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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 28, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have the following notes signed by the pro¬ 
duce commission firm, Stevens & Simpson & Co., 
262 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 13. Wells, 
Saratoga Spriugs, N. Y., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
What do you think of the investment of¬ 
fered in Christian’s Natural Food Co.? I 
have been thinking of taking some stock. 
Can you advise me? 
Ohio. j. w. e. 
This company ha3 a- authorized cap¬ 
ital stock of $1,000,000, of which $660,- 
000 represents patents, trade marks, <etc. 
The actual worth of the company has 
been estimated at $20,000. In other 
words, if you pay $100 for stock you 
pay $66 for patents, trademarks, etc., 
and get actual estimated value of $2. 
If anyone wants to buy stock on this 
basis because of prospects that may or 
may not be in store for the company in 
the future, he simply has more faith in 
prospects than we can muster. 
Can you tell me about the responsibility 
of C. I. Sawdey, Denver, Colo.? Last June 
myself with several others here made up a 
carload of onions and watermelons and 
shipped him. We were unable to get any 
satisfaction out of him until August 14, 
when he sent us a statement to the effect 
that we owed him §4.47 for freight and 
cartage over and above the proceeds of the 
sale. He then wrote that the produce was 
of an inferior quality. I inclose you the 
account sales and correspondence, and also 
letter from the commission company, which 
evidently sold them, saying that the onions 
were fine stock. We all feel that we have 
not had a square deal, and if you can do 
anything for us we shall appreciate it. 
Texas. * a. h. f. 
The correspondence in this case indi¬ 
cates that the transaction was a clean 
piece of robbery. Before shipping the 
farmers wired for prices and got this 
reply, dated June 17, 1908: 
We replied to your wire of yesterday 
quoting $1.25 on crated onions, but up to 
this writing have received no reply. We 
trust you are loading car to-day and will 
forward same to-night. There are a good 
many poor onions in the market, but good 
stock sells well at prices quoted. 
c. i. sawdey & co. 
According to freight bill the carload 
was delivered June 27 and on June 29 
the Colorado-Texas Commission Com¬ 
pany of Denver wrote the shipper as 
follows: 
We are selling your onions to-day at 
three cents a pound and wonder if we can 
get a car direct from you. They are cer¬ 
tainly fine stock. Wire at our expense 
when shipping. 
COLOKADO-TEXAS COMMISSION CO. 
On June 25 Sawdey & Co. wrote that 
the car had arrived, so they did not ac¬ 
cept it from railroad until two days 
after arrival, according to date of 
freight bill. On June 25 they write: 
Car arrived this morning. We find *upon 
examination that one-half Of the onions 
were seconds, and the other one-half were 
just fair stock. 
As this was written two days before 
the freight bill was made out it is 
not unlikely that the onions had not 
been examined at all when the letter 
of June 25 was written. At all events 
the commission house which sold the 
onions four days later wrote that they 
were fine stock and wanted a carload 
shipped to them direct. The account 
sales shows these items: 
Sales on melons.$ 43.00 
Sales of onions. 94.66 
Express.$136.13 
Drayage . 6.00 
Net loss . 4.47 
$142.13 $142.13 
We are sorry, but we do not see that 
we shall be able to do anything for 
our Texas friends. We wrote C. I. 
Sawdey & Co., stating the case and 
asked them for an explanation. We 
also asked the Colorado-Texas Commis¬ 
sion Co. to give us an account of the 
sales, but neither of them has made 
any reply. C. I. Sawdey & Co. have 
no commercial rating in the sources of 
our information, but if they had it 
would not be worth a Texas farmer's 
while to go to Colorado to open a law 
suit for the proceeds of a carload of 
onions, but all readers of The R. N.-Y. 
are entitled to know the treatment this 
concern measured out to one of their 
own members. It is all well enough for 
railroad men of the Norton type to 
tell farmers to buy bathtubs, and erect 
bungalows for outdoor sleeping rooms, 
and to criticise farmers’ wives for not 
setting a table to suit his fastidious 
tastes, but here was a case where one 
of his railroads got $136.13 out of the 
farmer’s product, while the farmer him¬ 
self not only gets nothing, but is ex¬ 
pected to send $4.47 to balance the 
account. If that farmer’s wife got her 
share of that $136.13 does any one doubt 
that she would make as good use of it 
as the railroad magnate’s wife did, to 
say nothing of the share of the plun¬ 
der that went to the Sawdey family? If 
the President’s Agricultural Commission 
will turn its attention to transactions of 
which this is only a typical example, 
and see that the farmer gets his share 
of the wealth he creates, the farmer 
will soon enough attend to the bathtub, 
and the farm wives will leave nothing 
to be desired on the dinner table. The 
case in question cannot be called a busi¬ 
ness transaction. It is robbery pure and 
simple. 
I write to ask about the Automatic 
Transportation Co., of Buffalo, N. Y. They 
are selling stock to anyone that will buy at 
$15 per share, and are sending agents out 
among the farmers in this vicinity. Please 
publish their scheme; it may be a great 
saving to some of the people of this part 
of the country. 
Michigan. k. d. t. 
Reports say the promoters of this 
scheme are business men in good stand¬ 
ing where they live; but at best we can 
find that they have nothing but some 
patents on an electric device and one 
or two demonstration plants set up in 
offices; everything is in prospects and 
nothing in hand. It is an easy thing 
to get patents. Thousands of them are 
issued every year, on all sorts of things, 
and that is the last that is heard in 99 
cases out of every 100 of them. It is 
easy enough to say they are worth a 
million dollars, and to issue paper stock 
to that amount for them. If farmers 
can be induced to buy such stock well 
and good. What matter whether any¬ 
thing fuither is done or not? We see 
nothing in this for a farmer, and ad¬ 
vise him to keep out of it. 
I enclose folder of Wireless Securities Co. 
They have been selling stock here. Is it 
all right, or is it a fake like most such 
companies? 
Pa. s. e. ii. 
We are sorry for this man’s friends. 
We advise them to leave these wire¬ 
less promotions alone. 
Some of the other farm papers have 
just discovered that J. W. Woodruff and 
C. H. Spaulding, of Buffalo N. Y., and 
of American Farm Company fame, and 
more recently of Lake Erie Seed Com¬ 
pany eminence, are, to put it mildly, not 
the most reliable or trustworthy gentle¬ 
men to deal with. It is six years or more 
ago since The R. N.-Y. exposed the 
methods of these gentlemen, for which 
an alleged libel suit was filed against the 
paper for more than $100,000. Their rec¬ 
ords and schemes were laid bare at that 
time, and frequently since, but many of 
the farm papers continue to carry their 
advertising. The Attorney-General of 
the State of Ohio filed suit against them 
as the American Farm Company six 
years ago, and estopped them from do¬ 
ing further business in that State. Still 
when they turned up as the Lake Erie 
Seed Company, the advertising was car¬ 
ried just the same. Old readers of The 
R. N.-Y. are quite familiar with the 
gentlemen and their methods of buying 
western corn from the car, giving it a 
name, and selling it at a higher price 
as a new variety of their own develop¬ 
ment, and other enterprises of the same 
nature. In face of the published rec¬ 
ords of plunder, six years seems a long 
time for a publisher to make sure that 
such a concern is crooked. We are 
glad the discovery was finally made; 
but such stale news ought not to • be 
served up as a new discovery. 
T HE farm is the farmer’s place of business as 
well as his home. He has, therefore, a double 
reason for using paints and varnishes. First 
reason is economy, which is good, business; the 
second, appearance and attractiveness of the 
house and other buildings, which adds to the 
pleasure of living on the place. The sun and rain 
and frost certainly cause wood and iron to decay 
before their time unless they are properly pro¬ 
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Please inform us what fertilizer should be 
used on what we call sugar tree soil or 
common clay land for corn growing; also 
what fertilizer for black ground. I am 
one of your 10-cent subscribers and am 
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