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October 26, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
When making shipments insist upon 
getting a receipt for your goods from 
the transportation company. This is es¬ 
sential and constitutes your evidence if 
it is necessary to present claim in the 
event of loss or delay. Do not give up 
your receipt to the transportation com¬ 
pany ; have your agent issue a duplicate 
and when payment of the claim is made 
you can give up the original. 
Will you tell me something of Joseph 
Corchia, the New Jersey fur and ginseng 
man? On February 29, 1912, I shipped 
him a nice lot of furs, worth $31.95. He 
made no remittance; then I wrote him 
asking to hear from him at once. He has 
not answered. If the poor fellow is dead 
he has my sympathy ; if he is living and 
wants to conduct a swindle, I think he 
ought to be punished. E. F. w. 
West Virginia. 
Wc have made every effort to collect 
the above account for the subscriber 
without success. Our last report on 
Mr. Corchia said that he had gone to 
Italy. We have no assurance whether 
it is his intention to return or not. We 
are publishing the above letter merely 
as a warning to raw fur shippers in 
case he should return and solicit further 
shipments from country people. 
We also have a claim against Alfred 
Post & Co., 65 Greene street, New 
York, for a balance of $23.62 due. a 
Pennsylvania subscriber and a claim 
of $110.57 from a Michigan subscriber 
on account of a shipment of ginseng. 
Then our readers will remember the 
Corry Hide & Fur Co., Corry, Pa., 
which concern thinks the Editor of The 
R. N.-Y. is a “Vile Thing.” We earned 
this distinction by showing up the 
peculiar methods by which this com¬ 
pany attempted to beat a subscriber 
out of a large percentage of the value 
of his shipment of furs. 
We also feel that a word of caution 
may not be out of place in regard to 
the St. Louis house which makes a 
practice of sending out bombastic liter¬ 
ature accompanied by quotations which 
are higher than other markets. When 
the furs are received they grade the 
shipment to suit themselves, so that you 
realize less on your furs than though 
you shipped to reliable houses in other 
markets where your goods would re¬ 
ceive a more liberal grading. Some of 
these St. Louis houses in one sentence 
would make it appear that they are 
buying your furs, but on the other hand 
they charge you a commission when 
making the returns. 
At this time, which is the opening of 
the fur season, a word of warning is 
necessary to shippers in this line. Don't 
send a cent’s worth of goods to any 
individual or firm until you have some 
assurance of their reliability and re¬ 
sponsibility. Of course, any house to 
which you have shipped previously and 
you have received fair treatment would 
be sufficient assurance to warrant your 
further patronage. Shippers will save 
themselves trouble and loss by looking 
up unknown houses before making 
shipments to them. 
Last Spring, desiring the services of a 
patent attorney, 1 wrote the firm of Far- 
num & Sues, Washington, D. C. They ad¬ 
vertised patents secured, or fees returned. 
In reply I got a nice letter from them, re¬ 
questing all papers pertaining to my inven¬ 
tion, and to please send $15 on account, 
all of which conditions I complied with. 
After repeated delays on account of alleged 
sickness, etc., disputes arose between the 
patent attorneys and myself as to the 
proper specifications for the invention on 
which I desired the patent. Farnum & 
Sues refused to give further assistance. I 
then made a demand for everything of mine 
they held, including a drawing, copy of 
my own specifications, and the $15 sent 
them on account. They have not only de¬ 
layed my business, but retained my draw¬ 
ing, which represents a good deal of time, 
and also kept the $15, which by the prom¬ 
ise of their advertisement should have been 
returned to me. I have employed every 
means in my power to induce them to give 
me honorable treatment, and I now write 
you to see if you can get my drawing, 
money and other property. h. p. 
Massachusetts. Jan. 9, 1912. 
We have had no little correspondence 
with the firm of Farnum & Sues in re¬ 
gard to this subscriber’s claim. In the 
meantime the firm’s name has changed 
to Sues & Co., apparently Mr. Farnum 
having withdrawn from the partnership. 
We, however, have been unable to in¬ 
duce Mr. Sues, who carried on the cor¬ 
respondence, to either return the ad¬ 
vanced fee of $15, which, according to 
the promise of his advertisement, he 
was obliged to do, or to get the draw¬ 
ing which belongs to the subscriber in 
question. The last letter we received 
from Sues & Co. intimated that he was 
placing a claim against this subscriber 
in the hands of an attorney for collec¬ 
tion, and this is offered as an excuse for 
his failure to live up to a previous 
agreement to return to us the sub¬ 
scriber’s drawing. Since an advertise¬ 
ment of this firm in the columns of The 
Rural New-Yorker was the means of 
putting the subscriber in communication 
with this firm, we are assuming the re¬ 
sponsibility to him and refunding the 
$15, plus the value of the drawing, 
which is $5, making a total of $20. We 
also stand ready to protect the sub¬ 
scriber against the threatened lawsuit 
and sustain him in any expense which 
he may be put to in defending the pro¬ 
posed action. We feel that our readers 
who may have inventions to be patented 
are entitled to the experience of this 
Massachusetts farmer. 
Received payment yesterday from Na¬ 
tional Express Company for the two crates 
of grapes that were short in a shipment to 
a New York commission house on Septem¬ 
ber 14 last. This is the last of the bills I 
gave you for collection, as the rest have 
all been paid. Thank you again. 
New York. E. C. Q. 
This refers to a shipment of five 
crates of grapes, two of which were lost. 
It took some time to convince the ex¬ 
press company that they were responsi¬ 
ble for the loss. 
Last January a party by the name of 
M. K. Thorp, secretary of the Flanders 
Milk and Cream Association, came to my 
place and asked me if 1 would like to be¬ 
come a member of this association. I 
told him I did not care to, as 1 was con¬ 
templating making a change in the sale 
of my milk, so I could receive a better 
price. He left, saying he would call again. 
He came in a couple of weeks, asking if 
I had made any change. I said no'; had 
seen several parties, but made no agree¬ 
ment. He said I would do better by join¬ 
ing the association. He asked me to try 
it for a while. I said I would if he 
would give me a release at any time. He 
agreed to this if 1 would give him suffi¬ 
cient time to make arrangements. In June 
last I had opportunity to make better ar¬ 
rangements to take effect on August 1. 
I notified the association on July 6 that 
I wished to withdraw July 31. They did 
not reply and I went to see Mr. Thorp; 
he said they had to hold a meeting, first. 
The president had been absent from the 
previous one, but another would be held 
in a few days. A few days later I re¬ 
ceived a letter stating they would not re¬ 
lease me. I wrote, explaining the agree¬ 
ment I had, but received no answer. Any 
member withdrawing is fined $25 and this 
is deducted from the milk money. The by¬ 
laws say any member can withdraw any 
time, provided he gives sufficient notice and 
satisfactory reason. Can you help me in 
this matter? I would like to secure my 
money. I have witnesses to prove that 
Mr. Thorp offered to give me a release at 
any time I asked for it. P. w. M. 
New Jersey. 
The above letter is illustrative of 
what might be termed the farmer’s loose 
methods of doing business. There is 
little question that the subscriber was 
given the assurances as stated, but he 
should have had a contract in writing 
to this effect before delivering any milk. 
When a dispute arises it is difficult to 
prove your case on a verbal understand¬ 
ing. A definite contract or agreement 
will often save annoyance and loss in 
matters of this kind. 
Can you do anything for me in regard 
to a claim I have against the Long Island 
Express Co. for loss of baby chicks during 
the past season? My record of loss is as 
follows: 
May 4, to Lakewood, N. J., 24 chicks 
dead .. $2.40 
May 4, to Washington, N. J., 69 
chicks dead . 6.90 
May 9, to Leonard Bridge, Ct., 50 
chicks dead . 5.00 
$14.30 
I know that my chicks were strong and 
none of the shipments where 1 suffered 
loss were on the road over 24 to 30 hours. 
It is very evident that the chicks were not 
properly' handled and were smothered, yet 
I cannot get anything from the company, 
as they claim they are not responsible so 
long as they deliver the chicks promptly. I 
have shipped as far as Ashtabula, Ohio, and 
have not lost more than two to the hun¬ 
dred. a. H. P. 
New York. 
We took this claim up with the Long 
Island Express Co. and have had con¬ 
siderable correspondence about it. The 
contention of the company was that 
there had been no negligence shown on 
their part in the handling of the ship¬ 
ments, and furthermore that “the con¬ 
tract between the shipper and carrier 
provided that the company shall not be 
liable for loss, nor for the death, injury 
or escape of live freight, the company 
not being a carrier thereof except at 
owner’s risk.” Of course it is impos¬ 
sible in most cases for the ship¬ 
per to prove negligence on the part of 
an express company, but where a per¬ 
fectly healthy animal, or as in this case 
animals, die in shipment, having been 
property crated, it is obvious that there 
has been neglect on the part of the car¬ 
rier. The Long Island Express Co. are 
certainty putting a big handicap on 
Long Island poultrymen in the manner 
of handling their shipments. We have 
found other express companies more 
liberal in adjusting complaints of this 
kind, and if the policy is pursued we 
predict it will have the effect of driv¬ 
ing this branch of the poultry industry 
away from Long Island, which is so 
very well suited to it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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