18 
THE RURAL 
NEW'-VOK I\EK 
•January 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We iiave the following notes signed by the pro 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & Co. 
2(12 Washington Street, New York, for collection : 
$47.81, dated April 25, 1907, and due in 90 days. 
$25.25 dated July 1. 1907, and due July 30, 1907. 
$25.25, dated July 1, 1907, and due July 16, 1907. 
The notes were issued to Allen B. Wells, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
I enclose 10 cents in stamps and wish 
you would send me two or three copies 
of The K. N.-Y. of December 12. I want 
to send it to some of Mr. E. F. McAvoy, 
Jr.’s Houdan breeder friends. I was more 
than glad to see you show him up. I 
guess I am “stung” worse than our friend 
from Nebraska. I sent McAvoy a posf 
office order for .$15 on October 20 for 
a trio of chickens. He offered me two 
pullets and it large cockerel, each to score 
00 points, and exceptionally fine birds, and 
I have never heard from him yet. I have 
written him five times hut got no answer 
to any of my letters. It seems there 
ought to he some way to get at him. 
New York. c. H. p. 
The Houdan Association would bet¬ 
ter look after its members and its offi¬ 
cers. The hen as well as the Jersey 
cow has too honest a record for pro¬ 
duction to have her reputation sullied 
by jockeys. 
1 bought a horse from Wolff Bros., 14G 
East 24th street, New York, with a writ¬ 
ten guarantee to have good wind. When 
I got him home he certainly had the 
heaves; I was ashamed to drive him. I 
paid $75 for him and $9.50 freight. I 
would not pay the freight on him to have 
him. I wrote to them about it, and they 
said ship him hack at once. I did by 
the next freight, and asked for my $75, 
hut have not heard-from them since. Do 
you think I would better get a lawyer 
on the case at once? c. k. murtha. 
Sayville, N. Y. , 
Here is the guarantee: 
Wolff Brothers. 
Sale and Exchange Stables, 
14G East 24th Street, 
New York. 
Oct. 3, 1908. 
Sold to C. F. Murtha one hay horse, 
$75. Guaranteed kind and true in all har¬ 
ness and good wind. No stagger. Paid. 
w. M. WOLFF. 
On September 8, 1908, they wrote 
to Mr. Murtha in reply to his complaint 
as follows: 
Mr. Murtha : Yours received. Do not 
know what you are talking about, hut if 
horse does not suit, ship him hack. 
Yours, etc., 
w. M. WOLFF. 
Again on September 15, 1908, they 
wrote: 
If horse is not satisfactory, ship him 
hack at once. Telegraph us when shipped, 
so we can call at cars for him. Yours, etc., 
w. B. 
We called Mr. Wolff upon the tele¬ 
phone and asked him to return Mr. 
Murtha’s $75 as per his written guar¬ 
antee. He replied that he would do 
nothing of the kind, but would allow 
the $75 if Mr. Murtha would buy an¬ 
other horse. We reminded him that 
the guarantee made no such provision. 
At this Mr. Wolff got angry, and said 
The Rural 'New-Yorker could not 
bluff him, and if it printed anything 
about him he would go to see the Dis¬ 
trict Attorney. We, of course, have no 
possible objection to his visit to the 
official. In fact we think it might be 
a good thing. We hope he will do 
so, and trust he will explain how he 
come to guarantee a horse as sound in 
wind, when it had such a bad case of 
heaves. In view of the experience how 
many farmers would be willing to buy 
another horse from Wolff Bros., pay 
the difference, and the expense of get¬ 
ting it to the farm? Would not the 
suspicion at least arise that possibly 
the second horse might not be any 
better than the first with the prospect 
of having the whole thing to po through 
again, with more money involved ? We 
see no more reason why Mr. Murtha 
should buy another horse in order to 
recover his money than that he should 
be required to buy a Broadway house 
and lot. He is entitled to damages be¬ 
sides the return of his money, and The 
R. N.-Y. is going to do what it can 
to help him get it—through the courts, 
if necessary. 
You upset the D. L. Marshall Co. 
schemes here and I do not know hut you 
might be able lo help out some others who 
have been taken in by the Franklin Mer¬ 
chandising Co., of Chicago. Ill. In Octo¬ 
ber 2d issue you described the way they 
worked it here, but with a different agent. 
Mi - . Scott was hired to do the talking here, 
and he did it. When he was through he 
had his cloth and our note for $45. The $45 
was for cloth for a cloak suit, man’s suit 
and overcoat. He said the trimmings 
would not be more than $1 if made plain. 
It was the silk braid and buttons that 
cost. When we went to take our measures 
there was a man with a book of samples, 
lb* argued that one would not build a 
bouse without a good foundation and should 
not build suit on a cheap trimming. He 
was a good talker, and got the order for 
$6.50. When my daughter’s suit came it 
was big enough for a 200-pound person. 
She weighs only 135 pounds. It was four 
■inches longer in front than in the back. 
We had to have it <uf off. and the fit. of 
course, was never right. He tried _ to 
induce me to take highest price lining, 
but I insisted on $4 trim. When my suit 
and cloak came there was a bill for $.13, 
which was $5 too much, and they are in 
the express office since October. We would 
like to stop this concern from getting peo¬ 
ple's money. You stopped the wheat and 
feed business. Can’t you stop this? My 
daughter's cloak cost $17.50; and after 
all the trouble not worth it, even if it 
fitted. The best lining was broken after 
wearing one month. It had to have new 
buttons, too. The canvass was nothing 
but crinoline. The pieces he showed us in 
the $0.50 suits were closely quilted. In 
m.v daughter’s suit the stitches were more 
like basting threads. F. d. e. 
New York. 
We have let this good woman tell 
her story in her own way so that others 
may know how the game is worked 
and how it ends. The first part of 
the plan is to get some man in a 
neighborhood who is well known, and 
induce him to go around with the can¬ 
vassers. You are told that the first 
order or club will be sold only to a 
limited number of people and only a 
limited 'amojunt to each one. These 
alleged low prices' are given to ad¬ 
vertise themselves instead of advertis¬ 
ing through the papers, and when the 
•club is full new Orders land tbther 
customers will have to pay higher 
prices or double the price offered you. 
They take your note for the cloth. 
Then you have to go to their tailor 
and have them made, paying for the 
making and for the trimmings extra. 
This customer shows how they per¬ 
suade you to order higher-priced lin¬ 
ings. You have to pay for the trim¬ 
mings and making before you get the 
goods, and if they do not fit, as they 
usually do not, you can have them al¬ 
tered as this customer did. 
A subscriber from near Syracuse, 
N. Y., reports much the same way. He 
complains that the garments do not fit 
when made, and in his own case he had 
to return them three times, and then 
could have bought a better suit for 
less money of a local dealer. He 
says the fit of the women’s garments 
is especially faulty and results in great 
dissatisfaction. It all confirms what 
has already been reported from other 
sections and published by us. We 
are sorry that any readers of The 
R. N.-Y. got in trouble by patronizing 
them. We certainly 'gave warning 
last year before they got as far east 
as New York State, but our reports 
were evidently overlooked. Anyone 
ought to know that this concern can¬ 
not send canvassers around and sell 
goods without bigger profits than the 
local stores get. The complaints about 
misfits are general, and it is our in¬ 
formation and conviction that goods 
of equal quality can be bought of local 
merchants for very much less money. 
The only thing you get extra from 
the Franklin company is a lot of fic¬ 
tion about advertising and clubs. 
Mr. G. G. Shoemaker, York, Pa., 
had his attorney demand a retraction 
for what was said about him on page 
84G. On that page we printed a letter 
from Mr. H. E. Whitney, New York, 
acknowledging Our check for $6 to 
make good a remittance he sent Mr. 
Shoemaker for eggs which never 
came. After repeated attempts to get 
Mr. Shoemaker to return the money, 
we sent the check ourselves and ad¬ 
vised him that a report of the transac¬ 
tion would be published for the in¬ 
formation of other farmers. Subse¬ 
quently he sent us the $6, and we ad¬ 
vised Mr. Whitney. In the meantime 
we had another complaint of the same 
kind from a farmer in Illinois, and 
failing to induce Mr. Shoemaker to 
return the money, we also sent the Illi¬ 
nois farmer a check. Mr. Shoemaker 
still owes us for the advertisement. 
We gladly give him credit for the $6. 
We would also give him credit for re¬ 
mittances for the other items if he 
would send them right on, and he may 
call it a retraction or by any other 
name; but all the money he has ever 
seen would not buy another line of 
advertising in this paper, the former 
order being inserted on references 
which seem not to have been any too 
reliable. 
Enclosed find $1 for The R. N.-Y. I 
long thought I had reached the limit in 
subscriptions to farm papers, but during 
the ten weeks I have taken The It. N.-Y. 
it has become the most eagerly looked 
for publication that I receive. s. h. m. 
Ohio. 
There is one more word from Ohio. 
The 10-cent lunchers from that State are 
taking permanent seats at the Rural table 
right along. If our friends there 
would distribute more of the 10-weeks 
envelopes, we would be glad to send 
a supply. This is the time of year 
for it. How many of the envelopes can 
you distribute in Ohio or anywhere 
else? j. j. d. 
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That Is what we guarantee you 
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Try It and If Jt don’t produce more strong, healthy 
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Write for 176-page FREE catalogue. 
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Hatch Chickens by 
Steam 
Stahl "Wood* 
on Hen” and 
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Incubators assure big hatches. 
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>n Poultry 
Concise, practical. How 
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When you write advertisers mention The 
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No Bam is Complete Without a 
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Greatest capacity 
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J. E. PORTER COMPANY. OTTAWA, ILL. 
STUMP PULLERS 
Warranted the most practical machine made. One man 
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335 Howanl St. Melrose, Mass. 
ARltFJI ROCKS, BROWN LEGHORNS. Cheap 
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L 
IGHT BRAHMAS—Prize Stock Pullets and 
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EMPIRE STATE S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS, 
May hatched cockerels and pullets from my best 
stock $1.00 each. Yearlings, heavy layers, $1.00 each. 
Catalog free. C. H. ZIMMER, Woedsport, N. Y. 
r. R. C. RHODE ISLAND REDS. 
200 good breeding and show cockerels at $2 each 
and up. Privilege of return, at my expense. If not 
satisfactory. Sinclair Smith (102 Hflh St., Brooklyn, N.y 
L IGHT BRAHMAS, large, finely marked and 
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$»>. J. A. ROBERTS, Malvern, Penn. 
V AN ALSTYNE’S S. and R. C. R. I. REDS. 
April hatched cockerels $2.00 to $5.00. Address 
EDW. VAN ALSTYNE & SON, Kinderhook, N. Y. 
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Two Hundred Good Healthy Farm Raised 
PULLETS WANTED. 
Barred Rocks or Rhode Island Reds preferred. 
Must be fully matured. Will buy in lots of 25 up. 
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WM. H. HKAliSFlELD. Woodmere, N. Y. 
T he Celebrated Hungarian and English Partridges and 
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LARGE TOULOUSE S, 
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CHOICE BRED BRONZE TURKEYS 
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“Farmers’ Favorite" 
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water, sterilizing milk cans. etc. 
Good for heating shop or cellar. 
Safe,economical,inexpensive and 
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BEEN BONE MAKES EGGS 
Lots of them, because it is rich in protein and all other egg elements. You get twice the 
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