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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 15, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
A subscriber reports he is unable to 
get settlement for eggs shipped H. C. 
Tilley, Port Chester, N. Y. If ship¬ 
ments are solicited from other subscrib¬ 
ers it will be the part of wisdom to in¬ 
sist on cash in advance. 
Assemblyman Niles I. Webb of Cort¬ 
land County has introduced a bill re¬ 
quiring the proprietors of milk gathering 
stations or other plants in which milk 
is bought or received and resold in any 
form for consumption to file a bond 
with the Commissioner of Agriculture 
to insure payment to the producers from 
time to time when due. The proprietors 
are also required to give each producer 
a receipt showing the amount of milk 
received and the date of delivery. 
The total of losses to milk producers 
supplying the New York market through 
credits to irresponsible milk buyers dur¬ 
ing the past quarter of a century 
amounts to millions of dollars The 
shrewdest and most conservative of 
farmers have at times been unable to 
protect themselves against these irre¬ 
sponsible milk men. We have long in¬ 
sisted that producers should be satisfied 
of the responsibility of these buyers, or 
insist on security before delivering milk 
to them or entering a contract with 
them. This bill, if enacted, would serve 
this purpose, and afford a much needed 
protection to the producers of milk in 
many sections. 
The enclosed card from William A. Ilea- 
cock, Lockport, N. Y., may be all right, but 
why such philanthropy? m. j. g. 
Iowa. 
This man says he made $10,000 a year 
in the mail order business and wants 
to tell you how vou can make $300 a 
week. That does surely look like plain 
philanthropy, but I venture the pre¬ 
diction that he will want a remittance 
pretty early in the proceedings, and one 
cannot help the suspicion that the $10,- 
000 annually may be the sum total of 
such remittances. The truth is, of 
course, that he has something to sell 
that you would not buy for itself, but 
you may be influenced to buy it and pay 
for it if you are made to believe that 
you can start a mail order business with 
it, and get rich. Don’t try it. 
I acknowledge receipt of your letter con¬ 
taining' the following settlements: 
Claim dated August 17, 1912, short 
eight dozen eggs.$2.05 
Claim dated August 21, 1912, three 
dozen broken, two dozen stained... .85 
Claim dated September 7, 1912, six 
dozen broken . 4.47 
Claim dated September 11. 1912, 2% 
dozen short, % dozen cracked.91 
Claim dated September 23, 1912, six 
dozen broken . 1.43 
Claim dated September 30, 1912, eggs 
cracked, stained and broken. 1.10 
Claim dated October 19, 1912, two 
dozen stained, three dozen broken.. 1.76 
I feel very grateful to you for bringing 
this about, as I realize I would be stranded 
in attempting to get an adjustment myself, 
Pennsylvania. w. J. k. 
This subscriber has had a series of 
unpleasant and unfortunate experiences 
with his egg shipments, and Adams Ex¬ 
press Company rather arbitrarily turned 
him down. We have had many similar 
complaints from him in the past. We 
yet have a couple of complaints to ad¬ 
just for him. In such cases the express 
company always insists on allowances 
for commission charges on broken eggs 
or lost goods. For the future in all such 
cases we propose to insist on interest 
charges when settlements are not made 
within 60 days as prescribed by the In¬ 
terstate Commerce Commission. 
I send this subscription in appreciation 
of your kindness in collecting a claim for 
my neighbor and myself against the Adams 
Express Company for some peaches shipped 
in 1912. The express company kept them 
on the road until they spoiled. a. e. m. 
Virginia. 
r Only yesterday I received check from 
Adams Express Company in settlement of 
our claim. This would never have been 
made but for the valuable aid of your 
splendid paper. I often tell my neighbors 
that The It. N.-Y. is the cleanest, most 
honorable publication in the United States. 
Please accept sincere thanks for your inter¬ 
est in my behalf. H. R. B. 
Virginia. 
These two subscribers were interested 
in a shipment of peaches sent on Au¬ 
gust 19 to a Washington house. It 
was held along the road until the 
peaches deteriorated in value, and it took 
some six months to get voucher for the 
loss from the express company. 
Last Spring you collected payment from 
a commission merchant for K .ffer pears, 
and am sure I never would have received 
a cent had it not been for your efforts. I 
am in the same trouble again. I sent H. 
F. Windmann & Co., 121 Warren street, 
New York, six barrels of Kieffer pears last 
October and have written him and can get 
no reply. A Marlboro man solicited ship¬ 
ments for him last Summer and Fall and 
says he does not know why Windmann does 
not pay and that he owes several in this 
place. The pears were worth $2.25 at 
least, per barrel. J. it. T. 
New York. 
After we called his attention to the 
complaint Mi. Windmann sent the sub¬ 
scriber 99 cents as payment for six 
barrels of pears. The claim was made 
that the pears were in terrible shape, 
and he was obliged to repack. Four 
months had passed, however, before even 
this report was made. We have had 
similar complaints regarding shipments 
to this house, some of which were ad¬ 
justed after we took them up. Of 
course, Mr. Windmann opposes a law 
that would require a State agent to in¬ 
spect the goods before he disposed of 
them. 
On October 22, 1911, I shipped the A. 
J. Glanister Fruit & Vegetable Company, 
Ithaca, N. Y. Hubbard squash to the 
amount of $52.10, with the understanding 
that it was to be paid for on arrival if it 
proved satisfactory. There was no com¬ 
plaint. It ran along until the 26th of 
November when they ordered more to the 
amount of $40.14. They said on December 
1 they would pay for the first without fail 
but would take 30 days on the second 
order. Not hearing from them I drew on 
them. In a couple of days I received a 
letter saying they would send me the 
money. I agreed to take $40 cash and 
their note for $52.24 but can get no answer 
from them. Will you see what you can do? 
New York. f. e. x. 
To our letters Glanister & Company 
state the squash was rotten and an en¬ 
tire loss. Coming a year after the ship¬ 
ment was made we cannot believe they 
are sincere in their attitude toward ship¬ 
pers. We have been unable to get any 
adjustment. Perhaps Mr. Travis and 
the commission men who oppose the 
Roosevelt-Cole bill will tell us that this 
shipper got all he is entitled to get for 
his squash. 
I would like to have your advice in 
regard to investing in the stock of the 
Pennsylvania Telephone Herald Company. 
They have agents through here promising 
great things for the future stockholders. 
At present they sell stock for $4 a share 
and claim it will be worth $100 shortly. 
Pennsylvania. g. d. k. 
It is hard to make out from the cir¬ 
cular what this concern even proposes. 
We take it the promoters do not care 
to be too definite. The thing they em¬ 
phasize is big profits to those who buy 
stock; but any full-grown man who 
would put his money into such a propo¬ 
sition ought to have a guardian at once. 
It would not have even the chance of a 
speculation or a gamble. To take money 
for such stocks would be like picking 
the pockets of babies. 
I have been honored by an invitation to 
become a member of the Luther Bur¬ 
bank Society, with the assurance that 
there are less than 100 memberships yet 
open. The proposed benefits, however, 
do not appeal,to me, and somehow the 
gentle compliment does not touch my 
particular bump of vanity. Perhaps the 
$151 fee had something to do with my 
want of ardor, not to say appreciation 
of the distinction conferred. But the 
experience demonstrates that one can be 
on a sucker list without becoming z 
voluntary sucker. 
I ran up against a Brooklyn man rep¬ 
resenting the Morgan Poultry Co. at one 
of our country stores at Burlington, Pa., 
February 7, and he was going to annihilate 
all the country dealers. They were rob¬ 
bers. He would buy direct from the farm¬ 
ers and give them a square deal. He told 
me among other things that “The Rural 
New-Yorker and the men back of it were 
fleecing the farmers, making them think 
the paper was working for their interest 
and only squealing on the people that would 
not pay them hush money/’ I told him to 
go talk that to some one who didn’t know 
you; that before you took the matter up 
for the people they did not know when 
they shipped to New York City whether 
they would ever hear from shipment or 
not. We had it pretty hot, and the spec¬ 
tators said I did him brown. I didn’t feel 
as though I did him half justice. J. M. 
Pennsylvania. 
The Morgan Poultry Company agent 
evidently ran up against the wrong man 
that time. This concern seems to be the 
successor of the Egg Producers Com¬ 
pany of Brooklyn. We caught that 
concern making returns for eggs to all 
parts of the country with an invariable 
reduction of from eight to 20 per cent of 
broken eggs. When we showed up the 
scheme, the eggs stopped breaking, but 
the firm forgot the matter of remittances 
until they owed shippers large sums of 
money. When we began to insist on 
prompt payment, the concern failed, and 
some of the individuals in control of it 
organized the Morgan Company and re¬ 
quested The R. N.-Y. to run their ad¬ 
vertising, which was refused, just as the 
old concern had been previously refused. 
It is, however, only fair to say that we 
have not had any complaints against the 
Morgan Poultry Company, but we would 
require something more than the recom¬ 
mendations of their previous connections 
to induce us to recommend shipments to 
them. j. j. d. 
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