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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
December 14, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
A subscriber sends us the following 
record of a transaction between a farmer 
of Port Ewen, N. Y., and C. W. Stuart 
Nursery Co., of Newark, N. Y., the deal 
having been made through an agent, Mr. 
Daniel Van Lueven, who is reported to 
have an unsavory reputation in the com¬ 
munity. This deal will further illumine 
the tricks of this class of tree agents as 
a whole. 
This fruit grower desired 500 Rathbun 
blackberries of XXX quality, and of which 
his brother-in-law desired 100. This agent 
made the farmer believe that he could not 
sell less than 1,000 plants for the price 
of $45, which in itself was $5 higher than 
any other up-State nursery was charging. 
The agent said if he did not want the 1,000 
he (the agent) could find a buyer for the 
rest and got the farmer to sign a bona 
fide order blank for the 1,000 plants at the 
price of $45. The plants in due time were 
delivered on the premises and then the 
company began writing the farmer for the 
full amount of order. He got frightened 
and paid them $40, after which the com¬ 
pany threatened to send bank draft and 
other threats to induce the victim to pay 
the other $5. It was at this time that an 
expert horticulturist in this vicinity was 
consulted. He examined the plants which 
had been set out and could easily perceive 
that one-half were only XX grade and some 
others as low as X grade. He then ex¬ 
amined the order blank which called for 
XXX grade at $45 for the thousand plants. 
He advised the purchaser not to pay the 
other $5 which advice he took. T. 
New York. 
It is deals of this kind that are con¬ 
stantly coming to our attention that 
cause us to advise fruit growers to be¬ 
ware of tree agents, and especially those 
of this unreliable sort. 
315 Fourth Ave., New York City, 
November 27th, 1912. 
Rurat, New-Yorker, 409 Pearl St., 
New York. 
Gentlemen—Your November 30th issue 
connects the name of Mr. Herbert Myrick 
with the International Corporate Farms Co. 
Will you kindly state in your next issue 
that Mr. Myrick is not connected with it di¬ 
rectly or indirectly in any way whatsoever 
—neither now nor in the past. 
Very truly yours, 
Orange Judd Company, 
Thomas A. Barrett, Treasurer. 
We have every confidence in Mr. 
Barrett, personally. While he does not 
seem to make the direct assertion that 
Mr. Myrick is not connected with the 
International Corporate Farm Com¬ 
pany, his request implies as much, and 
Mr. Barrett evidently thinks that there 
is no connection direct or indirect. T he 
peculiar thing about it is that this rather 
inferential statement comes from Mr. 
Barrett, who could not know positively 
that his principal had no such connec¬ 
tion. A clear direct positive statement 
from Mr. Myrick himself would be 
more satisfactory. It is not that his 
testimony would be more reliable than 
that of Mr. Barrett where each had 
the same information. If Mr. Barrett 
had the information and testified as to 
the facts, his word would be conclusive 
to us; but Mr. Myrick may have, and 
we are informed does have, connections 
and propositions under way, that his as¬ 
sociates do not know about, and this 
may be one of them. Hence we would 
prefer to have the frank denial from 
Mr. Myrick himself. Mr. Willis, who 
seems to be the chief promoter of the 
Farm Company, is the editor of one of 
Mr. Myrick’s papers, and it seems in¬ 
credible that he would undertake such 
a scheme without the knowledge or 
consent of his principal. If the scheme 
was promoted without Mr. Myrick’s 
consent, it is equally inconceivable that 
he would continue to employ Mr. Willis 
as editor of his paper after he dis¬ 
covered the nature of the scheme. 
Furthermore the advertising literature 
is mailed farmers who are subscribers 
to editions of Mr. Myrick’s papers that 
Mr. Willis has no connection with 
whatever. We have received several 
inquiries from such farmers. Mr. 
Myrick must have knowledge of this 
mailing of “gold brick dope” to his 
subscribers. Many of them have writ¬ 
ten us. Some of them must have writ¬ 
ten him. Can he find no way to stop it ? 
Has he given his subscribers a word of 
warning against it? So much for “di¬ 
rectly.” Now how about “indirectly?” 
Mr. Myrick controls his paper. Mr. 
Willis is his employe or agent, and Mr. 
Myrick is responsible for the acts of his 
agent and in permitting him to con¬ 
tinue the scheme virtually encourages it, 
since Mr. Willis merely patterns after 
Mr. Myrick’s example. It may be embar¬ 
rassing for Mr. Myrick to restrict his 
employe, even if he does not profit 
in the scheme himself; but I cannot 
conceive it possible that a “gold brick” 
scheme could originate in the office of 
any farm paper, honestly devoted to the 
interests of its people. If it did so 
originate it would last long enough for 
the employe to be kicked into the street 
by the indignant and irate publisher. 
Publishers with promotion schemes do 
not like the new Federal law obliging 
them to publish their circulation, and 
names of the owners of the paper. The 
provision that they mark articles pub¬ 
lished in reading type as editorial or 
news text, but paid for by interested 
parties as advertisements is especially 
objectionable to them. Our old ac¬ 
quaintance E. G. Lewis has filed a suit 
to test the constitutionality of the law, 
and there is more or less suspicion that 
others of his class are silent partners 
in the suit, or contributors to it. The 
only possible objection to the law is the 
purpose of keeping advertisers and 
readers in the dark as to what they get 
for their money. Of course, the Govern¬ 
ment always knows what the circulation 
is. The advertiser always wants to 
know. The publisher cannot very well 
published a misstatement, while the Gov¬ 
ernment has the exact figures. But 
every publisher quotes his circulation 
every day in the week to advertisers; 
and the frenzied opposition to the law 
can come only from a wish to quote in 
fiction rather than in fact. The pro¬ 
vision to force them to mark paid arti¬ 
cles as advertising they call especially 
iniquitous. Why? The only answer 
is that they wish to retain the privilege 
of misleading their readers. They want 
to disguise advertising in the dress of 
impartial editorial discussion or opinion. 
Besides they often have some promotion 
schemes of their own that they like to 
dress up in editorial flourishes and it 
would take all the romance out of their 
beautiful and plausible language to have 
it plainly and honestly marked “adver¬ 
tisement.” Lewis’ argument through his 
attorney is that the enforcement of the 
law would drive the weak paper to the 
walk If a paper cannot be honestly 
published how much of a calamity would 
it be if it went to the wall? 
I am compelled to ask your assistance in 
straightening out a tangle with Jarvis 
Bros., Fly Creek, X. Y. On March 25. 1912, 
I bought from them a Holstein-Friesian 
heifer calf on their guarantee that it was 
thrifty and well grown and nicely built. 
When it arrived it was about the worst 
specimen of a living thoroughbred that 1 
ever saw. It was nothing but skin and 
bone; the hair was off its ears. The actual 
gross weight of calf and crate was 150 
pounds. This calf cost me $75, and 1 would 
not have had it at any price if I had seen 
it before buying. I wrote Jarvis Bros, a 
letter and told them the calf was not sat¬ 
isfactory and I wished to return it, or 
would be willing under the circumstances 
to pay them $50 for the calf, but I have 
received no reply. The fact that at two 
months and five days old the calf weighs 
114 pounds tells the story better than any¬ 
thing else. M. u. R. 
Maryland. 
We believe it is to the best interests 
of the breeders of purebred live-stock 
that a complaint of this kind should 
be satisfactorily adjusted. On a large 
portion of the transactions in purebred 
stock, the purchaser must rely upon the 
representations of the owner, and the 
basis of such transactions must be 
mutual confidence. The subscriber in 
question is a man who stands high in 
his community and we have every rea¬ 
son to believe that his grievance is not 
a fancied one. We wrote Jarvis Bros, 
offering the good offices of The R. N.-Y. 
to bring about a satisfactory adjustment 
without any notoriety or unpleasantness 
to either party of the transaction. Our 
first letters were ignored, as were the 
letters of complaint of the subscriber 
himself, but we finally received com¬ 
munications regarding the deal through 
a firm of attorneys acting for Jarvis 
Bros. Eventually the attorneys made a 
proposition briefly in effect that their 
client would accept a return of the calf 
and refund the purchase price provid¬ 
ing the purchaser would have the calf 
tuberculin tested and bind himself to say 
nothing to anyone about the transaction. 
The subscriber, however felt that since 
he had fed and cared for the calf at 
the time this proposition was made, for 
six months or more, he should have 
some remuneration for his feed and 
trouble, and he also declined to pledge 
himself to secrecy regarding the trans¬ 
action on the grounds that his self re¬ 
spect would not permit him to do so. 
And there our negotiations ended. Our 
readers may draw their own conclus¬ 
ions from this brief statement of the 
case. The experience of the subscriber 
in question may serve to save some one 
else from a similar experience. Had the 
breeder made the offer to accept the 
return of the calf promptly when the 
complaint was first made and before 
the purchaser had gone to any expense 
in the feed and care for the calf, the 
unfortunate transaction might have been 
adjusted promptly without serious loss 
to either party. 
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