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THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
August 80, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
One of our readers, an experienced 
attorney, lias shown enough kindly in¬ 
terest to instruct us on the law govern¬ 
ing the case of the Vermont boy referred 
to on page 8S6, where he relates that the 
Strout agent sold his farm to a man 
who forfeited a $200 payment and re¬ 
fused title. Strout’s agent kept the $200. 
Our good friend, the attorney, is of the 
opinion that the Strout agent is not en¬ 
titled to a commission on the transaction 
as reported, and is not legally retaining 
the $200. “It was,” he says, “up to 
Strout’s agent to furnish a customer 
willing and able to buy.” He is of the 
opinion that E. II. B. could recover the 
$200 on suit; but even if so, he is prob¬ 
ably as well off financially to let the 
matter drop, as the expense and annoy¬ 
ance of a suit would discount the returns 
in advance. At the same time we are 
glad to be instructed on the point of law. 
Of course, the payment should have gone 
to the owner when paid, but when an 
owner signs a Strout contract, he author¬ 
izes the agent to sell, and one of their 
strong points is to get their hands on 
the deposit. 
The Oxford Linen Mills of North 
Brookfield, Mass., were placed in the 
hands of Allen G. Buttrick, of Lancaster 
and Frank E. Drury, of Worcester, as 
receivers August 11 by Judge Morton in 
the United States District Court. It is 
understood that a plan of reorganization 
is contemplated.—Daily Paper. 
Certainly no reader of The It. N.-Y. 
has any excuse for loss by investment in 
this concern. It was one of the fake 
schemes promoted by the Sterling Deben¬ 
ture Corporation, and from the very in¬ 
ception of it, the scheme was disclosed 
in this column. The intimation of a re- 
organization plan suggests the familiar 
scheme of asking the dupes to contribute 
again in the expectation that they will 
advance more good money in a hopeless 
effort to regain what is already lost. 
I would like to ask your advice regard¬ 
ing a transaction I have had with the 
Reliable Poultry Specialty Co. of Alex¬ 
ander, N. Y. In February we saw the 
Ajax Oxygen Vitalizer advertised in the 
American Poultry Journal, and wrote 
asking if we bought one and found it 
unsatisfactory, would money be returned. 
As you can see by the enclosed letters, 
they sent a signed guarantee to return 
money if not as represented. We ordered 
one and also asked for the agency for this 
section, they promising to send all orders 
from this section to us. Twice we wrote 
for advertising matter which they prom¬ 
ised to send but did not. We tried it 
on our incubator the first week in March, 
result was 32 dead-in-shell chicks. 
Thought it might be fault of eggs, so 
attached it to another incubator; result 
54 dead in shell. On March 27, attached 
it to another incubator; had 72 dead in 
shell. A great many of these eggs had 
pipped. We wrote to the Vitalizer people 
stating results, but they paid no attention 
to it. After a week of waiting wrote 
again asking them to take the vitalizers 
off our hands, and still no answer. Wrote 
a third time asking for a reply to our 
previous letters, saying if we did not hear 
from them at once, would take it up 
with The Rural New-Yorker —the an¬ 
swer came quick. We sold one vitalizer 
to a neighbor on trial. He returned it 
saying he had more dead-in-shell chicks 
than before using. We have the six 
vitalizers on hand, costing us $15, besides 
money spent in advertising. Kindly ad¬ 
vise us if there is any possible way of 
our getting our money back from them. 
We are enclosing their letters and adver¬ 
tising matter. 
From the above subscriber’s statement 
and the correspondence enclosed, we felt 
that he was fully entitled to a refund 
of his money paid for the vitalizers and 
we at once entered into correspondence 
with the Reliable Poultry Specialty Co. 
in regard to the controversy. The con¬ 
tention of the Reliable Poultry Specialty 
Co. is that their guarantee to refund the 
money only applies to those purchasing 
a single vitalizer, and the guarantee was 
not intended to apply to agents who 
ordered a number. The literature, how¬ 
ever, fails to make any distinction. To 
say the least, the Reliable Poultry 
Specialty Co. literature needs revision 
so as to make it plain that any poultry- 
man buying a number of the vitalizers as' 
an agent is not protected by the firm’s 
“Money Back Guarantee.” 
I have received the $1.50 from the 
American Expx-ess Company in payment 
of claim on box of apples shipped to 
LaFayette, Ind. I am very sure I could 
uot have had this claim adjusted but 
for your help in the matter. The men- 
:ion of The It. N.-Y. is like a dose of 
tonic to a sick man in the Spring. I 
know you do not accept any money for 
this help, but in some way I would like 
to repay you for your kindness. You 
arc doing a great work for the farmers 
in more ways than one and I wish you 
all kinds of success. J. K. m. 
New York. 
We rather hope to be doing some ser¬ 
vice for the people who keep us here. 
Collecting petty claims from express 
companies would not be either a profit¬ 
able nor a fascinating occupation in itself; 
but there is some satisfaction in pro¬ 
moting justice where shippers are other¬ 
wise apparently helpless. It is quite true 
that the gratitude of the shipper is out 
of all proportion to the amount involved 
or the service rendered counted in dollars 
and cents. It is not the recovery of a 
dollar and a half that excites so much 
expressed appreciation; but the satis¬ 
faction of knowing a concern that ignored 
the claim of a single farmer was brought 
to consider the demands of 130.000 
farmers speaking through their farm 
paper. 
Messrs. J. Bolgiano & Son, Baltimore, 
Md. 
Gentlemen: Latter part of March 1 
bought of you through the Stephens City 
Milling Co. a lot of seeds, such as clover. 
Alfalfa, cow peas. Soy beans, etc. I 
sent all of the small seeds to Richmond 
for analysis, and I am enclosing the re¬ 
port on three kinds, viz. : Orchard grass. 
Oat grass and Alfalfa, which are espec¬ 
ially undesirable. You will note the 
special remarks on Alfalfa report. I 
made a test of 200 seeds and only 108 
germinated, which as report states, is 
below standard in vitality. 
There is in this purchase three bushels 
Orchard grass, 25 pounds Oat grass and 
25 pounds Alfalfa. I do not feel that it 
would be good farming to sow these seeds 
and will ask that you replace same with 
seeds that I will feel warranted in using. 
With your reply please return the analy¬ 
sis reports and oblige. G. L. B. 
Virginia. 
The above reprint of a letter from the 
subscriber to the seed house mentioned 
explains itself. The analysis made by the 
Department of Agriculture of Virginia 
showed Oat grass 90.96 per cent, pure; 
Orchard grass, 09.03 per cent pure; and 
Alfalfa 96.13 pure. The subscriber fur¬ 
ther complains that Red clover from the 
source proved to be mixed with Alsike. 
Nothing is more important than that 
the quality of seed sown is of the high¬ 
est and true to name. The only security 
lies in patronizing only the houses of 
known reliablity. 
* 
Please see if you can collect an account 
against D. A. Meyer, 111 West 128th 
Street, New York, amounting to $11.96. 
He keeps telling me he intends to pay 
but is embarrassed financially, but I am 
tired of promises. s. s. 
New York. 
Nearly every week I read how you 
help people who are in trouble and so 
take the privilege of writing you mine. 
In July I sent Daniel A. Meyer, 111 
West 128th Street, New York, two cases 
of eggs. I did not hear from him in over 
three weeks and then he wrote if I would 
send another case he would send check 
in full the following Monday. That is 
the last I have heard of him. E. M. D. 
New York. 
Mr. Meyer made us promise after 
promise which he failed to keep, and 
when we turned the Account over to the 
attorney he continued the promises with¬ 
out any attempt to make good on any 
of them. He told us last November he 
had no intention of deceiving these peo- ' 
pie, but certainly his record in the case 
of E. M. D. will not bear him out. An 
attempt to make adjustment by install¬ 
ment payments would have been accept¬ 
able but we could not get even this. 
I have been shipping L. O. Snedecor & 
Son. 360 Greenwich St.. New York, for 
three years and found them O. K. until 
now. Their last two checks have been 
returned. They were in payment for 
two cases of eggs. I also shipped four 
cases later, and this makes six in all 
they owe me for. Is there anything you 
can do for me? c. I’. L. 
New' York. 
When we took the complaint up with 
L. O. Snedecor & Son they wrote us they 
would send check within a day or two. 
They failed to do this and we can get 
no further response from them. The 
satisfactory explanation promised has 
failed to materialize, and the shipper is 
out something like $35. J. J. D. 
“I should like to get an engagement 
with my circus of trained fleas,” re¬ 
marked the vaudevillian. “You’ll have 
to try it on the dog first,” replied the 
booking agent.—Judge. 
What's that—it Won't rot? 
No sir, moisture has absolutely no bad effect on a concrete ice 
bouse. Another thing—concrete is a poor conductor of heat, 
and that helps to keep the ice better through the hottest 
summer. 
And the cement for that concrete? Probably you’ve 
used Allas before—then surely it will be Atlas again. Bui 
if you haven’t, just try it, and see why Uncle Sam is buyinr 
over 5,000,000 barrels of Atlas to build the Panama Canal. 
Haven’t you heard that people usually call Atlas— 
"The Standard by which all other makes are measured?” 
Have you our FREE 168 page Farm Book on concrete work P IVrite uj for II now. 
If your dealer cannot supply you with Atlas, write to 
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ATLAS 
PORTLAND 
CEMENT 
Sows Any Fertilizer 
Com m ercial—n i trate—ph osphat e—guan < > — 
lime—ashes—etc., and does it evenly. You 
can gauge it to a hundred or several thous¬ 
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STEVENS 
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this season. Itwill do fast work and reduce 
the time usually employed in a filthy dis¬ 
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to get out of order, no springs or gears 
in box. Dealers sell it. If you find none 
near you, write us. Send for 64 page Cata¬ 
log of Farm tools. ||)f j Write today. 
BELCHER & 
TAYLOR 
AGRICULTURAL 
TOOL CO. 
Box N0.75 
Chicopee Falls, 
Mass. 
WE HAVE FOR SALE A QUANTITY OF EARLY HATCHED 
Pekin Ducks at $1.50 each 
Also 100 Breeding Ducks at $2 each. 
WHITJE HORSJE FARMS, • Paoli, Pa. 
R. I. Reds, Houdans, Indian Runner Ducks 
High-class stock for UTILITY, SHOW or EX¬ 
PORT. Eggs for liatc liing. Mating list on request. 
SINCLAIR SMITH, C02 Fifth St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Austin’s 200-Egg Strain Standard bred, 
high record stock. Old and young stock for sale. 
AUSTIN POULTRY FARM, Box 17, Centre Harbor, N H. 
nnill TP YMCI1—Send 2c stamp for Illustrated 
rUULI n I mull Catalog describing 35 varieties. 
EAST DONEGAL POULTRY YARDS MARIETTA. PA 
PULLETS Early Hatched^;;; ;?;:.] ;, 
White Leghorns and Barred Rocks that will lay 
Early this Fall while Eggs are High. Strictly 
Pure-Bred to Lay Strains. Catalog on request. 
THK M.ICKKY FARMS, - Dilhou, N. V. 
A Limited Number S. C. W. Leghorn Puliets 
nunUeafletl* 1 ' 
Barron’s EnglishLeghorns^^rnecScom 
tests. Cockerels for sale. F. PALMER, Cos Cob. Conn. 
CASKS ANI) CARTONS, 
FLATS AND FILI.KRS 
H. K. BRUNNER, 45 Harrison St., N. Y. 
2,000 S. C.W. LEGHORN PULLETS 
HATCHED MARCH—APRIL 15th. 
JOHN I-ORTON LEIC, 
Carmel, N. Y. 
SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORNS 
2,000 yearling hens and early pullets. Quality 
kind at right prices to make room. 
SUNNY HILL FARM, Flemington, N. J. 
S. C. While Leghom$ _ s “ yi, 75 ll t ';f,!n 2 " 
Pinehurst Poultry Farm, Levanna, N. Y. 
MAPLE COVE POULTRY YARDS 
n n a n„ Breeders for 32 years of pure- 
R. NO. 24, AttlBnS, “3. hred poultry of high quality. 
LEVIN PRINER 
T I1E best prunes. Cut %-inch 
dry branch. Quick, clean, 
easy cut. We will send it 
post paid for one one yearly sub¬ 
scription at $1, or for club of 10 
ten weeks trials at 10 cents each. 
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333 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
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