806 
June 28, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
The E. A. Strout Farm Agency has 
applied to the United States courts for 
an injunction to restrain Tim Rural 
New-Yorker from publishing any com¬ 
plaints from farmers or other criticism 
or advice of any kind concerning the 
Strout Agency. The matter is before the 
court for adjudication, and out of con¬ 
sideration and courtesy for the court 
further reference to the Strout Agency 
will be omitted pending the decree of the 
court. 
We yet have that claim of $1.51 from 
Mr. W. Iv. Ileysham, Elkland, Pa., 
against Mr. Herbert Myrick, of Spring- 
field, Mass. Mr. Ileysham thought the 
terms of an Orange Judd Company build¬ 
ing certificate entitled him to 10 per cent, 
interest, $1 payable in subscription to 
American Agriculturist, and the 50 cents 
compounded annually. Mr. Myrick 
claims the extra 50 cents is not payable 
since the $15 was demanded before Mr. 
Heysham’s death. He, however, paid 
$1.45. We are willing to figure the bal¬ 
ance due on any fair basis on Mr. Iley- 
sham’s behalf, but have been unable thus 
far to get any accounting from Mr. 
Myrick. 
Enclosed find shipping receipt for a 
crate of eggs sent on November 14, 1912, 
to a New York commission house, and a 
letter from them saying they never re¬ 
ceived the eggs. We have asked the 
American Express Company to look them 
up, but they say they cannot find any 
trace of them. We see you will help a 
subscriber in such a case and if you will 
try and get adjustment for us we will be 
very much obliged. G. J. S. 
New York. 
These eggs were worth $15.60, but the 
company reported they could find no 
trace, and evidently let the matter drop 
there. We took it up for the subscriber 
as requested, and on May 20 received 
voucher to cover the loss. Here is a case 
where it took six months for the Ameri¬ 
can Express Company to prove to their 
own satisfaction that this shipment was 
never delivered and they were responsi¬ 
ble. The express companies should adopt 
some system of investigation that would 
obviate these long delays. 
Inclosed find postal card from William 
A. Heacock, Lockport, N. Y. It looks to 
me like a fake scheme. I hand it to you 
for use in your discussion for the pro¬ 
tection of your many readers, c. b. ii. 
New Jersey. 
The enclosed postal tells how easy it 
is to make money in the mail order busi¬ 
ness; but Mr. Ileacock evidently finds it 
easier to make money out of others 
whom he can induce to take up the mail 
order line—otherwise he would stick to 
the mail order business himself. If you 
send for his booklet. “Facts About the 
Mail Order Business,” you will receive a 
fine specimen of sucker bait. 
I have enclosed an advertisement which 
I have cut from the Boston Globe; but 
as this seems out of reason I am asking 
for information through your paper. 
Massachusetts. n. L. p. 
The advertisement enclosed is of the 
“proposed” Weeks Silver Black Fox Co., 
Limited, capital stock $100,000, shares 
$100 each. The editorial on this subject 
which appeared in the issue of The R. 
N.-Y. of May 3, is the best advice we 
can give those who are solicited to invest 
and we repeat it here: 
When we wrote the article on “Black 
Fox Farming” we wanted only to tell of 
a strange industry. As we expected, 
stock companies are now being formed 
to conduct such farms. Of course no 
reader of The R. N.-Y. will be foolish 
enough to buy such stock. Your money 
thus invested would be just about as safe 
as a nice fat pullet locked into a hen¬ 
house with a fox. The money in this 
business is now being made by selling 
breeding stock at extravagant prices. It 
is somewhat like the palmy days of gin¬ 
seng culture, when suckers were fighting 
each other for the chance to buy seeds 
and plants at a crazy price. Black fox 
farming is a good thing to read about, and 
a better thing to let alone. 
Twenty-five years ago I was sneered at 
because I refused to accept dishonest ad¬ 
vertising for The Rural New-Yorker, 
and my career as a publisher was pre¬ 
dicted to be short. Last week a conven¬ 
tion of advertising men representing every 
section of the whole country was held in 
the city of Baltimore, and the one great 
demand was for truth and honesty by 
advertisers and publishers. This ^ de¬ 
mand arises quite as much from a mat¬ 
ter of business judgment as from a 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
sense of ethics. Honest advertisers at 
last begin to realize that association with 
dishonest advertisers in the same paper 
lessens the. efficiency of their advertising, 
and often nullifies it entirely. Publishers 
are principally responsible for dishonest 
advertising, because without their con¬ 
nivance or co-operation the faker or fraud 
could not get newspaper publicity. As 
readers refuse to renew their subscrip¬ 
tions and honest advertisers refuse to re¬ 
new their advertising contracts with pa¬ 
pers that carry dishonest advertising, the 
fakes and swindlers will disappear. The 
advertising clubs that are bringing this 
about are rendering a service to the read¬ 
ing public. After many years of lonely 
struggle for the principle of honesty in 
advertising, it is rather a refreshing ex¬ 
perience to find oneself in the midst of 
such enthusiastic and commendable ac¬ 
tivity. May the good work go on. 
Do you know any thing about the B. & 
B. Fibre Corporation. 55 Eddy Street, 
Providence, R. I.? Their agent has been 
here asking farmers to raise a new kind 
of grain. It resembles corn. This com¬ 
pany furnishes the seed free and prom¬ 
ises* to pay the farmers $20 per ton when 
ready to harvest. All the farmer needs 
to do is to buy 10 shares of stock in the 
company for $1 per share just to show 
his good faith. What do you think? 
Massachusetts. B. L. M. 
A palpable fake of course! We never 
heard of the new plant, but we daresay 
it is equal to Burbank’s creations and 
propagated for no other purpose than to 
separate the unsuspecting from a ten- 
dollar bill. 
Enclosed find some literature relative 
to Lin wood Haines, Limited, of Camden, 
N. J. What do you think of this propo¬ 
sition? H. v. c. 
New Jersey. 
The literature is a series of form let¬ 
ters soliciting subscriptions to the stock 
of the above-named company, a mail or¬ 
der concern. The first letter states that 
this subscriber’s name was furnished by 
Mr. R. Lewis Shivers, secretary Farmers’ 
Reliance Insurance Co. “There’s Mil¬ 
lions in the Haines System” is one of 
the characteristic expressions of the let¬ 
ters; but not a word or figure as to the 
actual assets of the concern, or the volume 
of business done. This proposition has 
all the earmarks of the promoter’s stock 
selling scheme rather than a legitimate 
mail order enterprise, and we feel it is 
hardly necessary to advise our old sub¬ 
scribers to make some better use of their 
hard-earned savings. 
I would like to ask you if there is any 
way by which you can obtain my money 
as quickly as possible on stock I hold in 
the International Educational Publishing 
Company of Scranton. Pa., as I need it. 
Kindly read the enclosed letter which 
they sent me. I hold several shares of 
this stock and it seems they are trying 
to hold me off. w. H. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
The letter referred to by the subscriber 
is from the International Textbook Co. 
of Scranton, Pa., saying they are not in 
position to sell the stock, but allege that 
the blue sky laws which have been en¬ 
acted in the different States have inter¬ 
fered with their plans for arranging to 
put this stock on sale with their selling 
organization. We have written the In¬ 
ternational Textbook Co. on the subscrib¬ 
er’s behalf, but our appeal has secured 
the subscriber no better consideration. 
There is no regular market for this or 
the other stock speculations engineered 
by the Scranton promoters that we have 
been able to discover, and we see no pos¬ 
sibility of the subscriber realizing on his 
holdings except through some stockbro¬ 
kers at a fraction of the price he paid for 
it. This subscriber’s experience suggests 
the wisdom of investigating in advance 
the salability of a security before putting 
money into it, or of leaving stock specu¬ 
lations alone altogether. j. J. D. 
place in consequence of the existence of 
the disease. It has also been proven 
by good authority, the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry, that tu¬ 
berculosis can be transmitted from man 
to animals, contrary to the statements 
made in the farm paper that there are 
two distinct types of tuberculosis, one 
being confined to man and the other to 
domestic animals. As to the statement 
regarding the failure of the tuberculin 
test, statistics show that the tuberculin 
test fails to react in one out of a thou¬ 
sand cases. I find that cattle which 
open sheds, „clean water and sun- 
do not have this 
warm barns there 
tacked on a few 
ventilation and 
animals are a 
have 
light 
tight 
cloth 
or other 
Healthy 
FACTS ABOUT TUBERCULOSIS. 
I notice that one of the prominent farm 
papers in New England has quite an 
article on tuberculosis, defending this 
dreaded disease with the statements that 
there is little danger from the use of 
milk from diseased animals; that the 
tuberculin test is not correct and does 
great damage to cows. This article is 
liable to do great harm from the in¬ 
creased resistance of the enforcement of 
sanitary measures regarding meat and 
milk of tuberculous animals. Such a 
statement is wrong because aside from 
all of the possibility of diseased meat or 
milk transmitting tuberculosis to man, 
these products are absolutely unsanitary 
for human consumption, on account of 
the chemical change which has taken 
disease, and in 
should be cotton 
of the windows 
lots of sunlight, 
whole lot better 
than a few extra quarts of milk that a 
warm barn would produce. As The R. 
N.-Y. has no ax to grind, I would like its 
opinion on this subject, and if there are 
any good reasons why diseased animals 
should not be killed, why animals should 
not be tested and why diseased products 
should be used for human consumption, 
I want to know these reasons. 
Connecticut. iierbert a. gellette. 
In the light of the knowledge that we 
now have concerning the nature and 
cause of tuberculosis, we can only con¬ 
clude that the bovine disease is trans¬ 
missible to man. It is needless to say 
that this conclusion is disputed by some 
honest observers, and that it is entirely 
within the range of possibility that it 
may sometime be disproven. However 
that may be, we cannot be guided by the 
knowledge of the future, and the weight 
of evidence to-day is on the side of 
those who consider that infected food 
products cause a large proportion of the 
cases of human tuberculosis. It was 
formerly thought that the inhalation of 
dried particles of sputum expectorated 
by consumptives was the chief cause of 
consumption, but it is now believed that 
this is a comparatively uncommon source 
of infection and that the majority of 
cases of tuberculosis, particularly in 
children, are due to the ingestion of milk 
and other goods containing tubercle 
bacilli. In order that such infection may 
be brought about it is necessary that 
these bacilli should be able to pass 
through the walls of the intestines and 
be carried by the circulating fluids to the 
various portions of the body. It now 
seems to be proven that they are thus 
carried and that by their lodgement in 
lungs, bones, joints and other organs 
they cause tuberculosis of these parts. 
It is' true that tubercle bacilli found 
in cattle differ somewhat from those of 
human origin, but this difference is ap¬ 
parently one of structure only, and the 
existence of intermediate types leads to 
the belief that these germs change their 
form slightly in different animals, in fact, 
this change may be artificially produced 
by transferring them from one animal to 
another. 
No test has yet been devised that will 
detect the existence of tuberculosis with 
unfailing accuracy; the use of tuberculin 
is the best means now at our command 
and is so nearly accurate that for all 
practical purposes it may be considered 
entirely so. Its very delicacy is its 
greatest drawback, since it will indicate 
infection in animals so little diseased as 
to be harmless; and many of them 
would always remain so. As there is no 
way of knowing, however, how fast or 
far slight infection will spread, it is best 
to know of its existence in any degree. 
Some animals in advanced stages of tu¬ 
berculosis fail to react to the tuberculin 
test, but these animals are usually so 
obviously .diseased that their condition 
may, be* detected by other means. The 
great problem which faces the State in 
its effort's to stamp out tuberculosis 
from the dairy herds is not the detec¬ 
tion of the disease where that exists, 
but the devising of some practicable and 
equitable means of reimbursing owners 
for the destruction of tuberculous cattle 
when that measure is undertaken in the 
interests of public health. M. B. D. 
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