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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
August 24, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
A reader in Washington sends us a 
Pacific coast paper containing a picture 
of the “Parker palace” and a sketch 
of Geo. H. Parker. It begins: 
The Parker palace, silent for a year, is 
pay with sound again. After serving less 
than a year of his two-year sentence on 
McNeil’s Island, George H. Parker, who 
helped to get the cash from thousands of 
working people in the Northwest who “in¬ 
vested” in the United Wireless, stock, is 
back in his palatial home on Capitol Hill. 
This man with his get-rich-quick 
scheme comes back to his palace, while 
his victims are at “hard labor” to earn 
their bread. A strange whirl of “jus¬ 
tice.” 
The thousands of suckers who nibbled 
“the bait” and were caught on the Parker 
hook are still on earth. Many, possibly, 
have started new savings accounts. And 
George II., in his palace surrounded by the 
beautiful rows of red geraniums, is at home 
again after his somewhat trying experi¬ 
ence. He refuses to say what his plans 
are—but, of course, the world’s path 
stretches open and inviting to a man with 
stocks and bonds and business acumen. 
Of course it does. We have one am¬ 
bition, however, and that is that no 
reader of The R. N.-Y. shall say he 
had any sound excuse for biting at the 
Parker bait, or any other of the same 
color. 
Uncle Sam has been kind to George H. 
lie punished him for using the mails to de¬ 
fraud by sending him to McNeil’s Island. 
Hut the penitentiary officials saw that 
George II. was no ordinary prisoner; so 
they gave him light work to do and let 
him go frequently to Tacoma “to have his 
eyes treated.” Two years is not a long 
time, but it seems long in the peniten¬ 
tiary. So the Federal pardoning board, of 
which Warden Ilailigan, of McNeil’s Island, 
ts chairman, let George II. come home on 
parole before half of his two-year term 
was completed. 
Yet if plain John Smith had stolen a 
few pounds of wire he would still be 
in jail. “Geo. H.” had no wires at all 
in his plan, and they could not tie him 
up. 
I did not know that the Farmers’ United 
Chemical Co. of Reading, Pa., belonged to 
the sucker list until I read it in your good 
little paper a couple of weeks ago. About 
March 20 I ordered .$52.20 worth of mate¬ 
rials for home mixing of fertilizers. They 
delayed nearlv a mouth before they shipped, 
and ‘ it was past the regular plant¬ 
ing time when 1 received the goods. Then 
they did not send three bags of 100 pounds, 
as thcv only had 200 pound bags. I sent in a 
little order of $0.20 for 300 pounds more, 
making 1% tons in all. They sent the 
three single sacks, one from Temples and 
two from Harrisburg in three different ship¬ 
ments. It seems as though they did not 
have any stock on hand, but sent from 
other companies. On their price list they 
marked freight paid quotation. They wrote 
me a letter saying they would send me the 
freight on receipt of my freight bills. I 
sent them nearly three weeks ago and did 
not get any reply. They made reply in 
three days when writing about orders. 
Wha.t can I do with them? w. p. 
Pennsylvania. 
As usual, when we publish the com¬ 
plaint of one subscriber, we find that 
others have a similar grievance against 
the concern complained about. It is ap¬ 
parent that the Farmers’ United Chem¬ 
ical Co. are making a practice of failing 
to prepay the freight charges in accord¬ 
ance with their terms of sale. The ex¬ 
perience of this subscriber as a whole 
may prove of benefit to other readers. 
The inclosed advertisement has been in 
Portland Press for some time and a woman 
here needing some money sent for "partic¬ 
ulars.” They seemed all right, and reason¬ 
able. only she must buy a fountain pen 
to protect them, as so many sent to them 
and then would not do the work. The $1 
was to be paid back with the first 100 
names. The final instructions were these: 
she must not have over four women, and 
each person must sign their own name, ad¬ 
dress, age and business, and this was really 
an order for a pen. She must give a bond 
and have it signed by some one outside 
her family before getting the names, and 
after she wrote withdrawing her applica¬ 
tion. returned the pen and blanks, and sent 
postage for the return of her dollar, but it 
lias not come. Will you give your findings 
of them, and prevent someone else from 
sending them? constant reader. 
Maine. 
Here is the advertisement referred to: 
FIVE DOLLARS PER HUNDRED FOR 
Collecting names and addresses. All in 
spare time. Stamp for particulars. Key¬ 
stone Sales Co.. Darby, Penn. 
It is a fake on the face of it, as any 
concern can buy all the names they need 
at a dollar per thousand or less. It must 
be a pretty worthless sort of a fountain 
pen that needs to be sold by such meth¬ 
ods. The most effective way of combat¬ 
ing such swindling advertisements is to 
cancel your subscription to the papers 
carrying this class of advertising and 
tell the publisher why you are doing so. 
We are in receipt of reports from 
Pennsylvania that the Universal Ex¬ 
change Corporation, of Columbus, Ohio, 
insist upon shipping silos to farmers 
who were induced to sign orders on 
misrepresentations of their agents, and 
when the deception was discovered, 
promptly cancelled such orders. The 
silos have been refused by the farmers, 
and suits to force payment for the silos 
on the contracts threatened. Our 
information is thatT the moving spirits 
behind the Universal Exchange Cor¬ 
poration are Messrs. Woodruff & Spald¬ 
ing, of American Farm Co. fame. It 
will be remembered that this firm was 
prevented from doing business in the 
State of Ohio several years ago through 
action brought by t,he Attorney General 
of the State, on account of the fraudu¬ 
lent practices of the American Farm 
Co. The earmarks of these gentlemen 
are apparent under whatever cloak they 
try to hide their identity. If Messrs. 
Woodruff & Spalding can be induced to 
go into court in the cases referred to, 
it will result in a benefit to farmers as 
a whole to have a court record made of 
their connection with the Universal Ex¬ 
change Corporation. 
I purchased a female St. Bernard dog 
from Harry Reeder, Thorndale, Pa., which 
he represented to be in whelp, for $25. 
Mr. Reeder’s letter of November 25, 1911, 
represented the dog as four years old and 
would have pups about January 1, 1912. 
The letter further states the dog to be 
sold "under full guarantee to reach you 
safe and be right in every respect, or your 
money refunded.” The dog proved not to 
be in whelp and I can get no satisfaction. 
Can you help me? c. r. l. 
New York. 
The above letter illustrates the worth¬ 
lessness of guarantees unless the man 
back of the guarantee is honorable and 
responsible. This farmer cannot afford 
to go to court for $ 25 , even though this 
party is financially responsible. The rule 
is, however, that the irresponsible man 
is willing to guarantee anything and 
everything, as he has no intention of 
making good and knows he cannot be 
compelled to do so. 
We have written Mr. Flarry Reeder 
several letters in behalf of the sub¬ 
scriber. He contends that because his 
advertisement did not appear in The 
Rural New-Yorker the case is none of 
our affairs. The defrauding of one sub¬ 
scriber we hold is the concern of every 
reader, and we are giving this brief his¬ 
tory of the case in order that all may 
benefit by this subscriber’s experience. ' 
About one year ago I read in what I 
thought to be a reliable paper, the adver¬ 
tisement of the New South Farm & Home 
Co. Being a day working man and poor, 
and wishing to locate in a warm climate, I 
sent for their literature, and it was on such 
easy terms and such good prospects for a 
poor man that I played the sucker, took the 
bait and bought 10 acres last May. I 
have been advised that this Florida land 
is well nigh worthless, and misrepresented 
by the New South Farm &) Home Co. What 
do you advise me to do? J. w. b. 
Washington. 
We have taken up the contract of 
this subscriber with the New South 
Farm & Home Co. In response to our 
first letter they sent us a claim applica¬ 
tion which we sent the subscriber, and 
which was properly filled out and for¬ 
warded to them. Later the firm refused 
to refund the $60 paid on this contract, 
because the demand was not made 
within the 120 days limit allowed in the 
contract to accept the proposition. No 
doubt the New South Farm & Home 
Co. are within their legal rights in re¬ 
fusing to refund the money made on 
this contract. The incident illustrates, 
however, how many hard-working peo¬ 
ple lose their little savings through land 
promoters of this kind. Subscribers will 
no doubt recall Mr. Petersen’s experi¬ 
ence regarding this Florida land scheme, 
which was printed in The R. N.-Y. a 
little more than a year ago, showing the 
flagrant misrepresentations that this 
company made in their literature and 
general worthlessness of the land. 
I thank you for the publisher's page, not 
that I have been taken in by the fakes and 
swindles; possibly through your warning I 
have escaped. I wrote you concerning the 
Independent Harvester Co., read your an¬ 
swer. read your expos*? of them. They took 
over $3,000 out of this neighborhood. Now 
M. W. Savage of Minneapolis is placarding 
this section with glowing advertisements, 
telling how we double and treble our gains 
by investing in his stock. So it goes. Had 
l‘ the money that has been taken out of 
this community by sharks I would be the 
wealthiest man here. Again I thank you 
for the publisher’s page, and wish more 
would read your paper. It leads me to ask 
some to subscribe. b. d. 
Iowa. 
The Publisher’s Desk department is 
not much given to self laudation, but 
we confess to a degree of pride in 
the evidences of faith and confidence 
expressed by this Iowa farmer in the 
above letter. Above all other considera¬ 
tion in this line of work is the satisfac¬ 
tion derived from the fact that the de¬ 
partment is saving many friends of The 
R. N.-Y. from investments that could 
eventually result only in the loss of 
their hard-earned savings. 
TROUBLE WITH COLD STORAGE. 
I have had a cold storage chamber erected 
next to my kitchen which is a failure. What 
I would like to know is the proper way 
to build a cold storage compartment, one 
that will keep meat and poultry from spoil¬ 
ing. I would appreciate any help bow to 
build an icehouse or storage chamber, the 
science of circulation, insulation, etc. 
New York. c. f. b. 
A satisfactory cold storage chamber must 
be air-tight, if possible, so as to provide a 
some means for supplying cold air to the 
stores, which cold air must be properly cir¬ 
culated so as to reach all the stores. The 
stores must also be properly packed so as 
to allow circulation. Satisfactory insula¬ 
tion can only bo secured through the use of 
double walls and floor. The walls should 
be air-tight, if possible, so as provide a 
dead-air space between the walls, as that is 
the best form of insulation. It must, how¬ 
ever, be dead air and so the walls must be 
air-tight to give satisfaction. There are 
many other ways of insulating, such as by 
filling the space between the double walls 
with some non-conducting substance as the 
following, named in the order of their de¬ 
sirability : hair felt, slag wool, wood ashes, 
chopped straw, charcoal, cork, etc. It 
should be remembered in choosing an insu¬ 
lating substance that it must not only be 
a good insulator but it must not absorb 
moisture. It should be borne in mind that, 
whatever the material, the more dry, dead 
air enclosed the better. For that reason, 
some substance that does not pack solid is 
best. Moisture lias} the property of absorb¬ 
ing many gases and impurities from the 
stores and it is therefore very desirable that 
the air be kept as dry as possible and that 
the moisture which it does contain be re¬ 
moved, thus purifying the air. This can 
only be done by providing proper circulation 
of the air in the storage chamber and thus 
cooling the stores by circulation of air 
instead of by radiation from the source of 
cold. If the’ stores are cooled by radiation 
the moisture in the air will probably be de¬ 
posited on the stores in place of on the 
cold source. This, of course, may cause 
trouble. To get a good circulation, it is 
merely necessary to appreciate the import¬ 
ance of the fact that cold air drops and 
warm air rises. Then, to get a good circu¬ 
lation all that needs to be looked out for is 
to introduce the cold air at the bottom of the 
cold storage space and provide an outlet and 
return from the top of the storage cham¬ 
ber. For a small chamber it will be satis¬ 
factory if the cold air is allowed to enter 
the storage space all along one lower edge 
of the chamber and the warm air taken 
out along the upper and diagonally opposite 
edge. This will make it necessary for the 
air to cross and circulate all through the 
storage space before reaching the outlet. 
In a larger chamber the cold air could be 
introduced at the center of the floor and 
taken out in each of the upper edges, while 
in a still larger storage room, the cold air 
may be introduced along two side edges at 
the bottom and allowed to go out through 
two side edges at the top. Shields or de¬ 
flectors must be placed so as to prevent the 
cold air, as it warms up. going from the in¬ 
let opening directly to the outlet opening 
above without circulating through the room. 
These deflectors may be made of wood or 
any similar non-conductor of heat and 
should slope from the bottom up so that as 
the cold air warms, it will rise along the de¬ 
flector to the outlet. Care, should be taken 
not to place the deflector so as to “pocket” 
any warm air—that is, do not make it so 
that any body of warm air will be caught 
in the upper corner, for example, and have 
to go downwards in order to escape through 
the outlet, deflectors, of course, are only 
necessary where the outlet is nearly over 
the inlet and a path from one to the other 
does not lead through or near the center 
of the storage space. Ventilation, except 
in very large rooms, is satisfactorily taken 
care of by the opening and closing of the 
entrance door. The packing of stores in 
cold storage is a science in itself and can 
only be taught by experience. The general 
rule, however, may be of value, namely, to 
pack the stores close together and leave a 
space between them and the walls to allow 
a path for the circulating air. Never pack 
up close to the wall. B. p. c. 
Pneumatic Pump 
On page 829 there is a discussion about 
pumping air into a pneumatic tank. Force 
pumps for water as usually built have too 
much “clearance” to pump air. alone, suc¬ 
cessfully on account of its elasticity. The 
better way is to attach an air cock to the 
supply pipe between pump and well. This 
cock must bo closed to start the pump, 
after which it may be opened slightly and 
air will be drawn in and mingled with the 
water being pumped. By this method there 
is no trouble in maintaining an abundant 
supply of air, but very few water pumps 
will pump air successfully any other way. 
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