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THE RURAI> NEW-YORKER 
January 22, 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
We suppose everyone now knows that 
a subscriber to The R. N.-Y. may have 
his remittance returned at any time, if 
for any reason he desires it. During 
the last year we had about a half 
dozen who ordered the subscription dis¬ 
continued because they thought we were 
too hard on one or another of their 
pet fakes. These complainants did not 
ask the return of their money, but we 
sent it. We do not expect the en¬ 
couragement, support or subscriptions of 
anyone who sympathizes with fakes and 
rogues. 
Can you tell mo if there is such a com¬ 
pany as the Forest Shade Oil Company of 
Pennsylvania? I hold shares issued in 1865. 
If they have sold to any other company, 
how can I find out. f. p. b. 
New Jersey. 
Write the Secretary of State, Harris¬ 
burg, Pa. But don’t contract any debts 
expecting to pay out of the proceeds of 
the stock. 
Thank you for exposing the Moore Seed 
Company of Philadelphia. Such exposures of 
fraudulent dealing are just what we want. 
Pennsylvania. w. t. s. 
Your approval of such exposures is 
all we want to induce us to keep it 
up; but you must do the rest by refus¬ 
ing to buy of such houses, and by us¬ 
ing your influence with your neighbors 
to induce them to do likewise. 
II. M. Whiting, of the Whiting Nursery 
Co., was in this place last Fall. lie had a 
clipping which he claimed came from your 
paper, which spoke very highly of those 
new plums. g. d. a. 
New York. 
We do not know to what plums Mr. 
Whiting referred. Pie buys his trees 
from wholesalers, and you can get his 
dollar trees from any reliable nursery¬ 
man for about 20 cents each. 
The Family Butter Merger Co., Brooklyn, 
N. Y.. advertise in “The New York World’’ 
to merge one pint of milk into one pound of 
lmttor at a cost of four cents per pound. 
It looks like the limit. What do you think 
of it ? j. H. M. 
Pennsylvania. 
We think the “World” ought to be 
ashamed of itself to advertise such a 
fake; but it will probably be worked on 
the poor people of cities. No farmer 
would bite on anything so transparent. 
The Florida land colony schemes arc of 
the very worst, kind, and cannot be too se¬ 
verely condemned. Much of this land was 
bought at tax sales four cents to 10 cents 
per acre, and turpentined and timber cut off 
by mills, in many cases; more or less of the 
land is under water several times during the 
year, and impossible of drainage ; wort hless 
even if drained, without lots of fertilizer. 
Florida. h. e. h. 
These testimonies from practical 
farmers in Florida ought to satisfy any¬ 
one about the land schemes advertised 
there. 
I have received the Egg. Producers’ Com¬ 
pany's check in payment of my claim 
against them for eggs, and thank you for 
your interest in the matter. h. t. p. 
New York. 
These people used to make prompt re¬ 
turns, but made deductions in almost 
every case for broken eggs. Of late we 
get no complaints about broken eggs; 
but have other complaints about delays in 
settlement. We suppose publicity makes 
the eggs ashamed of themselves; and 
they have reformed their breaking 
habits. 
We received from the American Express 
Co. to-day a card saying that they had a 
crate for us. We should never have received 
the crate had it not been for your aid, and 
I wish to thank you personally, for what 
you have done. The R. N.-Y. should be in 
the hands of every honest man, that he 
may be protected from rogues who live at 
his expense, a. f. j. 
Maine. 
We are glad to have been able to 
get the crate for this good friend; and 
we would be glad to have The R. N.-Y. 
in the hands of more honest farmers. 
We could not promise to protect them 
from all the rogues, but we will do what 
we can in that direction. 
I just read what you had to say in regard 
to the Howell Milk Co., in January 1 issue. 
It is now January 4, and we have not yet 
received pay for November milk. 
New York. producer. 
I am sending my milk to the Howell Milk 
Company: we have not got our October pay. 
Is the firm all right? mii,k. 
New York. 
Please stop the Rural New-Yorker. I 
send my milk to the Howell Milk Co. No 
pay since October (Jan. 8). milkman. 
New York. 
If the Howell Company do not in¬ 
tend to pay for milk when they agree 
to do so, we think producers ought to 
know just what their practice is.- They 
will then be in a position to demand 
security for prompt payment for a re¬ 
newal of the contract, just as any other 
business man would do under the cir¬ 
cumstances, or, of course, they may re¬ 
new the contract and put up with the 
old delays and consequent risks if they 
care to do so. In our judgment the 
proper way to handle this matter would 
be for the producers to notify the com¬ 
pany that milk would be held up the 
day after the checks were due and the 
account unpaid. Our sympathies are 
with the milkman who has had no pay 
for milk since October. We would 
gladly donate him a year’s subscription, 
but what is the use? A hypodermic of 
fighting tonic might help. 
I enclose 81 for a year’s subscription. I 
bad no idea of becoming a subscriber, when 
I sent the 10 cents in order to note the 
character of advertising matter. However, 
your “Publisher's Desk" is a great idea. It 
was the means of saving a good friend of 
mine about $ 00 , the price of two building 
lots at one of the Hamptons, with main 
office at Vineland. N. J. This friend is a 
prominent business man. He was persuaded 
to pay $10 for recording deeds, etc., for one 
free lot, and was then persuaded to sign a 
contract for two more, adjoining the first 
at $45 each. The deeds were made out and 
sent with a draft through the bank from 
Vineland. In the meantime your paper 
came with the exposure. I showed it to my 
friend, and he did not honor the draft. They 
let themselves down easy by saying they 
did not have time to prosecute your paper. 
Pennsylvania. j. g. k. 
Since we received the above the post 
office authorities -have, we believe, is¬ 
sued fraud orders against the concern. 
But they have collected large sums of 
money on the scheme. When they put 
up a scheme slick enough to catch an 
experienced business man in that way, 
the ordinary man or woman has little 
chance of resisting them after once be¬ 
ginning to listen. 
Some time in the latter part of Septem¬ 
ber, 1 sent an order to Ira II. llasbrouck, 
Box ©87, Kingston, N. Y'., for two bushels 
(told Coin seed wheat (a variety I am par¬ 
tial to). After a long delay the wheat ar¬ 
rived, but instead of there being 120 pounds 
the sack only weighed 105 pounds of the 
dirtiest grain I ever saw. I spent: about an 
hour roeleaning it and had left 02 pounds of 
second grade wheat. This I sowed, as it 
was too late to order more, and then wrote 
Mr. llasbrouck a plain statement of the case 
and asked him to make it right, but after 
three weeks have heard nothing from him. 
and ppobably will not. On acknowledging 
the order, Mr, llasbrouck wrote saying that 
“it was the finest field of wheat" he ever 
saw, but was not cleaned very well.” It 
seems to me under these circumstances 
that he should have given overweight in¬ 
stead of being so much under. I have no 
idea of making any fuss over so small an 
item, but if other subscribers of The R. 
N.-Y’. are treated in this same manner, they 
certainly will not have any further dealings 
with Mr. llasbrouck, and such things have 
a tendency to make them “shy” of others. 
Connecticut. j. w. w. 
At first we were reluctant to believe 
that Mr. H'asbrouck would take advan¬ 
tage of a customer. On the first com¬ 
plaint some time ago about a sheep sale, 
we thought there must be some error, 
though he did not then treat the com¬ 
plaint as we felt he should. We have 
given him repeated opportunity to ex¬ 
plain the above case, but he has not 
done so. Inasmuch as we have carried 
his advertising and he has failed to 
correct or explain these causes of com¬ 
plaint, -we want to say that he cannot 
repeat the experience with our people. 
The R. N.-Y. carries no more of his 
advertising 
Perhaps it may interest you to know 
what induced. me to subscribe for The R. 
N.-Y’. Well, it was the Publisher’s Desk. 
Afler reading several issues, I thought any 
publisher who lias the courage to publish a 
paper like that deserves the support of the 
people. Wishing you success, and hoping 
you will be as fearless a publisher in the 
future as you have been in the past, I am 
one who admires your courage. f. e. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
When we receive letters from people 
who have invested in one fake or an¬ 
other abusing us for showing up the 
rogue who got the money, a letter like 
the above rather encourages us to go on 
with the work. Somehow people like 
to hug their illusions. Show them that 
their pet schemes to get rich quick are 
nothing but dreams, and ten to one they 
abuse you for you-r pains. This is not 
so strange when you look into the 
philosophy of it. The faker must first 
win the confidence of his intended vic¬ 
tims before -lie can hope to get the 
money. Having given him the con¬ 
fidence and the money it is only na¬ 
tural to defend him. We care nothing 
for the faker. We cannot hope to help 
his willing victims. But we do like to 
protect the savings of innocent people 
who are exposed to the allurements of 
polished rogues. j. j. p. 
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