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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 19, 1 
PUBLISHER’S DESK 
Clipper Lawn Mower, Dixon, Ill. 
We yet have complaints that it does 
not work and they refuse to keep their 
promise to refund the money. 
K. E. Berean & Co., 288 Washington 
street, New York city, commission mer¬ 
chants. 
We had one complaint which they ad¬ 
justed, but have another now which they 
ignore. We could not recommend con¬ 
signments to them. 
The National Mail Order Co., 226 Mercer 
street, New York city. 
We have many complaints from people 
who sent them money and cannot get 
the goods. They even refuse to accept 
letters of complaint. Put them on the 
let-alone list. 
The Oak Lawn Farm, Nyack, N. Y.; eggs 
for hatching. 
A subscriber complains that they twice 
failed of promises to make good a 
worthless setting of eggs. They decline 
any explanation, and it would seem that 
it would be advisable to place such 
orders elsewhere. 
Carroll, Cutler & Co., Chicago, Ill. 
They sent a razor alleged to be worth 
$1 to one of our subscribers without his 
order, and are now trying to collect 
$1.75 for it. Their threatening letters 
are pure bluffs. They will not sue on 
any such scheme, and it is safe to burn 
the letters and forget them. 
I want to add my testimony to others 
against E. G. Lewis. I am a victim of the 
Fibre Stopper Co.—had it 10 years and 
never heard from it. While he may do a 
big publishing business and be a great suc¬ 
cess in his “League,” I think it is equally 
dishonest to take a person’s money and 
never make any return. Such a man in my 
judgment cannot be trusted. E. H. 
Massachusetts. 
Mr. Lewis, like other promoters, gets 
money out of people by promising them 
more than he or anyone else could or 
woulfd perform. He organized this 
company for a million dollars. The only 
assets were some patents. He refunded 
to those who first complained to us, 
but as the complaints multiplied he re¬ 
fused to do so. The stock had no value 
when he sold it, and has none now that 
we can discover. 
Moore Seed Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Gentlemen: I am sorry to note in The 
Rural New-Yorkek of January 1 a state¬ 
ment of your unfair dealing with a sub¬ 
scriber of that great agricultural journal. 
I am writing this to notify you that as 
vice-president of the Pennsylvania Seed Im¬ 
provement Association it will be my duty 
to bring this matter before the next meeting 
of our association, and if the complaint is 
not promptly settled satisfactorily to all con¬ 
cerned, to let all farmers in Pennsylvania 
know that yours is a good seed house to 
avoid. Our association makes it a part of 
its work to discourage the distribution of 
poor and worthless seeds. I hope you may 
see your way clear to settle promptly with [ 
the above-mentioned party through The 
Rural New-Yorker, and that in the future i 
will exercise more careful supervision of 
the seeds you send out. j. T. Campbell. 
Ilartstown, Pa. 
We recommend the above letter to the 
consideration of officials of seed associa¬ 
tions and of farm organizations general¬ 
ly. If every farm organization of the 
country took a stand like this, the 
fakers and frauds, who now make such 
a good living at the expense of the farm, 
would soon be working for a living. 
Please give your opinion of the enclosed 
card from the Globe Association, Chicago. 
111. They offer .$21 a week and expenses, 
or $10 a week for part time, for an adver¬ 
tising manager to distribute circulars, cata¬ 
logues, etc. They also offer 100 pounds of 
sugar for $1.75. w. a. 
New York. 
Our opinion of it is that it is the 
most persistent fake we have yet en¬ 
countered. The employment they offer 
you is the privilege and the equipment 
to fake your neighbors after they have 
first faked you. They firsj: insist that 
you send them a remittance of $12.50 as 
evidence of your good faith, which they 
promise to return if you live up to your 
agreement with them. But they furnish 
the agreement which it is practically 
impossible for you to live up to in every 
particular, and when you do not do so, 
they refuse to refund the $12.50. Then 
they promise to send you goods out of 
the sale of which you are to pay your 
expenses. The goods prove to be cer¬ 
tificates of membership which you are 
to sell to your neighbors at $5 or some 
other amount each, and part of this 
faked money must be sent them. They 
never send 100 pounds of sugar for 
$1.75 as they so persistently advertise. 
They make up a bill of cheap groceries, 
and make you pay enough for the others 
to make up for the sugar. Most of the 
other things you do not want, and one 
purchaser reported that the sugar was 
two-thirds broken, dirty rice. When 
3 ’ou begin to see the trickery and refuse 
■to continue the faking process against 
your neighbors, they tell you that you 
have broken j’our contract, and refuse 
to return your deposit. In one instance, 
however, they returned it, after first 
refusing to do so, when the ‘‘Publisher’s 
Desk” gave them an intimation of what 
they might expect, if they continued to 
keep the money. 
A friend of mine who is a machinist 
has invented and obtained a patent on a 
gauge roller for sawmills. The Currier 
Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., and Flatiron 
Building, New York, wanted him to let 
them advertise his invention in their paper. 
Everyday Life, for which he sent them 
$5. They agreed to run his advertisement 
for three months and send the paper for 
one year, monthly. This was six months 
or more ago. He received one copy of their 
paper and has heard nothing from them 
since. Will you inform me if this publish¬ 
ing company is considered responsible? 
Maine. a. e. j. 
We thought we aired this fake pretty 
thoroughly during the last Summer. 
• Cheap fake papers used to be sent out 
free in great numbers, and always load¬ 
ed with patent nostrums and other fake 
advertisements. The people got them 
free, but paid dearly for them through 
the fake advertisements. Finally the 
Post Office Department ruled that they 
could not be sent through the mails as 
second class matter unless paid for by 
the subscriber. This drove many of 
them out of existence. Others sought 
schemes to defeat the Department ru¬ 
lings. Leonard Darbyshire of Rochester, 
N. Y., made the first success by promis¬ 
ing to sell a farm and send the paper a 
year for $15, and sometimes for smaller 
amounts. When you sent the money, he 
could show the Department that you 
were a real subscriber, and he had the 
money besides for a little advertisement 
of the farm. Others saw the success of 
the Rochester scheme and' copied it, and 
in some cases improved on it by promis¬ 
ing to sell any old thing that you may 
want to get rid of. C. E. Ellis worked 
it from New York; the Myrick Syndi¬ 
cate tried it in Springfield, Mass., and 
this George Currier rather lead the 
whole bunch from Chicago. Great prom¬ 
ises are made to sell farms, houses, pat¬ 
ents or any old thing, but, when sim¬ 
mered down to the last analysis, you get 
the subscription to the paper, and proba¬ 
bly an insertion of a little advertisement 
without your name or address, 'so that 
it was possible for one little advertise¬ 
ment to fill the technical requirements 
of many orders. Of course the people 
who get the paper are others like your¬ 
self who had something to sell, and who 
do not want to buy farms, or patents. 
Mr. Currier went so far as to guarantee 
the sale or refund the money in 90 days. 
But how is anyone going to get his 
money back when he cannot get any 
word from Mr. Currier in six months? 
Fakes are alike the world over—you pay 
your money for big promises. Don't ex¬ 
pect it back. How do you expect fakers 
to live? J. J. d. 
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W HITE HOLLAND TURKEYS, Huston’s White Wvandottes, 
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L ARGE PEKIN PICKS. Wli.Wyantlotts and W. Rock, Cockerels 
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FROM PRIZE WINNERS 
$1.50, $3.00 and $5.00 per 15; 1st and 3d on cockerel; 
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duck eggs, $3.00 per 15; 1st on drake, 1st on duck. 
At Huntington Poultry Association, 1910. 
W. W. HAWXHURST, Huntington, L. I. 
Eggs for Hatching—Baby Chicks Island 
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.MAKE GOOD BROILERS: SO DO 
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If you want highest prices, now is the time to start 
your incubators. We have the fertile Eggs. 
WOODLANDS FARM (Inc.), IONA, N. J. 
WHITE LEGHORNS 
AND 
We still have some 
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Also some promising 
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Gi’and early hatched Barred Rock cockerels sired 
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Remember our strain or Pekin ducks is second to 
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none, that we have both old and young and over 
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MacKellar’s Charcoal 
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