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THEC RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 29, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We have tlie following notes sitine«l by the pro- 
(luce commission firm, .Stevens Ac Simpson & Co., 
2f»’J Washington Street, New York, for collection : 
$.47.81, dated April 25, 1907, and due in 90 days. 
$25.25 dated July I. 1907, and due July JO, 1907. 
$25.25, dated July 1, 1907, and due July 10, 1907. 
The notes were issued to Allen B. Wells, 
Saratoga Springs, X. for produce shipped and 
sold on commission. 
Wliat would lie your advice to the follow¬ 
ing: I sold to the R. 1’resle.v Co., of St. 
Paul. M’inn., through their agent. Mr. 
Harry .Major, three carloads of barrels of 
apples. They were to pay for them before 
they left the depot. They paid $100 down 
to hind the bargain. Mr. Major sent a 
man hero and accepted the apples, loaded 
them in the cars and wanted me to ship 
them to St. Paul with hill of lading and 
sight draft. I would not let the apples go 
out of my possession without my pay in 
full, so they would not take* the apples, 
because they had no money to pay with, 
Mr. Major said. I shipped the apples to a 
common storage house at Wolcott, removed 
them late in the Winter and sold the firsts 
for $2 per barrel, and seconds at $1.2.' per 
barrel, making a damage to me of ahottl 
*750, less t lie $100 paid down. Mr. Major 
was a man working, on a salary of $1,200 
per year, so he told, with his expenses 
paid. I have had an attorney write to St. 
Paul to the company, hut they will not an¬ 
swer letters. My neighbor readers of your 
paper advise me to write you in regard to 
I lie best thing to do. n. ford., 
New York. 
The above letter is opportune at this 
time, as another apple crop will soon he 
ready for market. Mr. Ford’s experi¬ 
ence suggests strongly the wisdom of 
making sure you, are dealing with a re¬ 
liable firm, not only able to fulfill their 
contracts, but also having a reputation 
for doing so. Our readers may remem¬ 
ber the B. Presley Co. as the house to 
which our subscriber. A. A. Nordstrom, 
of Hammond. La., shipped four cases 
of berries more than a year ago and 
has never been paid for them. We 
again urge our readers to resent as a 
personal offense such unfair dealings 
and on every opportunity let the offend¬ 
ing firm know just how you regard its 
business methods. 
cations generally. The deception in 
what is purported to he an “Estimate 
of Our Board” is sufficient to destroy 
all confidence in the concern. We hope 
none of our people will he deceived by 
such alluring promises. 
The following is one of those letters 
which require no word of explanation 
or comment: 
I renew my suhscriplion. and I am only 
too glad to send it. You remember an arti¬ 
cle in a recent issue concerning the firm of 
R R. Mills? Well, that very article caused 
me to get $1.25 that this company owed me 
that I had never expected to get. In 1906 
1 sent them $1.25 for seeds, and to my sur¬ 
prise no seeds arrived. I wrote them num¬ 
erous letters, hut no. answer came to them. 
The article T have mentioned in Tim R. 
N.-Y. was concerning $50 which a lad.v 
from Massachusetts had invested with this 
company in ginseng beds, so 1 clipped out 
the art-iole and sent it, addressed personally 
. to K. R. Mills. I also wrote 'him a note and 
told him that was the same way he had 
treated' me. lie answered ray letter very 
<|Uiekly. and told me that he did not doubt 
thy sending the money, and if I would tell 
him what I ordered he would send me check 
for snipe. .This 1 did as none as possible! 
and U’e did send me cheek- for $1.25 by 
'return mail and fried very hard to indued 
me to believe- that there was something 
wrong with the publication flint Contained 
tin- article concerning his firm, but this be 
did not" do, I '"ill never refuse to send 
m.v -subscription to Tim It. N.-Y. 
nits. k. M, b. 
Here is a letter worth reading: 
When i was a little hoy half a century 
ago. my grandfather and father regularly 
read MooitH s Rt’it a i. New Yorker. When 
1 went: on a little farm I became a sub¬ 
scriber. When I moved to a country town 
I dropped over 20 agricultural, horticul¬ 
tural, poultry and other rural papers, keep¬ 
ing only The It. N.-Y. Now 1 am going 
hac-k to 1 lie city and I still hang on to the 
paper, as I expect to need it for its advice 
in fixing up my dooryard. M.v wife and 
daughter have “ got the habit" of making 
use of the dressmaking and cooking col¬ 
umns. n-. e. v. 
High Bridge, N. ,T. 
Such a note is very gratifying. We 
like to get hold of peop'e so that we 
can chase them wherever they go with 
no fear of being shaken off. Long 
friendships are pleasant. 
Last week a reader came in to renew 
Are you able to report on the responsi¬ 
bility of the Fulton Supply Co., manufac¬ 
turers of oil clothing. 19 Fulton street. 
New York City? They are under question 
in my mind, because of purchasing a suit 
from them, which proved to be so sticky 
that I could hardly move my arms in them: 
and they leaked water in rainstorm. I 
have written to ask what they are disposed 
to do about it. but of course have no reply. 
They have my money: I have only their 
make-believe oiled suit that is practically 
worthless. w. a. d. 
l.ong Island, N. Y. 
This concern promised ns over the 
telephone that if the subscriber would 
send the suit hack, they would either 
send a satisfactory suit or refund the 
money. When the suit was returned the 
lull ton Supply Co. refused to accept it 
from the express company, although 
the return express charges were pre¬ 
paid. Such firms as this it is well to 
avoid when purchasing goods of any 
kind. 
I received your letter in which you very 
candidly express your opinion of the Key¬ 
stone law firm. T feel indebted to you to 
the extent of about $25, as I had almost 
decided to give this firm a chance’. You 
may forward a half dozen of your 10- 
weeks’ envelopes and 1 will distribute 
them to parties who might be interested. 
However I might say that Hie conditions 
here are different as we do not go in for 
condensed farming as you do in the United 
States: it is wheat and horses we go in 
for principally in this part. At the same 
lime we have found many useful tilings in 
The R. N.-Y. and although I am not an 
American I have more confidence in the 
power behind the "Rural” fas we all call 
it) than any concern or paper I know of. 
I sincerely thank you for your timely 
advice. w. ,T. u. 
Canada. 
The above letter refers to a Philadel¬ 
phia concern wanting a $25 advance fee 
from this farmer for selling his patent. 
This is very much the same scheme that 
Ostrander worked to get advance fees 
from those having farms for sale. The 
farmers never heard from Ostrander 
after they sent the fee. In a printed 
imitation of a typewritten letter this 
patent attorney firm advised the farmer 
regarding the value of his patent as 
follows: 
Our Roard of Commercial Estimates has 
examined the patent attached hereto and 
reports that the probable value for the 
entire t'nited States is ten thousand dol¬ 
lars ($10,009), but if sold by separate 
States or county rights this price should 
he increased to twenty thousand dollars. 
($20,000). If the inventor wishes to sub¬ 
mit any special information which would 
tend to change this estimate of value we 
will give the same due consideration. 
The letter is simply a printed form 
and is of course sent in reply to appli- j 
his.subscription, “By the way.” he said, 
•“how did those trial subscriptions come 
out? I stopped for dinner with a good 
farmer and talked with another on the 
road. They were strangers to me, but 
I got them to try the 10 cent trial. I 
have been curious to see what they 
did !” 
We looked up the records and fopnd 
that both farmers have renewed for a 
year! That is the way it goes all along 
the line. You can sow'some of the seed. 
When you write advertisers mention The 
I t. N.-Y. and you’ll get a quick reply- and 
“a square deal.” See guarantee, page 8. 
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I have sold all the breeders I can spare. Cockerels 
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May hatched cockerels and pullets from my best 
stock $1.00 each. Yearlings, heavy layers, $1.00each. 
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Tho Munson Campbell 
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