 
per and dealer in raw furs for five years, 
and know tin's was not a square deal. 
Ohio. it. F. M. 
We received complaints front our ship- 
tiers last season similar to the above. 
One of tin* others also instructed the com¬ 
pany to “hold the goods separate,’' while 
the other two did not. 
II. F. M. valued his shipment at $28.12 
more than lie received for it. The ex¬ 
cuse which the fur house offers is that 
the furs were green and in perishable 
condition. Roth shippers say that this 
contention on the part of A. K. Shnbert. 
Inc., is not true, and the fact that the 
firm lias a form letter to carry the infor¬ 
mation to the shipper that the furs were 
“green and perishable” would indicate 
at least that this fur house anticipates a 
large number of shipments of green and 
perishable furs, with the instructions 
that they he “held separate.” This was 
also the practice of some 8t. I.on is houses 
which many shipper'; have complained 
about. 
Tn all the advertising of A. It. Shnbert 
soliciting shipments <>f raw furs during 
the Fall of 1021, the following guarantee 
appears: 
No Risk—A'ou take no risk whatever 
when you ship your furs to Shnbert. The 
Shnbert guarantees protect you abso¬ 
lutely. We’ve got to satisfv you, and we 
will. 
Under this guarantee we have at¬ 
tempted to hold A. R. Shnbert. Inc., re¬ 
sponsible to the shipper for the value of 
the furs, in accordance with the shipper’s 
estimate, and we feel that we are par 
ticularly justified an the case where the 
shippers instructed Unit the furs be “held 
separate.” The firm, however, seems to 
regard their guarantee very lightly, and 
attorneys representing the firm have ad¬ 
vised us that this guarantee Imposed no 
obligation on A. R. Shnbert, but it was 
merely a means of attracting attention 
and putting the firm in touch with ship¬ 
pers. The attorneys deny that the guar¬ 
antee is part of the contract between the 
shipper and receiver of the furs, 
A. R. Shnbert offered to compromise 
with the shippers on a 50 per cent basis 
of their claims. The Rural New- 
Yorker refused to accept this adjustment, 
oil behalf of the shippers, under the 
firm’s guarantee our contention being that 
the fur house is responsible to the shipper 
for their full valuation of the goods. We 
have refuse*' to consider A. I*. Shuhert 
Uo. advertising for the season of 1022, 
Bert J. Tall, 52 years old, of Ithaca, 
was in City Court yesterday where he 
was expected to explain why his “wonder 
bulbs” for which he charged $125, grew 
into ordinary weeds which may he found 
in any Rochester lot, instead of wonderful 
Rose of Jericho ferns, as lie had prom¬ 
ised. Although giving his name as .Tones 
while lie was here. Tail was traced by 
means of the license number cm his auto¬ 
mobile. 
Mr. T ait seems to he a new variety of 
faker, and the above brief item from a 
Rochester paper will he sufficient to put 
It. X.-Y. readers on their guard. 
Cleaning and Working Fleece Wools 
Many housewives have overlooked a 
most useful substance which lends itself 
to a great variety of uses about the home. 
I refer to wool, the ordinary fleece wool 
produced almost everywhere in farming 
comiiiunil ies. 
The skill of our foreioOlhers in clean¬ 
ing. carding, spinning and weaving wool 
lias been permitted nearly to die out. In¬ 
deed. it is a question when viewed from 
the point of efficiency whether it would be 
wise to revive these old hand crafts, that 
is, iu respect to spinning yarn and weav¬ 
ing cloth. But there tire many other 
uses for wool, .and il is not difficult to 
fashion articles of greet comfort from the 
clean fleece wools. 
Most people realize that the different 
breeds of sheep produce wools some of 
which are fine and others coarse. For use 
about the home, it is the wools of medium 
fineness that are most satisfactory, for 
they can bo cleaned and worked easily. 
For example, the wools from Shropshire. 
Hampshire. Dorset and similar medium 
wool breeds are very suitable. The greasy 
substance which is characteristic of wool 
as it comes from the sheep is soluble in 
strong alkali water, and the resultant, 
scoured wool is usually clean and white 
and can he readily picked, apart or carded 
into a light fluffy mass. 
Wool to be used should he as free from 
burs and hayseed as possible, for it is dif¬ 
ficult to eliminate these by hand. The 
dirty and stained parts of the fleeces 
should also lie discarded. By opening 
the fleece and spreading it. out like a 
blanket it will he quickly seen which 
parts should he discarded. 
Two recipes are here suggested as suit¬ 
able for scouring the grease from wool. 
The quantity necessary will depend on 
the amount of wool to he scoured: Laun¬ 
dry soap. 2 lbs.; soda ash. 1 1b.; soft 
Witter 2U. gills. Dissolve the soap dud 
soda ash by heating the water and use 
the stock solution in sufficient quantity to 
make a free lather. The water in which 
the wool is washed should he soft and 
kept at a tempera lure of 11.0 to 120 de¬ 
grees. Sometimes it would he desirable 
to run the wool through two of these 
soap baths, after which it is rinsed in two 
or three warm waters, to remove the soap 
and dirty water, spread and dry quickly. 
Another good solution is: Laundry 
soan 1 lb.; ammonia and borax, one 
tablespoon each ; per gallon of soft water, 
used as above. 
When the wools are dry they can he 
picked apart by hand, or, better, by using 
the old-fashioned 8-in. wool cards, which 
can he purchased for about $1 tier pair at 
most hardware stores. Carding the wool 
simply means the separation of the fibers, 
one from another, and the resultant pro¬ 
duct carded wool—is a very clean ma¬ 
terial. suitable for u variety of purposes, 
such as hatting for comfortables, cush¬ 
ions. pillows, etc. Aside from the use of 
carded wool as tilling, it lends itself to 
greater use when constructed Into hats 
of standard dimensions. 
To make wool hats, it is desirable to 
construct a box form 18 to 24 in. wide 
and about 84 in. long, from U or 8-in. 
pinned surface hoards. The corner of the 
room can he utilized for two sides of this 
box. and the floor will serve as the bot¬ 
tom. A sheet of paper of the same di¬ 
mensions as the box or about in. 
longer is placed on the bottom with the 
extra buigtli of the paper folded under. 
The carded wool is spread out evenly on 
the paper. If the hats are to weigh 1 lb., 
it is better to first spread one-half of the 
wool over Ihe entire surface, then the 
other half. Tu this way a more uniform 
bat can be made. Another paper is 
placed in the box and another hat con¬ 
structed, Four or more hats should lie 
made at once in this box. When enough 
have been constructed, hoards of the same 
dimensions as the box are placed on the 
wool, and the whole pressed down with 
a weight of 100 to 200 lbs. and left to 
settle for ii day or two. after which the 
hoards arc* removed and the hats are 
rolled up in the paper on which they are 
spread. They are now ready to use as 
fillings for comfortables, which are con¬ 
structed iu the usual manner. The hats 
may be made thinner or thicker, as de¬ 
sired. by simply using more or less of the 
carded wool. 
A little experience in the. details of this 
work will demonstrate the practicability 
of using wool in Ibis manner, and will 
convince anyone that wools can he worked 
very easily. V. K. ROMRBTSOX. 
Sheep and Interested Young People the 
Greatest Assets to His Farm 
.Tulin Houseman of Mahopae, X. A',, is 
another farmer who he'ieves sheep have a 
place on our New York State farms. 
About 10 years ago Mr. llousimau left a 
large, well-equipped dairy farm in New 
Jersey, ami bought his present farm of 
100 acres in the hills of the central part 
of Putnam Uo.. X. Y, The farm had been 
badly neglected, but underneath the many 
hushes in the pastures and meadows Mr. 
Houseman saw a fertile farm. Although 
lie has some II head of dairy cattle. Mr. 
Houseman is interested in his flock of 
sheep, numbering around 00 head. Sev¬ 
ern! years ago he started fencing off the 
large fields with sheep wire, and one by 
one the sheep are killing off the brush ami 
leaving fertile fields to be plowed ami 
converted into real agricultural land. 
The returns last year from the flock 
show $155 from tile sale of Spring lambs, 
which he sells at the door, so great is the 
demand for them. Besides this, his sale 
of wool brought him $115. and he esti¬ 
mates that the increased vain* of tin* 
farm to him by the clearing of the land 
was worth between $200 t*• $200. A large 
amount of sheep manure has contributed 
marerially to a large amount of corn and 
potatoes. 
Except for a few days at. lambing time 
the care of the sheep is taken over by 
Mr. Houseman's I wo daughters, who are 
still in the grammar school near by. The 
youngest girl won a first prize at. the local 
fair last year on her lamb as a successful 
sheep club member in the junior project 
work of the county. Both girls are en¬ 
thusiastic fanners, and Mr. Houseman 
believes that by hard work, plenty of live¬ 
stock to bttttd lip the land, and by inter¬ 
esting tin* children by giving them their 
share, in the profits of the farm, some 
of our rougher farms may he made to 
give a greater contribution to the world 
in happy families and lie tier agricultural 
Conditions. outer lyma.v 
County f'lnh Agent. Uutnuin <*->.. X. Y. 
A Reply to Secretary Wallace 
I read Secretary Wallace's speech. He 
assumes to speak for a majority of the 
farmers of the country. Does he? 
He does not speak for the farmers of 
his own Slate. Uni. Sniiih W. Brook- 
heart went before the Republican voters 
ol Iowa on this pat.forrn as t*> the rail¬ 
roads : 
“Reduce railroad rates by repealing I hi* 
transportation act. Rewrite it to pump 
the water out of the capitalization, to 
prohibit the capitalization of unearned 
increment, to define the adequate return 
so it shall not exceed the interest rate on 
the bonded portion of the capital, and 
keep the other portion down even with 
the return on agricull nra I capital, and 
stop all graft of subsidiary corporal ions 
in furnishing supplies." 
“I claim the accomplishment of these 
tilings will reduce, rates by over $1,200.- 
000,000 without reducing the wages of 
any man that works.” 
As wo all know. Col. Brookheart was 
lriumpliantl.v nominated for the United 
States Senate on this platform. 
Take Wisconsin, another almost purely 
agricultural State, where the farmers 
keep Robert M. La Folletto in the United 
States Somite. Is he or are they against 
(In* workers and for the railroads in this 
matter? To assume lhat would he ridic¬ 
ulous'. 
Then there is tin* State of Indiana, 
where the farmers retired Senator New. 
good friend of monopoly and the rail¬ 
roads. and nominated ex-Senator Bever¬ 
idge, a friend of I lie Workers and foe of 
monopoly, in his stead. 
So Porter J. Met’umber of North Da¬ 
kota. another railroad henchman, was dis¬ 
missed by the farmers of his Slate, and 
ex-Gov. T.ynn Frazier of Non-Partisan 
l.cagoe fame, was nominated to succeed 
him. 
In fact, wherever the farmers have 
been given a chance for expression they 
have declared emphatically that they are 
with labor and against the claims of the 
railway magnates. And I believe the 
farmers of New' York, outside of the 
farmers of "Wall Street, are with us also. 
So much for the Secretary's assump¬ 
tion. As to his reasoning, if any can lie 
discovered, if is this: 
Farmers are getting loo little. Rail¬ 
road workers are getting more. There¬ 
fore. railroad workers are getting too 
much. That may he good reasoning, hut. 
if so, something awful has gone wrong 
with the science of logic. 
Then the advice he gives to other 
workers: “If other groups would do as 
the farmer has done, our economic 
troubles would soon he over.” 
Which, simmered down, means this: 
Be a staunch supporter nf monopoly, a de¬ 
voted worshipper of special privilege. Be 
diligent and faithful in tlieir service. 
Take, what they give you and don't talk 
back to 1 hem. 
But if they happen to give, or are 
forced to give, a little bigger crust to any 
other class of workers than to you, raise 
the lid off’ Tophet. Open its gates wide. 
Refuse to he comforted. Pitch into those 
other fellows. Pull their whiskers and 
tear their hair. Thus will justice he es¬ 
tablished and liberty enthroned, 
“Our economic troubles would soon be 
over.” Yes, and ail our other troubles. 
We would soon be dead and gathered to 
our fathers. a. w. 6T1FFEY. 
A Family Budget System 
Is it practical to work out some sort 
of a budget system for u salaried man 
living on a farm? The principle is right 
and the theory fine, but does it work <>ut 
for a full year? 
I know' several hundred dollars slip 
through my lingers every year. If I could 
at the end of the mouth tell where the 
cash went, and if I was meeting compe¬ 
tition, so to speak, til my various living 
expenses in comparison with the average 
person in m.v class. I believe 1 could save 
some money. At least I would like to 
have tin* satisfaction of knowing it could 
not be done under m.v present standard 
of living. If you know of any budget 
system that works for a rural family, I 
W’ouUl appreciate hearing fully from you. 
13. T. IIEBMAXOR. 
Virginia. 
B ought to he possible to do this, though 
we have no actual records of such a 
budget. If there is any such thing, we 
know some <>f our readers have it. and 
that they will tell us about it. 
