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5THE5 RURALr NEW-YORKER 
July 18, 
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 wore issued to Allen B. Wells, 
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
On November 25 last I gave an order 
to II. M. Whiting, who represented himself 
as one of the firm of the Whiting Nursery 
Company, of Boston, Mass., with offices 
also at Geneva, N. Y. This was the order: 
24 Japan plums, $20; 5 Thanksgiving 
prunes, $4.50: 5 Winter Banana apples, 
$2.50; total, $27. I soon discovered that 
he had misrepresented matters to me, and on 
December 20 I sent them a written cancel¬ 
lation of the order. One of his strong ar¬ 
guments in favor of his trees was that 
they were grown in New England, and bet¬ 
ter for our locality than trees grown else¬ 
where. lie also said he would pick out 
nice trees. When they came in April they 
were from New York State and a very 
ordinary lot of trees, which I refused to 
accept. They are now demanding payment 
of a hill for $27. What would you advise? 
New York. p. j. 
The above is the substance of several 
letters on the subject. To be entirely 
fair we asked prices on this bill of trees 
of several reliable nurserymen. The 
highest prices quoted are 18 cents for 
the Japan plums; 15 cents for the 
prunes, and 50 cents for the apples, 
making $7.32 for the order, for which 
the Whiting Nursery Co. charged $27 
on an order personally solicited by a 
member of the firm. It has been said 
that traveling agents must charge more 
for stock than nurseries which sell di¬ 
rect to growers through the mail. If 
the difference is to be as much as this, 
then we would unhesitatingly advise an 
order to a responsible house by mail. 
We know very well that there is differ¬ 
ence in stock, and we know that no 
grower can affoi'd to plant poor stock 
because it is cheap. But stock is not su¬ 
perior just because the agent says it is, 
and that seems to be the only evidence 
of superiority in this case. The houses 
quoting us did so on the size of tree de¬ 
scribed in the Whiting Nursery Co. 
order, and being reliable houses—among 
the best in the business—we think the 
comparison abundantly fair. We be¬ 
lieve in the sacredness of a contract. 
When entered into in good faith by both 
parties a contract should be scrupulously 
lived up to, but when misrepresentation 
and fraud are resorted to in order to 
secure a contract, it becomes null and 
void, and no one is under such circum¬ 
stances obliged to live up to it. A 
farmer without much experience in buy¬ 
ing trees is not supposed to know prices, 
and when an agent induces him to sign 
an order agreeing to pay $27 for trees 
that can be bought of responsible houses 
for $7.32, the only conclusion is that the 
agent took advantage of the farmer’s 
want of information, and a cancellation 
of the order is abundantly justified. 
Several years ago F. B. Mills advertised 
about growing ginseng in the Farm Journal. 
I was told by an old subscriber of same 
that the advertisements were to be relied 
upon. I wrote Mr. Mills, but instead of 
my buying seed or roots he advised me to 
take some stock in “The Consolidated Gin¬ 
seng Co. of America.” Later on the F. B. 
Mills Co. started growing beds under con¬ 
tract, and again I was foolish (?) enough 
to let them bury $50 in ginseng beds for 
me. Now he writes that blight lias killed 
the beds, and the beds are a total loss. 
There have been no dividends on the “Con¬ 
solidated” stock as yet, and probably blight 
will overtake it as well. I wrote Mr. 
Mills to begin with : “It was something I 
knew nothing about, and was not a busi¬ 
ness woman and was going to rely wholly 
upon his honor in advising me about put¬ 
ting hard-earned money into it.” I will 
thank you sincerely for writing me plainly 
what is best to do. E. J. S. 
Massachusetts. 
The above was accompanied by a 
letter from Mr. Mills to the correspond¬ 
ent in which he says her investment in 
the roots is a complete loss, but he pro¬ 
poses that if she buy $50 worth more 
of stock in the Consolidated Ginseng 
Co. he will transfer to her gratis an 
equal amount of stock to make up for 
the lost investment in the roots. This 
is the plan of all such schemes. This 
good woman, knowing nothing of the 
business, wrote in advance that she 
trusted to Mr. Mills’ honor in the mat¬ 
ter. He takes her money for invest¬ 
ment in stock, then induces a further 
investment for roots, which he admits 
is a total loss, but if she will put up 
more cash he will give her double the 
amount of stock. In other words, he 
will induce her to buy stock at 50 cents 
on the dollar under the pretense that 
she is doing something to recover her 
former loss. The company has an au¬ 
thorized capital stock of $ 2 , 000 , 000 , and 
the only asset that we were able to find 
when inquiring some time ago was a 
few acres of ginseng roots. They make 
no detailed statement of assets and lia¬ 
bilities and no one seems willing to 
put an estimate on its net assets. So 
far the comparty has paid no dividends. 
Its real estate is mortgaged and there 
are no assets that we have been able to 
discover that would justify investment 
in the stock. We most emphatically 
advise those who have already invested 
to suffer the loss with the best grace 
possible, but to put no more money into 
it in the vain hope to recover a part of 
what is already lost. 
Here is another letter in reference to 
the same subject: 
What can you say about the Consolidated 
Ginseng Co. of America, located at Rose 
Hill, N. Y., that was started by F. B. 
Mills of that place? This Spring I sent 
an order for some seeds to F. B. Mills Seed 
Co. of Rose Hill, N. Y. They could not 
fill my order as I ordered it, so I had to 
take a substitute for seed corn that did not 
come to as much as the first order, so they 
sent me back a credit draft good for any¬ 
thing they handled. I sent the draft back 
and told them I wanted my money back, 
and that when I wanted anything I would 
send the money. There was nothing I 
wanted in their line. I did not hear from 
them, so I wrote again, calling their atten¬ 
tion to the matter, and asking them to 
send me back what was due me, less post¬ 
age and money order. They have failed 
to reply. What do you think of a firm 
doing business this way. and what is best 
to do? Can they be dealt with by the 
Post Office officials for doing that kind of 
business? J. n. C. 
Vermont. 
What can a farmer in Vermont do to 
recover a small remittance from a con¬ 
cern in another State, which simply ig¬ 
nores his letters? Here is still another: 
My hired man and wife on the farm 
ordered seed from F. B. Mills & Co. for 
which I sent my check for $5.26. They 
held a long correspondence in regard to 
discounts, etc. Getting tired of the delay, 
and on receiving reouest for $2.,1'8 more, 
and having purchased seed in the mean¬ 
time, I made the request for the cancella¬ 
tion of the order and the return of the 
money. Some time after Mrs. A. received 
a letter from these people containing one 
small seed envelope containing one seed. 
What that implied I don’t know, but it 
looks like an insult. If these people are 
crooked you can do a lot of good by pro¬ 
tecting purchasers of seeds. w. f. 
New Jersey. 
Such complaints are altogether too 
numerous. After lengthy correspond¬ 
ence and interminable delays, we us¬ 
ually induce Mr. Mills to refund the 
money in such cases, but the process is 
getting to be monotonous. Besides, in 
doing so we get redress for the person 
who complains, but give no protection 
to others. Here is a sample of the rec¬ 
ord that has been made for the last sev¬ 
eral years. If anyone wishes to invest 
in Consolidated Ginseng Co. stock, or 
in ginseng beds, or in such service of 
seed supply, we have no objection. The 
information is given for the benefit of 
those who wish Ho profit by the experi¬ 
ence of others. W* 
Please advise if you consider the Lucky 
Hit Orange County of Texas a good in¬ 
vestment ? f. n. c. 
District Columbia. 
Just give a little thought to the ex¬ 
travagance of their claims and you need 
not inquire further. The only luck in 
it for you is the good luck of keeping 
your money out of it. 
Kindly inform subscriber's wife if it 
would be safe to own stock in the “Little 
Giant Mining Company,” Idaho? 
New Jersey. mrs. j. e. h. 
Probably no harm would come to you 
from owning the stock, but if you paid 
your money for it the chances are that 
vou would never see it again. Do not 
put your mopey into those mining 
schemes. It is sure loss if you do. 
Here is a new subscriber whose sub¬ 
scription came through his reading the 
Dawley case, in which he was very much 
interested. l. m. 
New York. 
New subscriptions are coming every 
day in this way from people who had 
their attention first called to the paper 
through the famous cattle case. It was 
not that discussion alone that influences 
the subscriptions. Interest in the case 
attracted them to the paper, but it had 
to have other features to appeal to them 
in order to make them regular subscrib¬ 
ers. We simply want to use whatever 
strength and influence farmers put into 
the paper for their benefit. In attempt¬ 
ing to do this we may—we probably will 
—make some mistakes, but following 
the principle, we do not feel that we 
can go very far wrong. Wherever a 
farmer, high or low, rich or poor, has 
been unjustly treated or defrauded we 
propose to use the power of this paper 
to right the wrong. Call this yellow 
journalism, or by any other name you 
please. That we propose to do. Those 
who do not like that sort of journal¬ 
ism will not support this paper. Those 
who do will naturally co-operate with 
us. Only the future can decide the re¬ 
sult of such a policy. j. j. d. ] 
FEEDING MOTHERLESS PIGS. 
How should I feed and care for young 
pigs under eight weeks without mother, to 
get rapid growth? v. m. f. 
Hamilton, O. 
V. M'. F. is very indefinite regarding 
the age of pigs, nor does he say that 
they have ever nursed the mother. The 
treatment for a pig one week old is 
vastly different from one eight weeks 
old, but if they are much under two 
weeks and motherless and I valued my 
time anything, I should rap them on 
the head. If they are two weeks old 
or more they can with time and 
patience be brought up to four or five 
weeks old on cow’s milk, warm, sweet 
and fresh as possible. At first give 
it to them with a spoon until they 
get a taste of it, and they will soon 
learn that it is good. At four weeks 
I should keep some shelled corn where 
they can nibble at it. The dent corn 
is best, as it is less liable to make 
their teeth sore. At six weeks I should 
begin to feed them some loppered milk, 
alt their little skins can hold, three 
times a day. Keep them in a clean dry 
place with plenty of exercise, and con¬ 
tinue to give them a little corn up to 
about two months old, then give them 
wheat middlings to give them bone and 
muscle. At four months, if they are 
intended for market, give them a grain 
ration of ground barley with their sour 
milk, and at five months give them all 
the cornmeal they will clean up twice 
a day, with just enough milk for drink. 
A pig to put on flesh fast wants but 
very little drink. At six months they 
should be ready for market at 200 
pounds or better. f. d. squiers. 
Head-Tossing Coi.t. —On page 561 I 
noticed a question about a three-year colt 
which has a habit of tossing his head. 
My experience has been that a young horse 
when bridled will sweat under the “crown- 
strap,” and this, together with the tine 
hairs, will cause an irritation or itching 
that will cause tossing of the head. I 
daresay that if the colt was unharnessed 
and let go he would not toss his head. 
This I offer as a suggestion. n. j. c. 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Bees in the House. —“It is hard for a 
beekeeper to understand why some people 
are so afraid of a bee,” says Brevities. What 
are we to do about it when the bees colon¬ 
ize themselves in a chimney, and refuse 
to be evicted? They first appeared early 
last Summer, entering the house from the 
hot-air register, and becoming a constant 
nuisance. The chimney was used all AVin- 
ter with a hot coal Are, but the bees are 
still with us. They seem ailing and die 
after entering the room, but are live enough 
to sting. How can we dispossess them? 
R. 
Big Wings. —C. B., on page 513, tells 
about having trouble with Leghorn chicks 
on account of the abnormal growth of 
their wings. We had a few incubator Leg¬ 
horns (White) this Spring, and when two 
or three days old their wings sprouted, con¬ 
tinuing their rapid growth until, when 
about weeks old, they were half again as 
long as their bodies. Wife took her scis¬ 
sors and clipped them so that they did not 
quite reach the end of the body, and they 
regained the usual Leghorn vigor and ac¬ 
tivity, which had given way to listlessness. 
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