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<TH1S NEW-YORKER 
June 21, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
$1.51. 
Five years ago Mr. W. K. Heysham, 
Elkland, Penna., sent $15 to the Orange 
Judd Company, on the solicitation of 
Herbert Myrick, who is president of the 
company, and on the promise of 10 per 
cent, interest, and a bonus at end of five 
years. He got back only $13. After 
our protest he got $1.45 more, lie be¬ 
lieves $1.51 is yet due him. We 
agree with him. Mr. Myrick admits that 
accumulations of compound interest 
would be due him, if he were dead, but 
contends that it is not due him since he 
is living. The true amount may be a 
few cents more or less than $1.51. That 
doesn’t matter. We want to know 
whether the sense of fairness in the 
American farmer will through their in¬ 
fluence compel Mr. Myrick to settle the 
balance due on this scheme in full. 
The promoters of the Columbian- 
Sterling Company are on trial this week 
charged with fraudulent use of the mail. 
This is the company that combined the 
Columbian and Hampton’s Magazines 
and some other publications under the 
control of the leading spirit of the com¬ 
bination, one Orff, formerly of St. Louis. 
The company was capitalized for $4,000,- 
000; and the testimony brought out the 
fact that at the time of the combination 
the combined bank account was $G3.9S. 
A small dividend was declared on the 
stock and the testimony in the trial is 
that this was paid out of the remit¬ 
tances with the object of encouraging 
the sale of more stock. It is on such 
schemes that people are promised quick 
riches. 
While reading the notice about E. G. 
Lewis’ new scheme, on page 326 of Tiie 
R. N.-Y. for March 4, I was struck on 
the funny bone by the name of the place 
—Pascadero. This is a word of Spanish 
origin and derived from the Spanish word 
for fish (pescao). Pascadero or Pesca- 
dor, means a fisherman, or one who han¬ 
dles fish. E. G. may not have had this 
in mind when he selected the place, but 
as he is out fishing for suckers it is a 
peculiar coincidence, and if there is any¬ 
thing in a name he ought to catch suckers 
a-plenty. J. J. 
Canal Zone. 
We always discount fish stories even 
when told by reputable citizens, but if 
even a small fraction of the Lewis stories 
may be accepted as fact, he is yet hauling 
in a fair catch of the gullible tribe on 
his new schemes. But the people who 
play sucker to Lewis now after the full 
publicity of his schemes are beyond help. 
If they do not fool away their savings 
on one vanity, they probably will on 
another, and keeping Lewis in good 
clothes and automobiles is perhaps one of 
the least harmful of their indulgences. 
R. B. Shimer & Co., commission mer¬ 
chants of No. 336 Washington street. 
New York, and Harry C. Shimer, head of 
the firm, were indicted yesterday by the 
Federal Grand Jury on a charge of try¬ 
ing to ruin the business of their com¬ 
petitors by using dishonestly secret in¬ 
formation obtained from paid agents. 
The indictments were returned under 
Section 15 of the interstate commerce 
act, and are a development incidental 
to the government’s investigation of al¬ 
leged collusion between egg dealers 
and railroad inspectors to pay damage 
claims. Shimer & Co., it is alleged, ac¬ 
quired information from agents of the 
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad about ship¬ 
ments of eggs and then wrote to the 
shippers, telling them that Shimer & 
Co. could get them a better price. The 
maximum penalty is a fine of $1,000. 
Shimer & Co. is one of the largest 
commission houses in the city.—Daily 
Paper. 
This item is given for the information 
of shippers. Under our new law, the 
Commissioner of Agriculture will have 
authority to refuse a license to com¬ 
mission merchants which have made an 
unsatisfactory record. 
During April, 1911, I shipped eggs to 
Itosenstock & Moyer, Wallabout Market, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., for which they made 
returns. In May I shipped them 60 
dozen. Since then they have made no 
report, nor will they answer any com¬ 
munication. The eggs were first-class and 
were worth 23 cents per dozen at that 
time. I enclose their letter in which 
they solicit more shipments. E. E. P. 
New York. 
Our first letters to this firm were evi¬ 
dently delivered, but we received no 
reply, and now recent letters are re¬ 
turned with the information that they 
cannot be found in Brooklyn. They may 
appear at some other address later, and 
we give this information for the pro¬ 
tection of our subscribers. 
I am submitting a statement of a claim 
I have against Wells Fargo Express, in 
the hope that you may aid me in col¬ 
lecting it. The company has practically 
all the evidence of the claim, as I sent 
that in when filing my claim. They know 
it is a just claim and if they are at all 
on the square they will pay it. Their 
agent here claims he does not know 
anything about sending in a claim. lie 
even sours when I bring stuff to ship, 
and in the Spring I ship as much as all 
others combined. If you can poke the 
company up so they will pay attention 
to this bill, you will greatly oblige. 
New York. L. e. k. 
One hundred White Leghorn eggs were 
shipped March 4, 1912, to Montana, but 
were received in a badly broken and 
smashed condition. Notation was made 
on the express receipt, and as this was 
a clear case of careless handling claim 
was promptly entered, the shipper send¬ 
ing another hundred eggs by United 
States Express, which were received in 
good order. No attention was given the 
claim and it was sent to us. One year 
and one month after shipment voucher for 
$8.30 is sent the shipper, and to us comes 
the explanation that the delay was 
caused by the inattention of the local 
agent, who was authorized to adjust it 
on June 26. lie has been severely criti¬ 
cized for his negligence and warning 
given him that a complaint of this kind 
must not occur again. 
The writer was one of those who put 
up ten dollars for a life subscription to 
Success a little over five years ago, and 
has a finely engraved certificate to show 
as a memento of the occasion; am also 
in on Pearson’s to the same extent, and 
am now wondering how long before it 
will go the same way. Fortunately their 
stock selling schemes did not get me, 
but they certainly were alluring. I am 
saving the elaborately illustrated pros¬ 
pectus of the National Post-Success Com¬ 
bination to show my children when they 
grow up as an evidence of what to avoid, 
and together with “Hind-Sights” think 
if they get caught with any of these 
swindling schemes they will be entitled to 
small sympathy. t. s. 
New York. 
We hope the friends of The R. N.-Y. 
will not mistake its purpose in reference 
to these things. It has no wish to 
knock. But it has no choice. Schemers 
are constantly trying to ride on the backs 
of people who work. It has always been 
so. These industrious people do not want 
to carry the parasites; but they are busy 
working while the rogues are thinking 
up schemes to get the results of the 
work. The R. N.-Y. gives these honest 
working people a warning. If the rogues 
and schemers would leave our friends 
alone The It. N.-Y r . would not bother 
them. Our work is to protect our own 
people, not to knock or abuse anyone— 
not even the rogues. j. J. D. 
Feeding Brood Mare. 
What is a good ration for a mare 
which will foal in six weeks and how 
should she be fed to do away with the 
large belly after foaling? c. B. F. 
New York. 
Feed four parts whole oats and one 
part wheat bran, wet, allowing one and 
one-fifth pounds per hundred pounds of 
body weight as a day’s ration. Increase 
the bran as foaling time approaches in 
order to regulate the bowels and stimu¬ 
late a flow of milk. Feed mixed clover 
hay as roughage, or hay and grass. 
After foaling, if mare runs on grass 
keep up the oat feeding, but reduce the 
bran gradually and omit it if she has 
plenty of milk and bowels are relaxed. 
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Corn-and-cob Meal for Horses. 
Will -you give me information con¬ 
cerning the effect of corn ground with 
the cob in the feeding it to horses? Some 
tell me it is injurious and others say 
it is not. A. G. H. 
New York. 
We have various reports. Some claim 
good results from feeding cob meal, while 
others say that when the ears are very 
dry and ground cob and all the little 
disks or scales which hold the kernels 
become so hard that they irritate the 
horse’s stomach. We found this trouble 
in our own feeding, while when the 
moist ears were ground the cob meal 
did not keep well. We feed cob meal to 
the cattle. _________ 
She : Here’s a story of a man out 
West who bartered his wife for a horse. 
You wouldn’t swap me for a horse, would 
you, darling? He: Of course not. But 
I’d hate to have anyone tempt me with a 
good motor car.—Credit Lost. 
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