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THE) RURAb NEW-YORKER 
August 17, * 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Don’t ship produce of any kind with¬ 
out first ascertaining the reliability and 
responsibility of the party or house to 
which you are shipping. 
I sent four shipments of peas this sea¬ 
son to the lirm of Bacigalupi, Batonni & 
Co., 122 Warren street, New York City. On 
the first three shipments they wired me 
that my peas were sold for $2.50, and the 
fourth shipment at $1.25, which would 
make my claim about $45. Will you please 
collect it for me? b. p. 
New Jersey. 
We have called on this firm several 
times and received at first excuses and 
then promises to pay, which promises 
have not been kept. The concern has 
no responsibility that we are able to 
discover, and subscribers can draw their 
own conclusions as to the advisability of 
shipping produce to this company in 
view of the above experience. 
1 made a settlement with the local agent 
of Adams Express Company for the claim 
of $22.16 for produce sent to a Boston 
commission house in May, 1911. Express 
company deducted for the commission and I 
allowed it, receiving $20.37. I am indeed 
grateful for your influence and attention to 
this case. They say in some of their papers 
that “Mr. Dillon is a very persistent gen¬ 
tleman ; please give claim prompt atten¬ 
tion.” Y'our paper deserves the most hearty 
support of all farmers and honest people. 
New Jersey . J. H. l. 
We have heard before that the ex¬ 
press companies do not like our per¬ 
sistency. 
It is a great pleasure to know that you 
can patronize the advertisers in The It. 
N.-Y. without fear of being swindled. If 
only all of the reliable publishing houses 
would take up the same work it would only 
be a short time before fakers would have 
to get off the earth or reform. b. l. f. 
Connecticut. 
“Hind-Sights” has afforded much amuse¬ 
ment, as well as a good deal of informa¬ 
tion to one who has cut his eye teeth 
years ago, and I can heartily endorse every 
word of it, also the stand you take in the 
Publisher's Desk. Situated as I am,- and 
have been for some years back, I can. bet¬ 
ter than many, appreciate what it means to 
you to conduct this page, in the direct 
monetary loss in excluding many “ads.,” 
as well as in the expenses that your looking 
up these old claims and collecting them for 
your subscribers must be to you, and I 
have been expecting to see at any time 
that you had given up this end of it, as 
from the immense number of subscribers 
you have and the character of most of 
the claims, I feel sure that only a com¬ 
paratively few realize the vast amount of 
trouble and expense this must be to you 
every year. T - s - 
New York. 
It is encouraging to have such an in¬ 
telligent expression of an evident situa¬ 
tion. We do not regret the money loss 
from refused advertisements, nor do we 
claim any virtue for it. In it we do 
only the common part of honesty and 
decency. If all papers were doing it, 
as they should, the one that failed to 
do it would be conspicuous and dis¬ 
credited. Dishonest advertisements are 
tolerated now because many papers carry 
them, but even at this, there has been a 
great improvement in recent years. Few 
papers would carry the class of advertis¬ 
ings now that they had 10 years ago. 
One cannot take too much credit to him¬ 
self for refusing to be a party to the 
robbery of his friends, and the publisher 
certainly conspires with the dishonest 
advertiser when he sells the rogue the 
privilege of cheating his subscribers, 
who have a right to look to the pub¬ 
lisher for protection. Don't give The 
R. N.-Y. any credit for this. It is a 
duty. When referred to here it is not 
to boast, but to help create a whole¬ 
some sentiment for honesty in advertis¬ 
ing. 
The collecting of hopeless claims and 
adjusting of grievances has certainly 
gotten to be a difficult task. If there 
were any other source of relief in the 
world for the people we would give 
it up, but we see none. Besides the 
work helps create a public opinion 
which we hope may yet correct many 
of the abuses. The present investiga¬ 
tion of the express companies is a case 
in point. Besides, there is a lot of sat¬ 
isfaction in being able to help one who 
cannot help himself, and the apprecia¬ 
tion of those who get relief is worth 
more than the effort ever cost. But we 
have some funny experiences. Recent¬ 
ly we made one promoter disgorge sev¬ 
eral thousand dollars he collected some 
years back from our subscribers. One 
man had a claim for about $350; but 
wrote us that he would accept $300. 
After nearly two years we sent him a 
check for the full amount. He thanked 
us profusely, because he said he knew 
he would never have been able to 
get more than $300 himself. The 
humor of it is in the fact that he never 
could have collected a penny of it him¬ 
self. The money was returned for stock 
bought and paid for because the pro¬ 
moter did not want the story told. Of 
course the farmer did not intend to 
minimize our work. There would have 
been no humor in it if this had been 
his purpose. It is his credulity in the 
face of disaster that makes one smile 
and wonder if the credulous will ever 
learn the ways of rogues. 
Some publishers believe that the best 
way to build up a publication and make 
a living out of the work, is honestly and 
faithfully to serve the people. They 
build up on service. Another class seem 
to think that the publisher is privileged 
to exploit the public. They depend on 
tricks and schemes to make a business. 
Our old promoter E. G. Lewis is yet at 
his tricks. Building a publishing busi¬ 
ness on service to the subscriber is too 
slow for him. He has a new scheme 
now. You send him $3; and he does the 
rest. There are a number of certificates, 
and benefits untold in future prospect. 
He sunk millions of money borrowed 
from poor people in publishing ventures 
and other schemes; but now he wants to 
try over again—with your money. He 
does not expect you to take the paper 
and pay for it because of any value 
it may have to you. He will take part 
of the $3.00 for the paper; and induce 
you to pay the fee by giving you rebates 
on things you purchase from houses with 
which he has made arrangements for al¬ 
lowances. This is his wonderful scheme 
for building up the greatest publishing 
business in the world. The scheme does 
not even have the merit of novelty. It 
is the old co-operative membership fake 
all over again, only in a new disguise. 
Lewis faked $4,000,000 out of the people 
on it years ago, and others have worked 
it with varying success. It is an easy 
matter to make a rebate, provided the 
price is high enough at the start for the 
quality of goods sold. But Lewis keeps 
telling his dupes that the money is all 
made out of advertisers anyway. Sup¬ 
pose the readers of the papers all buy 
their goods from the houses which give 
them rebates, then what good will it do 
other houses to advertise for their 
trade? Perhaps he thinks the advertis¬ 
ers will not know the difference, but if 
he expects to get rich or make others 
rich on that theory, he may as well 
mark up another failure. As a matter 
of fact legitimate advertisers do not use 
papers built up on schemes anyway. 
That is why he was losing $32,000 on 
the National Daily when it had a circula¬ 
tion of over 300.000 copies. The more 
papers he mailed the more money he 
lost; and it will be so on the new 
scheme. But the paper will again serve 
to organize a sucker list, and to bait its 
members with other schemes. Yet we 
caution no one who has ever heard of 
Lewis before. If you think he means it, 
send him the money by all means. If 
you are gullible enough to do it, the 
lesson may be worth all it will cost you. 
The Gardner Nursery Co., Osage. Iowa, 
is raking in lots of the poor honest farm¬ 
ers’ money with the inclosed scheme. It 
is another way of taking other people’s 
money as Lewis did. Turn your search¬ 
light on them again. B. c. 
New Y’ork. 
We do not think any of the old read¬ 
ers of The R. N.-Y. are in any danger 
from the Gardner dope, but the new 
members at the table may be better pro¬ 
tected by a w’ord of caution. The whole 
story is this: The concern has some 
plants and nursery stuff that they want 
to sell at $10 a lot. In order to induce 
you to buy it they get up a story to 
make you believe they are going to make 
you a present, and that y’ou are to bene¬ 
fit by an alleged advertising orchard. 
They have worked this fake for several 
years. Where are the show orchards 
they established on the scheme during 
the years past? Last year they had a 
fake scheme to sell strawberry plants 
and give a gold watch valued at $20 as a 
gift with $4 or $5 order of plants. We 
got the watch and found we could buy 
them for $1.15 each. Our people have 
complained that the plants sent on these 
alleged orchard bargains were small 
and oftentimes dried up and dead when 
received. The R. N.-Y. has refused to 
accept the advertising of this concern 
because the methods of selling were de¬ 
ceptive, and further because growers 
complained that the stock was worth¬ 
less, and it was a loss of money) and 
time to attempt to grow it. Some peo¬ 
ple may have had better success, but 
such was the report to us. 
POTATOES AND APPLES IN MAINE. 
Aroostook County, Maine, will produce 
its usual bumper crop of potaoes this sea¬ 
son. It is true the season was and is now 
three weeks late, but the weather for the 
past 10 days has been ideal. The tempera¬ 
ture has ranged from 90 to 98 every day 
with frequent heavy showers, and the pota¬ 
toes can almost be seen coming out of the 
ground. Last season there were a number 
of cases shipped from this section in July, 
but it is safe to say there will be no 
shipping from Aroostook this season before 
the middle of August. The later crops 
however will be fully as early this season 
as last if the present satisfactory condi¬ 
tions continue. The acreage is about the 
same as last year. In central and south¬ 
ern Maine the potato acreage is now larger 
than last season and the outlook for a 
good crop is excellent. 
Present indications point to a good large 
crop of apples of better quality than usual 
on account of the unusual activities of the 
Horticultural Department of the State. 
Spraying and pruning demonstrations have 
been held in almost all of the important 
apple producing centers, and these demon¬ 
strations have attracted much interest and 
the meetings have been largely attended. 
If the orchards of Maine are properly 
sprayed, pruned and cultivated, an apple 
as fine in flavor as any that can be pro¬ 
duced in the country can be grown. Apple 
associations are being organized and ar¬ 
rangements are being made to ship through 
these associations this Fall. So that the 
pack shall be in accordance with the latest 
standard an expert will be employed to sort 
and pack, and the apples will be shipped in 
both boxes and barrels. The total value 
of the apple crop shipped out of Maine 
this season amounted in the aggregate to 
$2,000,000. If $2,000,000 of spruce or pine 
had been shipped from the State, Maine 
would have been poorer in natural wealth 
that much, but in shipping $2,000,000 
worth of apples Maine did not part with 
one dollar of its wealth. c. e. e. 
THE BUFFALO MARKET SITUATION. 
I visited the Buffalo city hay market 
to-day, and while the trade at that point 
is not heavy, seldom running above 20 
loads of loose hay a day of about 2,500 
pounds to the load, it is a sample of what 
many farmers in the territory are doing 
without coming to the market at all, but 
picking up their customers direct and deliv¬ 
ering the hay as it is wanted, which they 
are permitted to do without paying any 
license. In the hay market they are 
charged 25 cents for a double team load 
and 15 cents for a single-horse load. Dis¬ 
asters are sometimes good things, where 
they spur up some inert human mass, or 
clean up a bad, congested spot, so it ap¬ 
pears that after the fire that nearly de¬ 
stroyed the market building some years, the 
new structure included a big steel shed for 
the hay wagons. Before that they were 
obliged to stand out with no shelter. This 
loose hay trade is from the farmer to the 
consumer direct and it is said that the 
consumer generally prefers it. if he has the 
storage capacity required, to the baled-liay 
trade, which has to pass mainly through 
the hands of dealers, who often buy the 
hay in barn and press it for the city 
trade. Often loose hay sells for more than 
baled, as it is easier to inspect it and not 
so easy to cover up poor hay in the center 
of loads as it is in the bales. Present 
prices run from $28 down for old hay and 
from $20 to $22 for new. which is as good 
as old. but has more water in it. The 
hay sold in the city is mostly Timothy, with 
a little clover mixed at $18, and next to 
no clear clover and no Alfalfa, as these 
latter hays are not wanted by horse own¬ 
ers. The farmer comes in once a day with 
a load of liay, g matter of five to 15' miles, 
often over a brick-payed road, pockets a 
matter of $40 for his load and goes home 
with a load of stable manure, for which 
he is perhaps paid a trifle for taking. The 
new barn-cleaning companies are - making 
free manure scarcer, though. They ship 
out the manure to farmers in car lots at 
$30 to $35 a car for about 15 big wagon¬ 
loads, which is a pretty stiff price unless the 
straw and water in it are reduced to the 
minimum. The farmer will do _better to 
select such manure as he knows to be valu¬ 
able and draw it home on his return hay 
wagon. The late rains have completely 
changed the farm problem, from pending 
disaster and certain loss in many crops, to 
booming growth of everything not too far 
advanced. The Buffalo produce markets 
were never fuller of stuff and prices are nqt 
so high as to be prohibitory, as they prettv 
nearly were awhile ago. It is not too late 
to replant cabbage that was dried up, the 
berries are doing well and turnips will jump 
now, with late celery maturing if planted 
at once. Peaches at low prices are coming 
in from Georgia and Texas and plums from 
California. From all directions the report 
is favorable to a big apple crop and the 
late potatoes will yield well, as it looks 
BOW. JOHN W. CHAMBERLIN. 
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FENCE PRICES BUSTED 
15c EH 
buys this High Grade Hog Fencing: heavier 
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weighs about 6 lbs. to a rod, all heights at propor¬ 
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strongest built, per rod_“ * 
$1.25 K GALVANIZED WIRE 
This price is for No. 6 gauge. Other sizes in pro- 
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CIDERCPRESSES 
The Original Mt. Gilead Hydraulic PreBB 
produces more cider from less 
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FENCE 
STOP high lifting into your 
ulvr high-wheeled farm wagon. 
I OOK up that old running 
Liuun gear with broken 
wheels and pull it out of the 
weed patch from behind the 
barn. 
IISTFN to w hat our free 
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about low-down steel wheels 
for that gear. It will make 
the handiest wagon you ever 
had on your farm. 
Havana Metal Wheel Co. 
Box 17, Havana, 111. 
Splendid 
Prospects 
of 
Bumper 
Grain 
Crops 
WESTERN CANADA 
Latest reports from the fields of Manitoba, 
Saskatchewan and Alberta are to the effect 
that Wheat, Oats, Barley and Flax give 
promise of an abundant yield. Rains have 
been sufficient and all grains have advanced 
rapidly. There are now 16 million acres 
under crop. Railroads are built and building 
in all settled portions, The opportune time 
for getting some of this generous producing 
land is now. Excursions on all lines of 
Canadian Railways to inspect the lands. 
Apply for Settler’s Certificate to the under¬ 
signed Canadian Government Agent: 
J. S. CRAWFORD 
30 Syracuse Savings Hank Building 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
NEW YORK STATE FAIR 
Agricultural and Industrial Exposition 
SYRACUSE—SEPTEMBER 9-10-11-12-13-14 
DEMONSTRATIONS AND 
HIGHEST CLASS AMUSEMENT 
ILLUSTRATED LECTURES IN 
FEATURES 
MANY DEPARTMENTS 
Conway’s Concert Band 
Change of Program Each Day 
Evening Karnival Spectacles 
AEROPLANE RACES DAILY 
AVIATION MEET 
Open to World Competition Sn 
Connection with Military Sym- 
khaha, September 14. Five Air¬ 
ships in Spectacular Contests. 
GREAT OPEN AIR HORSE 
AND CATTLE SHOWS 
GRAND CIRCUIT RACES 
2 Feature Races Introducing 
18 Fastest Trotters and Pacers 
on American Turf. 
